Wow, seven editions later and we’ve made it to the final reveal. Well if seven books are good enough for J.K Rowling, then I’m ok with it taking this long! Thanks so much for sticking with me through this series of articles.
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Welcome to Part VI of Making my Wedding Dress where today I’m going quickly bring you through my thought process and construction of my veil.
As I mentioned in the previous edition, Part V - Making my Dress, flash back of my Communion day were not going in favour of me wearing a veil! It’s not that I don’t like veils, I do, I think they can look amazing. I just wasn’t sure a veil was for me.
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Welcome back to Making my Wedding Dress. Today I’m finally getting down to the real deal, making the actual dress. It’s a wordy one without too many visuals since looking back at my photos, there’s a lot of tea and not a lot of technique!
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By now I was happy enough with my toile to begin and cut out the real thing. Eeek! As mentioned in Part II - Selecting my Fabric, I decided to go with a beautiful silk triple crepe for the main dress. I decided to line it in silk habotai and interlined it with silk organza.
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We’re all being encouraged to slow down. Yes, it’s popular and on-trend to be all about #slowliving but it’s something I feel is actually important.
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I had chosen a stunning silk triple crepe in a buttery champagne colour as my main fabric but that was the easy bit. I still had to actually design the dress.
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Earlier this year, I released my first sewing pattern in collaboration with Jill & Gill to promote slow and ethical fashion in Irish Design. This is how it happened.
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