I've been struggling with how to make address for Bianca out of the old pink sari that I draped around her the day she arrived. She looked so beautiful the way I'd draped her, but I couldn't figure out how to create something similar in an actual dress....
I washed the sari, and it shrank, just like the really thin ones usually do, but we steamed it back into shape. Then I set to work trying to redesign the bodice pattern that I'd made for Miho, so that I could place the edge of the sari along the top edges....and made another test sample.....
The bodice was looking good, but then when i tried to cut the top skirt layer out of the sari, I realized that the edging of the sari was going to be far more difficult to work with than I had imagined. The beads were sewn on, and I knew I could remove those and resew them back on later. But there were a LOT of tiny jewels, and they were tightly glued on. When I tried to pull them off, the fabric just came with them, leaving a hole. So that wasn't going to work. And there were way too many jewels in the border to fit the bodice patterns in-between. ...
Which basically leaves me just two options; to make the bodice and embroider the entire matching design on it by hand; or make the bodice, hand sew one of the 'medallions' to the front, and embroider just the top edge to match. So now I have to find some silver embroidery thread and some tiny silver sequins. Very tiny sequins, about half as wide as the regular smallest ones.
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