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I was thinking about how I will go about hemming my prom dress which may be difficult because I am only one person and it’s going to be difficult to get it at the right length while I am wearing it. I may have to recruit some help for that. I guess that’s one of…

I’m taking a break from hemming the prom dress for a few days because I’ve been working on it for so long that I wanted to give it a little break so I can have a fresh start on hemming it. It’s not that I feel tired of it it’s just that I think I…

Today I sewed the beads onto my dress, I used some little tiny green seed beads and then some slightly larger glass beads that were blue and green and they sort of looked like little tiny globes but not spherical. I did three seed beads and one big bead in a pattern all around the…

Today I finally sewed together the top and bottom of the dress. I had to sew the zipper to the bottom by hand and I also decided to sew some fabric over where the top and bottom met. I sewed each layer of the skirt on one at a time so that it would not…

I decided to re-sew the arm holes today because I didn’t like the way that the original ones were sitting. In that process I started sewing before putting my machine on the right stitch, which then led to me breaking a needle and then I realized I should probably clean my machine while I was…

I decided it would be better to sew the lights to the satin instead of the tulle because I figured the satin would probably be better at holding the weight. I put a little pocket in the lining to hold the battery pack and then I sewed the lights on, I just put one of…