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Description
This was my degree project. I was inspired by Arwen from “The Lord of the Ring”-trilogy. The dress also has Greek influences. It’s my own design and pattern and I also sewed the dress. It’s an ankle-lenght dress made in several layers and three different materials. I spent a long time on constructing the pattern and making a well-fitting toile. The hardest part was the sewing. Silk chiffon is a very thin fabric and it is incredible hard to handle. And I had never sewed in chiffon before. So, this dress was not so easy to sew. I can easily say that it required blood, sweat and many tears. But I’m quite satisfied with the result. It’s far away from perfect. But I like the design and I love the colour and the fabrics.
Material Notes
For the utmost(?) layers I used silk chiffon and for the second layer I used crépe satin silk. As lining I used a blend fabric, triacetate-polyester, which was antistatic. I used two different threads. Gütermann's 100% silk thread and polyester thread. Plastic leaves as decoration.
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Aug 24, 2009, 12.11 AMby Kiraph
This is just lovely and you did a great job working with a difficult fabric. Polyester chiffon is bad enough so I can imagine that silk chiffon must be much more slippery. I hope you get a great mark. Well done :)
Aug 23, 2009, 09.46 PMby vampireXhearts
wow this is a rely nice dress, good job. in my opinion it looks pretty mystical, so defiantly fits the theme.
well dun, i hope you get the grade your targeting for
Aug 23, 2009, 05.48 AMby jamber
So beautiful, your hard work and attention to detail really shows!
I was thinking of making a silk blouse but after reading your comments I think I’ll practice for a while longer!!
Aug 23, 2009, 12.46 AMby Sew4my3
Gorgeous! I love the color, fabric and design! It may have fantasy as inspiration but it fits into the real world with beautiful elegance. Well done!
Aug 22, 2009, 10.57 PMby sarsaparilla
It’s so elegant! I know chiffon has made me cry a few times too =)
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Aug 23, 2009, 07.47 PMby mariaa
Thank you. I always feel so miserable when I cries over unsuccesful sewing projects. I have established that the less problematic a garment is to sew, the more likely it is that I’m going to wear it (I’m not sure if I wrote the correct English…).
Aug 22, 2009, 09.56 PMby nenasew
So beautiful. Congratulations on finishing it. Do you get to wear it?
Aug 22, 2009, 06.55 PMby Hollylou42
Beautiful! I would totally wear it and you’re braver then me, I have yet to attempt sewing chiffon!
Aug 22, 2009, 05.00 PMby bwinters
Lovely dress,it would be fabulous in any soft draping fabric and I agree chiffon is very difficult to sew !!!!
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Aug 22, 2009, 06.48 PMby mariaa
Thank you. I hope you have some project you would like to share :)