Bodice attachments

Now that the bodice was complete it was time for the rest of the dress. The puffy sleeves and the orange skirt puffs. Basically we just followed the directions of the patterns to make the sleeves and the skirt puffs and how to attach them.



Puffy sleeves before attaching them to the bodice.


Puffy sleeves with regular trim. (Finished sleeve to be put on bodice)


Finished bodice with sleeves. The sleeves ended up being the perfect 'puff' that I was hoping for. ^_^


Orange skirt puffs attached to the bodice. Unfortunately, I feel that we cut the orange puffs bigger than they needed to be. Because I am not using a hoop skirt underneath, the orange puffs fall a little long on the sides. We also could have pulled the puffs to the middle of the bodice in front an in back to make them a little longer across the body. But our directions told us to place them where they are on the bodice. Due to frustration of the project, we weren't about to come up with our own way of attaching the bodice, so we just followed the directions. It still looks good though.

After the sleeves and skirt puffs it was time to attach the finished skirt to the finished bodice. We used 'sew on' Velcro in the back for fastening.



Finished dress with me wearing it! All that is left now is the white trim around the neck and the sleeves. Can't believe we were just about done!