New Bridal Blog Series: Designing for Deborah!
The bridal blog series is back! In each bridal blog series, you meet a new bride and I slowly post-by-post recount the process and share the behind-the-seams story of creating her one-of-a-kind custom couture wedding dress from start-to-finish. To keep the dress a surprise for the groom and guests, I do not begin to tell […]
Dyeing for a Change
Back when I was earning my MFA in Costume Production, one of my favorite tasks was dyeing. I love color theory and fabric manipulation! I learned how to create beautiful custom colors, match a designer’s rendering, match an actor’s skin tone, create a cohesive color palate in a variety of fabrics… etc… sigh… Now that […]
Creating My Own Dress for Cameron’s Wedding Reception
(Okay, so I’ve been away a bit while creating my newest eCourse but…) After the final post in my blog series about creating Cameron’s gorgeous custom wedding overdress, I wanted to share the behind-the-seams process of the dress I wore to her reception. And with so many photos (and videos!), I hope the story kind […]
Cameron’s Wedding Day!
It’s finally time to share about Cameron’s wedding day! YAY! Cameron and Max married last Spring in Scotland at Greywalls, an old country home on the coast near Edinburgh. The couple had visited before, absolutely loved it (I think you’ll see why), and decided it was the perfect place for a small wedding ceremony and […]
Photo Shoot and Delivery Day for Cameron’s Custom Wedding Dress
TWO POSTS IN ONE! As we are nearing the end of the bridal blog series following the creation of Cameron’s custom wedding overdress, I am really feeling the anticipation and excitement. After I made the final stitch, there were still a couple of events before the Wedding Day: The Photo Shoot and the Delivery Day. […]
Cameron’s Finishing Touches
HOME STRETCH! After months of evolving and improving our original ideas, it was finally time to really finish Cameron’s custom wedding overdress. After our final fitting, I was ready to work my way through all the little tasks that bring everything together for the photoshoot and the Delivery Day. I love the custom process, so this is […]
Cameron’s Final Fitting!
This blog post was pretty easy… Once the work on her wedding overdress was ready, it was finally time for Cameron’s basted fitting. The basted fitting is often the final fitting where the dress is mostly finished, with only a few areas basted for the possibility of changes. Since most of the pattern and fitting […]
Fitting-Ready Finishes for Cameron
Even though the skirt and the top for Cameron’s overdress were mostly constructed, there was still plenty of work to do before our basted fitting. Since our second mockup fitting went so well, I would finish almost everything before Cameron would try on the real overdress in the real custom-printed silk organza for the first time. […]
Cameron’s Cut-in-One Silk Sleeves
After getting in some practice sewing the skirt pieces of Cameron’s custom wedding overdress (made of cutom-printed sheer silk and backed with tissue paper), it was finally time to tackle the top. Cameron’s design features cut-in-one gusset sleeves. What the heck are cut-in-one gusset sleeves? Well, you don’t see them much in modern clothes, mostly because […]
