Almost Done!

Two weeks ago, I started stiching a striped sheath dress for my dolls. Halfway through the dress, I realized that it doesn’t look too good (I made a mistake with my ‘pattern’). So I ditched the first dress and made a new one.

I went for a sundress/tube dress because its easy to make. I didn’t a pattern since you only need pieces of rectangle cloth to construct this one.

I ruffled the striped cloth a little to give it a bit of fluff then attached it to the black top piece. But when I tried it on the doll, the dress shape looked too weird! I had to do extra stitches on the dress, then added a strip of satin ribbon in the middle - puffy dress problem solved! The satin ribbon also hid imperfections along my stitches.

Most doll dresses use velcro for closures. I hate using velcro, it sticks to cloth and damages my doll’s hair. So I opted for the hard way and made a tiny, tiny corset-type closure at the back.

(Almost-finished product):

Almost done! I still have to add a tiny strip of lace underneath the satin ribbon for a bit of detail. I’m thinking of adding a shoulder straps to cover her up a little. Or, maybe I’ll add a shawl/cape of some sort. What do you think?

Back detail. You can’t see the corset closure much in this photo. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, just a few more stitches here and there, and I’m all done with this dress.  I’ll make another one for Gaea, but hers will be a white/stripes version. Twins much?

Just so you know, this dress is 100% hand stitched. Yay! I’m having problems with the Riccar sewing machine, so I still do my sewing projects by hand.