Two months ago I started to recreate the red dress Hermione Granger wore to Fleur & Bills wedding.
I constructed the pattern myself. After sewing a muslin and little alterations I had a finished pattern for the bodice with princes seams and darts in the back:
After this - fabric shopping!!!
I bought 3m of very soft and flowy micro satin, 5m chiffon, a little darker glass beads and of course, an invisible zipper.
I started by making the bodice out of a double layer of micro satin and chiffon. And then the ruffles...oh yes, the ruffles. I had to run to the store because I ran out of needles...
That´s just the ruffles on the edges of the bodice...
After I sewed in the lining - also micro satin - more ruffles! They run from the front of the bodice over the shoulders to the back, all of them facing outwards.
I sewed the skirt in a sewing-flash, so I didn´t make good progress pictures. I made the skirt out of a 3/4 circle of micro satin and chiffon. There are 8 lines of ruffles down the skirts. These ruffles are getting narrower as they run down the skirt.
I put the zipper in the side seam, not in the back seam as the original dress, so it´s easier to close by myself.
And what´s missing? Of course more ruffles!
I did many rows of ruffles around the waist and a big flowery ruffle circle in the front.
Last I handsewed the beads in between the ruffles.
As I am no good at taking pictures of myself, I only have this lousy one, but I hope I´m able to convince somebody to take better pictures soon.
All in all I made 32m (34yard) of chiffon stripes into ruffles!!!
But I just love this dress and hope I can wear it soon!
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