Bliaut Part 3

FINISHED!

It took 8 hours, almost exactly. :)

 

The kitten likes the sleeves, at least!

Bliaut Part 2

Facing around the neck, and watching Project Runway on Hulu.

UUUGH so many panels to sew. :/

The neck facing (UGH)

Turning it right-side out...

 

Sewing gores and stuff together. Easy, but SO. MANY. GORES. 

I decided last minute to line the lower portion of the sleeves. It means I won't have to hem, witch is awesome, but is going to add some extra time to the total it takes to finish this dress.

 

 

Bliaut Part 1

Well, I managed to burn myself in the first 10 minutes, but I started a new dress...

Doing a bliaut, though I haven't done one before. Had already cut the sleeves out before I thought of a better way to do it. Oh well.

Also decided to do an extra full skirt, so cut extra gores. Wasn't aware I had so much fabric!

Took just under an hour to cut all the pieces out. Now to start pinning!

(I hate pinning...)

I have some trim to use as a belt and sleeve embellishment, which I think I bought almost 8 years ago, so I've been holding off for the perfect dress. I hope this is it!

 

Yards and yards of green! Gotta iron the whole lot.

    

The huge sleeves. They're gonna be a bitch to do anything in, while wearing this dress, but I will feel so damn pretty in them! :D Did them fitted till the elbow, because I have bands I want to put around there for embellishment.

Gusset bits for the armpits. 

Gores, four per side, for a total of eight. The circumference of the skirt is going to wind up being just about ten feet.

Here's the whole dress, all laid flat! Haven't put in a neck hole yet, but that's okay. This is probably one of my favorite shades of green. I've been sitting on this fabric for a few months now, maybe over a year? I dunno, a while, anyway. 

 

Seriously, fuck pinning.

 

 

My hoarded trim! I used to have this trim in brown and gold as well, but I can't for the life of me find it, which is a shame, 'cause a brown and gold version of this dress would also be lovely...