So I have much more dresses left than days left to post them in (adhering strictly to the hundred-days requirement) so I’ll be doubling up a bit for this last week … so here’s a huge post of all my crossword-themed dresses! These were all worn to the American Crossword Puzzle tournament …
Here’s the 2007 dress:
The neck gathering/piping is really atrocious (you can’t tell this was a rush job AT ALL, can you?):
Scalloped hem. Why? Well, why not?
It was kind of a waste because you can’t even tell the hem is scalloped:
You can tell, however, that I didn’t have a regular zipper in black OR white and had to put in (I kid you not) a big ol’ plastic separating ZIPPER:
For some reason the dress I made in 2008 didn’t turn up after a fairly comprehensive search of the house and grounds. Huh. (Perhaps it didn’t want to be associated with the dress above?) Well, the pictures from the original post are pretty good …
Here’s the 2009 dress:
Futura pockets!
The bodice (yeah it’s all upside down, I just wanted to add to the difficulty level for the people filling in the puzzle [joke]):
Full back:
Here’s the 2010 dress:
I tried to match the grid across the pockets:
I actually like the fading of this particular print, as it makes it look much more newsprinty, but because the bias edging didn’t fade whatsoever (of course, why would it?), I don’t like the contrast:
The back (you can see the fading much more here):
If you want your own crossword puzzle fabric, there is typically some floating around on eBay/Etsy, or you can try Spoonflower — details of the fabric I used are here.
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