Your bee dress is simply incredible! I'm in awe of all the work you put into it.
My question is, what kind of fabric did you use for it, and was that fabric chosen for ease of embroidery, or how it wears, or for some other reason?
Thank you :D !!!
The fabric was chosen for all of the above. The burlap weave of this upholstery fabric meant that there were dots in a grid shape already in the fabric. That made mapping out the hexagons and flowers significantly easier! The fabric is also pretty light weight and breathable, but strong enough to take on the extra weight of the thread without bunching or sagging. It also just reminded me a little of a bee, as the fabric up close is a little fuzzy :)))))
There were cons for this as well though. The fabric was VERY hard to pleat, and it took several rounds of basting the pleats together, measuring them, undoing the stitches and redoing them before I could confidently get it under the machine. This also means that my mistakes are a lot more visible, as you can tell if a flower is off mark!
