I'm Sari and I'm Haley and this is Seamwork Radio.

Welcome back to Seamwork Radio where we share practical ideas for building a creative process

so you can sew with intention and joy. And today we're talking about sewing your own wedding attire. So we're going to

cover the benefits and drawbacks of making your own wedding outfit and six tips if it's something

you want to tackle yourself. And if you're not getting married soon, I think these tips will

also apply to other big occasions or even making something for somebody else's

wedding. All right. Well, let's start with our icebreaker. What is the biggest project you have

undertaken? Was it for you or someone else for big occasion? How long did it take you and were you

or the wearer happy with the results? That came from Stephanie S.

Oh, this is a tough question, Stephanie, because I've made a lot of things that have taken ages to make.

I think that the thing that took me the longest, and this was something I worked in a team as a duo on this project and it still took forever.

I've probably talked about it on the podcast before, but I made a wedding dress for a woman.

Her name was Genevieve, And it was out of this beautiful silk

eyelet fabric. It was very heavily embroidered. I think that her grandmother had bought it in China.

And her mom's wedding outfit was made out of it. her and her Genevieve's prom dress was made out of it.

It was gorgeous, but the only pieces of that fabric that we had were from the wedding dress, which was a wedding suit, and from the prom dress. And the prom dress was an 80s

prom dress with like princess seams and it was teeny tiny, not a lot of like real estate. And

the mother's wedding dress was like a boxy suit jacket in a like a sheath dress.

Also teeny tiny, not a lot of real estate.

And both were covered in stains.

Of course.

So it was a really big challenge to fit the design that she wanted onto the fabric that we had. And she didn't

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