i made a surgery on an OP... without the help of machines...

I got this lovely dress from Nemo (thanks a lot Mo!)

but as much as I love it, I couldn't help but noticing that it's too ita (raschel lace bebeh...)

so I tried to fix it for Anime Hanabi, but I didn't manage to finish it on time.

Note to lolita newbies/friends of lolitas: Raschel lace makes you ita.

I know I can do something about the lace - it's the only thing ita about the dress since the basic design is definitely lolita. So, to save Nemo's dress I went and rip off all 8 metres of raschel lace, and went to Angsana to buy black eyelet lace and fabric for ruffles.

After a week of sewing (hand-stitching to be precise), this is the end result:

Ze eyelet lace. ^^ I love them

What I did to the sleeves. I actually wanted to do a bit more, but I was in a hurry for yesterday's event. Hemmed the ruffles by hand-stitching, and ruffled them by hand too. Me needs a sewing machine T_T

The back. The corset finishing is fully functional. Notice how the original one was so...bland?

And later I realized that this dress has slight resemblances to a Bodyline dress which I have just discovered today

Though this dress brought forth a sex maniac (please read previous post), I'm still happy with it. At last! My hand-stitching hard work has paid off :D Mum said it's beautiful, and better than my white one. What do you think?