Mad Men Dress Challenge 3 - NL6243

*wipes sweat*

I made it!

I thought I was going to miss it!

This is my entry into the Mad Men Dress Challenge Numero Tres :-)

I was inspired by Peggy's smize paired with this fancy number:



How did I do? lol

This dress is New Look 6243 View A and the peter pan collar is stolen from Vogue 8900.
I cut the 12 in both patterns.

I made the collar detachable because it isn't really my style and I probably wouldn't wear this dress with it in real life.

BUT if one day I had some jolting urge to have a cobalt blue peter pan collar go with an outfit, then it is available lol.

I got the fabric from different places.

The fabric for the bodice I got from a fabric shop in Panama. I don't know what material it is.

It looks EXACTLY like the material I used for the skirt portion but it is not lol

The fabric I got from panama has stretch to it and the skirt material is a Poplin that I picked up at G Street Fabrics.

The leopard sheer I got from Hancock Fabrics on clearance.

I got the lining from G Street Fabrics as well.

I finally realized what so many people who use indie patterns are saying about Big4 directions.

Alot of the time it took me to make this dress was taken up by me reading and re-reading and RE-reading the directions because some were missing!!

I was so in shock lol

The rest of the time i was ripping seams and stitches -___-

I LITERALLY ripped out my zipper 5 times because of ..... reasons.

literally.

and the last time I ripped it out is because i ripped the zipper tape and it was fraying and the zipper got stuck.

It wouldn't move up OR down from the middle

-_______________- lol

I ended up having to find another zipper in my stash.. it's black though.

I only had one blue that color and i got it from Panama sooo .... yea lol

But I learned an extremely easy way to put in invisible zippers before I started using actual patterns but it completely slipped my mind. I was so busy trying to figure out what I was missing from the instructions, I wasn't using the skills I already learned lol

sn: when pattern directions tell me to baste anything down, I'm all like
"BASTE DEEZ!"
and then i bond with the seam ripper lol

I invested in an invisible zipper foot and no more awkward peeping tom zipper!

i need to steam those bindings down :-\

This dress wasn't uber hard to make, it was just the zipper that kept putting me on pause.

Speaking of seams, check out the side seam love-making thooo!

Look at the pretty insides :-D

I serged the side seams and the zipper seam cuz all of a sudden the poplin and the lining wanted to fray all crazy all wild.

Oh!

And the hand-sewing!

I do not like it lol

I had to slip stitch the lining, the arm and neck bindings, hand sew the bow knot, the clasps, the buttons.... so many hand employments lol

I guess once I figure out how to properly sew by hand then it won't bother me as much lol

The dress is so cutesy :-)

I'll probably make another one and wear it for some arbitrary holiday.

Things I've learned

1. How to add a lining

This is the first pattern that I have used that called for lining and it is not as confusing as i thought it would be.  I will be attempting to add lining in some things that don't call for it in the future.

2. How to add bias binding

Totally freaked out by it lol but I just enrolled in a Craftsy class that should definitely give me some great tips on how to make binding easier.

Any way!

That's all I gotsta say.

Cheers!

xoxo, Tasha

this is my favorite pic out of the whole shoot and idk why lool