the gown from pattern

THE GOWN

pattern
remember the pattern i made
last year infact
for the weddings
this is how the dress turned out
of course im not the bride
i did make a difference to the bottom because i used a patterned material with a border
i just cut a large rectangular piece and used gathers

diy wedding hijab

WEDDING HIJAB

in maldives we we pretty much what ever color we please on our wedding
my sis in law wore green
and she wears hijab the dress was ordered from china and it was a perfect fit got it from www.millybridal.com
i made her hijab for her after she showed me a couple of hijabs that she liked

i haven't got pics of the front, will post as soon as i get
we decided to keep it simple
n went with out a veil
if anyone wants to know how to do this a diy is coming soon or i might update this

DIY wedding shoes

Wedding shoes

so for my sister in laws wedding we decided to do the wedding shoes
as much as i love shoes i mean shoes can cost a fortune, sometimes i wish i could go and buy all the shoes i like. but i have never been able to do that i could never afford to so that's why i started decorating shoes.
i love how this shoe turned out although if it was just left to me i would have put more lace but she wanted it simple and after all it was her wedding
the best thing about diy is the cost
the shoes cost about 18 dollars n the embellishment about 3 dollars
so this shoe cost around 22 dollars

this the lace i cut of the roses

and pasted ribbon around edge
And its done

WEDDING CAKE FOR HUSBANDS CUZ

WEDDING CAKE
lots of people in maldives do wedding cakes and they also make their own clothes
my husbands cuz asked me to help her with her wedding cake
i made the flowers and covered the first and 3rd tiers with fondant rest was done by her but im so proud of it i wanted to show it here

wedding cake fr my sister in law

my wedding cakes

omg i have been away for soo long

i did go to he 3 weddings i was talking abt

for one i made the cake
she had a green theme
and i went with an ombre cake with white flowers and black centres
i always feel that in a cake contrast makes a lot of difference if u r making  cake thats in a color
white cakes can have flowers of any color
im not a huge baker of or decorator by any means but its something that i love to do
that i always have loves to do
i have never had any formal training but i do my friends and families cakes a lot
so here is the cake i did
my husbands cousin helped with some of the flowersi love these ombre cakes
its soooo lovely esp for a wedding
its whimsy

green ombre cake with white flowers

if u want a cake like this its simple
the first tire is just stars 18 wilton nozzle
2nd is swirls 1m wilton
3rd is frills 104 wilton


now a days wedding cakes r fondant covered and t looks really pretty but i think piping has its own magic and i love piping. i know its not a conventional wedding cake but this is one of my fav
i like it even more than my own cake

party dress

party dress

my son loves the smurfs. he loves the films i mean not the cartoons, although i love the cartoons being a child of the 80s and 90s my childhood consisted of a lot of smurfs cartoons. the gargamel evil laugh used to give me chills and for me it was the epitome of all evil. anyhow i was extremely excited when they made the movie. and although it wasn't by any means a harry potter it wasn't an eragon either. both of which i love btw.

so when i was searching smurfs 2 online to show my son the pics and stuff before the movie release i came across the dress katie perry was wearing to the premiere and i fell in love with it. it was whimsy and pretty perfect.

few days ago i was shopping in INA market in delhi where i usually go to get my groceries and my gluten free flour etc although the best place for gluten free flour in new delhi is in defense colony market.

but this place also has saree shops and fabric shops. and it was in one of these shops that i came across the lace i think its called mohan textiles. when i saw this i looked for a lining and they had a cotton crepe cream color which i thought would be great. 

this below is the katie perry dress

i have decided to make a dress which has long sleeves like with complete lining but some thing like this sandra bullock dress

basically what i have noticed is lace seen to be very much in at this time
so i started off with two fabrics

how to cut dress
the pdf above shows the pieces  have cut. the pictures below show how i did it
as always i used one of my old shirts as pattern

fold the material and along the folded edge keep the dress u are using as a pattern

measure how long you want the top to be and fold this length. fold the sleeves in and cut along leaving atleast a half inch seam allowance

you have cut the front piece. you can cut the neck how ever you want later

to cut the back keep this piece on two open edges as shown maybe an inch away and cut

 do the same with the sleeve  depending on length you want

mark the middle of sleeve to help you align the overlay as well as fixing the sleeves

 cut all pieces out of lace making the sleeves a little longer

 for the bottom skirt part i use the top pieces as guide and cut down to the length i wanted as i showed in pdf

stitching with lace is little tricky so the first thing you do if take ur under lining pieces of sleeves and the skirt and hem the edges
then you can use a fabric glue to lightly paste all around the pieces except at the hemmed edge

let the glue dry over night don't use a glue gun

TO DO THE NECK

take a piece of under fabric which covers the neck keep it on the good side

 pin if you need to and stitch along the wrong side

cut the inside of the neck and leave one inch at the other side trim this with a zig zag

 on the inside make nick carefully up to the stitch

turn over and stitch on the plain fabric this will give the neck stability you can skip this if you have used interfacing on the cloth

 this stitch should be smooth on should not come over to front

do a basting stitch on the front you can do a invisible stitch later with hand

do the other sides the same way
now u can do any darts you like

STITCHING THE FRONT AND THE BACK
attach the respective top and bottom pieces of the back of the dress

put the two back pieces with the two lace sides together. then put the zipper down and mark the point where the zipper ends. stitch from about one inch before the end the zipper where i placed the scissors. and stitch from this pint down. also remember to zig zag both the the edges , i forgot to do this which gave me a lot of trouble.

attach the zipper

put the darts at the back

back view

attach the top and bottom of the front piece

 attach the shoulders. put the right sides together and attach the shoulders

ATTACHING THE SLEEVES
i always attach the sleeves before doing the sides
i use the middle marking on the sleeve and align it with the shoulder stitch
then stitch from the middle to the arm hole
then repeat again from the middle to down

 zigzag the edges a serger would be ideal but u can cut and smooth before zigzaging

now do the two side stitches. you can use a blue thread or the thread of what ever color lace you are using.

 i did the ends of the sleeves etc after i did the sides with matching thread.

now instead of hemming i decided to cut the lace . i followed the pattern n the lace

do this for sleeves as well
and you are done

MAKING A BABY DRESS

DIY BABY GIRL DRESS

ove baby girl dresses after all they are so much simple not to mention pretty
and the array of fabrics availables wants to make me go on sewing forever
not that i would ever have the time to do that
this is one f the most simple ways to make  baby dress
you need a measurement across the chest
then u need to decide how long the top part will b and how long the skirt part will be
you will need to have four pieces
in the pdf this is the first one
top length will be the length across the chest that you measured with a one inch seam allowance
i have decided the top will b only 3 and half inch wide so i'm using a 8 inch piece allowing one inch seam
allowance
the piece 2
this will have length across chest pus 5in
you have to make gathers on this and attach to top piece when the white piece is folded in half
you can decide the length of dress with this piece
piece 3
top length will be the length across chest+ 5inch or more but not less than five or you wont have nice gathers when you stitch with the elastic thread
the width same as piece one 8inch
 piece 4
same top length as piece 3 
long length same as piece 2

instructions to make dress
this is the ribbon decoration i did

then you can attach the other two sides together

this is how it looks now
im getting to the part aboutthe flower
before that im just going to tell you that for the head band measure the circumference of the head and cut an elastic piece a thin elastic piece exactly of that length
stretch it and attach it to the wrong side of a wide ribbon with a zig zag stitch

the flower is made as follows
flower

then attach two lengths of ribbon about 12 inch long in the middle about 3inch apart
that is 1 n half inch from center on each side

the little princess did model the head band for me

she is going to wear the dress tomorrow for bai dooj i hope im saying it right
and wen i get pics its going here