My hands decided that they were going to have a mind of their own and kept telling my brain, "I want to sew stuff, I need to sew stuff, I need to sew stuff now!" So my legs took me to the fabric store where I bought 2 meters of satin on sale ($3/meter), and then went home and started cutting. I had no idea what I was doing or was going to make, I didn't even measure anything, I only tried to make sure that the sides matched. (Hence the very uneven stitching.) Without any patterns or dress making know how, I ended up with this.
No pattern means you have to redo things over and over again. I think I resewed every seam at least twice. But no pattern also means you never know what you are going to get until you think you are done. Case in point: the straps. At first I wanted to tie them, but after draping just over my shoulder I decided to just leave it like that. I can flip the ends over to reveal the grey fabric underneath. Then there was the hem. I don't have a surger, (madly want one now after this project) and after doing a very ugly stitched hem, I decided to fix it by doing the only thing I could think of - stitching it back into the lining. So it's now a little shorter that I thought (or not thought). But I now have a new dress! Am I ever going to wear it? That's another story.
Apparently, you can send a wedding invitation to Mr. and Mrs. President of the United States of America.
