Making a Robe à la Française : Part One

This isn't a patreon exclusive - it's not even early access!  But I know some people only follow my work through patreon, so I wanted to make sure I posted it here. 

This is the first video in a 2+ part series on making a Robe a la Francaise. I've wanted to make one of these for SO long, but I find them incredibly intimidating. I don't understand how they work, and they require so much fabric.

But I've actually had the fabric for...four of them, for at least a year now. Which meant I really needed to get over my fear and actually make one.

The petticoat went okay - I had a lot of fun figuring out how to make the trim, I don't usually get to experiment like that on projects anymore. And I had fun making it, too. 

Fun fact: It took exactly one season of Mrs. Maisel to make 7 yards of this trim!

I'm a little bit stressed about making the dress part of this, but I made a mock up which looked okay. So I now I can move onto the cutting it out and hoping for the best step.

I'm trying to film a vlog of that process,  on top of the making of video. Since vlogs give such a different perspective. But it's been tricky since I'm was working on Mockup Mayhem vlogs at the same time. So we'll see how much footage I end up with!

Making a Robe à la Française : Part One (YouTube)