tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90314273698890089182023-11-15T23:40:39.856-08:00The Homemade WeddingAdventures in a D.I.Y pre-marital processAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697835673431101357noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031427369889008918.post-71757542532147577982012-08-11T01:47:00.000-07:002012-08-11T01:47:11.511-07:00Voile seams<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After sewing my side seams in the voile I had to remove the thread tracing. It shows here why its nice to do the thread ends away from the seam well into the seam allowance - You can just snip close to the knotting and know that it will be cut away when it comes to hot knife cutting the seam allowance.</div>
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Heres a close up of the finished seams (before ironing) - no knots, no fraying.</div>
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Here are the panels attached to the dressmaker and pinned roughly in place. I pinned all the lace bits and bobs on to check the dress still looks like I imagined - I'm still feeling confident!</div>
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And the back...</div>
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Today started with a sample - I tried out all the tensions (I settled on '1'), and whether to use cream thread, white thread, or a mix of cream and white. I settled on cream. I also tested whether to sew the seam once it was trimmed and ironed and decided it didn't need it.</div>
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For the seams of the voile I decided to make the most of the synthetic fabric and heat cut after sewing - this heat seals the edges. Heres my set up - a marble cutting board (glass is usually recommended), a metal ruler, the soldering iron with a pointed tip, a water soaked sponge and some more cleaning items (a sanding block, emery board and nail cuticle remover which can get rid of the worst bits).</div>
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Get your fabric and ruler ready..</div>
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Line up the seam so that its straight..</div>
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Then move the ruler up to give a seam allowance.</div>
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Hold down, be careful to keep your fingers away from the blade!</div>
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Then smoothly cut (I had to remove my fingers as I was taking this picture)!</div>
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Peel away the excess whilst still holding the ruler. It might be worth cutting away the excess as you go rather than keeping one big strip - especially with hot knifes around!</div>
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Unfortunately the tip becomes pretty grubby - if its not cleaned regularly this transfers to the fabric.</div>
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To clean keep a soaked sponge nearby and clean as you go - use the wet part of the sponge. Just to let you know the sponge WILL be ruined so perhaps keep one set by just for this.</div>
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Even with the sponge there may still be some residue...</div>
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So use fine sandpaper to clean this off. Use brisk movements as the sandpaper will burn too!</div>
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All cut out, darts sewn, and ready to go...</div>
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Simply sewn around the edges, leaving a gap at the bottom. Then Notches and slits so that the curves will work properly once turned right way out.</div>
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All four turned the right way out - I only need three for the bridesmaids so I'm going to try to sell one! Last thing to do was to hand sew the small hole left from turning closed.</div>
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They all look the same so here are some completed shots.</div>
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1 50cm glass vase<br />
Approx 5 handfuls of river stones<br />
2-3 branches<br />
Strong Wire (and pliers to cut and shape)<br />
14 Frosted tealight holders (replace 2-3 with lace tealight holders if required)<br />
Electronic tea lights<br />
1m Chandelier crystals, separated<br />
12-13 foam roses in different sizes, some with leaves<br />
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1. Wrap roses around each other in a circle shape sized to fit around the base of the vase.<br />
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3. Place the river stones and branches into the vase.<br />
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4. Wrap wire around 4 tealight holders and add a loop as a 'bucket' handle.<br />
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5. Wrap wire around four parts of branches into a hook shape.<br />
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6. Place electric tealights into all the candle holders.<br />
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7. Hang the wire wrapped tealight holders on the branches and arrange the rest around the base of the tree.<br />
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8. Hang the separated chandelier crystals on the branches in random patterns.<br />
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With the help of my chief bridesmaid I used thick scrap fabric to create a shrug pattern. Its quite simple with just two darts as shoulder seams.</div>
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It will fasten at the front with a ribbon or a button.</div>
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I drafted just one side - its loose so two sided fittings really are not necessary!</div>
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I then transferred and mirrored the pattern onto newspaper</div>
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And started to cut the fur! I've cut it to about 1.5cm seam allowance and because the fur is quite short I didn't cut it properly using a furriers knife or tiny snips with the scissors - I just went ahead and cut through the whole thing so ended up with a lot of fur on the carpet. Still, I think cutting the lot then cleaning was quicker than if I'd been snipping at a snails pace.</div>
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The fur and lining fabric is all from a Queen sized blanket my nana spotted at a charity shop. Beautiful fur, amazing price, upcycling and donating to charity. I believe from the feel of it the fur is rabbit. Its clearly quite old and I have no qualms about using fur - especially if it is from an animal that is culled for biodiversity purposes by rangers worldwide. I have one bridesmaid who does not want to wear fur so she and the flower girl will have navy blue fleece wraps made from some fabric I have in my stash.</div>
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Here are the cut fur pieces ready to sew up another day. </div>
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A small pic to show some progress. I've sewn almost all the lace motifs onto the bottom layer and rethought my skirt design slightly. </div>
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On the bottom layer - small 'spikes' of motifs will run up each seam and the centre back seam will have a lot more lace 'cascading down' the full length of the skirt and train.</div>
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For the two voile layers - the only lace will be at the centre back and some along the very bottom. The motifs will be scattered around the layers to give a little more depth.</div>
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I've done all the seams apart from two (leaving open for better fitting) and all the 'spikes' of lace motifs on the seams bar 2, plus the two seams that aren't yet sewn. The dress now has to go away as my fiancé has returned home.<br />
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After positioning and laying out all the layers nicely I've positioned a pink fabric at the bottom. I've told my fiancé that my dress is a pale pink colour which would really not suit my skin tone. He believes me so I'm continuing the pretence. Theres obviously nothing wrong with pink wedding dresses but it is not 'us'!<br />
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Heres the dress with the big parachute like cover so he can't see anything (apart from a tiny bit of pink poking out the bottom)!<br />
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...And after flipping and ironing. NB My jubilee nails!</div>
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I threaded the hoops through the sleeves and rejoined the circles with the plastic sleeves that were used with the original underskirt.</div>
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I pinned and sewed my hoops in the wrong place and had to reposition them. The lilac shows where I repositioned them to. You should have the skirt wrong way out before positioning and sewing. Where you have the hoops and at what angle will dictate the shape of the dress. I wanted mine reasonably Teardrop A-Line shaped but with the train trailing further out. If you want to be more A-Line without a train position the hoops horizontally. For Princess you position the smaller loop higher up! After positioning its worth flipping the skirt right side out to see where the hoop holds the fabric away from the body.</div>
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Next I ironed all the netting which took ages!</div>
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And made sure that the gathers were either still in place or regathered and sewn.</div>
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There are three layers of netting - one at the top which is only around the back half of the dress.</div>
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And two more further down that go all the way around. They are more gathered at the back for volume where you want it. </div>
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I ended up repositioning my bottom two netting layers further down and in more of a 'V' so that the bottom layer is almost horizontal and laying on the floor - I'm hoping this will help the train stay out and looking good.</div>
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I found sewing the netting onto the skirt was easiest by hand - the stitches aren't exactly tiny and neat but I don't think it'll look any tidier by machine! I'm considering sewing lace edging to the bottom layer of net so that any bits that peek out from underneath the dress will still look nice!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697835673431101357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031427369889008918.post-45738394529794706622012-06-02T09:14:00.000-07:002012-07-18T09:16:24.202-07:00Underskirt Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Next I made a yoke pattern straight from the dressmaker.</div>
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Here it is after cutting and sewing together two layers. The top curve needed to be notched.</div>
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After flipping right side out, ironing flat and pinning to the dressmaker.</div>
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Lots of fiddling later, the yoke was sufficiently pinned to the skirt and sewn together.</div>
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Here I've added two ribbons to tie the skirt closed. I may add more ribbons later to close the slight 'gape'. Next up will be hoops and netting!</div>
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I ordered a cheap underskirt from ebay and regretted it - the main fabric was a horrendous crinkly polyester that could have been used as umbrella fabric! So I unpicked all the netting and took out the hoops. Next I took about 4 metres of lining fabric and pinned one edge around the footprint of the dress. I then took the fabric up and pinned seams all around.</div>
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I trimmed and pinned. The fabric is very smooth and silky so some of the pins kept falling out. If this wasn't underwear I think it would be worth tacking these seams together. Time consuming but it would be worth it.</div>
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After sewing I trimmed and ironed the seams flat. Then oversewed with a decorative stitch that encompassed the raw edges.</div>
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The skirt pinned to my dressmaker - It needs a yoke, hoops and netting! More to come.</div>
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I've now cut and thread traced all of the skirt panels - I can't stop taking photographs! Heres a few using different camera settings. I know these fabrics will look amazing in wedding photos :)</div>
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I thought I'd show how I've sewn the front and back seams (I'm going to leave at least two seams undone so that I can fit the skirt properly later - either that or I will sew all of them and put darts in to fit, I haven't decided yet)</div>
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So first I line up the thread tracings and pin at both ends. I then line up the thread tracing along the seam as smoothly as I can.</div>
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At one end, I wrap thread around the pin</div>
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I unwind the thread to the other end and pin to the carpet. Keeping tension along this line makes it my 'plumb' line like a thread ruler.</div>
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I place pins along this line at regular short intervals then sew on my machine from pin to pin (take out the pins before sewing over). You have to concentrate on ignoring the thread tracing, as it is slightly wobbly.<br />
I've been sewing these final seams on a 2.5mm straight stitch (Tension 5 on my Expression 3.0 machine) and have been extending the seam by around 1.5 inches at each end.</div>
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The result is a nice straight seam. I then take out the thread tracing and finish as per the post <a href="http://thehomemadewedding.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/attempting-couture-seams-in-my-wedding.html" target="_blank">Attempting couture seams in my wedding dress</a>.</div>
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Video tutorial on youTube - I've made 10 so far, plan to make 30-40 for the wedding. Very easy to do!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697835673431101357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031427369889008918.post-58578300168017594392012-05-02T12:22:00.000-07:002012-05-04T12:22:16.195-07:00Start of a long handsewing adventure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I carefully cut out all the lace motifs (this took a good few evenings work) and replaced them on all the layers and pinned.</div>
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Each motif is handsewn round the edge to individual layers</div>
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I love how when you hold the layer up to the light the stitching sort of 'defines' the edge a little! I've only done the top layer so far, it took an entire day at the weekend, but this is still less time than I thought it would take so I'm pretty happy!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697835673431101357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031427369889008918.post-7847249350392449692012-05-01T12:15:00.000-07:002012-05-04T12:24:20.700-07:00Attempting couture seams in my wedding dress!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I pinned, re-straighetened and sewed the centre back seam, stopping at a point where the corset back will end. I checked and re-checked the tension on my machine with scraps from the interlining and main fabric layered together.</div>
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As you can see when I made sure the back seam was perfectly straight it revealed that my thread tracing wasn't exactly perfect! As these are the skirt seams I'd rather them be straight than follow the pattern pieces which might have stetched.</div>
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In the couture sewing and wedding dress sewing books/info I've been reading I've seen that couture seams are around one inch so I drew a line with my disappearing ink pen.</div>
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And then cut along this line ready for hemming!</div>
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Heres the seam all hemmed, its been hemmed to the interlining fabric only, so doesn't show on the right side. At the top, where the split is still open for the corset back I've whip stitched the seam edges to stop them fraying.</div>
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Close up:</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697835673431101357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031427369889008918.post-15802675768774562072012-04-29T11:40:00.000-07:002012-05-04T12:25:36.380-07:00Lace Placement<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Here is the back section with 2 layers of organza (It dulls down the golden colour to more of a cream). I experimented a lot with roughly cut out lace motifs and have pinned them in the final placement.</div>
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The edges will be trimmed with the scallop edge of my lace, and the motifs will be sewn to all three layers which creates a bit of depth.</div>
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Heres a bit of a 'look' picture - the corseted bodice will have more densely packed lace and I'll be wearing this fur stole on the day. Sorry for the terrible light but I end up working on this in the evenings after work!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697835673431101357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031427369889008918.post-20546541672869275512012-04-28T11:34:00.000-07:002012-05-04T11:35:25.960-07:00Cutting into the REAL fabric!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
My dress design has changed somewhat since the last post, but all will be revealed over the next few days!</div>
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I ironed my main fabric (ahimsa silk) and my interlinng fabric (hemp silk) and laid them on the floor with the skirt panel pieces (back only so far), making sure the grain was correct - easy on these fabrics because the weave is so pronounced!</div>
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I trimmed the excess fabric, pinned and thread traced the pieces so that I could work with a huge seam allowance to allow for alterations later. Thread tracing is clearly something that never happens with ready-to-wear, but it didn't take too long and I know that the interlining is securely in place and I can see the 'pattern' on both sides.</div>
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Up close view of the thread tracing (don't forget the pattern markings)!</div>
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Here are the back two panels ready for some new layers...</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697835673431101357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031427369889008918.post-10801821339829184592012-04-08T12:42:00.000-07:002012-05-04T12:44:39.170-07:00Video in the practice dress!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Appalling drunken behaviour at the wedding where I wore my practice dress... but it does show the dress well, and shows that the corset still does its job when I've stopped thinking about sucking my tummy in long ago!!!<br />
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I finished the practice dress in good time. The practice dress allowed me to judge the fit, practice the laced back, make sure the corsetry works and to practice the lace overlayer. Here are a few pics, sorry they are few and oddly cropped but I was at a wedding and don't want to show pics of other people for privacy reasons!</div>
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I'm really happy overall, I think it will work well with the longer skirt and in my wedding dress fabrics. I'm going to revisit the corset pattern a little as I think it is too tight at the bust edges!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697835673431101357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031427369889008918.post-7217644737981431522012-03-08T16:53:00.000-08:002012-05-05T17:17:51.323-07:00Finishing Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Edging the dress with black ribbon and catching the underlining on the underside.</div>
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No photos for the modesty panel I'm afraid but I positioned it whist wearing the dress (with help from the fiancé) and tacked it in securely with black thread where it would be hidden by the lace pattern.</div>
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Pinning the rouleau loops to the combined net layer, outer layer and corset layer (I'll be hand sewing in the lining)</div>
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I top stitched around the whole neckline and down the back seams, securing the rouleau loops.</div>
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I then got some practice in with whipstitching the raw edges. I have an overlocker but know that in couture sewing this is not the done thing! A hand finished raw edge lies flatter and therefore looks better. I borrowed and later bought a thimble for this.</div>
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This is my finger before I resorted to using a thimble! I've never really used a thimble before and it took some getting used to. Its now a good friend.</div>
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I trimmed the bottom of my corset layer with this gold. It get covered with the underlayer anyway but I like these little details that you can put into your own home sewing.</div>
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Heres the process for making the corset loops (actually called rouleau loops) - heres a<a href="http://sewfordough.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/adding-a-corset-back-to-your-wedding-dress/" target="_blank"> good online tutorial</a> for the entire lace back process. I sewed my fabric right sides together in a pipe and attached piping cord to one end.</div>
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I then used my rouleau loop turner (absolutely ESSENTIAL for doing this)</div>
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Ta Da! Corset loop cord.</div>
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Heres the dress starting to be constructed.</div>
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I'm taking the plunge and starting to make some of those niggling design decisions that have been flooding my mind. So I brought out the dress maker and started draping the actual dress fabrics.</div>
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So here follows my slightly obsessed catalogue of 'looks'!</div>
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One layer of lace:</div>
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Left: without organza layer, Right: with organza layer</div>
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2 layers of lace:</div>
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Left: without organza layer, Right: with organza layer</div>
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One layer of lace plus extra motifs, including scallop at bottom:</div>
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I'm leaning towards an organza layer with one layer of lace. I'll decide later on whether to add the extra motifs and scallops because I can't quite visualise the effect once they're neatly sewn on!</div>
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So it'll be either of:</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">✓ = done </span>⬅ = where I am on the list<br />
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My dress:<br />
toile corset and structuring ⬅<br />
toile underlining<br />
toile main fabric<br />
toile lace overlayer<br />
combine toile<br />
add toile modesty panel<br />
alterations<br />
practice dress corset and structuring<br />
practice dress underlining<br />
practice dress main fabric<br />
practice dress overlayer<br />
combine practice dress<br />
add practice dress modesty panel<br />
alterations (closer to time)<br />
dress corset and structuring<br />
dress underlining<br />
baste dress main fabric and underlining<br />
dress main fabric<br />
dress lace overlayer<br />
combine dress laters<br />
add dress modesty panel<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">make dress main layer</span></div>
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After sending off for lots of samples in the main fabric that I wanted (Silk Dupion) I laid them all out on the stairs.</div>
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I then put my organza layers over the top (bought cheaper through eBay, and I dyed the green one because it was too bright).</div>
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I mixed and matched and tried different combinations then settled on these colours:</div>
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The main fabric all sewn up:</div>
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Tacked to the corset layer.</div>
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Still seems to fit ok!</div>
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Positioning the lace layer (base layer of netting with lace motifs hand appliquéd)</div>
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I put the main fabric underneath so I could judge where to put the lace</div>
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Hand stitching the motifs around the edge of the lace - time consuming but pretty!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">I think we might see this list again and again, but updated!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">*<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">♥</span>* THE LIST *<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;">♥</span>*</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">as of Friday 27th January</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">Make toiles - 2/6</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">Order fabrics </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px;">✓</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">Make dresses 0/6 (separate lists)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">Make save-the-dates ╳⤫(we're just sending out invites!)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">Make invitations </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px;">✓</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">Decide on bridal party gifts </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px;">✓ (we're not going to make the sword party gifts as we've got a great idea)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">Decide church service designs</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">Make church services</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">Decide table names and name card designs</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">Make table names and name cards</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">Decide seating plan</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">Make seating plan</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">Choose a band </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px;">✓</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">Choose menu</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px;">Choose a photographer </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px;">✓</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px;">Update wedding website</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px;">Send out invites (partially complete - sent to some family and all family abroad)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: georgia; line-height: 18px;">Make favours (about 20/120 done)</span><br />
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