Making of: Easy Pleated Princess / Graduation Gown Skirt with Chapel Length Train
Channel: Sara Sayad
Date: 2021-02-19

hiya

I made this gown skirt from roughly 8 - 9 meters of party satin, canvas drill, LOTS of horsehair braid, buttons and a zipper. It was a difficult project but I learned a lot about sewing princess/bridal gowns and was a fun experiment. I consider this a super draft-y version of what would be a finished dress :)

I wish I had recorded more actual 'sewing' of this, but I was under a lot of stress with having less than a month till grad, then not even ending up wearing it but still wanting to finish it!

In terms of difficulty: it wasn't that hard, just taxing of time and labour. It's sewed from machine straight stitches, majority done on my cheap Singer starter machine and only using my proper, expensive Janome that I got in between the project... and only used for sewing the buttons. The hem is ENTIRELY hand stitched. Being a beginner myself, the only 'hard' part was figuring out my own original design and doing that on the computer. The actual construction part was just stitching the individual pieces together! 

I think anybody could tackle something like this, it makes a great show stopper and I have yet to wear it in public. The SWOOSH factor is amazing and I feel very princess-y in it!