Sewing for the wedding

I did get to spend a little time sewing before Laurie's Wedding. I bought most of my outfit from my belly dance studio and from renaissance festival last year, but I needed a chemise of some sort to wear underneath the small corset, lest I show my lovely stomach the entire time. I love to belly dance, but we cover up after we dance, so wearing the corset sans chemise was not really something appealing to me. I went to Jo-ann's and bought a yard of cotton fabric, which I thought would be enough for a little shirt. Well, when it came down to it, there wouldn't be enough fabric for sleeves, so I kinda designed something sleeveless that still covered everything necessary for the event.

Basically I decided to use a tutorial I had used before for circle skirts and make the fabric square and put a circle in the middle of it:

After figuring out how wide I wanted the hole to be, I just folded the square fabric twice and laid a piece of paper with the outline of the quartered circle on top. Using some fabric chalk, I traced the circle and cut. I added a strip of leftover fabric from a previous project and some that was left over after making this fabric square to the circle to create a ruffle effect by using a simple drawstring.

I think it turned out rather nicely with the rest of the costume (which included the solomon's knot shawl -- not particularly visible in any pictures, but hey, if you were there it looked nice!)

Here's a picture of myself and the bride -- my lovely friend Laurie who I've known since high school: