Cornflower dress

I needed a unique dress for a special occasion. When I was about to create the dress I noticed that the fabric I planned to use, appeared to be sheer.

Dress hanging in front of a cornflower drawing — The handmade cornflower dress before washing in front of a wall tapestry with a drawing of cornflower.

Cornflower blue

Luckily I know how to paint fabric ;)
I have always loved the blueish purple colour of cornflowers. That is why I created a dress with plaids and stripes in conflower blue.
Because I was out of posterpaint – which I normally use to paint fabrics -, I mixed Amsterdam acrylic paint (colours King’s Blue 517 and Quinacridonerose light 385) with Creall textile medium to handpaint the dress.

Sleeve part, acrylic paint and textile medium — Painting stripes on a sleeve using Acrylic paint and textile medium.

sewing pins, zipper and tape measure — Sewing process: attaching the zipper to the cornflower dress.

A bathtub with the dress and Vanish — Soaking the dress in Vanish. This will brighten up the colours.