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Date Posted: 11/20/02 2:33pm Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
Hey Padme-i-wanna-be!

Welcome among the rainbow-dress obsessed!!!

I'm still making mine (I'm slow, I don't have loads of time to spend on it). What I would suggest you is first try to figure out the way you're going to construct your dress - and draw it, it really helps - and choose you materials. Then, start with the underdress : try to find a pattern that can be easily modified, like McCall's 3527. For the "mantle", practise on a doll. The trickiest part I think is the way the front and back pieces join.

But most of all, you should give it a lot of thinking, and study a lots of pictures, it really helps!!!

Hope this helps…

Good luck!

 

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Date Posted: 11/21/02 2:06pm Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
thank you so much for all the help and the tips! they help me a lot and i will get the picture up when i finally finish (if i actually finish it,lol) the dress. hope everyone who is making this dress has fun on it!

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Date Posted: 12/3/02 8:34pm Subject: RE: Rainbow dress - Date Edited: 12/3/02 8:41pm (2 edits total) Edited By: JainaMSolo
Right, so, finally got my hands on the DVD. Spent a good hour, hour and a half of quality time with the zoom button and the pause button. My conclusions:

The underdress is very simple, just a flared dress, no train or anything. It appears to be just a single layer of fabric at the hem-- if there's a lining, it ends well above the hem. There are not multiple layers of chiffon, as I'd previously believed. Also, most of the dress is yellow and pink-- it only goes to blue at the bottom six inches or so.

As for the mantle, or overlayer, whatever you want to call it-- the outside edge, the edge that's attached at the wrists, does *not* gather at the back. It just flows down to become the train of the dress. The inner edge *is* gathered up into some sort of bustle. Altogether, it gives a nice square train, about a foot or two of material dragging on the ground.

I ordered my fabric from Dharma today-- a bolt of 10 mm chiffon, and 8 yards of 19 mm charmeuse. The chiffon will be the mantle, the crepe side of the charmeuse will be the underdress, and the satin side of the charmeuse will be the trim. Cost a pretty penny-- $160-- but as this is a very special dress I'm willing to sink the money into it.

For the underdress, I'm using a simple princess-line Butterick pattern that I'd bought earlier this year to make a sundress. I'm altering the neckline and back, of course. I'd really prefer not to use princess seams, since I wanted to keep the number of seams in the skirt to a minimum, but it seemed to be the best way to make the bodice of the dress a nice tight fit. The charmeuse is thin, so I'll be self-lining the underdress, with the lining hemmed a bit above the dress itself.

Today we altered the dress pattern; Thursday we'll figure out the mantle using the 10 yards of poly chiffon I've got, and then next week I will SEW LIKE A MADWOMAN!!!

Whew! happy

 

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Date Posted: 12/19/02 4:43pm Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
I'm new to this thread, but I am currently preparing to make this dress as well.

What I've done is taken a simple haltar dress pattern that has a train on it and modifying it slightly. The haltar dress has a chiffon overlay, and then I am adding extra pieces of chiffon in various colors. One longer piece for the front part, then the rest on the back because that seems to be where there are more "folds" of sorts on the dress. I also tend to change colors too so I am actually doing this dress in various shades of blue.

~~Jilly

 

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Date Posted: 12/23/02 10:29am Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
I have finished my Custom Padme doll yesterday night- and since it is sunny outside I took many many photos of my Padme doll wearing her new dress. don't think that I am "selfish" (or whatever you call that in the english language) but I am really proud of me cuz the dress is made with such a high quality of detailing that I could see it being included in the Portrait edition series ! my other Amidalas from the portrait series looks poor next to her.

It took me a full week to do everything. I am also surprised since it took me a full hour to repaint correctly the head and I foudn a good painting technique that makes absolutly no brush marks on the head !!!!

Now that I have done to my Padme dolls all the dresses that are easy to do for a customi-zer..I really don,t know what else I could do...I will be doing the Cordé doll (not removable too) ...and sicne I have a loose Amidala head, I may repaint her and see if I can "try" to do the Purple Coruscant dress.........seems so hard..............
Ok now go see the pics !!!!!!! (just copy and paste)

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Date Posted: 12/23/02 10:33am Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
Lovely! Just gorgeous!

 

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Date Posted: 12/23/02 10:45am Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
Yes, that is very nice. happy

 

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Date Posted: 12/26/02 12:52am Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
It's absolutely beautiful, spitsweet!

Now, spitsweet, could you do me a million trillion dollar (heck...priceless!) favor and sketch what that mantle looks like when it's stretched out flat on the ground? Seriously, I've been staring at this dress practically non-stop for 7 months now, and played with chiffon on a Padme doll of my own, and I still for the life of me can't figure out how that piece is cut! It just never looks right. Please, anyone?

JainaMSolo, how is your dress coming along?

-sky

 
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Date Posted: 12/26/02 7:47am Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
Thanks for asking, sky. happy The underdress is cut out, and the lining is sewn together, but it needs to be fitted to my bust. Then I'll sew the dress itself. I have the satin binding all cut out, and one of the 8-yd lengths is ironed properly so that it can be attached to the mantle. We've also figured out how to drape the mantle (sky, I didn't shape the chiffon at all, but just draped the length just as it came off the bolt), but need to double-check because the actual chiffon I'm using is 54", while the chiffon we used to test-drape was 45". And then of course once the thing is put together, it needs to be dyed! Target completion date is the end of February (I've got 74 other costumes in my mind for January! LOL!)

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Date Posted: 12/26/02 2:36pm Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
Hey Sky !
thanks for the kind words !!
Actually, this was my very first attempt on this dress and I am 100% satistfied with what I have done and couldn't dare doing another one..just by fear it would be even more beautiful happy
Also, I didn't know my first attempt would turn out that beautifully...so I didn't took time to take a patern out of it before it gets dyed and sewn...I am so sorry...





 
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Date Posted: 12/26/02 2:53pm Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
Beautiful, Spitsweet!

As for not having a pattern, all you'd have to do is stretch the overdress out a bit and sketch what it would look like if you laid it flat on the floor. Just to give us an idea.

Also, how did you dye it? It's gorgeous!

 

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Date Posted: 12/26/02 6:21pm Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
well it is actually sewn On the doll and it is absolutly not removable.

as for the dyeing, I have dipped some parts everytimes on every parts I wanted of a certain color.

 
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Date Posted: 12/26/02 11:15pm Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
JainaMSolo, glad to hear it's coming along. Be sure to keep us updated and take pictures, if possible, of the process! You say you're using the mantle as-is. It seems like it just won't work, b/c the distance from upper arm draped down to waist is so much less than wrist draped all the way down to the floor and then forming a train... If that made any sense. happy

Well, I'm off in about 5 hours for S. CA!! I get to volunteer to build floats for the Rose Parade!!

bye for a week or so,
sky

 
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Date Posted: 12/27/02 1:23pm Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
Hello,
I've been lurking for awhile, finally got around to posting.
I want to make this dress, I was wondering if anyone found rainbow chiffon? I live in the San Francisco bay area, there's a huge Britex here, but I haven't found any suitale fabric. I'm willing to travel anywhere in California to find this, or does someone know if it can be ordered online?

 
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Date Posted: 12/27/02 2:06pm Subject: RE: Rainbow dress
To get the color gradient that this dress has, I think your best bet would be a custom dye job. Goodness knows I haven't a clue how to go about it but Ferd has done it and a couple other people, maybe they can help.

Good luck!

 

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