Snow day work

I fit my client (soon-to-be-sister-in-law) in her mock up yesterday and today I am working on the pattern changes and drafting a sleeve.  All while Snowmageddon is blowing down around us.  Which is typical of New Brunswick this time of year.

Photos later!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Wedding progress

 Now that inventory at my work is done (you want a long painful process, inventory a large fabric store, we have to count every notion, and then every bolt of fabric and they weigh the fabric. Its a huge job and very, very tiring).  I've made some progress on the wedding dress patterns for my soon to be sister in law.  I have her basic block drafted:

And converted it to a Princess seam:

And its been mocked up, ready to be fitted while she is home visiting for Christmas.

The next step is to fit it, make any changes needed, mock up the sleeve and draw on the design for the top :)

Big announcement for the 2013 Heart Truth Fashion Gala!

We are very proud to announce our headlining act for the 2013 Heart Truth Fashion Gala is none other than Canadian singer/singwriter, 5 time Juno award winning, Chantal Kreviazuk!

Look up The Heart Truth Fashion Gala on facebook!

I can't wait! :)

I got featured!

By the people at Creative Designers.com!  So cool!

Wedding bells are a ringin'

Not for me of course, but for my brother and soon to be sister-in-law.  Who has asked me to make her wedding dress, something which scares the pants off of me, but I choose to embrace my fear and hope to everything good in the world that it works out and she dosn't hate me forever for ruining her wedding.

This is a picture of a dress from somewhere on the internet that she liked, only her wedding colours are silver gray, burnt orange (so she can have tiger lilies in her bouquet) and emerald green.

So after some talking and sketching this is what we came up with:

 A similar style to the above dress, but in her colours and with a nice train.  She has yet to see this, so here is hoping she likes it.

In the mean time, I was chosen along with my sister to be a bridesmaid, and my sister-in-law-to-be is a kind woman who let us choose the colour and style of our dresses as long as it matched the wedding colours.  My sister found some nice green/orange linin to make hers (which is a vintage vogue pattern) and I chose green and gray, because it is the colours of House Slytherin of course!

(Actually it's cause Orange does not look to hot on me.)

So here is my tentative sketch of my dress:

Which I did with markers and pen at work during a rare quiet period this week. I wanted it to be a dress I could/would wear after the wedding to stuff.  It'd be the green, with inserted gray panels with a black lace overlay (if she says that is okay).   It am tying to play off the style of my sisters dress which would be a 50's full skirt dress and the medieval style of the brides dress.  I think I pulled it off.