Nicole's last minute dress for the Wedding

Nicole couldn't find anything to fit for the wedding. So thursday night before the saturday wedding we cut out this dress from a old OOP pattern by New Look for a woven crossover dress. Went down a size since we used knit fabric. Got up early and finished before I went to work on friday. This is a black and white poly knit from Joann fabrics and the yellow cotton lycra knit from fabric.com. I used a light weight tricot netting to line it with. Removed the zipper. Did a full bust adjustment and added about 5/8" to the front edges for coverage. We added a lot of ease to the skirt so it would be comfortalble and easy to walk down the steps in. Used yellow knit to bind edges and decided to add a small band of the yellow under the bust. This added an additional pop of color and helped pull the dress in tight under the chest. As an added measure I also zig zagged some clear elastic under the bust to make sure it didn't stretch out as she was wearing the dress. It fit her wonderfully but she wasn't in love with it. After she wore it she liked it better. She kept telling me she wanted a dress that would make her look like her little sister. Whom is 2 1/2" taller and many pounds thinner. I told her if I could make that dress I'd be a very wealthy woman and I'd be busy making myself one first.