Pretty Inside and Out
I truly feel that a garment should look just as pretty on the inside as it does on the outside. I also learned this while working in theatre. I wouldn’t dare send Bernadette Peters out in something that wasn’t top notch on the inside, even if she was the only one who ever saw it. […]
Real Closures for Real Women!
Though I have a costuming background, I am not a fan of faked closures. In fact, I am opposed. I really hate seeing modern day wedding dresses that have a zipper up the back with 40 buttons sewn on it. It’s fake. This is your wedding day! No faking! So if I make a […]
First (Family) Fabric Fitting!
For Leah’s first fabric fitting, she invited her parents and her future in-laws. This was a new experience for me and I was really happy and nervous to have them attend. Leah and I have put so much work into the dress. Will they love it? Will they hate it? Will it fit? Will they […]
The joys of unbound grosgrain ribbon!
For her summer afternoon garden wedding, Leah and I chose all-cottons for her wedding ensemble. She didn’t want a formal gown, and though we added a little bit of bling with her belt and handmade bouquets (coming soon!), we kept the trims cotton as well! A hint of unbound grosgrain ribbon was added to outline […]
Inside the Bustle
Since the blog is now in retrospect, I’ll just find photos I took along the journey of Leah’s wedding ensemble and explain what I was doing at that time. This photo is inside the skirt of the ceremony jacket. At the bottom of the photo is the waistline. In order to make this bustle the […]
The Blog: Now in Retrospect!
It’s been over two months since my last blog. Blogging about dressmaking is a lot harder than I thought! I have realized that once I go into dressmaking mode, I can’t seem to tear myself away to type about it. As with everything I do, I hope to continually improve my skills. Maybe one day […]
Interfacing, Horsehair and Hem Weights
By this time, I finally have all the information that I need out of the muslin that Leah tried on in the past two fittings. But some of its parts are still useful. I’ve been raiding the muslin so that i can reuse (rather than re-buy) interfacings, horsehair and hem weights. The interfacing that I […]
Stay!
Well, I guess I am not as good at blogging as I had hoped because there’s been a lot of dressmaking going on since I last posted. One of my main tasks has been adding stay-tape to select seams and edges of the dress.
Preparations for sewing fabrics with stretch
There’s always a lot of prep involved once the real fabric is in play for a wedding dress. In most cases, you are dealing with clean white fabric and it is so important that it stays that way! It is imperative that a dressmaker be very precise and use the least amount of steps as […]
