A Wedding Dress? A Wedding Dress.

So I've taken a bit of a hiatus from the blogging about my projects because of starting a full time job and still putting time into sewing. I'm just glad to be back on here sharing my projects with all of you. so while I was away I made a wedding dress for a family friend and it was my first experience with a formal dress that was designed to fit how she wanted with the details she always dreamed of for her wedding.

The fabric she chose was a champagne satin and a white organza with floral embroidered detail. stunningly beautiful but honestly was a bit of a pain to work with because of the fabric being so fragile. so after the initial muslin mock up we proceeded with the open back, floor length wedding dress.

Once pieced together the dress had a lot of finishing detail work that was a real challenge for me because we wanted to showcase how beautiful the organza was but not have any bulky rolled hems. The final decision we ended up taking with finishing the edges with a really small zig-zag stitch and then melting the edges to lock the stitch in place.

After a fitting we ended up adding a panel on either side of the open back, to firstly showcase the organza more and to make the dress a little more sturdy and moveable. Overall the dress turned out beautiful, it was a great match for the location and she looked absolutely beautiful for her wedding.