Broken Promise

Promises, promises. A dress with so much promise. What started out as a nice piece of yardage, basically a printed rayon shawl. (There is a large Indian / Pakistani population near the donation sites so there are tons of beautiful paisley embroidered fabrics sometimes with an ugly snag or single spot. I really loved the beautiful blues and lavenders, golds and paisley in this example. A problem with the grain caused a serious problem. I tried blocking but to no avail. The result as you can see was, no matter how I recut the pieces, an impossible to remove bubble at exactly gut level. A decidedly unflattering effect. In retrospect the design was too precious and a bit historical so I'm sort of glad it turned out that way.