Category: sewing
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The Wedding Dress – part 9: Finishing touches and the Wedding Day
Hemming Every sewing project of mine seems to get stuck in hemming pergatory, and my wedding dress was no exception. The lace layer of the skirt was hemmed using the edges of the lace as trim. My lace had a beautiful edge and it was great to use up the scraps of it. With the…
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The Wedding Dress – part 8: Opacity and construction problems
If you’re still with me on this sewing journey, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was all smooth sailing. And to be honest, up until this point, it was. My satin pieces looked beautiful and the lace work went better than expected, but my luck was about to change… The beige corset worked really well…
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The Wedding Dress – part 7: Invisible lace seams
I was quite nervous to start the lace work because it’s the only part of the dress that I had never tried before. The cost of the lace also constituted about half the total cost of the dress so there wasn’t much room to mess up. Placing a lace pattern – be it floral, geometric,…
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The Wedding Dress – part 6: Perfecting a silk satin seam
Having finished the corselette, the next step was the construction of the silk satin layers. I decided to pre-wash my satin so that I didn’t have to worry about affecting it with pressing or steam. Washing the silk by hand with a baby laundry detergent and cool water was the most gentle way to handle…
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The Wedding Dress – part 5: The real corselette
The design One of the most exciting parts of this project was creating the inner structure of the dress. I’m an engineer so the mechanics of sewing have always fascinated me and I knew that the structure of this dress was something I could seriously nerd out over. The inner corselette was the most important…
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The Wedding Dress – Part 4: Designing the skirt and the final toile
Designing the skirt The skirt thankfully required way fewer versions than the bodice. Again I started with a moulage and experimented with different amount of volume for the “flare” part of the skirt. I also had to shift at what point the skirt starts to flare, which was lower than I initially drafted. The skirt…
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The Wedding Dress – part 3: Inspiration and designing the bodice
I got married last week and it was absolutely incredible. There was so much joy and love in the room, and I got to experience it all in my hand-made wedding dress. Now that we know that the story has a happy ending, I’m so excited to start sharing the journey of making my dress!…
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The Wedding Dress – part 2: Fabric Choices
Surely one of the great joys of sewing your own wedding dress is choosing the fabric. As I’m not paying for my own labour costs, this is essentially where I’m blowing the entire wedding dress budget. Terrifying. Choosing the lace From the dresses I tried on, I knew that bling made me very happy. So…
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Trying out projector sewing
While developing the skirt pattern for my wedding dress, I had a lot of very big pattern pieces to cut. I’m already not a big fan of cutting pieces, but now each version first required printing 40 pages of paper, sticking them together, cutting the paper and then cutting the fabric! So I embarked on…
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The Wedding Dress – Part 1 of idk
It’s been a while since my last post and over the course of 2024 I’ve been working on a rather big and exciting project. I got engaged late last year (wooop!) and as well as pretty much immediately diving into wedding planning, I knew that I wanted to make my own dress. Still feeling cautiously…
The Impatient Sewist 