Nicola’s wedding dress started life as Vogue 2903, an original 1957 pattern. We made surprisingly few changes to accommodate the fact that the Nicola was six months pregnant!
I had to do a full bust adjustment, and let out the waist a tiny bit at all of the seams. The main change we made was to add lacing up the back, just in case of sudden growth.
We also decided at the last minute that sleeves were entirely over-rated, and left them off. I bound the armholes with matching bias tape.
The silk is a very fine and lightweight dupion from Fine Fabrics of Harrogate. (Hi Sandra!)
It’s made by James Brindley, and the colours are “Forest” and “Ocean”.
The silk was beautiful to work with. I had to keep replacing the needle in my machine, as the silk blunted it very quickly, but other than that I had no problems at all.
There was no matching ribbon on the face of the planet for lacing up the back of the dress, so I made about a mile of bias tape, and rolled the ends like shoelaces so it would be easy to thread through the eyelets.
Oh, and I also made shoelaces for the bride, five ties for the groom and groomsmen, and eight brooches for the ladies… and I did it all in just eight days!
Looks fantastic!