Dress complete - prom over.  *sigh of relief*

Time is running out!  Alex leaves for prom in less than 6 hours and I still need to make the peasant top to go with the skirt!  Here is a quick pic of the completed skirt!

2 more layers

two mre layers done.  Prom is tomorrow...  aack.

also note the hair -- red, black and highlights... 

back to sewing!

Green Day, Earth Day and Paint it Black day

I am not sure exactly how I am supposed to get this prom dress finished with a Green Day marathon on Fuse tv today...   I am working during commercials, though.  More pics to follow soon.

all ruffled out....

I simply cannot ruffle any more.... tonight...

here is a beautiful ruffle attached to satin then topstitched down and then the entire thing ruffled.  I can't believe how much sewing goes into a ruffle...

here is the skirt so far.  At least 3 more tiers to go (all different and all with netting, too):

so many yards...

ruffles and gathering... yards and yards of it. I had to go back to Joann's to get more netting -- who knew it would take so much?

The hemline of the dress is 150 inches!

Ruffling the lower tier:

First ruffle

Ha!  Do you think Tim Gunn would like my fabulous collar????  Not really -- it's just the first tier ruffle for the prom dress.  I had a bear of a time figuring out what I was doing wrong with the ruffler foot on my machine when trying to gather this netting.  Finally, after looking at lots of tutorials on-line, I came across the secret --  *hold the threads behind the foot as you start to ruffle*.  That simple.  With the open holes on the netting, the machine was having a time figuring out what to attach to and it was sewing onto the threads -- which made a big mess.   Now that it is figured out, I have lots of ruffles to make...

prom, take 2

lots of prep work for the prom dress.  I got the base for the skirt done and fitted.  It is very full, and I surely hope I bought enough ruffle fabric. 

Here is the cincher we bought.  I love it!  I don't like that the top ruffle is floppy, so I sprayed a bit of it with stiffener -- we'll see if that helps.

Here is the skirt -- simple waistband, almost a full circle skirt.  Not ironed yet -- and ignore the bulky t-shirt...  Now to add all the ruffles...