Anastasia's Diary Gown
You will need:
Smooth cream-colored material
Floral netting or discarded floral veil
cream-colored ribbon
Lace
Pompoms
1. Cover about 30 large-sized pompoms with the material. Set them aside.
2. Make a square-neck top like the one for the 1914 gowns out of the material. Mesure around the neckhole horizontally and vertically. Make a square with the same dimensions (plus around 2cm) from the floral nettin and sew in place in the neckhole. Make a circle for your head and fold some of the ribbon over it.
3. Sleeves: Mesure your biggest part of your arm. Make two 3/4 sleeves and sew them on. Make two strips of netting about 5-6cm by the mesurement and sew inside the sleeve. Add some lace at the ends. Sew a pompom at the bottom of the silk part of the sleeve.
4. Take your
Mesuring Tape (everybody must respect the mesuring tape
) and put it over your shoulder like a handbag. Mesure from your waistline, over your shoulder and down to the opposite end of the waistline. Use this and the mesurement across your shoulder to make those two "flaps" (be sure to make two!). Sew them in place long the edge of the neckline to your waist, leaving a small hand-sized space at the bottom of the neckling for the part which goes across.
5. Mesure the bottom of the neckline. Add two cm on each side. Make a strip of fabric that mesurement by the shoulder mesurement. Sew in place at the bottom of the neckline, going under the flaps. Trim the sides under the flaps.
6. Skirt: Make a simple skirt like the one you would think for the 1914 dresses to just above your ankles. If you want to use a bellskirt, as that's how I'm writing these instructions, go ahead. I am
Except you want the bellskirt as straight as possible, yet sort of flowy.
7. Mesure the bottom of your skirt. Use this mesurement by the length from the bottom of the skirt to your knees to make a long strip of floral netting. Edge the bottom with lace. Wrap it around the skirt so the lace just barely passes the bottom of the skirt. Sew the top in place.
8. Sew the skirt and top together. And the gown is finished, but if you want the extra pompommy bit on the skirt, tell me. I just don't like it
