 | | 2015-03-29 07:38
From blog Sew Hopeful
That lace dress, Mark II. AKA the hundred hour dress AKA morphing Vogue 8766 to Butterick 5748
This dress had been completely made to almost finished stage when I decided I didn't like it. Because I am a total perfectionist, and love to torture myself, I unpicked it completely and started again.
This time I decided to underline in a lovely cotton voile in a soft creamy yellow from Spotlight. It worked much better than the silk I used before (you can see the previous version of this dress here ). The lace is rather heavy and using a soft drapey silk as the underlining caused all kinds of problems with how the lace sat. With the more stable voile it behaved much better. I also took the time to run horizontal rows of basting in a fine silk basting...
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