As promised here is a much better picture of the first dress of my collection. The color is much truer to reality than the last picture I posted and the details are clearer as well. I also posted a few pictures of the pant and blouse slopers, they are pretty simple but they are key to getting the fit of each and every garment that I am going to make correct. At this point I am basically done with the sloper patterns and I only have the sleeve left to do. I am hoping to get that done tomorrow or the following day (fingers crossed!)
I was feeling really motivated today, so I decided to conquer the bolero jacket that goes with the dress for the first look in my collection. This jacket is made mainly from the suede-like material that I used for the quilting on the dress and is completely quilted....which again took a long time, just as expected. I was able to get a lot done on it and completely machine quilted the front pieces, the back piece and the collar as well as assembled all of those them together.
Bolero Jacket Progress Full Outfit Progress
In the next day or so once I get the sleeve sloper completed, I will quilt and construct the sleeve for it as well as finish hand-stitching the hem on the jacket and put the final touches on both the jacket and the dress. I do eventually want to put the gold studs on the quilting but I still have to find the right head sealed studs that I want. Ultimately, I don't want them to be flashy and bright yellow gold because I think that will take away from each look, instead I am going to try to find a more tarnished gold-like color that will add detail and interest without being distracting. That will come much later however, and most likely will even be the last
thing to go on each and every garment.
I am hoping to have this outfit completely finished by my birthday on Thursday so I can take a day off and not feel guilty about it haha. That just means I will have to try to get it all done tomorrow before I go to AE Spa to give a presentation on trends and colors for winter for their 20th year celebration. Wish me luck! I'll be posting soon!
xoxo Hillary C.
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