Faith.Hope.Love.Cure.Heart. This dress was in honor of my husband’s late grandma, Mimi, who died in 2008 from breast cancer and for everyone else who is battling cancer, beat cancer, for the families, the nurses and doctors involved, the support groups; this is for everyone involved. I’m a nurse and once was an oncology nurse for a brief period. People battling cancer are very strong people especially children. My prayers go out to everyone. I currently work on a heart floor and patients having heart attacks are getting younger and younger. Don’t forget: prevention and check ups is the first line of defense against cancer & heart disease.

I made this very fun and romantic dress for breast cancer and womens heart health challenge last year. I did not use a pattern for this, I made it myself. I used pink and red poly chiffon/georgette and black dupioni silk for the waist. I made a circle skirt and I applied zig-zagged edged scallop design I drew out from the bottom of a plate then cut them out very carefully. I added a red ruffle to the very bottom. I added an invisible zipper. In the side view photo I wasn’t sure how to incorporate the zipper and the scallops so I let them drape down as they wanted. The top part of the dress is a deep-V in the front and back. the bottom part is light pink with red zig-zagged scallops around the top and red on top. The red I left unattched so I could wear it different ways. There was some hand stitching, but mostly machine. The bottom part of the dress it lined in nonstatic poly red fabric. The flower is detachable. I love this dress!!! Hope you enjoy my design. I got i think 7th or 8th place out of 120 entries and I could have modeled it at the expo in WA last year, but I couln’t make it.

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