Made With Love In Every Stitch

 This dress will be a gown even Sponge Bob's grandma would appreciate.

Don't Be Frayed!  Everything Will Be OK.

We spent Jenny's last day of her visit working on the hem of the dress. We began by sewing a seam along the edge to keep things from fraying. 

Then we ironed, and ironed, and ironed the hem into place.  Jenny worried about the lining hem fraying away on us, so we ironed that edge as well while we were at it.

Ironing Away

Seven hours later...
We had finally ironed the hem, and pinned the lining down, and I was able to sew the lining hem into place.  This went quite quickly as the lining is much smaller than the gown.

Hand Sewing the Hem

Then Jenny set to work hand sewing the hem. We had used the wonderful red clips we bought early on into the project to clip the gown hem down rather than use pins. Pins are scary. We don't want to snag the down and cause a run. That would be very bad, especially at this point in the project.

These clips have been worth their weight in gold. Well, maybe not actually gold, given the price per ounce, but they were kind of pricey, and we debated buying them. We think this was one of the best purchases we made. That and the dupioni.
Seven hours later...

Listening to Los Straight Jackets

Jenny was still hemming the dress when it came time for her to leave. She didn't want to go with the hem not finished, but family duties prevail this time.


We packed up our gear and clipped the dress to Stephanie's Mini-me. We brought it down to the family room where it can hang undisturbed in relative dark and dry conditions for a couple weeks until we are all together again.

It's looking better each time.
Even before the added overskirt of lace, this
is already a beautiful dress. We cannot wait to get back at it in a week and a half!

The Back of the Dress and those Amazing Clips