Process of Making a Gown Part 1

Consider the fabric your using.  If your making something more structure, then maybe best use heavier weight fabric like satin.  If your going with more drape and flow, then perhaps chiffon maybe better.  There are many other fabric maybe used, it all depend design and feel your going for.  Whatever fabric you choose, do preshrink the fabric by steaming before cutting because you'll be doing a lot of ironing and steaming later and you don't want the fabric to shrink then.

Creating pattern for your design.  You can drape your pattern on the mannequin, draft a pattern on paper, or if your really skilled, you can just draft it right on the fabric.  For this particular one, I just used a pattern of bodice I've drafted a while ago for another design.

This is an example of an drape pattern.

This is the drafted bodice pattern I'm going to use. 

  

Gown to be Made

I've been wanting to start a business of making custom gowns.  As you could see the sketches I've been doing from the previous blog.  The sketch are small, it's for me to keep track of ideas and thoughts.  I've decided to start with a simple gown.  Here's a picture of a sketch.

To be continue....

April Gown Sketches

I've been working on creating new habits and last months habit was to do a little sketch everything.  Gown sketches in particularly because I want to design and make bridal gowns.  Thanks to my accountable partner Michal from Poland, I've done all these sketches.   =)

So now what?  I'm thinking of taking some of the idea and start trying to bring it to life.  For the next few months, beside fulfilling Etsy orders and creating new bridal accessories for my Etsy shop, I'll be working on making gowns.