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Sorry, no pictures because I don’t want to give Joe too many clues about what my dress will look like, but I have an update about the progress of my dress. onday, on my wonderful day off from work, I spent about half of the day completing the pattern draping for my dress! Now that [...] With my crazy work hours preparing for Fashion Week this past month, I havent been able to set aside enough time to work on my dress at all. So I decided to start a new project that I could easily do in small doses here and there before I go to bed at night. I’ve [...] How embarrassing, my boss (NM – you should know who she is) caught me looking at wedding dresses at work today. But luckily it gave me the opportunity to tell her that I plan to make my own wedding dress. I was really afraid to tell her that I did not want her to make [...] Every time I plan to start working on my dress, something always comes up. It also doesn’t help that I have to work weekends all month until fashion week. But HOPEFULLY I’ll be able to at least start it this coming Friday while Joe is at a basketball game. Seriously, I am so ready to [...] With Joe completely overwhelmed with Finals for PT school, I’ve had lots of free time to work on my projects. I definitely miss him these days, but I decided to make the most of it. So since I had the majority of this past weekend all to myself, I went ahead and finished the up [...] So a couple weeks ago I wrote about altering the neckline on Jenn’s dress. Well now I’ve added the final details and its finally finished! You can see the progress below. After altering the neckline, the next step was to make the waist band and bow. The waist band on ironing board to be pressed
Well, mostly done, but it really feels like an achievement. All three of the dresses that I plan to alter are in some stage of transformation. I felt like I should alternate doing a little bit of each dress since getting started is always the hardest part, and the first step for each dress (removing [...] I have PLENTY of time to plan and execute all of my wedding ideas, especially since I’m so ahead on everything. But one side effect of being engaged is the creative frenzy that developed in other areas of my life besides just the wedding planning. At the moment I’m on a spending freeze in order [...] I was able to start working on my bridesmaid dress alterations this past week. I meant to take pictures of the pinning and ripping apart of the seams, but i totally forgot. So you’ll have to be satisfied with a simple before and after. Since the most prominent detail about the Jcrew dress is the [...] A lot of people are surprised the I have gotten bridesmaid dresses already. Over the summer, I was eyeing a certain Jcrew dress as something I wanted for myself. I kept watching as the price dropped lower and lower, but could never justify buying it for myself when I get free cocktail dresses from work [...] |
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