The wedding dress wot I made

I have been neglecting my blog already, luckily I don't think anyone's been reading it! I find it difficult to write about things that are in progress, so the stuff that I'm designing for the etsy and folksy shops will probably remain top secret until I'm done (also this means I can pretend any mistakes are "design features").

One finished project that I certainly couldn't have written about while it was in progress is the wedding dress I made for my best friend. This took me about six months to complete, from January 2010 to June 2010 (when the wedding was). My plan is to post a bit about the making of each week, with some information about the techniques I used (I have never done so much hand sewing in my life!), but to begin with I though I would show you the finished product, and tell you a bit about my best friend S.

S has been my friend since sixth form. For my theatre studies A Level I did a costume design project, I designed a costume for Catherine in Wuthering Heights. S is part Maltese and has dark eyes and hair and she was part of my circle of friends so I asked her to be my model. For some reason my sticking pins in her made her be my friend! I know I must have a pic of the A Level project somewhere, I will post when I dig it out. Suffice to say it was a massive job (accurate to the book as I was, it was late 18th C, not Victorian) and I have no idea how or why I did it! It was 1997 and I watched the Labour government elected while hemming the damned thing.

13 years later, I found myself watching the end of the Labour government with the same dress form, making for the same person. But that was May and I was nearly done, there is a whole lot to get to before then. But here's what we ended up with

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