Completing the Embroidery and School Dress update.

I am working on finishing all of the embroidery.

These will turn into the patches that will attach the cape to the back of the dress. I will layer some stiffener and add an underside, then satin stitch the whole thing to turn it into a single piece. I’ll sew the top of the cape to one, add some velcro and it will look so pretty!

This is one of the sleeve embroidery pieces stitching out on the embroidery machine.

While making this dress I am also continuing work on a school dress order. We thought we had all of the fabric squared away and ready to order. One of the colors turned out to be not quite right, so we are selecting something different for that. It is one of the main fabrics so it is important to get it just right. Plus we want to do the best we can to make sure that this same fabric will be available in the future so all of the school dresses will be consistent. Many of the other items to make the dresses are starting to come in….I’m wishing I had another closet in my sewing room! I may take over some space in my son’s closet next. I keep seeing these dresses in my dreams…it’s so funny how that happens. But very soon the construction of these will start, and I look forward to documenting that journey.