Late Night Creations

For those of us devoted to (or obsessed with) our craft. Sleepless nights happen. Eyes get heavier and heavier. The brain tells us that soon we'll be making more mistakes than progress. Then even if we force ourselves to bed we lay exhausted but awake...obsessing over the current project, designing in our heads, visualizing the fabircs, the trims, the techniques...or maybe it's just me.  Last night was one of those nights. 

Getting down to the wire on a rather large comission for the fabric store I work at (to support my habit) the final project was a christening gown. While I usually favour cottons and linens for the vintage inspired gowns..

This was the first one I'd made using the bridal satin and organza. The shape was absolutely basic yet a few lace and ribbon embellishments, a few rosettes and I was pretty excited with the result even after my initial skepticism about using ivory rather than white. I think I'm actually loving the champaign tone more than if it were bright white.

I didn't take a close up of the little ribbon and rosette detail. I'll have to add one later, though I loved the result and will without a doubt be using it again (and again and again)