Onward Since the Wedding

Greetings! Working on getting back into the swing of things since my older daughter's wedding earlier this month. Everything went great and of course she was a lovely bride! Had a gorgeous dress made with Spanish lace and very unique design. (I'm just glad I wasn't the one stitching or altering it!) It was a beautiful candlelight or ivory color and just a lovely combination of soft tulle and lace appliques.

What was fun to stitch was the Flower girl dresses. As I said in an earlier entry, they were stitched out of silk dupioni, ecru or champagne in color. Smocked in silk floss with tiny ivory colored seed beads. I've enclosed the "older sister's" dress in this entry. I used the pattern Larkin by Maja's Heirlooms. It is a great dress for an older girl, my recipient was about 7 years. The back is smooth with back vertical darts and it buttons all the way down. I used 4-holed Mother of Pearl buttons and put a rosebud with lazy daisy leaves to attach each button. Very nice, suprize for the back of the dress. I used the Madeira silk floss for the smocking, using 2 strands.