Lucky Pinspiration
Every season Ellie and Mac has a pinspiration challenge. The idea is to recreate something you’ve admired on the internet. I chose this halter neck dress in yellow floral liverpool.
I used Victoria Liverpool fabric from Amelia Lane Designs and borrowed parts from the Ellie and Mac Lucky Girl and Ellie and Mac Be Bold patterns.
First I raised the shoulder lines a bit and the neckline a lot on the lucky girl raglan bodice, allowing for me to hem the shoulders and add a casing at the neck.
I also cut the lucky girl bodice off at the waist.
I used the Be Bold skirt and attachment method but I gave the back a little bit of a longer hemline to account for my rear-end. I kept the side seams the same length adding just to the center back
I measured my neck and estimated how much neckband I would need for it to fit where I wanted but have enough stretch to get over my head. I did a double fold binding method.
I attached directly to the back bodice.
Then I put the neckbinding inside the front bodice, folded over and hemmed to making a neck casing so that I could pull it down to have some gathering in the front.
I had already attached my skirt but I left an opening in the casing to thread my elastic through using a bodkin.
I ordered the same belt as my pinspiration photo, though it doesn’t show up as well in my photos.
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