Purple Overdress Part 1

I wasn't sure what to call this post because I didn't make this for any particular purpose I just had a pattern lying around and just bought some nice new fabric so I made it. The pattern I had was a medieval dress pattern by Simplicity, the number is 1773. The fabric I used was a dark purple crushed velvet and a cheap dark blue cotton. This project also needed boning and light weight fusible interfacing. I probably spent about three or four days on this dress because it involved boning and I had never done this before.

This is what the dress looked like when it was finished. I am not going to keep the excess ribbon that I wrapped around my waist in the photo. I accidentally over measured how much I would need.

Here is what the dress pattern looked like. I made the over dress which is pattern B on the package. You can also see an example on the front of the envelope my dress was the brown over dress. As you can probably see I altered the pattern so that I would just have shoulder straps instead of the whole arm loop things.

These are the fabrics I used (plus the interfacing)

The crushed fabric looked like this. I was kind of a purpley-blue in real life.

I used this cheap $3 cotton for the lining because lining is just as expensive as  the main fabric. Plus it does a fine job anyway.

This is the 1/4 inch ribbon I used. I wanted the colours to really clash and stand out. That is why I picked a fluorescent green.

Following the patterns instructions I cut out the pieces for the overdress bodice and skirt out of the main fabric. I then did the same for the interfacing and lining. But for these I did not cut out the skirt patterns again. then on the interfacing I trimmed about half an inch off of the perimeter and then fused the interfacing to the corresponding lining pieces.

That is it for part 1 of the over dress post. On the next post I will talk about the sewing part.