Making a tiered dress in shimmer salmon crepe de chine part 3

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My mannequin has arrived. And I’ve been working on my shimmer salmon crepe de chine dress all afternoon. By working on the dress I mean I’ve been draping cloth this way and that way on the mannequin trying to see what I can come up with by way of a design. I’m pretty much decided that I won’t attempt a tiered dress for now. I think that’s a bit too ambitious. For now I think I’ll try for a draped dress because that’s what’s shaping itself as I drape the pieces of cloth I cut out last week around the mannequin. Here’s where things stand as of the moment.

salmon crepe de chine dress idea 1 salmon crepe de chine dress idea 2 salmon crepe de chine dress idea 3

What’s next?

Right now my dress is all pinned up and tied up to hold it in place on the mannequin. I ordered a sewing machine from Amazon yesterday. It is due to arrive tomorrow. I did not order the Brother sewing machine mentioned in Part 2. It was no longer available by the time I was ready to buy the machine. And I had changed my mind about it anyway because I had the crazy idea that after I finish the first dress I want to try to make a leather handbag. So I needed to get a more heavy duty machine. I saw a how-to video for making a leather handbag and I want to try it. So I purchased a SINGER 4423 Heavy Duty Extra-High Sewing Speed Sewing Machine with Metal Frame and Stainless Steel Bedplate. I hope to be able to pay off for this machine in full by the end of the month.

SINGER 4423 Heavy Duty Extra-High Sewing Speed Sewing Machine with Metal Frame and Stainless Steel Bedplate

I don’t know how to use a sewing machine. My mother was teaching me a few years ago and I was starting to get the hang of it; but I had to send back the sewing machine on account of not being able to keep up the payments. Hopefully there will be enough how to sew videos on youtube to help me out because I don’t live close enough to my mother for her to resume teaching me to use a sewing machine.

The mannequin

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The mannequin is taller than I am so this dress will not be as short on me. She has 5 inches on me so the dress will probably reach just above my knees. Size wise we’re in the same range. My thighs are about an inch or so thicker and I have way more going on in the tush department. Roughly the same shoulder width. My arms are slightly bigger.

Some other style ideas I played with

salmon crepe de chine dress idea number 1

This was earlier in the day soon after the mannequin arrived. I think this style has some potential but I need dresses with room to spare. This wouldn’t work for me.

salmon crepe de chine dress idea number 2

The beginnings of the draped dress. The first draped look attempted. It’s longer and the draping and under layer are different.

It’s all fun until…

salmon crepe de chine dress idea 5

It was easy enough to pin up and tie up the pieces of cloth and fashion a semblance of a dress. The hard part is going to be sewing this thing and making it not look like pieces of cloth stiched together.

salmon crepe de chine dress idea 6

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Monica
Monica
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Singer songwriter Adelamonica AKA Avenue Sixty editor in chief. Writing as Monica for The Monica Archives. Writing has always been one of my passions. In fact, when I was a teenager, I used to tell people they should remember my name, because I was going to become a famous author. I used to live to write and write to live--not in the sense of writing for income but writing to combat depression and to feel a sense of purpose. I've written novels, poems, articles and essays that I tried unsuccessfully to get published over many years starting in my teens. When I discovered blogging several ages ago, I turned to that avenue as a means of doing what I love without having to worry about publishers and their rejection letters. Modeling is also something I have always enjoyed and something I wanted very badly to do as a teenager. So badly that I used to lie and tell people I was a model. I would carry around a large portfolio style photo album and claim it was my modeling portfolio. But, as with my writing, the people with the power to make my modeling dreams come true saw nothing in me that made them stop me in the streets of New York to offer me a modeling contract with their agency. So when I discovered the ability to photograph my own self (before cell phones and selfies) I took up a hobby of pretend modeling at home and that hobby has remained with me throughout my life as a form of self expression and self therapy. I ask that you kindly excuse my lack of worldliness and any instances where I demonstrate lack of tact or lack of knowledge and even lack of basic intelligence in my writing and posing. I'm just here trying to have a little fun doing the things that make me happy. I'm just an average human for whom writing and posing and singing and dancing and the other things I do are ways I express myself and keep myself going on this ever challenging journey of life. I hope you will find something even remotely useful or interesting in the things I share.
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