Disney Princess :)

Now this is an interesting piece. I chose Simplicity 5705 because after the Felicity dress, I was itching to do something ankle length and fancy (now, this is pronounced FAIN-cy) for those of you who haven’t heard me say it – just a little tongue-in-cheek humor J

I picked the Cinderella dress, C, but opted not to put the ‘skirt puffs’ on it or do the headband (because I had just done a headband). I got this A-M-A-Z-I-N-G sparkly deep red fabric from the remnant bin and knew this was the perfect fabric for my “fancy dress”.

This dress was VERY simple and straightforward. I guess I just thought that a big poufy dress like this would be more complicated. But now that I am learning how to sew, I can see how the pieces are constructed and the whole garment is held together, so I realize this dress is nothing more than a bodice (got that down) 2 sleeves (getting better at that?) and a big skirt (gathering…)

I think I did a pretty good job on the whole thing and paid really close attention to my stitches, I tried to make everything nice and tidy, neat, and clean. I was particularly proud of the sleeves (getting a big head about my gathering talent…until the skirt…ha ha ha)

I did okay until I got to the skirt. I had kind of a difficult time gathering such a voluminous skirt, but all in all, it went ok. However, you know it can’t be one of MY projects until I screw up… so here’s where it happened: The bodice had a v-waist at the bottom; the skirt piece had kind of a v-waist at the top. I did a good job on the bodice and a good job on the skirt, but when it came time to attach those 2 pieces, I think my brain perhaps was on vacation or something, because I neglected to match those 2 pieces up correctly…

I know, I know, you’re thinking to yourself “how do you miss something like that???”  but I did for whatever reason and the repercussion of that is that my skirt is cockeyed… You can’t tell at a glance, but in the first picture I show the way the whole dress looks, the second picture I actually show the piece pulled to the side where its sitting where it should be. Not a huge difference, but I see the error J

Whattya think??