Denim formalwear update

 Team I think this project has fired up my sewing mojo again. I can only do about 4 hours at a time because the mental overload of trying to problem solve as I go is a lot. I am interspersing it with making panel skirts for people which is a repetitive and skilled task. I'd get bored doing that alone so all in all I think I've hit the perfect combo!

A reminder of the inspiration image. An AI generated denim tutu dress that went a lil bit viral because a seller was using it to generate sales then sending the fugliest piece of junk out to buyers. This practice is so reprehensible!

But the image got my brain fizzing. 

OG AI image, technically impossible as it isn't an actually constructed dress!

Progress! This bodice started life as a trucker jacket. I cut it up, turned the sleeves into panels to make it go around me, the bottom band into a neckline finish, and to shape it I cut along one side of the felled seams up to under the bust and folded the cut edge under, and hand stitched it. It is fully boned in 12 places. 

How am I doing? The skirt is well underway, it's to the knee at most but has absorbed 15m+ of net and organza. I've had to make two trips back to the shop to get more. Luckily it was cheap. 

 

My big discovery in all of this has been stiff crinoline tape. All of the crin I've bought over the years has been the same weight, but the stuff I got for this is amazing! Game changing.

More on all that later. This is just a sneakpeek for the sewing people, or the sewing curious ;-)