It's been a rough week on several levels, and this gown isn't co-operating either. The first gown came together right away, but the dusty wine one is proving a struggle. It's not as simple as just remaking the first gown in different colours, as it's impossible to get similar sized trims, so I had to come up with a totally different embellishment plan. After considerable thinking, draping, pinning, looking, changing things around, thinking some more, I finally decided on a direction to go. I had drawn up a pattern for a separate train, and even made one out of test fabric. But the trims are all too wide to embellish the edges of a train, so I've dropped that idea. This gown is going to be "lacier".  Here is where I'm at so far......