Civil War day dress

Hello,

I am checking in and to say that I am finished with my civil war dress.  We had a great day at the museum with many soliders and so many visitors that we had to turn them away.  It took me about two full days of sewing to complete my dress.  When I started I only had part one of the pattern so after a frantic email to the pattern place I did get the rest of the pattern. 

I made this dress to be a sheer, but the material is more of a semisheer. 

I have it modeled on Gertie, who is my dress form.

I made the belt out of ribbon that matched the trim.  I was inspired by one of my fellow dressmakers off of Sewing Academy website.  I also made the hat.




I had a lot of fun with constuction, but I have several things that I would change.  I plan on taking the skirt and bodice and attach it in a differnt way.

Hope you like it.

~D~

My dress form

Hey all,

It has been a busy month.  I don't know where all of the time has gone.  I still have not completed a single item on my list.  I have all of them started, but none finished.  I have had a great time out at Old Cowtown with the various visitors and such.  We had a volunteer appreciation meeting and I was awarded with the Newest volunteer with the most hours award.  I was so surprised because I have only been doing this from the last of Sept and we close for the winter in early Nov.   

Okay so the first pic of me that you see I don't want it to be horrid so this is me in some of my garb. 

I did get my duct tape dress form finished.  It was fun to do I look awful in the pictures, but here they are.  LOL

Okay I know that I am a big dork....

Now I have to get in gear to finish all of these.....

1.  Bustle dress for a friend.

2.  Corset

3.  Corded petticoat

4.  Fancy petticoat

5.  Corset

6.  Chemises

7.  Drawers, maybe?

8.  Civil war dress.  Started to cut it out the other day , but only had the bottom part of the dress.  The company will be sending me the rest of pattern I hope will be here by tomorrow.

All of these I would like to have finished by April 16th.

I know crazy. 

The only one that I need finish is the dress so I will be fine, I hope.

Here is the dress that I am making for our first official open day at the museum Civil War Day.

The fabric is a pale sheer pink and the trim is a darker Burgundy.  I have the hat finished so I won't have to worry about that.

I will post more pic when I get finished.