Maharani ki Jai ho! Stitch Magic !
Here comes one of the treasured outfits of my precious little Maharani.
I stitched this full length Princess frock/gown for my daughter five years back when she was four. It took me four months to complete as I worked on it only on weekends. I wanted to complete it on her 4th birthday, but missed by a month:(
There are 2 reasons why I treasure this: One, I made this when I was a full-time professional working on it in bits and pieces on weekends; the other, I did not own a sewing machine at that time so the entire dress is hand sewn by me :)
It is made of pink satin fabric with a similar shade colored net fabric on the skirt. The flowers are made of same fabric. I glued sequins on the top part and on the net fabric. Some of the sequins have come out now as it might have gone through 10-15 hand washes. I just rubbed the pink fabric glitter with my fingers at random places on the net to give it a sparkling effect. Not that much visible in photo but it used to glitter when she moved around:))
And do you know the spread or circumference of the skirt? A whopping 3.5 meters! Quite heavy for a four-year-old, right? But the satin was of fine quality and light weight so it wasn’t that heavy for her. In fact with this dress, she managed to play on the slides too in a park adjacent to a marriage function hall!
Hope you enjoyed the royal treat!
Warm regards,
Preeti.
Here comes one of the treasured outfits of my precious little Maharani.
I stitched this full length Princess frock/gown for my daughter five years back when she was four. It took me four months to complete as I worked on it only on weekends. I wanted to complete it on her 4th birthday, but missed by a month:(
There are 2 reasons why I treasure this: One, I made this when I was a full-time professional working on it in bits and pieces on weekends; the other, I did not own a sewing machine at that time so the entire dress is hand sewn by me :)
It is made of pink satin fabric with a similar shade colored net fabric on the skirt. The flowers are made of same fabric. I glued sequins on the top part and on the net fabric. Some of the sequins have come out now as it might have gone through 10-15 hand washes. I just rubbed the pink fabric glitter with my fingers at random places on the net to give it a sparkling effect. Not that much visible in photo but it used to glitter when she moved around:))
And do you know the spread or circumference of the skirt? A whopping 3.5 meters! Quite heavy for a four-year-old, right? But the satin was of fine quality and light weight so it wasn’t that heavy for her. In fact with this dress, she managed to play on the slides too in a park adjacent to a marriage function hall!
Hope you enjoyed the royal treat!
Warm regards,
Preeti.
Wow! That is some really fancy sewing! Very beautiful indeed:) Can't wait to see more!
ReplyDeleteThank You for the encouragement M.J Joachim! I received your comment on mail but it seems it got into the spam folder and was not visible on this page.
DeleteThere is lot to learn from your crochet blog. I am trying to learn different crochet stitches, stumbled on your blog at right time !:) on Maharani ki Jai ho! Stitch Magic !
Superb dress, what attracted more is u did it with hands !!! thatz really a motivation...iam postponing my sewing ambitions just becoz of the reason that dont have a sewing machine... So now onwards thatz not an excuse...:-)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Raji!
DeleteEven though I have a sewing machine now, I just cannot gather enough courage to work with it on mega projects; just using it when seams come undone :) I feel there is more flexibility with hands.
I somehow did not do justice with images in this post. I will try for a better photo to upload in my gallery.
Preeti, you are a very talented lady! To have made this dress totally by hand...that is impressive, indeed! :D
ReplyDeleteLovely lovely dress and fully hand sewn is beyond my imagination.
ReplyDeleteOMG.. Its so Lovely.. and woh bhi Hand Stitched :)
ReplyDeleteyou keep amazing me with your skills :)