Sew Easy....

One of my best friends got married in October and I was blessed to be a part of the special day. Emily, the bride, decided that she would have all of us bridesmaids make our own dresses (gasp!)-yes, MAKE our own dresses! You have to know Emily for this idea to work in your head at all, or even a little. She is her own unique person, and that is exactly why we are such great friends til this day. She wouldn't care what I ended up making, just as long as I was comfortable and had fun:) Anyway, back to the dresses, I didn't want to look like the girl with obvious "home-made" dress. The bride sent us our fabric that we were to work with. Me, not wanting to show up in a toga, asked my mother-in-law for some much needed assistance..I mean, I'd only been "sewing" for about a month by then-and the last project I attempted with my mom I sewed the pockets of my skirt completely shut..oops!. (hence why I asked my mother-in-law for help...mom proved herself to not be the greatest of help in the "making of clothing" department. Sorry Mom! I loooove you :) :) ) So I ventured out and looked for a pattern. Ifound one, but once we opened up the package and carefully unfolded the masses of tissue paper, we found that I had bought a pattern that was for sizes 10-16....ya....that's not really gonna work. So we called around and found one (the last one at Beverly's in the sidewalk sale bin! woo hoo!).

The sewing began......and continued.......and continued....and who knew that you could actually put "boning" in a dress yourself!? Pretty spiffy! (yeah, I said "what the heck is boning?" too. But if you've worn a dress with those hard stick things that always poke you in the ribs then you know what boning is...-and it's not as hard as you would think to install!)-however I would not particularly like to venture into that experience again willingly. :) Anyways, the dress was completed-thanks to my WONDERFUL mother-in-law! I would've been lost without her, and more than likely wearing a "wrap" dress in the wedding.

The wedding day arrived....and I was pleasantly surprised by the dresses of all my fellow bridesmaids! (and no, I'm not just being polite or nice) :) They ALL turned out very cute and stylish. Here is a link to the photographers site with a picture of all us girls (it's the last one in the line-up of pictures-but you get to see how beautiful the bride looked) :). You can't tell very well, but you can get the gist of what all the dresses looked like. I have a closeup of my dress...but it is in another cyber-world at the moment and will have to wait.

The wedding was beautiful- and no one walked down the isle in a toga! However, knowing Emily, she probably wouldn't have cared even if one of us showed up naked, just as long as she knew we were having a good time ;)