Tag: Wedding dress
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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 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 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 