Last round of hand sewing

Tonight I am finishing up the last round of hand sewing the lining onto the inside of Alice's dress. It's pretty tricky and very frustrating but has to be done otherwise I have to re-do the lining and that would mean taking apart the whole dress. So I'm sucking it up and doing it. I don't have much to do and will finish tonight. That means tomorrow I can finally get back to work on finishing the dress.

The next steps are...

• Sew the sleeves on
• Start cutting chiffon for the ruffles
• Start and maybe finish the matching necklace
• Start on sewing the ruffles onto dress (Bodice, sleeves and around the skirt.)

There is still a lot to do so I'm guessing it'll take about....a week or so to finish. Not much more time than that. It'll go quickly once I figure out the sleeves and ruffle size. The necklace I can basically finish tomorrow (I wont be adding the chiffon ruffles on that until I can buy some or buy some pre-made ruffles.)

Here are some helpful tutorials for ruffles and chokers.

http://bijouscosplay.deviantart.com/art/How-to-make-ruffles-93221433    

http://foayasha.deviantart.com/art/Ruffled-Choker-Tutorial-259346569

I'm so happy I found the link about ruffles because I was worried I didn't have enough chiffon and since the pattern I have is for large ruffles that must be cut on a fold and the fabric I have isn't even wide enough to support that pattern (Plus the ruffles would be too long) So this will work perfectly! I can start on that with confidence now. So I'm so happy and excited to get this done.