Wedding Dress Summer

"Wow, I CAN NOT believe you can MAKE a DRESS!!"

That's what I heard from a visitor a couple of weeks ago, a young lady who apparently never learned to sew.  

I write this post between dresses - TWO wedding dresses I am sewing this summer.  Actually, the first one is done and out the door, we only have left to make a sash for it.  The bride is deciding if she wants to add color or to maybe use her lace there...  She seemed surprised I wanted her to take it away after the final fitting, but I really did, I wanted to KNOW it was actually done. Complete. Finis. Whew!!  

She is Christine Lillywhite, a friend of Chelsea's.  She is getting married the same day as our Danielle - August 18th.  That is in only THREE weeks from now.  (I think my shoulders just tensed in anxious anticipation) 

I agreed to make the dress for Christine only because she really wanted it very simple, and I had many weeks to do it.  And obviously, it had been so long since I'd sewn anything for anyone else, I'd forgotten how anxious I get when sewing things for others. 

But I've survived, the dress is done, the bride used the word PERFECT more than once!  It is what she wanted (even after totally having to redo the blousy top that looks WAY different on the pattern picture than it turned out in real life.  But I remade it to better reflect what she was wanting, and she's pleased. )

Danielle also wants me to make her dress, and that will be a lot more fun,  even with a little less time to complete.  She won't get here until next weekend, giving me 2 weeks to properly finish it.  But I think I'll just start cutting and sewing ahead of her, going by her measurements.  Her dress is quite different from the first one, but she also wants it fairly simple.  If either had demanded rows and rows of lace or miles of pearls and beading, it would have been a show-stopper.  This is going to work.

And it's time to truly start delegating all the wedding details to others so I can only be worrying about this dress those last few days.  

Heheh, like that will happen.

(and the photos were taken by my assistant, Jemma.  I handed her the camera and asked her to take a few of me in action, and there were a few decent ones. She also took about 4 dozen photos of the dog, the stairs, the dog ON the stairs.... most are blurry and shaky and totally unrecognizable.  But 6-yr-olds work for Popsicles, I really can't complain.  )