prom dress pix

Wow! That's gorgeous! If anyone sees the repair, he has his nose where it doesn't belong. ;-)

Sharon, that is so pretty. She'll be stunning in it. You made a great save on a great outfit. Repairs like that are what distinguish a great sewist from an ordinary one. Give yourself a medal a big hug and a glass of a really good wine. You deserve it. Juno

Wow, what a dress! (Your DD must be looking really lovely in it!) And I had to look twice at the mend, it's not noticable at all, it looks like it just belongs there, totally part of the overall design. Just as Joanne says: If anybody sees it, he's got his nose where it doesn't belong. Or he's - as we in Germany put it - from the other shore ('vom andern Ufer'); not because he's into details of dress but because he's got his eyes on the dress and not on the charming wearer. ;-)

U.

Great job! And I don't just mean the repair either! :-)

Erin

Sharon, wonderful dress, and your repair is perfect. If you never tell anyone it's there, no one will ever know. What pattern did you use?

Beverly

It is lovely. After looking carefully at the repair on the last picture, I went back to the previous one and could only find it with effort and concentration. You really made a great save.

--Betsy

Thanks!!! I knew if you guys had a hard time finding it, no one at that prom is going to!!! ;)

Sharon

Thank you so much, Beverly. ;) I'm not telling anyone...are y'all telling anyone??? lol

It's Butterick B4919. It's a retro pattern, it says from 1952. She picked it out and I just fell in love with it as soon as I saw it. :)

Sharon

LOL Thanks Ursula. I'll have to tell DD that one. She gets a big kick out of expressions from other languages/countries. Then she gets a bigger thrill out of whipping them out on the unsuspecting/unknowing. lol

Sharon

Thank you so much, Juno. :) I'm definitely signing up for your reward program!!! I love that list, especially the last one. ;)

Sharon

Thanks, Joanne! ;) If anyone has his nose where it doesn't belong, she's liable to mash said nose with her clutch purse. (then stomp the attached toes with her killer silver shoes.) LOL She likes to make sure people around her know how she feels.......... heh heh

Thanks again!

Sharon

My lips are sealed!

Ok, I think you shared that before, I remember looking at it recently. You might not want to tell your DD that "Someone on the sewing newsgroup made that same dress in 1955(?) for

Beverly

LOL!!! If she knows that Miss Beverly made that dress for herself, it will be just that much cooler. ;) And too, just more proof that really classy stuff doesn't ever go out of style. ;)

Sharon

I guess I'm the only one who couldn't find the mended area at all! The dress looks great!

Thanks, Alice. :) If you really want to see what I did, go back to the album, and look at the new last picture in there.

Sharon

Oh, THAT's where it was. I couldn't find it either. Great save.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans

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Absolutly lovely. Nice patern Sharon. As for the repair it's miniscule and as my dad would say "a blind man would be glad to see it " Well done. Clap, clap, clap. Claire in Montréal. FRANCE

Lovely job Sharon, DD will be the Belle of the ball in that. It will look great with those killer heels you mentioned too.

Lizzy

What mending? Where?? Sharon, if you hadn't marked it out in the last picture, I wouldn't have seen it at all. Ok, I did have my face about 6 inches from the screen to try and find it, but sheesh...I don't see it in the overall pictures!! I think if some boy is at that level looking for a mend in the dress, your darling daughter has full rights to give him a good swift kick...which is what I'd expect my daughter to do if she's in that situation...but then again, she's already a kick-butt, stay out of my personal space kid...and she's only 5!!

Awesome job, once again!!

Larisa