Welcome to the final post in my Wedding Dress Sewing blog series! Today, I won’t be discussing sewing my handmade wedding dress. I’ll mostly be sharing pictures and talking about our big day, which was six months ago today! If you’d like to catch up on the making process, here are links to Part 1, Part… Continue reading Wedding Dress Sewing – Part 5 – The Big Day
Welcome to part 4 of The Wedding Dress Blog! Today, we’re putting it all together! If you need to catch up, here are links to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Last time, I talked about test versions of the bodice and skirt. I was able to use the bodice test lining in the… Continue reading Wedding Dress Sewing – Part 4 – Putting It All Together
Welcome to part 3 of The Wedding Dress Blog! Today, I’m talking about trials! If you need to catch up, here are links to Part 1 and Part 2. I’m not a musliner. I don’t make practice anythings – or if I do, it’s a “wearable muslin” out of less fancy fabric than the real… Continue reading Wedding Dress Sewing – Part 3 – Trials
Welcome to part 2 of The Wedding Dress Blog! Today, I’m talking about picking out fabrics! Wedding Dress Swatches As I mentioned in my Planning post, I ordered 29 swatches from Mood the day after we got engaged. I knew it would take time for them to arrive, and I wanted to have them in… Continue reading Wedding Dress Sewing – Part 2 – Fabric Selection
Hi all! I’ve been busy up to something exciting…sewing my own wedding dress! This has been my dream since I started sewing, and it’s finally happened! My now-husband proposed on Valentine’s Day, and we saw no reason to wait too long, so we got married on May 23! I figured that after making a raincoat… Continue reading Wedding Dress Sewing – Part 1 – Inspiration
Vogue V9251 is a smash hit among the internet sewists. The Instagram hashtag is filled with beautiful creations by sewists all around the world. I’ve never had much luck with wrap dresses, but I don’t know how hard I really looked for one that worked for me. Given the success everyone has had with this… Continue reading V9251 – A Holiday Wrap Dress
Hi friends, I’m finally back, with an Ogden Cami Dress!! I was hoping to be much better at blogging this summer, but life got the best of me. I had the opportunity to travel for work, and continued wandering around the world after the conference for fun. Between this and other school projects, I had… Continue reading Ogden Cami Dress Hack
Ever since I made my first Anna dress, I’ve been dying to make another. I wanted a v-neck Anna dress, and I wanted an Anna maxi dress. I thought I might even be ambitious enough to have a thigh-high slit in one of them. I didn’t know if I wanted all of these things in one… Continue reading Whimsical Anna Maxi Dress
So this year for Me Made May, I decided I was aiming for one me-made item per week. I’ve only been sewing for about a year, and I seem to mostly make dresses and lingerie, so I knew my everyday-wear options were slim. Without further ado, my 2016 Me Made May roundup! The first item… Continue reading Me Made May 2016 Roundup!
Ever since I discovered By Hand London, I’ve seen some amazing renditions of the Anna Dress floating around the internet. I absolutely love my Georgia Dress, but I didn’t really feel drawn to making the Anna Dress for a long time. I don’t know what it was, but I just wasn’t feeling it for a while.… Continue reading By Hand London Anna Dress
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