OhSewCrafty Blog

On Friday I went out to dinner and to a midnight release party at a local bookstore for “Breaking Dawn”  (Thank you, C, for indulging my twilight obsession… my DH rocks!)  I got home around 12:45 am, and spent the next 12 hours reading, with a 5 hr nap in the middle.  My succinct assessment of BD:  Weird but good in the end.   Anyway, the theme of the release party was “prom”, so I figured I’d dress up in something fancy, sparkly, and blue (in reference to Edward’s favorite color on Bella); I am certainly pale enough to be vamp anyway!  This is a dress I sewed maybe 5 years ago, pattern is Vogue 2475.  I used a sequined royal blue poly chiffon for the overdress and an ice blue satin for the inner slip, both of which I obtained for a song at fabric.com.  There weren’t any issues with the pattern, as I recall, and vogue designs fit my body without much alteration.  Sewing with chiffon is always a pain, and for this particular fabric, I spent a lot of time carefully cutting sequins out of the seam lines.  Also, due to the all over pattern on the fabric, it’s hard to see the pretty seam lines.