Progress on Claire's Faire Waire

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I often have the impression that my dresses make themselves. I have to do the work, of course, but regardless of what design I have when I start a dress, it makes its own decisions about how it wants to look and thwarts any efforts I make to the contrary.
"I want THIS shoulder treatment," nope, it wants THAT so THIS won't work no matter how I try. Once I step back and accept what it wants to be, I have no more troubles putting it together.
So, Claire's little dress is finally coming together and it is much fancier than I originally intended. She now has white-on-black embroidered sleeves and forepart with watermellon shot silk trim and gold clasps up the front. The watermellon silk is sooooo lovely that I might make her an Italian bonnet of it.
And I'm trying to get ahold of a digital camera so I can upload some pictures.