Sale Shopping

With all my current attention on making the 9 bridesmaid and the bride's dress for the wedding in August, I thought I truly deserved a break from all the pattern making and sewing!!!

A little trip to Net a porter revealed they, like many other Internet shopping sites and high street companies have just started their sale, so here are a few items I am currently considering to purchase before they are sold out! (All pictures from Net a Porter.com).

On another note, I have had to fit in making my niece a dress for her prom (I promised I would) which I intend to sew today during my lunch break at work. It has to be finished for the 1st July!

The sun has finally decided to make an appearance in London! So it's been great to be able to finally wear some of the Summer clothing that has been shelved for most of the year along with new purchases from
The Outnet and a few other high street brands!

Have a lovely day! X

Wedding Outfit 2

Here are the pictures for my second wedding commission.

The wedding is on Saturday and we are due to have more snow, so I know the wedding photo's will be really pretty.

I made an outfit for the Mother Of The Bride and I also made the Groom's waistcoat and cravats and ties for the page boys and escorts.

The mother Of The Bride outfit was designed by myself and the Mother. It is made in a really vivid lime green silk douppion. The jacket is shaped like a riding jacket with it longer on the back and shorter on the front. We decided to put the beading on the back at the vent although the obvious place to put it would have been on the lapels, I wanted to do something less obvious. The sleeves are a bell shape.

The dress has an empire line with a sash. the embellishment is on the ends of the sash and around the sleeves. The bottom half of the sleeves is made in chiffon. The shape of the dress is very fitted with the skirt section being almost like a hobble skirt - it looks really great on.

I was also asked to decorate the feathered hair band she will be wearing to incorporate the lime colourway as she wasn't keen on wear plain black with the outfit. (This is the last picture).

I used regular lime seed beads and Swarovski crystals squares for the embellishment which is featured around the dress sleeves, on the sash ends and on the back of the jacket.

The Groom's waistcoat is made in the same silk douppion but in violet with a lining of silver, covered marigold buttons and silver back buckle.

Let me know what you think.

Have a great evening. X