I love hand sewing! If you’ve been following my site, you know I’ve been doing a lot of that with my daughter’s dress. But those stitches were temporary; however, the hand stitching that I’ll be doing later this week, won’t be.
A few days ago, I decided to add a hand-picked zipper to her dress.
I’ll be using the prick stitch to accomplish this. Take a look at the above picture. It features prick stitch on the lapel. It’s simple, elegant and beautiful. It’s the little details, such as this, that turns a handmade garment into a high quality handmade garment. Yes… it takes time do the extra steps, but the results make it worth the effort.
While searching my zipper stash, I found out that I didn’t have any 22″ zippers. The longest I had were 18″. Additionally, the ones that I did have were all invisible zippers. These definitely are not going to work and I really needed something longer for my daughter’s dress.
Since I don’t have the proper zippers on hand, I’ve decided to purchase them. Initially, I was going to buy them from JoAnn Fabrics, but I really don’t like shopping there so I turned to my favorite online sewing accessory store, Wawak! Their turnaround time is quick. I normally receive my items with two days. Perfect! If I don’t receive the zipper tomorrow, I’ll cave and snap up a zipper from JoAnn. My daughter’s Middle School dance is Saturday. Since I know I’ll be doing a lot of sewing in the future. I purchased several 22″ zippers in a variety of colors. I have to make my capsule wardrobe after all, and there are definitely a few dresses on that list that will need 22″ zippers.
Dress update
My daughter’s dress is coming along smoothly. Last evening, I hand basted the horsehair braid into place, so now I have to sew that into place. I most likely will use my overlock machine. I’ll be sure to take pictures and post those.