Mar 1
I have decided I need to make a dress to go to a spring ball in. I do not have a pattern. I have determination and a vision.
I did decide on one specific detail, the lower sleeve should be smocked to manage the excess fabric from the billowy upper sleeve. I have never smocked something ever in my life.
Since the pattern is non-existent atm, I thought to make kind of a mockup in a less expensive fabric just sans the skirt of the dress (as skirts are pretty straightforward) to wear as a blouse.
And this is how I spent way too long on this tiny piece of fabric, producing a smocking sample so I can calculate how wide the sleeves need to be
This will take forever but unfortunately, I am sucker for smocked things