So since my last post I’ve painted my whole underskirt! I’m like 70% good with it, I kinda wish I’d done a few more smaller things to make it look fuller but then I might think it looks crowded so who knows.
I really hate painting so I don’t know why I decide to do things like this. I liked the fabric paints I used, though they dried WAY too fast — I mean, great for the fabric, sucks for me who mixed up a specific colour and it’s already getting chunky 10 minutes later and I still have half a skirt to go.
I finished up the painting Saturday and yesterday got my underskirt put together. It’s all finished except the ruffle edge along the bottom hem (which is why it’s not hemmed).
Looking back at other posts with the dress, you’ll notice my hoops are a little droopy. I kept thinking they were just sitting on the dressform wrong somehow, but yesterday I got tired of it, took it off the dressform, and monkeyed with it a bit. The hoops had all gotten too compressed within their channels. After straightening it out and retieing everything, they suddenly look appropriately large again! (See above.)
Unfortunately I’m having to order more fabric to do that ruffle at the bottom. And unfortunately it has to be dyed again to match what I already dyed. Ugggggh.
So after that I moved back on to the dress and started finishing up the sleeve flounces.
Yesterday I ran out to Joann to see if I could find more of the taffeta I’d gotten for the trim, and to also look at laces. It was a no go on the taffeta but I did find two trims I LOVED. I used the bigger one on the bigger sleeve flounce. The lower flounce I trimmed in the other lace I’d already gotten.
OMG ITS SO GIRLY I LOVE IT
Gollum is still helping out, btw.
Finally, late last night I started making trim.
These ending up a LITTLE wider than I wanted so I will have to trim them down a bit. But it was at this point I realized I do NOT have enough of the taffeta to make it through this trim and started flipping out and it’s no longer on the Joann site but it looks like a store an hour away has it so as soon as the open I’m going to find out if they do have it and then I guess make a trek up there. Seriously this dress.