Final Collection!

After weeks of designing, buying fabrics and creating my final collection is finally finished!!!

All done and dusted over a week before the deadline ^_^ 

The photo shoot is tomorrow and I am so excited!!

I have managed to get a photographer and hair stylist to help out and 6 friends to model my outfits.

The setting will be the York Minster in the evening so there isn't many people about.

Very excited to see how the pictures turn out! These will be posted up in the next few days :D

Be back soon!! ;)

Making the most time consuming fabric in the world.

So after deciding to use water soluble fabric to create a new sheet of fabric.

I shredded 6 different fabrics in to tiny pieces and then stitching them on to the dissolvable fabric it creates a layer.

You have to sew over it over and over and over again which sent me in to some kind of weird fabric trance D: 

I think in the end I had about 20 panels which took about half an hour each to make. Writing this down now has just made me realise i spent 10 BLOODY HOURS!!!! making it. 

At least it looks cool!! haha 

Heres a picture Nat took of me hard at work in my fabric trance.

Not one of my finest moments :/ haha

After cutting all the fabric and sandwiching it in to the dissolvable fabric and sewing over it (50 billion times) you run it under water and it dissolves away just leaving the same scraps sewn together .

I scanned in a small sample i made back when i thought this was a really good idea.

Here are some images of the bigger panels and the finished product. I also stitched my beaded spine from my previous post on to some of the panels to go down the centre back of my dress.

So many little things on top of other little things D:

Will do another post tomorrow with my final images :) 

luv u beh!

Beading a Spine :D

I haven't really had time to keep posting as this dress is taking a hell of a lot longer than I ever thought it would!

I ordered about £30-£40 worth of beads so that I had a good variation to use

I only wanted to use glass and bought some crystals as well.

I got some individual types and some good mixed bags from eBay, all in all I was pretty happy with the variation I ended up with :)

I then drew a spine on to chiffon laid over satin. I stitched the larger beads on to make sure they definitely wouldn't fall off. It took me ages to decide on the right glue to get so ended up looking of some American dance forums for mental 'Dance moms'  with tables of which glue to use on which crystals on which fabrics. Pretty bloody good really haha.

After glueing on the rest of my beads I realised I had realllyyyyy over estimated how many I needed HA!! so now I pretty much have a kg box or beads, pearls and crystals! good job I want to go in to bridal :) some how i think they may come in to use :D

So yea, after the glue had set I peeled the chiffon off the satin backing to leave just the beads on the chiffon. I have cut this out now so it is just waiting to be put on my dress! :D

Next post will be a quick run down of how I've put together the over lay fabric for my dress!

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!! 

<3