 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hem. Today I'm here to talk to you about a dress that is literally more than a year in the making. This dress has been in my works in progress pile for literally more than 12 months and there's no good reason. Just sheer laziness is all there is to it. I think that I didn't feel like hand stitching that day and so I didn't want to stitch the lining to the bodice and that was its demise. That's where that's what led it to the pile of works in progress. But not anymore because I pulled it out and I finished it and I am so so happy that I did. This is the Colette Hazel and if you remember, or if you follow me on Instagram, I had posted just some little hand drawings that I had done of three different dresses. One was the hazel, one was the deer and doe centauri and then one was just any old princess-seen bodice dress. I asked you guys to please vote and I think that either most people voted for the hazel or I just liked that option better after drawing it out because that's what I ended up making. I don't exactly remember what happened because that was a long time ago but I thought that the centauri, I don't speak French, looked a lot like a spiderweb which got me thinking as I was mentally preparing for this video that that would be really cool out of black and white stripe for Halloween if you wanted to do a Halloween dress but not make it a print of ghosts or pumpkins or whatever. You know what I mean? It would be like a nod to Halloween in a classy way. It really does look like a spiderweb whenever it gets sewn up in so many different parts but so yeah so I ended up deciding on the hazel and then I wanted to add just another element of stripe variation to it so I added a waistband and that was super simple to do. I think I just shortened the bodice by a little bit and then added on a strip underneath that maybe an inch and a half or so wide and sewed it up and from what I remember sewing it was really really easy. You know Colette's patterns are known for like curbier figures so I didn't feel like I had any issues with the bust or I mean it's a gathered skirt so it's very generous in the hips anyways but but no issues there really well drafted so that was all good. The only issue I had was with the strap and I know you're thinking they were too long but you're wrong it was actually too short which was causing this whole thing like this whole this whole seam here was like up here and it was creating this weird like bubbling and I couldn't figure it out at first I thought I didn't know what was going on but then whenever I pulled the dress forward and allowed this seam to sit much lower that fixed that whole problem which further proves when they say when you're going to make alterations start at the top and work your way down that that really held true in this example because I was going to go to here and start letting things out but that wasn't what you needed to do I just needed to let the whole dress shift down some and sit lower so where the darts sat at my natural apex so but yeah so I did that um of course I did that after I had hand sewed everything and since the hand sewing was the catalyst for me not finishing it to begin with there was no way I was going to undo that hand sewing so I decided to unpick the straps and then hand sew them back on which I know some of you are going that's so silly but that's what I did um but yeah so the dress came together really well with just one little fitting adjustment and that one little I guess I guess it's a pattern hack and I just really love how the stripes look this fabric came from style maker fabrics she does still have a listing for it on her website however there's only one half of a yard left so if you love this fabric and can think of something you can make out of it for half a yard um by all means it's on sale for nine dollars a yard right now um it is a rayon cotton blend and she describes it as a shirting um so if you find any rayon shirting out there it should give you a similar drape and flow and all that stuff as this one does the lining I'm guessing is 100 polyester knowing myself a year ago yeah that's probably that's probably what it is um it's navy which is really complementary to the denim color and I just really love the variation in the stripe you know I love how it's like a wider one and then three smaller ones and then a wider one and then a few smaller ones you know it's not so uniform I think that really adds to the visual interest of the dress um so yeah that is my Colette Hazel dress finally finally out of the work in progress been and in my closet and I'm so happy about it I'm glad I finally got it done um and and really truly loving wearing it I feel maybe more tied to this pattern because it was a vision you know I had in my head it's like my own vision my own creativity is represented here a lot of times I feel like we take inspiration we see an idea from somebody else and then we just replicate that which is totally fine I do that all the time but it's really interesting to see what happens whenever you have your own idea that you haven't seen anywhere else and it comes to fruition like in a really positive way um so I feel really really good about this dress I'm very proud of it so that's all I have to say about this let me know in the comments below what your work in progress pile looks like do you have one at all um do you have a large one like me um let me know how like your tips for tackling it because I've got a lot of work to do I'm trying to do one a week now through the end of the year um but I don't know how that's gonna go so let me know let me know your thoughts on works in progress in the comments below otherwise I will see you guys very soon thank you so much for watching bye