triskellian

My wedding dress now has a skirt, which M seems to have more or less conjured straight from my imagination. While he was doing that, I was making sample-bodice-number-2, which worked much better than sample-bodice-number-1. Unlike its predecessor, sample 2 is destined to be a garment in its own right, although the stuff I'll add to the bodice to make it into a top will be different from what we'll do with the final wedding dress bodice, so it'll be a different shape as well as a different colour.

We learnt all sorts of useful lessons:

Silk dupion is susceptible to water marks (good to learn that now)
This bodice, a size smaller than the previous one, is still miles too big. Next size down next time
Against all expectations, non-cased boning is easier to work with and produces better results
Lining fabric is evil

While we were making them, I'd look up from the pretty-but-not-exciting fabric of the bodice I was making, and catch a glimpse of the Real Dress Fabric M was working with, and have to stop for a moment. The fabric is gorgeous. Just looking at it makes me grin like a maniac. Just thinking about it, too. I desparately want to show it to smiorgan, but we agreed he wouldn't see it in progress, so I'll resist the urge.