Traditional long sleeved First Holy Communion Dress

Just completed my first international order for a First Holy Communion dress and veil! It's quite exciting to be sending one of my creations overseas, I hope they will arrive safely, and fit perfectly!

Modest Long-Sleeved Wedding Dresses can be beautiful!

The latest from the Wedding Dress studio!

The last couple of  months around Christmas I had two wedding dresses to make for one bride. This is because she is Malaysian, so whilst having an English church wedding over here, she also had a "do" in Malaysia afterwards. It was nice to be able to make a white one for England, and a bright red one for the Chinese part. (Which was a tea ceremony, and an evening meal.)
The white dress is pure silk Duchesse satin, with a pure silk organza overlay, and the red one is pure silk georgette, with a silk chiffon overlay, and gold bead and embroidery details.
 I am hoping eventually to be able to post a few more photos that show off the actual dresses a bit better, but she does look lovely!

Blue Seems to be the "In" Colour

Have been requested to make rather a lot of bright blue dresses lately, these for three sisters for a special occasion :-

And of course, Mum needed one too - a slightly more elegant one, which flatters the post baby figure,

 with a lovely knot front design,

                 which cleverly conceals nursing openings...

Then to cap it all, I was pleasantly surprised to see my niece has grown almost big enough for this lovely blue dress which I gave her a few months ago:-

Feeling a bit worried at being so formally dressed...

 Not sure what I think of the lace trim...

 Maybe it's not so bad...

At least I can still climb on the table in it!

More Bonnet Models!

A new bonnet for a birthday girl, along with her favourite dolly's matching new outfit!

Beautiful Baby in Blue!

I have long desired to have a good model for my baby bonnets - I always ask people to send me photos of their darlings modelling my creations so I can show them on the blog, but alas, mothers these days are too busy to get round to it! - sigh - so most of the photos are ones that I have snatched, when I remember to bring the camera. I recently made my gorgeous niece model her two new bonnets, as bonnets definitely look better on a baby rather than off!
So... here is Angharad (not in matching outfits, I'm sad to say; I really must rectify that; but at least I got her with the bonnets on before she bawled) being the perfect model...

Ahhh, isn't she cute? I'll add more photos to show the bonnets off in the Mantillas and bonnets section.

Second Official Wedding Dress!

The scene of the cutting of the duchesse satin!



I am glad to say that since my first official wedding dress (my own! a mere almost 17 years ago) I have now successfully completed a second one, and the wedding day went well, with no catastrophes. I admit to having spent a restless night before the big day, dreaming of the things that could go wrong, no doubt inspired by this wonderfully funny passage from Anthony Trollope's "Barchester Towers" which I had just been reading, whereby a sofa in a crowded room is given a hefty shove, with the following result -

The sofa rushed from its moorings and ran half-way into the middle of the room [where] Mrs. Proudie was standing..
... She was beginning to be stately, stiff, and offended,
when unfortunately the castor of the sofa caught itself in her lace train, and carried away there is no saying how much of her garniture.
Gathers were heard to go, stitches to crack, plaits to fly open,flounces were seen to fall, and breadths to expose themselves; a long ruin of rent lace disfigured the carpet, and still clung to the vile wheel on which the sofa moved.

I feared that the chiffon overlay which I had hand-stitched in place might somehow get stepped upon and a Trollopian disaster would ensue! But I need not have feared, and the Bride looked very beautiful and radiant, which just goes to show that there's no need for the modern bride to succumb to the immodest bridal fashions of today.

May they be richly blessed in their marriage.

Latest venture

I've recently branched out into modest swimwear, due to a special request. Having worked out how to use stretch fabrics, I was pleased with the result; so was the recipient too, by the looks of things!