guess who finished a project that's been sitting for far far too long? Me!
so for long time friendos you might remember that instead of writing a thesis I got to make a wool coat for my capstone. But tragedy struck days before the thing was due, I forgot to mirror my pieces of my lining and since I'd ordered that online I had no time to get more. So instead I went to the store and got new lining, which I managed to get put together and had the coat done for grading :D (how much sleep I got in those last few days we won't say)
Cut to a couple weeks after this project is done, and I want to put the pieces I have together into a dress instead, but I'll need some new fabric to make this work and oh no! The site says that kind of fabric is all out :(
Now last year, I was looking for something for a totally different project and saw the same fabric back in stock, so I got more!
And now today, I finally finished this lining turned dress that been years in the making at this point!!!
Heres how we started! Things are looking good!
Now I didn't want long sleeves on this now that I was making a dress, so I traced the sleeve pattern, slashed it and spread it on the bottom, adding fullness and making a much more flowy, loose sleeve!
This dress was gonna take a lot of buttons, but I didn't have many in a size I'd need, then I remembered that I made some covered buttons for the wedding guess dress last year and still had some left I ended up needing a few more but that's alright.
Behold buttonholes and the ruffle! These both took me several hours to do XD the buttonholes because the poor buttonhole foot kept getting stuck on this decently thick fabric that I self lined, and the ruffle because I pieced together a strip twice as long as I am tall at least and gathered it till it fit the bottom of the skirt, which was a great way to reduce fabric waste from this project!
And here we are! The final dress on me! I think it turned out adorable? And I got so excited I even painted my nails a matching green hehe.
But of course I still need to show how my 2026 fiber arts bingo is going
Sooo close to my first bingo, but alas, maybe next time? I do have some red fabric my mom wants made into a blouse?
Hope you enjoyed and are having a lovely time friendos <3 thanks for taking the time to look at this cool thing I made.