Take a wedding dress, some scissors and a needle and thread...

I have just had the honour of taking a lovely ladies treasured wedding dress and literally taking a pair of scissors to it! Nevertheless, do not worry; the means were to justify the ends!

I was to take the train part of the wedding gown and make a Christening gown from it. It was a great opportunity and a test of skills as, not only was it imperative that I design a Christening gown fit for a Princess, I also had to design around pre used fabric. This fabric not only has been pre cut for another purpose, but also takes plenty of prep work by the careful unpicking of seed pearls, diamanté and lace panels before the pattern cutting and construction can even take place.

The beauty of having me make the dress meant that I could incorporate the pleat work of the original wedding dress into the design of the christening gown. The lace panel was hand sewn into place and each crystal bead and seed pearl was hand sewn to match to original Wedding dress applique and sizing was acheived with carefull measuring bespoke to the babied size.