Dress Made With Water Soluble Interfacing

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• Step 1

  First you need to cut your interfacing into the right shape - I used the pattern for my dress and cut it out of the interfacing. Add a lot of seam allowance!

• Step 2

  Take your fabric and start to rip it - depending on your project you'll need a lot of strips.

  Instead of torn fabric you can also use different kinds of yarn, wool, ribbon...

• Step 3

  Place your fabric strips (or whatever you use) on the interfacing.

  If you think it's enough put another piece of interfacing on top and pin it down in several places.

• Step 4

  Here comes the fun part: take your interfacing-sandwich and start stitching all over it with your sewing machine.
  You can create a pattern or do it the way I did: just wildly sew all over the place with highspeed xD

  Remember that the interfacing will be gone in the end, you'll need to connect your fabric strips with the seams.
  Before removing the interface it's best to check if there are any huge holes and if the borders of your piece are firmly stitched.

• Step 5

  Stitch your pattern piece together and create a dress/skirt/whatever you're doing before removing the interfacing.

  Skip this step if you're making a scarf ;)

• Step 6

  Did I say the stitching was the fun part?
  Washing out the interfacing my be even more fun.
  Fill your bathtub with water and put your dress into the water - now you can watch the interfacing disappear!

  I actually had to wash my dress (using soap) and rinse it several times to remove all the interfacing.

  When you're finished put it on a towel and let it dry - that's it =)

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Bat Ma'am · Seattle, Washington, US · 13 projects 26th July 2012

I've never heard of water soluble interfacing, I gotta find this stuff, how awesome!!!!

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Corey Y. · Wooster, Ohio, US · 1 project 20th September 2011

I don't know how it would work, but i'd like to try thi with nude fabric and fabric strips/yarn with iron-activated adhesive in between.

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Hana · Gdynia, Pomeranian Voivodeship, PL · 13 projects 8th February 2011

sound like fun! i gotta try this technique
and the dress reminds me of one dress I saw in some high fashion tv show where contestants had to make a body-flesh-muscles inspired clothing. well done!

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Jet H. · Haarlem, North Holland, NL · 108 projects 3rd June 2010

beautiful , love it, well done

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xALTER--EGO · Victoria, British Columbia, CA · 4 projects 2nd June 2010

This is incredible, I totally want to try this now! I think it would look awesome as a skirt (with something underneath, of course!)

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