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Help- Red Dress I need ideas for embellishing this dress to cover a hole.
sewtofit   Advanced TX USA Member since 6/1/11 Posts: 16	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/9/11 11:33 PM I need help to cover a hole on my sister's dress. She cut herself with glass and got a hole in the dress. We thought we might be able to add some kind of ruffling up across the front in some form or fashion. She is in love with this dress. It's a lightweight sweater knit. Thanks for any help possible.. Red Dress Picture -- Edited on 7/10/11 11:15 AM -- ------ Andrea Www.sewtofit-Andrea.blogspot.com
Lady_Mame Intermediate WA USA Member since 3/11/07 Posts: 2074	Login to reply to this post In reply to sewtofit Like this post Date: 7/10/11 0:12 AM Maybe some funky zipper roses or those big silk flowers (very on trend right now, leastwise what I see/hear.) ------ Needle Needle Straight and Slim, Dust and Sweep the House for Him! --Grimm Fairy Tales
sewtofit   Advanced TX USA Member since 6/1/11 Posts: 16	Login to reply to this post In reply to Lady_Mame Like this post Date: 7/10/11 0:38 AM I like the idea of silk flowers, but she wanted to keep it from getting too "frilly". Silk however, sounds like a good fabric. ------ Andrea Www.sewtofit-Andrea.blogspot.com
JTink Intermediate VA USA Member since 4/20/08 Posts: 4808	Login to reply to this post In reply to sewtofit Like this post Date: 7/10/11 7:16 AM Couldn't see the picture
tourist   Intermediate BC CANADA Member since 7/23/07 Posts: 5414	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/10/11 10:37 AM Here is one way to make flowers. I haven't tried this yet. And here is another way I have tried this and it can be as simple or as frilly as you want it. ------ http://bgballroom.wordpress.com to follow the progress on my next ballgown.
sewtofit   Advanced TX USA Member since 6/1/11 Posts: 16	Login to reply to this post In reply to tourist Like this post Date: 7/10/11 11:20 AM Wow! I really like those pleated roses. Thanks ------ Andrea Www.sewtofit-Andrea.blogspot.com
a7yrstitch   Intermediate TX USA Member since 4/1/08 Posts: 4386	Login to reply to this post In reply to sewtofit Like this post Date: 7/10/11 11:27 AM It would be tempting to weave the hole with yarn or fuzzy thread matched as closely as possible and then follow the lines of the repair and use an accent in both sides of the center front line, maybe repeating elsewhere on the dress. Maybe a curved whipstitch line on either side, or a lightly cross stitched triangle in the center and one to either side. Or a detail that picks up on an earring or pendant shape. Round black earrings with white wavy line could be repeated in a design across this area. It looks to be spaced decently on the body to accept this treatment and the pattern would hold up to having something done within the horizontal stripe. You may be able to pick up some threads from the hem for the reweaving. -- Edited on 7/10/11 2:26 PM -- ------ I have no idea what Apple thought I was saying so be a Peach and credit anything bizarre to auto correct.
JTink Intermediate VA USA Member since 4/20/08 Posts: 4808	Login to reply to this post In reply to tourist Like this post Date: 7/10/11 11:59 AM Love the one that shows the polka dot rose.
Sweetsong Advanced MI USA Member since 12/26/05 Posts: 956	Login to reply to this post In reply to a7yrstitch Like this post Date: 7/10/11 12:35 PM Agreed. I would try mending before adding decoration, because the decoration would have to be repeated another place and would change the whole dress.
KensingtonCrab Advanced Beginner SC USA Member since 2/13/09 Posts: 724	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 7/10/11 12:58 PM I was going to suggest finding a complimentary fabric and sew a whole new bottom half. I hope your sister is okay!

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