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I just finished my wedding dress, just over a month before the wedding. Woo!
You can see the whole set on flickr, or click through for
I designed what I wanted, based the overall shape of the dress on what flattered my figure most from the crazy dress-trying-on experience. I used a commercial pattern from the 80s for the short dress (which is also the bodice) and invented my own pattern, pretty much, for the overskirt - the long white part with the blue train. The lighter blue material with the swirls is actually two layers of material, a blue silk dupioni (visible without an overlay on the sash and on my DF's vest) with a sheer white embroidered material over it. The white is just silk dupioni.
The full dress, from the front:
Back view:
Without the overskirt, and a closer view of the bodice:
Close up of the beading:
Thanks to Becky who showed me how to do this without going insane. It didn't take me all that long. Think I should continue the beading up the shoulder straps?
The crinoline:
If I ever say I'm going to make a crinoline again, tie me up and remind me how much this sucked. 24 yards of netting sewn to 24 yards of satin bias tape; then sewn into a loop, gathered and sewn (other side) to 12 yards of netting; that gathered and sewn to 6 yards of silk; that gathered and sewn to 3 yards of silk; that gathered and sewn to waistband. Agh.
My handsome fiance in his suit, which I did not make, showing off his vest, which I did make:
You can see the whole set on flickr, or click through for
I designed what I wanted, based the overall shape of the dress on what flattered my figure most from the crazy dress-trying-on experience. I used a commercial pattern from the 80s for the short dress (which is also the bodice) and invented my own pattern, pretty much, for the overskirt - the long white part with the blue train. The lighter blue material with the swirls is actually two layers of material, a blue silk dupioni (visible without an overlay on the sash and on my DF's vest) with a sheer white embroidered material over it. The white is just silk dupioni.
The full dress, from the front:
Back view:
Without the overskirt, and a closer view of the bodice:
Close up of the beading:
Thanks to Becky who showed me how to do this without going insane. It didn't take me all that long. Think I should continue the beading up the shoulder straps?
The crinoline:
If I ever say I'm going to make a crinoline again, tie me up and remind me how much this sucked. 24 yards of netting sewn to 24 yards of satin bias tape; then sewn into a loop, gathered and sewn (other side) to 12 yards of netting; that gathered and sewn to 6 yards of silk; that gathered and sewn to 3 yards of silk; that gathered and sewn to waistband. Agh.
My handsome fiance in his suit, which I did not make, showing off his vest, which I did make:
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I think I envy you your TwinFit dressform. I had the weirdest experience with mine, where I set it to my measurements, fit the outer dress to it, which worked great, fit the lining to it, which worked great, and then when I attached the lining to the dress - from then on it fit ME perfectly but would not fit on the dress form at all. (I had to shrink the form down for these pictures.) So weird.
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You're more than welcome to try the dressform when you are back in town!