Well its been quite a week as far as my toiling goes! i've had an absolute mare with my structured section of the bow dress!!! I really didnt think it was ever going to work! i tryed everything, i tryed very think interfacing, still too floppy, i tryed boning fron the bodice down, too floppy, eventually i had a brain wave and tryed the boning the other way around, from the hips upwards and it works! alittle too much, but it will do!!! it now has that right angled ledge that i wanted to the skirt. My other skirt patterns should be pretty straight forward now as i've mastered that. The rest of the toiling went pretty much to plan, the tricky bit is lining the seams up, the pattern is correct, but stitching it is sometimes a completely different thing!
I also decided to put boning in the bow, i've gone boning crazy! it helps keep the structure of the bow, but it still looks quite soft.
I completed the toil yesterday, and had a fit session with emily, my chosen model and friend from uni. It fits perfectly, it just needs a tad bit more length to the skirt, i've added this to my pattern though so the real one will be fine. Just got to do some embellishment to my under t-shirt dress and source a pair of colourful tights! I hope i can get away with that, as everything is supposed to be BLACK for AFW. tough luck anyway! tehe!
some toiling inprocess pics to follow....
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