I have decided to make my X-mas dress this year. I wasn't going to until I stumbled on accident across a 1950s pattern reprint from simplicity and instantly fell in love. but I walked away from purchasing it immediately because I wanted to make sure that it was what I wanted. After 2 weeks away from it I knew that it was the perfect pattern from the way I couldn't stop talking about it.
In those 2 weeks I spent a lot of time discussing colors with my manager in the costume shop as well as one of my co-workers because for once in my life I was not a fan of the red and black look that they had on the packaging. I went into Joanns with so many different ideas, but in my mind I was set in getting some sort of emerald green fabric. so i searched and searched with my friend emily and did not come across one bolt of darker toned fabric. The initial plan was no longer an option and I was a little sad, but then we found the perfect fabric. A deep red iridescent taffeta. it is STUNNING. as the jacket we search for a while and found a beautiful silvery gray lace. Then with my luck I managed to get a great price on the fabric and i am thrilled to make this.
HOWEVER, just looking at the pattern I am mildly timid. I'm very much a pattern girl, I've worked with some harder patterns but it's something about this one that I just feel like I'm really going to need to take my time with. Though it could be that I'm just intimidated my the fact that Taffeta is a pricey fabric than I normally work with.
It is finals week so I will have quite a bit of free time on my hands so between packing all of my stuff up and my last 2 days at work i should be able to get it done.
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