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7429 Madame Butterfly flounce dress

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Name	7429 Madame Butterfly flounce dress
Status	finished
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Started	Jun 1, 2019
Completed	Aug 1, 2019
Progress	100 %
Privacy	public
Notes	No major incidents during the project, apart from an unclear front neck line: they say to make a slight ruffle, no indication of width. If I align it with the given bias length to use it's so tight it makes a V-neck. If I allow the extra 5cm of bias to cut, it's so wide it's gaping and hanging outwards. So I settled for 2,5 cm of the extra bias and it looks kind of like on the tech drawing. Also I found the size/shape quite wide (and this cannot be a sizing issue, since Lekala make a bespoke pattern to your exact measurements). It looks like a maternity dress somehow, so I remade the skirt into a narrower A-line skirt. Finally I find the flounce somewhat too bombastic, maybe my fabric should have been more fluid? I might re-sew it narrower some day.

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Nicole Keller

Your adaptation is gorgeous.
I am assuming a very floaty fabric would be needed, like a chiffon, to go with the original design
Maria

Definitely better with the narrower skirt :)
Vague instructions are annoying, but you seem to have solved the neckline mystery very well, nice job!