Lace Wedding Dress from Milo.
I quote-
There was an impulse to sew a dress with invisible seams (overlay), but the girl did not want to... it was important for her that it was visible that the dress was sewn.
Yes, I wouldn’t have succeeded... the fabric was only 1.60 with a width of 90... and since it was cut across, we can assume that the dress was made from 90 cm (with a width of 160).
Layout on fabric. The fabric is folded in a special way... there are folds on both sides, and the cuts "meet in the territory" of the cut
MK - details of sewing a lace dress with lining.
Sewing a dress has been reduced to two principles:
1 - fasten the layers together, and then sew the parts together, as if from ordinary fabric
2 - instead of overlocking, edge the sections
In the second photo you can see that the lace detail was cut out a little more (I adjusted it later) ... and my braid of waxed cotton threads for basting is visible, which quickly and safely (without getting tangled) decreases, despite the fact that before sewing each I also prepare things with polyester threads to match.
Then I stitched the details along the contour at a distance. 4mm from the cut, cut off the excess. 
On the silk back you can see a stitched dart (coming from the armhole, and not from the shoulder... because the layout did not allow it any other way)... I didn’t make such a small dart on the lace, but simply stitched it in this area.
Edging with bias tape.
I edged it with the thinnest lining fabric to avoid additional roughness of the seams.
I did the first line by machine, and the second by hand... due to the uneven thickness of the layers on the machine, the second line did not turn out so well... I also have complaints about manual edging - ironing it hard (then the lace pattern began to be printed) and making the edging with a doll did not work . 
The wrong side... in real life it looks better than in the photo 
Bottom of silk layer
A delicate dress with lace is this year's hit. Many popular fashion houses and designers have presented various collectible models for display. Dolce & Gabbana - elegant black lace dresses, Valentino - luxurious floor-length festive models, Versace, Burberies and Victoria's Secret - short ones beautiful dresses juicy flowers.
In general, any dress can be decorated with lace. Add a collar and cuffs to your outfit and you will look fashionable and unique. But in this article we will help you create a romantic lace outfit. To work we need:
- material with lace and scallops;
- satin or sateen fabric for lining.
The fabric for the dress can be chosen in one shade or combined in different colors. The classic combination of white and black is, as usual, always in fashion.
Features when working with lace fabric
You need to make a pattern for the outfit and cut out all the details from the material that goes into the lining. You can make a straight lace dress using this pattern.
We cut out the lining according to the main pattern, but the lace sleeves according to the sleeve pattern.
Another option for a lace dress, which is trendy today, is a dress with a circle skirt. For this style of dress, the pattern consists of two parts, which are sewn together at the waist line:
And the bottom of the dress
The construction of the sleeve pattern is similar to that for straight dress.
This is the final result of a delicate and seductively lace dress:
How to sew a lace dress
Before you start cutting out lace material, you need to place it on a smooth surface, but first put a cloth of the same shade under it bright color to make the lace stand out.
When working with lace fabric, the direction of the grain thread is not important. Details can be placed depending on how the drawing goes. Place the patterns for the sleeves, front and back of the model so that the scallops are at the bottom of the elements. Also make sure that the scallops are placed symmetrically and, if possible, connected in places where the elements are ground down.
First, sew the details of the outfit from satin or satin fabric, but you can also use other material of the same shade. The features of sewing the lining are the same as when sewing the model itself.
Make darts and raised seams. Go over them carefully with the iron.
Pay special attention to the cuts. Connect the sections on the sides and shoulders of the elements and sew. Finish the cuts with an overlocker or zigzag stitch. Use the same method to sew down the lace material. There are lace fabrics in which the cuts do not fly around, and there is no need to finish them with an overlocker. But to make the dress model look neat, it is better to process it with a zigzag stitch.
Place the lace dress on the lining with the inside facing the outside of the cover and sew it together. Sew the neck sections with a hidden stitch yourself. If you want to make an outfit hidden zipper, then sew it along the back sections, connecting both the lace fabric and the lining. Then, you can sew according to the method of working with hidden fasteners.
There is no need to process the cut of the outfit at the bottom; it will be interestingly decorated with festoons. And hem the lining 20-30 mm less than the lace. Bend it twice, first by 5 mm, then by 20 mm and stitch it on a sewing machine.
A delicate lace dress that we will make with our own hands is an undoubted hit of this year. Many popular fashion houses and designers have presented a variety of collectible dress models for the world to see. Dolce & Gabbana - elegant lace dresses in black shades, Valentino - luxurious floor-length festive models, Versace, Burberies and Victoria's Secret - short beautiful dresses in rich colors and shades. In general, absolutely any dress model can be decorated with lace. Attach to collar and cuffs for your outfit and you will look very fashionable and unique. But in this article we will help you create a romantic lace outfit.
Making a dress from lace with your own hands: features when working
It is necessary to make a pattern for the festive outfit and cut out all the details from the material that is intended for the lining. You can make a straight lace dress from lace fabric.
The construction of the sleeve pattern will be the same as for a straight dress for a girl.
Before you begin cutting out lace material, it must be placed on a smooth surface. First, place a brightly colored fabric under the lace material so that the lace stands out well. When working with lace fabric, the direction of the grain thread is absolutely not important. Details can be placed depending on how the drawing goes. Place the patterns for the sleeves, front and back of the model so that the scallops are at the bottom of the elements. Also make sure that the scallops are placed symmetrically and, if possible, connected in places where the elements are ground down.
First, sew the details of the outfit from satin or sateen fabric, but you can also use other material of the same shade. The features of sewing the lining are the same as when sewing the model itself. Make darts and raised seams. Gently go over them with a hot iron. Pay special attention to the cuts. Connect the sections on the sides and shoulders of the elements and sew. Finish the cuts using an overlocker or a zigzag stitch. Place the lace dress on the lining with the inside facing the outside of the cover and sew it together. Sew the cut edges of the neckline with a blind stitch yourself.
If you want to add a hidden zipper to your outfit, then sew it along the back sections, connecting both the lace fabric and the lining. Then, you can sew according to the method of working with hidden fasteners. There is no need to process the cut of the outfit at the bottom; it will be interestingly decorated with festoons. And hem the lining twenty to thirty millimeters less than the lace. Bend it twice, first by five millimeters, then by 20 millimeters and stitch it on a sewing machine.
Your beautiful and elegant lace dress is ready.
We study simple ways to process elastic seams: tips and tricks
The first method of processing an elastic seam: initially leave a seam margin of 1.5 centimeters. This will make it easier for you to process it. And after stitching, you can trim up to seven millimeters with an overlocker.
So, before stitching the seam, place masking tape on the fabric to the left of the stitching. The tape should not cover the stitching area, but should run exactly end to end. Now use a zig-zag stitch along the tape to the right of it, without catching the tape itself, otherwise you will not be able to remove it later.
This way you can avoid stretching the material and the stitching will be good and neat. Then you overlock the edge of the seam with an overlocker and remove the tape.
The second method also allows you to grind stretchable materials. To do this, you need to tear strips two or three centimeters wide from the newspaper. You should only tear off the white areas, without printed letters, as the paint smudges a lot and you risk ruining the light-colored material.
The first step is to sew the side or shoulder seam with a regular straight stitch, only placing a strip of regular newspaper on the fabric.
Remove the newspaper and stitch in a zigzag pattern over the first line. The first stitch joins the layers and prevents the fabric from stretching, while the second stitch secures the seam and makes it strong. Then you overcast the edge of the seam, you can cut it to the very narrow width- 0.5 centimeters, so the seam will look softer and more invisible.
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We bring to your attention a small master class on how to sew an elegant lace dress for a girl yourself.
We sew a lace dress with our own hands
- Prepare two pieces of fabric - lace and cotton, as well as sewing tools - needles, pins, scissors, thread, sewing machine.
- Take the necessary measurements. In order to sew a lace dress with your own hands, you should know such parameters as the size of the child’s waist and chest, and the desired length of the future dress. After this you can cut the fabric.
- From cotton fabric cut out 2 identical parts - this will be the bodice of the dress. It should be high enough to cover the girl's back to the waist. Fold each one in half if the fabric is too thin.
- The skirt of the dress will be made from two layers of fabric - cotton and lace. Thanks to this, the dress will not be transparent. If you want to make a light summer dress, you can only use lace fabric.
- Using the measurements you took earlier, cut out the fabric for the skirt.
- Now you can start sewing. Sew the bodice of the dress into a single piece by machine stitching the side panel. Leave the bottom edge raw.
- From the wrong side, baste the upper part of the lace to it.
- Use pins to distribute the lace evenly along the entire circumference. If the width of the fabric allows, you can create beautiful lace folds in “waves”.
- Using a machine stitch, secure both layers of skirt fabric to the bodice.
- This is what the dress will look like at this stage.
- We will create a snake on the back side of the dress. First you need to pin both parts of it with pins.
- And then secure with a strong machine seam.
- The upper part of the bodice can also be decorated with lace. This way the dress will look more harmonious.
You can sew it for a girl
Admin 2013-11-24 at 8:00 pm
Hello, friends.
Have you tried to sew yourself a dress from transparent or elastic materials? I'll try to guess - probably yes.
And what problems stopped or slowed you down? If these problems are finding a pattern or questions about how to sew a dress from such capricious materials, then this Sunday's article on sewing a beautiful lace dress is for you.
And at the end of the article, we’ll talk a little about the exclusive - or about how to decorate a dress by hand and create a very beautiful outfit.
But let me save you from the illusion that this dress is suitable for any figure. Not at all. This style is suitable only for the fragile constitution of a girl with thin waist. Only this dress will not make such a figure bulky and look like a doll from a samovar. If your waist is too full, then don’t even try to sew this dress for yourself - it won’t be beautiful.
Now to the point. You can create a dress pattern
The skirts for these dresses are simply cut out as a rectangle.
For the skirt you need to cut out two rectangles - for the front and back parts of the skirt. The width of one panel is cut out to cover the entire width of the fabric - that is, 140 or 110 cm. Don’t skimp, it’s the thick gathering at the waist that makes the skirt of the dress so rich.
And the height of the panel, respectively, is the length of the skirt.
If you sew from lace, the width of the lace fabric can be 110 cm. From this width, you can also make two panels and the assembly will be enough.
Materials
Now about the materials from which such dresses can be made:
For the bodice, embroidered lace based on elastic or non-elastic mesh, ready-made embroidery on chiffon or organza are suitable. Any base, in general, will do. Only when processing elastic materials should you take into account that the seams are stretched by stitches and finished product may look like wavy lines, and the stitching must also be elastic, otherwise the seams will burst.
For the skirt it is not necessary to use the same fabric as for the bodice. It can be organza, rigid mesh, lace or any of the above fabrics with embroidery, lace or hand embroidery.
Such a fluffy shape can only be achieved due to the rigidity of the main fabric.
There is definitely an underskirt with rings - with one or two, and on top of it there is another underskirt made of rigid mesh with frills.
I already wrote about how to sew such a skirt with frills
In the photo of the second dress, where the hem of the dress is slightly raised, such an underskirt is visible.
Sewing a dress
1) Sewing a skirt is not particularly difficult: sew a seam 1 cm wide and overlock the side seams, iron towards the front. There will be a hidden zipper on the back of the dress.
2) The fastener will be from the very neck to a point located 18-20 cm below the waist line. Therefore, on the back panel of the skirt you need to make a seam where the zipper will be sewn in. Sew the middle seam of the skirt from the fastener downwards with a seam 1.5 cm wide. Press the seams until they are overcast. Put the skirt aside.
3) Cut out the paper pattern pieces in your size and cut out the dress bodice pieces from calico. This will be the layout. On the side seams, the allowance for processing seams in the layout is no less than 2.5 cm. The allowance on the shoulder seams is 1.5 cm. The allowance along the bottom cut of the bodice of the dress is no less than 2.5 cm. The size of these allowances concerns only the layout. After specifying the fit of the bodice on the figure, cut out the details of the bodice from lace and make allowances in accordance with the recommendations, which I will describe below.
4) Sew chest darts on the shelf, iron upwards. Sew the front waist darts - press towards the center.
The shoulder and waist darts of the back are also stitched and ironed towards the center.
5) The algorithm for processing the neckline and armhole in such a product deserves a careful and thoughtful approach. But if you follow these simple recommendations, your dress will look neat and beautiful. And most importantly, this type of processing is perfect for transparent fabrics.
Sew the shoulder seams using one of the methods described below. Now I will briefly pay attention to two ways to process side and shoulder seams if you sew from elastic mesh:
The first method of processing an elastic seam: hInitially leave the seam gap at 1.5 cm. This will make it easier for you to process it. And after stitching, you can trim it to 7 mm with an overlocker.
So, before stitching the seam, place masking tape on the fabric to the left of the stitching. The tape should not cover the stitching area, but should run exactly end to end. Now, using a zig-zag stitch, we sew along the tape to the right of it, without catching the tape itself, otherwise you won’t be able to remove it later.
This way you can avoid stretching the material and the stitching will be good and neat. Then you overlock the edge of the seam with an overlocker and remove the tape.
Second way It also helps a lot in grinding down stretchable materials and, in addition, it guarantees that there will be no gaps in the stitching if the machine is capricious.
To do this, you need to tear off strips 2-3 cm wide from the newspaper. You just need to tear off the white areas, without block letters, since the paint gets very dirty and you risk ruining the light-colored material.
The first step is to sew the side or shoulder seam with a regular straight stitch, only placing a strip of newspaper on the fabric.
Remove the newspaper and, in the second step, stitch in a zigzag pattern over the first line. The first stitch joins the layers and prevents the fabric from stretching, while the second stitch secures the seam and makes it strong. Then you overcast the edge of the seam, you can cut it to the narrowest width - 0.5 cm, so the seam will look more delicate and inconspicuous.
And I want to give you one more piece of advice if you sew from chiffon. Chiffon seams are loose, and even if the seams are 1.5 cm long, they can still spill out during use of the product, especially in those places where the fabric runs along the bias - the armhole, for example.
I sew such seams with a narrow and frequent zig-zag stitch, 1.5 - 2 mm wide. Or a very frequent straight stitch - 10 stitches per 1 cm.
So, the shoulder seams were sewn. Now cut out a 4 cm wide strip from the main fabric along the bias, fold it in half lengthwise and iron it. Finish the neckline of the dress's armhole with this bias piping in the manner described in the sewing process.
6) Sew the side seams and press towards the front.
7) Take the skirt and gather it evenly along the top edge by 2 threads until the length of the cut is equal to the bottom edge of the bodice.
Pin and sew the skirt to the bottom edge of the bodice. Overlock the cut with an overlocker. Do not iron the seam, but point it down when sewing in the lock.
8) Sew a hidden zipper to the middle sections of the back.
9) Well, now about petticoats in more detail. This dress has two petticoats. The bottom one has rings. The second is made of mesh with waves or frills. So, this intermediate skirt can be sewn separately or sewn to the dress. If you want to sew it to the dress, then now, at this stage, is just the time.
The underskirt is sewn on the wrong side of the bodice. It turns out that the bodice is inserted between the upper and lower skirt. This way, a fairly dense and prickly seam will be hidden inside the skirts and will not cause discomfort. Serve hedgehog seam once.
10) Hem the bottom of the overskirt thin double seam: First, fold the bottom edge towards the wrong side of the skirt by 5 mm and stitch to the edge, and then fold it a second time and sew with a second line that falls into the first. Iron the bottom of the skirt.
11) Using hand stitches, hem the middle sections of the petticoat to the lock. Press the zipper seam.
