Regency ballgown

There is a local fabric store that gets leftover bolts from warehouses of designers, upholsterers, and quilters, and thus sells everything at pretty good prices...but you never know what they'll have. This past winter I popped into their larger location on my way home from sewing with a friend to pick up a bit of fleece, and walked out with materials for a new Regency ballgown. It happens. The lovely purple silk and embellished gold net burned a hole in my sewing stash for weeks while I…

Here are the sleeves. I lined them in muslin and attached some embroidery at the shoulder top. They turned out quite well. I’ll be posting photos of the whole gown shortly as well as a piece …

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