Tessuti Gridlock Gertie Wiggle Dress!

Now try and say that 10 times fast!

I finally decided to get my ass into gear and finish this dress today.
Yes...on the day this competition closes. No pressure!

I was unsure about this fabric from day dot, so it was left to sit in a pile on my sewing room floor for a good 3 weeks. Blue is really not my colour... yet I continue to persist in testing this theory!

 So in a pile it sat until I started seeing Gertie's wiggle dresses popping up all over the blogosphere (such as this one and this gorgeous one...)

I said to myself "you will be mine wiggle dress... oh yes. You will be mine!"

Then i stopped talking to myself and cut the darn thing out.

looking like a proud new mother...

Construction went together pretty smoothly.

After sewing the 8 double pointed darts! phew...

There was much head scratching over how to insert the underarm gussets.

But I managed to get them in somehow... and they look pretty neat if I do say so myself!

Finished Underarm Gusset! woop woop

So the gussets were done... then I lost steam and dropped the project in a pile again.

Until today that is...

 I had a day off from work and decided to tackle the UFO box (Insert scary music here) 

And I thought, what the hay, there are still a few hours to submit a dress for this competition so lets get cracking!

I whizzed up the side seams and added the neck facing and finished the hems. DONE AND DONE!

however... it looked pretty boring compared to some of the other comp entries. Hrmph...

(Not that I am in the running with a last minute whip up Ha!)

So I needed to use the white side of the fabric to add a little something.

A bow seemed like a nice and simple addition, and a quick one too.

I made it detachable so I can swap brooches depending on mood.

And the fit you ask?

A-m-a-z-i-n-g

I have never had a pattern fit so well straight out of the envelope... or book in this case.

I traced a straight size 8 (I think) and made zero alterations. 

No full bust adjustment, no pinching excess from the back. Nothing!

Winner. Thanks Gertie.

All in all, I am a happy little vegemite.

I feel a bit va va voom yet classy at the same time.

Now I just need somewhere to wear this little number.

Cocktails anyone???