All posts tagged: Juno

Juno dress: ruching tulle and pleating silk

I’m plugging away at the Juno dress. It’s at the point where everything is incredibly labour intensive and I spend hours and hours on it without seeming to get anywhere.  It’s all going to come together soon and look amazing though, I swear! First I pinned and draped the tulle, and then hand sewed it on, and tacked it down with invisible stitches all over the place so it holds the drape. Then I had to figure out the bottom pleating, and make it fit perfectly around the width of the skirt. Felicity helped with that part.  Her instinct for expensive fabric is amazing.  I lay the skirt down on the floor to pin the pleats, turned around, picked up a pin, turned back, and she was lounging on the fabric as if she had been there for hours. Finally, I spent an entire evening making silk ‘poofs’ for the border at the top of  pleating. I peered and analyzed detail images of the inspiration dress as best as I could, but the silk is …