Pub­lished 10/31/2013

In my sis­ter’s wed­ding post, do you remem­ber me talk­ing about my best friend’s wed­ding the evening before my sis­ter’s wedding?!

Not only did the wed­dings fall with­in 24 hours of each oth­er, but I decid­ed to make my dress for my friend’s wed­ding too! (Read more about the gown and dress I made for my sis­ter here)

 Below I share some pho­tos of this dress on my friend’s wed­ding day and dur­ing the cre­ative process.

Thanks Evan Peri­go Pho­tog­ra­phy for the pho­tos on her wed­ding day! (Evan’s pho­tos were awe­some!)

If I could go back in time, I would’ve start­ed this dress last spring. Last spring, I had sus­pi­cions that my sis­ter would be mar­ried in August, but I did not plan for enough time in August!

I thought I could do it all (which in fact I did), but I did­n’t have the time to make changes or fix all the mis­takes along the way. This brides­maid dress was one of those projects that I wish I had time to change or even throw out for a new dress!

Orig­i­nal­ly, I want­ed to do a chif­fon petaled shift dress. I planned on dri­ving to Chica­go to find a beige chif­fon fab­ric, then I was going to hand sew the fab­ric to look like petals. But by the first week of August, I real­ized there was no way I’d find time to make this fab­ric! So instead, I opt­ed to use a poly­ester fab­ric stashed in my clos­et and whip some­thing up!

I found a cou­ple pat­terns I had in my clos­et. I took one skirt from one pat­tern and a basic bodice block from another .

First, I made a mock-up of the bodice.

Then, I pinned it on the dress form and start­ed to cut away…

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So far it seemed to move along smooth­ly (I even decid­ed to add some pleats)…

Well, it did not turn out how I expected!

The waist was 1″ too low, darts looked awful, and I was­n’t sure about the fab­ric or color.

I should’ve of scratched the entire dress at this point. But instead, I decid­ed to make adjust­ments… more adjustments.…and more adjust­ments. Even­tu­al­ly, I invest­ed too much time into this project and did­n’t have time to start a new dress!

The lace was orig­i­nal­ly sewn on the skirt for the hem (dec­o­ra­tive detail inside of skirt). But lat­er, the skirt need­ed to be lengthened.

Despite not being too please with this dress, I had no choice but to leave it and move on to the larg­er projects (such as the wed­ding gown and moth­er of the bride dress).

The les­son to take back from this experience:

 If you have lim­it­ed time, USE A PATTERN and stick with it!

Maybe I’ll make that petaled dress for my friend when she’s my brides­maid… who knows!