Welcome back! My husband didn’t want to see anything of my wedding dress until I walked down the aisle. This meant no posts, pictures, and a curtain was put up on my sewing studio for 7 months up until May 16th, the day before our wedding.
So much throughout that time has gone into my head about how I want to continue on with my blog as well as how I wanted to think about my sewing. Once again I think that it is that time for some updates. I have been blogging since August of 2014 and I feel like there is still so much room to grow in terms of my own sewing skills as well as my blogging/writing style.
With all of that being said, here is what I have decided so far. I want to start sewing in collections. I have been following several Instagram sewing bloggers and one of my new favorites gave me the idea. If you have an Instagram please check out emilyhallmandesigns, she is amazing. My first collection will be the collection of my wedding. So let the collection begin!
Here is my first sketch back from college when I first knew that Trey was going to be the one.
Here is the same sketch 1.5 years later once I knew the exact design I wanted for it to have after a month of pinteresting after Trey proposed.
I knew that this dress was going to be the sewing test of a lifetime, and I knew it had to really look like a designer dress otherwise what would be the point in making it myself, and to my own pattern or completely alter a pattern I already own. So to start out this whole process let us begin sewing the muslin of this dresses bodice. First thing I knew was that this dress at its core is just a princess seamed dress, so with that I chose my favorite princess seam patter McCalls 6887 and got my highlighters, french curve, and muslin fabric out. To make the bodice front I used my french curve and highlighter and made a nice pink mark to make a new neckline. Both for the front and back.
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As you can clearly tell by the black thread and pins, I really needed to take this in before I can use it as my pattern. Once I took it in I then made the skirt, created my own pattern pocket to make sure my phone can fit in, and added it to the bodice. For the skirt pattern, I needed to make sure that the circumference didn’t get bigger than 4 yards because that is all the yardage I had for the lattice like fabric (which is 100% silk lace) all while making sure that I had the train right. I didn’t want much of a train because I didn’t want to deal with a bustle.
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As you can see, there were more alterations that needed to be made because I took too much away from the bodice. I did manage to get the fit just right before mom came to help with the real fabric. Below are the final muslin pictures taken before it was dismantled to become my new pattern.
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Final fitting on me for the Muslin.
Flipped inside right for a clean picture.
And just like that the first phase of this monster sewing project, and THE dress of my life came to an end. Now we wait for 1 month until mom comes because I want her final look at the fit before I cut into my good fabric. Let’s just take a sneak peak at how that looks 🙂 In the picture below we are playing with cutting out another version of the bodice back for a better fit.
If you take a look on top of the book shelves, you can see how I organize my patterns. I take old Costco size frosted flake, cinnamon toast crunch, and rice crispy boxes – spray paint them – then use glitter glue to label into categories.
Main Wedding Dress – Part 1/3 – Muslin Welcome back! My husband didn't want to see anything of my wedding dress until I walked down the aisle.
