Tag: sewing
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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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The Bridesmaids Dresses – part 1
Always one to potentially bite off more than I can chew, I got it in my head to make my the dresses for my bridesmaids as well as my own. Beyond the wedding day itself, being engaged has felt like a wonderful celebration of the people around you, and making these dresses seemed like a…
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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 