On a sewing related Facebook group, there was a post from a woman making a dress with an embroidered lace fabric she had purchased at JoAnn's. The embroidered flowers were described as Dahlias, but did not look like any I grow in my garden.
I instantly recognized it as the fabric used to make Vogue 9372, Hmm, a bit much for me.
and the April 2019 Burdastyle style 118. This one I like.
The Burda dress is a great special occasion style. Fitted through the body, with an off the shoulder neckline and asymmetrical collar. There was a couple yards of the fabric available at my local store and it was on sale. In short order it was on my sewing table.
The dress is underlined, except for the sleeves. I hand basted the rayon underlining to all the lace pieces, then treated these basted pieces of fabric as one for further sewing. My serger and sewing machine were able to handle the layer of underlining and the random heavily embroidered areas of the lace, but they both sounded like an all terrain vehicle traveling on rough ground.
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| hand basted underlining |
I made a size 42 from the waist up and a size 44 below. I have smaller, squarish, forward shoulders and I wanted the shoulder area to fit well so I did a lot of fitting in that area and customized the darts on the RHS sleeve and collar. I applied twill tape to the shoulder seam of the unlined lace sleeve to stabilize that part of the neckline during fitting, and sewing on the collar.
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| Twill tape on neckline seam |
Since all garment sections are underlined (except for sleeves) there is no lining, and the neckline is supposed to be finished by a facing. The facing pattern was a rather odd shape.
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| Burda 4 2019 dress 118 side |
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| Burda 4 2019 dress 118 front |
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| Burda 4 2019 Dress 118 |
