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Should designers compete among themselves about who wears the best outfit to church or not?. Here is an experience from Sunday Outfit challenge
Happy new week to my wonderful needlework family, the week is indeed a blessed one for me as I am starting all the new week in good health, quality weather and some peace of mind. Yesterday being Sunday
I stumbled on a challenge on Facebook where seamstresses, tailors and fashion designers were being challenges to post their Sunday wear. It looked more like a competition about who wore the best outfit. But I don't believe that it's a good thing to compete among ourselves, we should admire one another and learn from each other.
It was then I noticed that alot of designers hardly have time to sew some wears for themselves. Those who are able to often sacrifice their Saturday night sleep just to sew something they can wear to church by morning. It's good to want to wear some quality designs fo church if it is meant to advertise our skills and handwork but not for competition.
It was a beautiful experience seeing how people rushed up to sew in order to style themselves fo church. Actually it's idea for designers to wear their brand and dress their best as that is one thing that can draw the attention of more customers. I wanted to make a Sunday wear for myself yesterday too but didn't have enough time to do that. Fabrics are a bit expensive these days and I'm cutting down on my fabric purchases due to the nature of the current economy. Even at that it doesn't warrant that I dress shabilly to church. I always have a secret of mixing clothes
I mean whenever I have pieces of fabrics that aren't useful from sewing customer wear I will save them up and they end up being useful, patch work is another way to create new cloth, maximize every available fabric and sew something new from the trash.
I have this several pieces of fabrics and clothes that my sister has outgrown. Instead of leaving then idle I decided to make a dress from it. Picking the clothes the several matching color clothes I began to remove the good part of one and add it up to a good part of the other dress to make a whole.
I removed the lace from the upper part of the smaller blouse
And worked it out to form a sleeve for the dress. Each little pieces was important here as I was trying my best to make the sleeve come together. For a fabric that is formally cut, it is often difficult to cut into into another desired shape.
The lacing on the lower part of the blouse was then removed and here I attached it to the main dress.
There was a whole lot of work to be done on the dress that I ended up forgetting to take the step by step pictures. Rather than having two dresses that were no longer useful, I worked it out into one beautiful.
Embellishments is something I love fo do, it often turns your cloth from jusy being something ordinary into one that is unique.
The embellishments was very necessary as I had earlier used candle gum go disfigure a part of the waistline. Those are parts of the mistakes we often do as apprentice. Candle gum is very bad for embellishments, it leaves this ugly stains on cloths that is irreversible.
While my dress for was ready for church I didn't feel confident about wearing it. Something about the length still feels short and I have completely run out of fabric scraps. I ended up wearing something else to church but something has to be done to fix this beautiful dress rather than dumping and leaving it idle in the wardrope.
