Just finished cutting the fabric for the wedding dress. Good golly that lace was hard to cut. It kept shifting around, and I also had to overcome major anxiety because it was 5 times more expensive than anything I've ever worked with before. A mistake would have been brutal. But I didn't make any mistakes; or if I did, I can't tell.
The lace has a beautiful finished edge on the selvage, and I cut the pieces sideways so I can use that finished edge instead of a hem on the sleeves and bottom of the dress. I'm a little worried about the lace stretching out as it hangs. Maybe I'll try to lay it flat rather than hanging it up, until after the wedding.
I thought I'd have time today to zigzag the edges, but cutting took way longer than expected because I didn't have enough silk. I spent all afternoon laying the pieces out different ways to try and make it all fit. I finally did get all the pieces to fit, but I had to cut corners like including the selvages (I don't like doing that, but it isn't much heavier than the main fabric, and it's only in the seam allowance so it won't show) and sometimes laying a piece slightly off the edge of the fabric so the corner of the seam allowance was cut off. Hey, I just used the expression "cut corners" figuratively and literally at the same time! Ha!
Tomorrow I have to zigzag all the pieces and sew the underdress and underlining together. That is, if I do an underlining rather than a lining. I still haven't decided. Maybe I'll see what Threads magazine has to say about the two options.
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