My wedding dress - Part 2
Written by Elisabeth on March 22, 2009 – 15:15 -On Monday my mother came visiting to see if we could salvage the wedding dress, or if I should go for Plan B: Make the dress into a skirt instead. We tried the dress on and my mother hmmmed, and she hammmed, and she made me turn around, then she tugged at the fabric here and there, hmmmed some more, fetched a belt, made me turn around and said that she could make this work ok if I wanted to, even if I claimed I felt a bit boxy and fat in the entire thing. I do think she wanted the dress to work because she, as my mother, have always envisioned me in a dress at my wedding day.
Then I showed her plan B with the fitted, stretchy top and the belt and she caved immediately realising I looked both better and more comfortable.
So today I have made the dress into a skirt, sown on a functional zipper that doesn’t look half bad and I have pinned on the butterflies.
The black butterflies on green have been the main concept of my entire wedding dress-now-skirt since we decided to wed last summer. The butterflies are made of felt and I custom ordered them from the very talented etsy seller kutz. I have a couple of other of her creations as well, and I simply cannot recommend her enough.
I’m quite happy to have gotten this far ahead on my wedding outfit. I’m been very stressed trying to get it all to come together, and ever since it hit me that I’m actually going to Japan any minute now I needed to get my act together and just sew.
As for the vacation in it self I’m all made up of butterflies on the inside as well - This is my Dream Vacation coming true, and the wedding to boot!
Tags: butterflies, felt, sewing, skirt, wedding
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