Those of you who read my blog know that my son was recently married and that I have promised pictures of the bride's dress. My daughter, Corrie, created the dress as a wedding gift to the couple. The tone-on-tone embroidery work is quite stunning, though a bit difficult to capture in pictures.

Corrie designed the dress and I made one up from muslin. I sent the mulsin dress back to her. Using the muslin dress as a pattern, Corrie made the actual dress without even a fitting. Melanie, the bride, didn't see it until three days before the wedding!

The dress was 100% linen, fully lined, with princess lines. It was accented with gorgeous ton-on-tone embroidery with Sulky thread. Melanie looked gorgeous!

The hemline was a dipped scallop hem that Corrie maxi stitched on her machine. She hooped it with a stabilizer, applied a fray check and trimmed next to the stitching. She then repeated a machine embroider desing around the skirt.

For the neckline, she adapted the machine embroidery design, making it smaller for the area. She zigzagged in two different stitch widths in a ribbon look design to travel around the neckline. She made piping of the dress fabric and piped the sweetheart neckline with dips in a "v" shape in the back.

On the sleeves, she used a full embroidery with the ribbon look zigzag above and below the design. She used a different dipped scallop along the bottom of the sleeve as well as a star stitch in diagonal on the underside of the sleeve.

As you can see Melanie looked gorgeous in a beautifully simple dress that fit her style perfectly. Very classy!

Corrie just got in some pictures of a period costumed she designed and created so I hope to put that up next. Please let me know if you have any specific questions or if there are topics you would like me to blog about.

Happy Sewing!! JoAnn

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