Easter Dress Progress!

Yes, there is real progress today.  At least more than the sad, lonely tab I showed you yesterday.  Today I made the bodice as promised.

Although I have chosen to fully line the dress, the fabric was a still a bit more drapey than I would have liked for the dress.  Because of this, I am underlining the bodice with muslin.  I will probably underline the skirt, too, because I really like the way the bodice turned out. 

After cutting the bodice pieces again out of muslin, I put the fashion fabric and muslin together and treated them as one layer when stitching the darts and seams.


I've also finished and lined the bodice just like I did for my daughter's Easter dress.  To do this, I had to move the zipper from the side seam to the center back seam, but that's an easy thing to do.

Tomorrow:  the bottom half of the dress!

Parting Shot:  Socks.  I finished my red socks, finally.  I'm really happy with them, but I might not get to wear them too much until the fall when I'll need socks again!