Tuesday, April 23, 2013

in case you needed some proof

last night i decided to try and take photos of the current dress i'm working on (i'll post those later) and while i was at it, i took a few more photos of that last dress i finished - the fully lined one for my 2013 sewlution. the only photos i had were from right before i left for work (here's the link in case you missed it) and i realized i hadn't taken any of the inside of the dress. so i couldn't really even prove i completed my sewlution, right? how do you know i lined the dress if you can't see the lining!

here's the finished dress

 

and here's the dress inside out from the front


and inside out from the back (please excuse the wrinkles, it needs a little steam.)


so there you have it! now you got to see the insides! the lining wasn't as complicated as i thought it would be. the pattern didn't call for a lining, but i just used the same pattern pieces as the dress itself. i included the facings, as you can see. i went back and forth between sewing them down or not. i ended up not sewing them down to the lining because i wasn't sure what was best. i guess i was worried the seam might show through more or something? but anyway, next time i'd just go ahead and sew the facings down to the linings, less fuss.

i was super proud of how well the invisible zip went in, sandwiched between the main fabric and the lining. yay me! fear conquered! mission accomplished! (i've been sewing less than a year so this was big for me)

anyway, so there you have it, proof that i did a full lining. i bet you guys trusted me and i didn't even need to show you the photos, right? ah well!


18 comments:

  1. looks great! I am so impressed - without lining in the directions, I wouldn't have a clue how to insert one!

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    1. aw thanks!! i just looked at a lot of tutorials online and it managed to come together

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  2. Totally had faith in your commitment to full lining! This looks super polished and amazing. I am most impressed with the radness of your frock innards :D

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    1. oh yay! glad my frock innards pass the radness test! woot woot!

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  3. When I saw the last pictures of you in the dress, I thought, wow, this is a perfect fit! Then I went through your blog and saw the origingal with the extra fabric in the back. You've done a super job!

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    1. oh my, yes there was quite a bit of excess fabric! I had to take the whole skirt back off, raise up the waistline and reattach it, and that was after i had the zipper in! another case where doing a muslin first would've been smarter!

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  4. Really neat! I love the way lining transforms a dress to make it look classier. And yours is one classy dress, lady!

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    1. thank you thank you! i guess no one can really tell from the outside but it does feel more polished to wear when it has a lining

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  5. This is looks gorgeous! here's a technique for facings plus linings that I've seen in threads magazine, but haven't yet tried out myself.

    http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/4971/a-shortcut-to-great-linings

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    1. Thanks! Looks like i should have edgestitched the facing down to the lining! Next time!

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  6. It looks great! Very tidy. Well done on that zipper.

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    1. Thanks! I'm so glad the zipper thing makes sense to me now. I had to hold it in place and think about it and then flip it inside out to get it right.

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  7. We trusted you :) It looks just as good on the insides as the outside! Well done! So, now that you have completed your Sewlution (only four months in!) what will be your next goal?

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    1. glad you had faith! next goal i think is to make more things that i actually want to wear! mostly cute dresses. and also to try to pick better fabrics. i just had a sort of fabric shopping fail that i haven't posted about yet. oops!

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  8. Beautiful job. Inside is beautiuful. Wear it in good health. Dress fabric is really nice.

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    1. yay, thank you so much!!! the fabric was certainly not the easiest to work with. spray starch and an iron before sewing all the seams helped a lot!!

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  9. This looks so professional and fancy! Well done!

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