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Last week I went to an awesome creative women retreat. As part of the Friday dinner we had a Diner en Blanc where we get to decorate our table and dress up in all white!
Ha ha.. They mention the re-use of wedding dresses.. Only thing was my wedding dress is NOT blue:P So I had 1 week left and decided to bite the bullet and make my own out of calico and a scrap piece of shimmery white material I got for free:D
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People thought that it was beautiful! Little did they know it’s not my style.. not yet.
It was just a blank canvas;)
I took some photos along the design and sewing process below if you are interested, click “Continue reading “.
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I fold the material in 1/2 then pinned the pattern where the initial fold was as seen.
Then I cut out the pattern out of calico and the nice shimmery material.
Only to realise because of the calico it was not white enough.
So I ended up adding an old white bed sheet layer.
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NOTE: Pin the fabric right side up on top of each other.
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Pin from outside in to the calico layer, so that the layers will hold is place and you’ll be able to remove it easily when sewing from the calico side.
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This is how the bottom looks, When cutting out the pattern, I left quite a bit on the bottom so I can play with it later.
NOTE: I use the fabric’s natural hem as the bottom of the dress
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People thought that it was beautiful! Little did they know it’s not my style.. not yet.
It was just a blank canvas;)
Here is a little teaser of how the design looks:P
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Wel done grace. Your very clever!!