totchipanda

I am *inspired* to work on my old curtain-along gown, made in 2014/2015 (I remember I had intended to track how long it took me, inspired at the time by mandie_rw's dress in a day and koshka_the_cat and other prolific hand-makers) and then did not work on it at all consistently so I have no idea how long it took! I only wore it once, in 2017, and I spent a couple hours lifting the front hem very sloppily the day before I wore it. It's been on the "to-do" list ever since. (CoCo '17 was its own anxiety-bearing event, separate from but connected to CoCo '18, so the gown held some of those memories and I didn't want to poke the bear, so to speak.)

I talked about it more on my blog rather than here, but it was made from a pattern from They Of Whom We Do Not Speak with a custom-drafted sleeve from... Costume Close-up, I think, because the included one was RIDICULOUS. I recall taking a whole slew of images of how I attempted to proportionally draft it and posted that on said blog (but if they were on photobucket, they are gone forever. Maybe). I gave it some box pleated self-trim and it was styled after my VERY FAVOURITEST GOWN EVER, the striped silk one from Snowshill Manor in PoF 1. Which, with plenty more experience than I had at the time, was not the best gown to model this one after lol. Oh well! It fulfilled a dream and some day I shall have that gorgeous creature in my closet.

( Long post is long. )