Silk Wedding Dress Progress

I’ve been working on a silk wedding dress for a bride who is getting married in September. The plan is to make a simple slip dress in silk, and have flower motifs painted in a spiral way from down waist to hem. I’ve been practicing silk painting on cheap polyester as blogged here, and at the same time, making patterns and muslin for the dress. For the muslin, instead of using cotton muslin fabric, I used polyester satin, just because I thought poly satin will be closer to the actual fabric I use for the dress, silk satin. By making the muslin in satin, I was able to see how the dress flows better than a stuff cotton muslin fabric.

The dress shape is simple. It has a vertical darts in front and back. The straps are spagetti straps (easy tutorial here). I was easily able to turn the straps inside out since the satin fabric is slippery. To avoid the seams from ripping while turning, I used small stitch (2mm stitch length) and sew the seams twice, which was recommended in one of the tutorials I found in Japanese.

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