party dress

party dress

my son loves the smurfs. he loves the films i mean not the cartoons, although i love the cartoons being a child of the 80s and 90s my childhood consisted of a lot of smurfs cartoons. the gargamel evil laugh used to give me chills and for me it was the epitome of all evil. anyhow i was extremely excited when they made the movie. and although it wasn't by any means a harry potter it wasn't an eragon either. both of which i love btw.

so when i was searching smurfs 2 online to show my son the pics and stuff before the movie release i came across the dress katie perry was wearing to the premiere and i fell in love with it. it was whimsy and pretty perfect.

few days ago i was shopping in INA market in delhi where i usually go to get my groceries and my gluten free flour etc although the best place for gluten free flour in new delhi is in defense colony market.

but this place also has saree shops and fabric shops. and it was in one of these shops that i came across the lace i think its called mohan textiles. when i saw this i looked for a lining and they had a cotton crepe cream color which i thought would be great. 

this below is the katie perry dress

i have decided to make a dress which has long sleeves like with complete lining but some thing like this sandra bullock dress

basically what i have noticed is lace seen to be very much in at this time
so i started off with two fabrics

how to cut dress
the pdf above shows the pieces  have cut. the pictures below show how i did it
as always i used one of my old shirts as pattern

fold the material and along the folded edge keep the dress u are using as a pattern

measure how long you want the top to be and fold this length. fold the sleeves in and cut along leaving atleast a half inch seam allowance

you have cut the front piece. you can cut the neck how ever you want later

to cut the back keep this piece on two open edges as shown maybe an inch away and cut

 do the same with the sleeve  depending on length you want

mark the middle of sleeve to help you align the overlay as well as fixing the sleeves

 cut all pieces out of lace making the sleeves a little longer

 for the bottom skirt part i use the top pieces as guide and cut down to the length i wanted as i showed in pdf

stitching with lace is little tricky so the first thing you do if take ur under lining pieces of sleeves and the skirt and hem the edges
then you can use a fabric glue to lightly paste all around the pieces except at the hemmed edge

let the glue dry over night don't use a glue gun

TO DO THE NECK

take a piece of under fabric which covers the neck keep it on the good side

 pin if you need to and stitch along the wrong side

cut the inside of the neck and leave one inch at the other side trim this with a zig zag

 on the inside make nick carefully up to the stitch

turn over and stitch on the plain fabric this will give the neck stability you can skip this if you have used interfacing on the cloth

 this stitch should be smooth on should not come over to front

do a basting stitch on the front you can do a invisible stitch later with hand

do the other sides the same way
now u can do any darts you like

STITCHING THE FRONT AND THE BACK
attach the respective top and bottom pieces of the back of the dress

put the two back pieces with the two lace sides together. then put the zipper down and mark the point where the zipper ends. stitch from about one inch before the end the zipper where i placed the scissors. and stitch from this pint down. also remember to zig zag both the the edges , i forgot to do this which gave me a lot of trouble.

attach the zipper

put the darts at the back

back view

attach the top and bottom of the front piece

 attach the shoulders. put the right sides together and attach the shoulders

ATTACHING THE SLEEVES
i always attach the sleeves before doing the sides
i use the middle marking on the sleeve and align it with the shoulder stitch
then stitch from the middle to the arm hole
then repeat again from the middle to down

 zigzag the edges a serger would be ideal but u can cut and smooth before zigzaging

now do the two side stitches. you can use a blue thread or the thread of what ever color lace you are using.

 i did the ends of the sleeves etc after i did the sides with matching thread.

now instead of hemming i decided to cut the lace . i followed the pattern n the lace

do this for sleeves as well
and you are done

MAKING A BABY DRESS

DIY BABY GIRL DRESS

ove baby girl dresses after all they are so much simple not to mention pretty
and the array of fabrics availables wants to make me go on sewing forever
not that i would ever have the time to do that
this is one f the most simple ways to make  baby dress
you need a measurement across the chest
then u need to decide how long the top part will b and how long the skirt part will be
you will need to have four pieces
in the pdf this is the first one
top length will be the length across the chest that you measured with a one inch seam allowance
i have decided the top will b only 3 and half inch wide so i'm using a 8 inch piece allowing one inch seam
allowance
the piece 2
this will have length across chest pus 5in
you have to make gathers on this and attach to top piece when the white piece is folded in half
you can decide the length of dress with this piece
piece 3
top length will be the length across chest+ 5inch or more but not less than five or you wont have nice gathers when you stitch with the elastic thread
the width same as piece one 8inch
 piece 4
same top length as piece 3 
long length same as piece 2

instructions to make dress
this is the ribbon decoration i did

then you can attach the other two sides together

this is how it looks now
im getting to the part aboutthe flower
before that im just going to tell you that for the head band measure the circumference of the head and cut an elastic piece a thin elastic piece exactly of that length
stretch it and attach it to the wrong side of a wide ribbon with a zig zag stitch

the flower is made as follows
flower

then attach two lengths of ribbon about 12 inch long in the middle about 3inch apart
that is 1 n half inch from center on each side

the little princess did model the head band for me

she is going to wear the dress tomorrow for bai dooj i hope im saying it right
and wen i get pics its going here

CUSTOMIZING MY SHOES

DECORATING SHOE

like all women i love shoes. who doesn't even the people who don't wear them love them i mean people who cant balance themselves on a heel love heels. i love the outrageous ones even more with all the bling bling and razzle dazzle

well for me the problem is these shoes cost a lot 

so i always go the DIY way 

which is the best 

i got the shoes for this project which i plan to wear to the peach wedding .. well its peach and brown .. go figure right ? i suggested the bride coral  and cream which is combination i adore but seems the groom wants to go with this peach and brown scheme

anyway

i thought i had decided on dress

but it turns out the color which i thought was a coral ... yes i was going to wear coral despite being peach. so sue  me any way good for them cause well it was a pink a deep one but a pink none the less

so back to square one

but im still going ahead with the clutch and the shoes

i showed my clutch before and now for the shoes

the one one the right is how it looked before btw these cost me 14 dollars or so 

so i didnt want the silver to show though so i painted it ..using a black marker

then i pasted it with his brown imitation crystal type thing which comes in a ribbon

i used fabric glue i dont think a ht glue gun would work for this cause well its kind of a mesh and it would burn me probably

lay the piece over the heel and just cut the shape and paste

i have take the pics before i painted the heels

i decided to cover the orange part with brown lace ribbon or what ever its called

for this i used the glue gun 

i started at the base so that i can have then over lapping 

when i did this i did every two inches at a time 

also i cut the pieces after glued them down 

at he top i used two long pieces of bling which i cut a strip and stuck with fabric glue