First mock up

I'll try and get some photos up soon.

Friday my darling daughter came over for the first of many fittings. I had cut out and sewn the tutu bodice pattern in its original state. LOVE it! Then using the pattern as a guide I cut out the 8 panel pieces to more like the cut of the dress. I lengthened it also.

The bodice in the original state fit lovely it is a really great pattern which I enjoyed using. I then pinned the 2nd panels on her to determine exactly where the seam lines should be. After pinning her into to whole thing and making sure it was good and snug. I marked all the seams. Then we spent the rest of the afternoon talking wedding. I had such a wonderful time with her and my youngest daughter Meagan. It is what I dreamt it would be.

After she left, I cut the pieces out of twill fabric to use as the underlining. I carefully cut all the pieces out and shortened my stitch length to 1.5. I then sewed all the pieces together leaving the seams un-trimmed, which at the current time are anywhere between 1 inch to 3 inches.

I will fit it to her tonight before I trim any seams in case I need to make adjustments before applying the bonning.

She tried on the skirt part of my wedding dress and to our delight it was perfect! I had not remembered I wore high heels (she is several inches taller than I). So we will be using this part of my dress as a base for her dress which will have 10 layers of tulle on top of it.

Then came thrilling yet scary part removing the veil. We had to check the placement of the veil and length to find out if the train on the dress was long enough. I am thinking at this it may be just fine, or I may need to add a 5 inch band to it so that the veil will not drag on the carpet. When we opened the veil it was breathtakingly beautiful! It is so lovely and will look so beautiful! And it is wonderful to think that two other happily married brides have worn it before her.

So all in all Friday was a very good day,and we are feeling very blessed.