Two More Evening Gowns

I've almost finished two more evening gowns for my Fashion sized ladies. I need something easy (and mindless) to do these days, so continue to keep working on turning some of the old Value Village finds into 'simple' evening gowns using my new Elf Gown bodice pattern.

​These next two are being made from a gorgeous girl's party dress. It had a blue satin bodice, with a tulle skirt embellished with gold thread and soft blue roses. The dress bodice didn't provide enough fabric for the two doll dress bodices, so I used the lining for one, and found a close blue satin in my stash for the other. 

The dress skirt had enough fabric for two doll dresses, but there were only 9 of the rose medallions partway up the original skirt, so one of the doll dresses will have five, while the other will have four.

The skirts also needed some creative gathering so the blue rosettes wouldn't end up in 'the ditch', so I stitched large darts in the plain areas of the fabric between the rosettes in order to reduce the amount of fabric at the waist. I used a light gray thread to sew the darts so the stitching would be invisible.

The two gowns are pretty much done. Sarah is modelling the one with the five rose medallions..

And because I wanted to show that the pattern will fit all my Fashion sized ladies, I chose FID Bianca to model the second gown...

I've made one hair-clip, and still need to make a couple more to finish both ensembles...

...and make one more of the narrower long gloves, since Bianca has slimmer arms and hands than Sarah. And then Rex can take his turn to dress up in the tuxedo to pose with his wife for some elegant photos.