As usual all your stuff is amazing, but this is to die for! I have done and like the "butt ruffles", the side ruffles totally add to it! I also love how your design is 3-D with the flowers and butterfly!
LisaZoe.......Your skills are truly amazing. Everything that you have posted the past few days are so beautiful. I'm in awe.
I am just speechless!! Those are all so amazing.
AMAZED as always....
Thanks for continuing to post here. I don't hang out on Facebook. And finding your creations posted is always a joy!
Thank you!
First of all, I want to say, when I grow up I want to be able to sew half as good as Miss Lisa does! (yes, I know I am much older than you, but still haven't grown up ...out, but not up LOL!)
Who says I'm grown up?
I also don't think you're much older than me. I'm closer to 50 than I like to remember.
Second, please remember us and my GD2 as we head into surgery today. This will be her fourth out of possibly five surgeries for her little foot. Each and every time she has had problems with the anesthesia. First, the epidural doesn't work, then they end up giving her morphine and she has problems coming out of it! They are insisting on sending her home after the surgery today. Even if they end up combining the last two surgeries into one, (meaning lengthening the bone with rods and lengthening the Achilles tendon).
Oh no, I hope this surgery is the last and goes smoothly. I can't believe the hospital wouldn't have her stay the night with her history of problems with anesthesia.
The Mickey and Minnie things are just amazing but your Vida's OMG! You have such patience and it's so inspiring! I don't know if I could spend that much time on one dress. How long does something like the Bambi dress take you? I don't know how you do it but your results are astonishing! Just amazing, so talented!
Honestly, I'm bad at keeping track of my time when I'm working. This one took longer than expected because it was the first time I tried to do the layered ruffles.
Wow! I Love the Bambi Vida! It's beautiful! Would you mind sharing the directions for doing the ruffles? I know it is probably fairly simple....I think I am just over complicating it in my mind!
It's not hard but there are a lot of changes, at least the way I did these. I may have made it harder than it needed to be, though.
When I do major changes like this, I tend to make it up as I go along which means a bit of trial and error is involved each time. Usually the first is the trickiest since I'm worked out theoretically how to do things but the ideas don't always work in reality. I also find that after I've made something once I usually can think of ways to do it better (i.e. simpler, quicker, easier
) the next time.
Basically I created a pattern piece that is the 'foundation' for the sides and back. It's shaped and sized to be the same as the original back and side panels (with the side panels shorted to the length of the center back panel). I want the ruffles to overlap each other so I struggle getting the math right. Sometime I should write down what worked so I can use it again. LOL
Since the side panels are no longer the full length of the dress including the bodice section, I cut a small section to insert between the existing front and back bodice pieces. I considered just using the bodice lining pattern pieces for the main bodice pieces. However, I wanted to be able to have the rickrack at the top of the panel end in a seam so I kept the front and back bodice pieces the same and added the new piece. I probably could just extend the back bodice piece, though, and may try that in the future.
For the front, I stitched the center panel to the bodice and added the bottom ruffle and added the rickrack. For the back, I sewed the side bodice pieces to each end of the back bodice and stitched the ruffled section along the bottom. I joined the front to the sides of the back section along the side seams. Adding the lining, straps and buttons to the bodice were all done basically as I do on any Vida.
BTW - I totally eliminated the bottom center front and back panels to be replaced with the bottom ruffle.
OMG...OMG...OMG....all of them are absolutely beautiful. But I have to say, Bambi is my favorite one. I LOVE IT!!! And the ruffles....WOW..that changes the whole appearance of the dress. I am fixing to make my DGDs Easter dresses from the VIDA pattern. I may just have to try that.
Since I am such a fan of the Vida pattern, I like to find ways to change it a bit to get more use from it.
I made a similar dress with all the layered ruffles years ago so realized the Vida would be a good basis for that style without having to draft my own bodice pieces as well as everything else. I have one more idea for a Vida variation that I hope to try soon.
I put Daniel on the left ear and 2010 on the right. I don't have an extra shirt so Daniel will just have a few Jedi Mickeys.
Awesome, Stephanie and Welcome!
This is my first attempt at a Carla C ebook, and I'm hooked! I can't believe how easy these were to make, and to think I was so intimidated by an e-pattern seems silly now. I think I may make some bowling shirts for this summer
