argyle dress concept part 4: almost done

I feel like I've been working on this dress forever.
It's only been 10 days since I had the idea for this dress.


Thanks again for all your voting on the sleeves vs no sleeves issue.
I decided, sleeveless, collarless, but YES YES YES to piping.
Which I made myself for the very first time today.

Ok, so here's where it's at now.

What's left to do?
The hem is horrible.  I will be ripping that out tmw night.  and rehemming.  And I need to iron the CB seam. and maybe fix the piping on the sleeves so that they are the same width?  The piping on the left armhole is not as wide as the piping on the right armhole.  I used the same cording so I must not have sewn as closely with my zipper foot on the right armhole.  You can see too the left armhole got a little stretched out....


Here's a closeup of the neckline.

My very own homemade piping:

More gory details later.
For now it's time for bed!
Be well!

argyle concept dress part 3: sleeves or no?

I think my last post garnered the most comments I have ever received for a posting on this blog (28).

Thanks for speaking up and casting your vote. I will do the official tally with my next post, but early exit polls show that "with collar" had a strong initial lead, with "collarless" picking up steam as the week progressed.  However, it's projected that the collar option is the winner at the polls.

I decided to NOT do a collar though.  I'm thinking I will pipe the neckline. With piping I make myself.  Which I've never done before.  Ha ha ha ha ha!

New poll question:  Should I attach sleeves or leave it sleeveless?

If yes to sleeves, the elbow-ish length ones or shorter sleeve ones?
(the sleeves are just pinned in these pix)


Hrm.

Or sleeveless (I would pipe the armholes then too)

I'm curious to hear what y'all think!
Oh, and here's my new red shiny convertible  toaster.

Be well!

argyle dress concept part 2: peter pan collar or no?

Thanks for the comments already on my argyle concept dress from last night.
Here's a new idea I have:  how about a peter pan collar?
What do you think?  yea or nay?


Or is it better like this:

I probably won't get to work on this again til tonight, when I really should be cooking.  Maybe I can do a bit of both.
So please let me know in the comments, yea or nay to peter pan collar!

 Be well and enjoy your Sunday!