sunday is the much anticipated wine tour! 8 lovely ladies all dolled up sipping [...right] delicious long island grown wines! for 8 hours.. there may be snoring in the limo on the way home.
after perusing my closet i decided nothing would quite work and/or id already worn my ideal dressy dresses. plus... in and out of a limo, possibly uneven terrain, rescue horses, and possible rain = no long gown type dealios.
so i decided to sew a dress. and then we had a hurricane. and no electricity. and then someone borrowed my iron for 2 days.
but i cut out a pattern from and older h&m dress and transferred it to some cheapo "
china lining" fabric i bought ...nearly 1 1/2 years ago. and a random black piece of schmancy lace.
basically just two jumper shaped pieces serged together at the shoulders and the left side. who puts a zipper on the right side? someone who wasnt paying attention. thats who.
the dress stayed in this state for several days with just pins holding it together. after some futzing, i realized, as per usual, id fucked up the fit and while the zipper went in surprisingly well [basting works?!] the top was all kinds of wrong. solution? chop off the back.
several lengths of bias tape later, i edged the arm holes and back. the leftovers were braided and attached to the twisted front strap, et voila! dress! completed 2 days in advance!!
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