Signature Look

I’m back and set for the final week of Project Run & Play. We were asked to make a signature look. I wasn’t sure at first if this was something I was interested in, but I decided I was up for the challenge.

Basically, I didn’t complete the look I was making for the special occasion week but I was really excited about finishing it. A lot of work had already gone into it so I was planning to finish anyway. Then they announced that there would be one last look and it was to be our signature look. I realized that all the effort I put in to the dress I was making was bringing out something that really represented my style. A few tweaks to the original design and I’m so pleased with how it turned out.

Unfortunately, the pictures don’t really do it justice. The colors are much brighter in person. I had been eyeing bishop dresses and thought it’d be a fun dress to make for bean. I didn’t get a pattern and really had no idea what I was doing, but I stumbled my way through. I’ll write a post about the basic construction of a bishop dress soon. The top of the dress is hand smocked using a lattice smocking style. This was also something I had never done, but I loved the look. I thought it would make for such an interesting neckline. It took FOREVER to get it all hand stitched, but I love how it turned out.

I’ll show you some pictures of the smocking, but don’t be shocked… When I changed up the dress to make it a signature look, I dyed the fabric this lovely apple green color. I wanted to dye everything in my life that color when it came out. I love it! Anyway, the originally fabric was this bright turquoise blue that was pretty, but not exactly my style. Anyone that knows me, knows I have a mild obsession with green and pink and green, hehe.