Tag: diy
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
The Impatient Sewist 