Above dress from Dear Golden Vintage. A great source of design inspiration!
So I finally picked a silhouette for my prom dress. The picture up top is a vintage 30's
dress that I found on the Dear Golden Vintage website. I decided this was a pattern
that I was going to have to make myself. I am not the hugest fan of pattern making,
although I learned how to do it in school. I think it is more of a mental block.
I started out by draping it on, as seen above. Then I transferred the pattern to
pattern paper, then I cut out the fabric to sew together my first muslin.
I have a few tweaks, but I was pretty happy with my muslin.
The other thing that I will have to adjust is the size, I am not as tiny as my dress form.
My main message coming away from this process is, pattern making doesn't have to
be such a huge mysterious intimidating process. It actually pretty fun, I plan on making many more
patterns in future! P.S. You can check out the rest of my prom dress inspiration
over on Pinterest here.
i love the shape of this dress! I can't wait to see the finished thing! I just stumbled upon your blog thanks to Oona and I have to give you props. You have one hell of a blog lady. Keep up the fabulous work!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! Your website is pretty awesome yourself! You have some great pattern making tutorials!
DeleteJust got turned on to your blog by Ms. Oonabaloona. It's beautiful here! I hadn't even thought of draping something vintage-inspired for her prom party. Love this dress you're making. It inspires me to use my new half-scale dress form to make a gown.
ReplyDeleteThank you, yes you should drape something! It is really fun!
DeleteThis looks great! I can't wait to see the final dress.
ReplyDeleteThanks! you should make a prom dress too!
Deletewow this is a greta job! i love the final result!!
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