Sunday was Lazy Day, so it was a perfect day to continue with my dress. I know, lazy day means doing nothing and relaxing, sleeping all day. For me, lazy day means doing anything I want without being interrupted. I did a lot that day and I am happy how it looks so far.

If you have seen my previous post, you know now that I had to shape the dress as much as possible because it really looked like a potato bag. It may look like a quick task to do, but it wasn't because I basically had to sculpt according to my own body. When you shape the dress, you have to make sure you shape it smoothly without breaks.

I was so happy with the shape of the dress and I could finally continue with the turtle neck/collar. I bought last week black shiny elegant fabric that I wanted to use for the turtle neck/collar. I paid 5 euros for 1 meter, not bad! I measured first the neck width and draw the pattern using my measurement.

Then I placed the pattern of the collar on the fabric and cut the pattern out from the fabric (double).

The ruffle lace I have isn't so ruffled, so I created more ruffles to get more drama around my short neck.

Here you see clearly the difference between the two ruffle lace.

I pinned the ruffle lace between the double collar and sewed it. Later on, I sewed it on to the dress.

A dress made of tweed can look very boring, but if you combine it with lace and a shiny luxury fabric, the dress will drastically change in to an elegant/ high fashion dress.

The back is still open because I still needed to sew an invisible zipper on to the dress.

My sewing machine has a few feet for different purposes. For zippers, I have a special foot that only is meant for zippers. You can either use the left side or the right side depending on wether you are left or right handed.

In my first post I made already the pattern for the sleeves. I cut the sleeves out of the fabric using the sleeve pattern.

I started with sewing the corners of the sleeves, the pointy side of the sleeves.

Then I added the sleeves to the dress. It really looks funny and I still have to get used to the pointy shoulders/sleeves.

If you look at my design, you see that the lower sleeves have lace. That is why I cut 1/3 of the sleeves and closed the seems.

I traced 1/3 of the sleeve pattern on a different piece of paper, cut it out and cut the pattern out of the lace. The lace sleeves I sewed using a French seam. That is sewing 0,5 cm for the edge on the right side of the fabric, and then 0,5 cm from the wrong side of the fabric. A French seam gives a much cleaner look.