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  • Day 11: Prom Dress

    Day 11: Prom Dress

    I started sewing the lights in today. I also sewed together the layers of blue tulle but I’m not 100% sure that I’m going to put those in because that might make the skirt too poofy. I’m sewing the lights into the bottom layer of tulle so that you can’t see the wires from the…

  • Day 10: Prom Dress

    Day 10: Prom Dress

    I didn’t do very much today because today was international day. I finished cutting out the tulle and I started sewing the tulle layers together. By the end of Thursday I had already worked 31 hours this week so I decided to just do a little bit of work today before international day. I worked…

  • Day 9: Prom Dress

    Day 9: Prom Dress

    I narrowed down the skirt a little bit and then added the pockets. I also started to cut out the tulle which was fun I like tulle. I also ironed the seams for the skirt part which took forever. When I was cutting out the tulle I made it with a radius of 54″ and…

  • Day 8: Prom Dress

    Day 8: Prom Dress

    I spent a very long time today finishing the arm holes. It took a very long time to stitch everything down by hand in a way that was not visible. I also had to fix the seam on the sides of the top because that was where I went a little bit over my seam…

  • Day 7: Prom Dress

    Day 7: Prom Dress

    I’m almost done with the top. I had to do a lot of ironing today but so far it’s looking pretty good. I am in the middle of resewing the zipper because I wanted to make the back of the neck a little bit lower. I think the invisible zipper came out alright especially considering…

  • Day 6: Prom Dress

    Day 6: Prom Dress

    I had an idea for a different way to do the darts on the front of the dress over the weekend. I decided to do a different kind of dart on my dress, I don’t know if it really counts as a dart but it serves the same purpose. I wanted something that would look…