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Retrospective: Designing & Draping Andy’s Wedding Dress
In my recent blog post and “Love Letter”, I shared a bit about Andy, a bride I worked with in 2019. When so many of you let…
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Figuring Out Fabrics by Designing Digitally
Welcome to a somewhat meandering story of three custom garments! This blog post loosely threads between my previous tutorial post on creating custom croquis, a…
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Jenn’s Rehearsal and Wedding Day!
De Nueva Photography It’s the final post in Jenn’s bridalwear blog series! The custom pieces I created in all the previous posts have reached their…
Jenn’s Wedding Ceremony Millinery
In this second-to-last post in Jenn’s bridalwear blog series, I’ll share the story of creating a custom fascinator headpiece for her to wear during her…
Finishing Jenn’s Couture Wedding Rehearsal Top
In my previous post, I took a little aside in Jenn’s bridal blog series to share one of the custom millinery pieces I made for…
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A veil for Jenn’s photoshoot with People
My previous post in Jenn’s bridalwear blog series shared the basted fitting of her rehearsal day top held at Workroom Social in Brooklyn in September 2019.…
Basting and Fitting Jenn’s Top
My previous post was “All About That Lace…” This post could be called “All About That Baste…” If you’ve been following me for any amount of time…
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All About That Lace…
When the story of turning Jenn’s mom’s wedding dress into a rehearsal day top left off, the vintage dress had been taken apart. Its satin…
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Fitting, Disassembling, and Prepping Jenn’s Underlining
Welcome to the 5th post in my custom bridalwear blog series about Jenn! Thanks for following along! In my previous post, I created a second mockup…