Eleanor Dress Progress

[isabelladangelo]

I have a few pictures up. The dress embroidery/couching is done, thank God. It's not perfect but I don't think it looks bad either.

The front of the dress I haven't finished adding pearls to the partlet and I haven't added the eyelets to the back of the dress either. I should have the pearls added by the end of the week, hopefully. I'm starting on the sleeves tomorrow.

Back of dress Like I said, I haven't put the eyelets in so hence major gaping and ripples. I was more focused on getting the couching done then worrying about eyelets (which I can probably sew in the dark. in the night. with no one else around. not for miles....).

There are couple more pictures up on my flickr account if you want to take a look. Please, comments/suggestions/ect are really helpful. I'm still willing to take things apart to get this dress looking correct!

Comments

[sstormwatch.livejournal.com]

The embroidery looks good. I am wondering if the bodice length is right (having messed that one up myself recently). I can't tell too well on the dress dummy. Does it fit right on you?

And will you be doing sleeves?

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Yeap, working on the sleeves the rest of the week as well as the partlet.

The dress does look funny on the dummy and I have yet to figure out why. I've used this pattern on another dress and it fits me perfectly. My only guess is that I'm squishy, the dummy isn't, and that causes weird things in length as well as width.

EDIT: I know why it looks funny on the dummy. The "chemise" I have on under it is 3/4 length sleeves, not a full sleeved chemise like I'll really be wearing. It's a mind trick. :-)