Week 3: Squid Dress
I know, I know, I'm falling behind. Let me live. So it doesn't fit as snugly as I would normally make it, but I dance in this dress and wear a thick tutu under it, so I'm fine with it being a little loose. This post will probably be more of a picture dump than anything, but I'll try to make sense of it all. I was originally planning to have to draft the pattern, but I wound up finding a Simplicity Pattern (S8330) that had the exact type of bodice I was looking for, so I used that. I did draft the skirt, but really I just made a circle skirt and cut some tentacles out of it. I didn't have enough fabric to do it properly, which is why some of them are really short or really thin. Original sketch for the dress. Marine Biology fun fact of the day: Squids have 8 arms and 2 tentacles. So my goal this week was just to install the zipper back on a costume that I made for a Halloween dance last fall. Long story short, I made this before I br...