What to do when your wedding ceremony and reception leave that special dress you spent months picking out a bit worse for wear? One of my customers faced this very dilemma when she decided to re-visit her beloved wedding dress that she had carefully packed away 5 years earlier. To her dismay, she also got to re-visit the drink that was spilled on it during the reception and the footprints of the shoes that had repeatedly caught on her train. Once the cleaners declared it irreparable, she contacted me to ask if I could use the fabric to make a teddy bear for the baby girl she is expecting shortly.
The original dress was a beautiful fitted satin gown with a satin edged chiffon overlay. I constructed the body of the bear out of a double layer of the satin and chiffon in order to simulate the look of her original dress. The fabric for the feet and ears was taken from the Cocalo Daniella bedding set that she will be using in her daughter’s nursery. The bow is constructed from more of the chiffon overlay fabric which I edged on each side with the original satin piping.
What a wonderful challenge, and what a very special way to remember the dress!
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