craftgrrl | Pink Roses and Fans Dress

This is the other dress I've made recently (it's like a polar opposite of the short fitted 60s-esque other one).

The waist and top of the dress are elasticated with thick elastic; its stretchiness is what keeps the dress on! The waist is elasticated all the way round, while the top is only elasticated at the back so it lays flat at the front.

I love this fabric, I dug it of a basket in the shop that sells fabric by the weight. It's a beautiful floaty shiny satin covered in roses in various shades of pink and big outlines of fans in black.

I also bound the inside seams with pink ribbon to stop it fraying.

Unlike the other dresses I've been making recently this one didn't involve a pattern, though it involved a lot of adding up and measuring to work out how much elastic to use and where to put it (and then huge amounts of straight sewing as it was a rather large piece of fabric).