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Velvet Ribbbon Bodice Tutorial

Today I am happy to share a velvet ribbon bodice tutorial!
This week over on Project Run and Play the weekly challenge is to sew something from fabric that you have designed or created and I wanted to play along.  See, when we came up with this challenge awhile back I got really excited about all the possibilities of creating your own fabric and got to work.  And the very first project I made while thinking about this challenge was a bodice for Grace using some amazing velvet ribbon from The Ribbon Retreat.
Here is the project that I made.  It has already been posted over at The Ribbon Retreat but I am bringing it home for today.  I hope you like it!
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Hello!
I’m liZ from over at Simple Simon and Company and I’m happy to be here at the Ribbon Retreat today!
Right now two of my favorite things are velvet and stripes so when I saw that the Ribbon Retreat had velvet ribbon I knew exactly what I wanted to make:
A striped velvet bodice for my Grace!
 It was such an easy project and I like the results so much that I’m sure there are more of these in our future…pink and white…grey and yellow…brown and ivory…
Anyways, if you’d like to make one similar here is the how to:
Let’s start with the supply list:

The only other item not listed in the photo is your pattern…I used the bodice from our upcoming pattern but any bodice pattern you have will work for this project.  Also note that the ribbon amount may vary depending on the size of the bodice you are creating.

Now, once you have your supplies you need to cut your ribbon.

(Essentially you are making a piece of velvet ribbon fabric that needs to be as tall and as wide as your front bodice piece.  So for my bodice pattern I needed to cut 8 pieces of both the black and the white ribbon and each piece was cut 7 inches long.)

Once your ribbon is cut you can start sewing!

Repeat this process over and over again until all of your ribbon pieces are sewn right sides together and make a flat piece of striped velvet.
***Note:  When I finished sewing my ribbon pieces together I gave them a good steamy ironing.***

 

Now….

 

And you are good to go!
Just finish up your pattern as you normally would.
(Just be sure to line the inside front of your cute new bodice!)

It was easy and I LOVE how the striped velvet looks!!!

Thank you to The Ribbon Retreat for inviting us over here today…it was so much fun to create something with your ribbon!!!

-liZ

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  2. Stacy says

    You know, I hadn’t thought of using ribbon like that before! Very pretty and great idea. Thanks! I shall look at my stash of ribbon and see what will work for this. 🙂