Im going to tell you a little secret: when it comes to making your own wedding dress, if you choose the right fabric, the rest is too easy. You dont need a complicated pattern to produce a fancy wedding gown; the material practically makes the gown for you. When you choose elegant fabric, and a simplistic design, your wedding dress can look high-dollar when its actually very inexpensive. With the right fabric chosen there are any number of beautiful wedding gowns that you can create.
One easy gown is made when you wrap the fabric around you. Cut it to be five inches longer than needed for a close fit, just below the underarms, and above the breasts. Cut the fabric to go to the floor, or much shorter. Fold the top edge under and sew a piece of quarter-inch elastic around the top. Slightly tug the elastic as you sew to gently gather the fabric. Stitch the side seam and hem the gown.
Make the above gown different in many different ways. Sew a short piece of elastic between the breasts, to create a gathered bodice. Or, make a fitted bodice, with a zipper in the back, and elastic between the breasts. Tack on a silk flower at the top end of the elastic to embellish. Cut a slit up the side of the gown, or make the dress short and add a length of sheer lace around the hemline. Sew on straps, which can be anything from pieces of ribbon, to spaghetti straps, to wide, fabric straps, or have no straps at all. Change the waistline in many ways, too. Sew elastic around the waist for one look. Sew it higher up for an empire waist. Instead of elastic, tie a wide ribbon around the waist to accent the wedding dress. Or, gather many narrow pieces of ribbon, and tie them all at once, around the waist. Wrap the fabric around you, sew the elastic around the top of the bodice, and then turn the dress into one with a train. Instead of making a side seam, make a back seam, but make it only from the top of the bodice, to an area near the tailbone. Cut a large triangle of fabric for the train. The triangle should be one with a long point, and a rounded bottom. Pin the point into the place where the back seam ends, and sew the sides of the triangle to the sides of the open seam edges. You can have your choice of dozens and dozens of gown designs, simply by combining various looks for the dress. Each different thing you do to it, whether it be making a dress short or long, strapless or not, elasticized or fitted, makes one dress totally different than the others.
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