Erin’s Unusual Underlining
Having flashbacks of Lila Rose’s custom wedding dress? Contrary to how it looks in these photos, I am not making another hot pink wedding dress. So what’s this color all about? Underlining to change a fabric’s color If you remember from Erin’s design consultation, we both fell in love with a white-on-white seersucker for her summer […]
Kent Corley Photo Shoot of Lila Rose’s Custom Wedding Dress
I had an fantastic photo shoot with Kent Corley Photography! Kent Corley is an amazingly talented product photographer right here in Hillsborough, NC. He’s shot all of my dresses for my portfolio! I shoot each dress on its custom dress form after it is completed, but before it is sent off to the bride. Although […]
Using “wiggle bones” in Lila Rose’s stand-up pleated collar
As you may recall from the mockup and sketches, Lila Rose’s dress will have a pleated stand-up collar. Our original inspiration photo had a very deep V neck with the collar folding in a bit, but for Lila Rose’s eighties-inspired wedding dress, we needed the collar to take on pretty much a 90º angle from […]
Neon Pink Wedding Dress Under Construction!
100+ hours into the process, I am finally taking Lila Rose’s actual wedding dress to the sewing machine! Out of the 170 hours projected for this project, I probably spend no more than 10 of them at the sewing machine. The majority of the time is spent designing, patterning, mockups, fittings, shopping, pressing, cutting and […]
Underlining: The Couturier’s Friend
Underlining! If there is one step that takes a garment from homemade to couture, it is underlining. If you sew and don’t know about underlining, once you try it you’ll see that it makes all the difference in the world in your quality. Underlining is often also known as flat lining, interlining, or innerlining. Not […]
Fit Week pt. 2 – Fabric Shopping/Mockup #2
Between the first and second mockup fittings, during the few days that Lila Rose was still in town, I did pattern corrections, made the second mockup, and we went fabric shopping! Since fabric shopping is the flashiest, I’ll start this post with fun our trip to Mulberry Silks and Fine Fabrics in Carrboro. The fabrics […]
Lila Rose’s FINAL Full-Color Sketches!
How many of you guessed that Lila Rose would choose a HOT PINK wedding dress? These are the final sketches for Lila Rose’s custom couture wedding dress. It’s come a long way since our original sketch when she booked the dress, but it is finally exactly what she wants. And in my opinion, it’s […]
Time to choose COLORS for Lila Rose’s unique wedding dress!
Photo Source Lila Rose would be flying from her home in Boston to my studio in Hillsborough soon to try on the mockup for her custom wedding dress. While she is in town we will have two fittings in muslin, the first fitting and then a second fitting to check the corrections. We will also […]