Testing new ideas onto Loula’s two sketches
I showed Loula the two sketches for her custom wedding dress and she was in love. In fact, she was so in love that she…
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Two Sketches for Loula’s custom wedding dress
After playing around adding images to our Pinterest group board, I narrowed the inspirations for Loula’s custom wedding dress down a bit. I added our…
Getting Inspired!
I visited my best friend Loula in New Orleans late last year to start delving into creating her custom wedding dress. We had each been…
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More Sketches!
After another consultation with Margaret and a look at some new inspirations, I came up with these new designs for her mother-of-the-bride dress and jacket. …
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Back to the drawing board! And back to the blog!
Where was I???! Only a few short posts ago I began blogging about Margaret! The wedding is this weekend! Margaret’s custom mother-of-the-bride dress and jacket…
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Sketching and the Design Proposal Website
After our fun Design Consultation, I couldn’t wait to start brainstorming and sketching Margaret’s custom mother-of-the-bride dress. I have a large cutting table where I…
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Margaret’s Design Consultation and Pinterest
In last week’s post I mentioned that even though bespoke dressmaking is an old and traditional art, I love using modern tools to make the…
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Retrospective: The making of a dress, a blog & a business
Leah’s wedding dress was the first real wedding dress that I created for someone I did not already know. It’s funny to think of…
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Retrospective: My Own Raw Silk & Cotton Lace Wedding Dress
Yes, I made my own wedding dress. After making his sister Katie’s wedding dress and his sister Melissa’s wedding dress, I got engaged to my…