Special Order

This past month I have been working on a special order for two cute flower girls. The task was to make it out of orange taffeta fabric, and use lots of tulle, and at the end add flowers all over the tulle part of it.

These two pictures where the main "pattern" I had to use to make the flower girls dresses.

Then I had to add the shoulders of this dress, pleating them. I used one yard of pleating

I had to make a sash, adjustable ribbon, pleat 4 yards of tulle, and also I have to make my "own" pattern to make sure the dress fit the girls.

This was my first "draft: nothing was sewed, but I wanted to show my costumer the colors of the tulle.

In this picture I wanted to show if the costumer would have liked just on flower instead of lots of flowers all over the dress.

This is my second draft, the sash was too wide and the I needed to add more tulle pleated for the skirt part of the dress.

Finally the end product, I pleated the shoulders, and made about 30 flowers from the same fabric I made the dress with. It was hard to make so many flowers, It took me a long time to make them, but the end result was wonderful. It was all worth it!!
This girl in this dress is 2 years old, so the dress is big for her.
One of the hardest tasks was to find the right zipper color. At first I went to every store in this area and found NONE!!. I had to use a white zipper..however it did not look good at all. My costumer had to go look for some where she lived, and found NONE either. I got desperate, but I was inspired to go to Joann's that day, where I found the ONLY two left of that orange color!!

The end product! how do you like it? I love it!!!!