First attempt at my wedding dress

This past weekend I made my practice wedding dress. I bought a Vogue pattern and made the dress in about 3 hours. I bought some clearance fabric similar to what the final dress will be and started cutting. My cat had fun jumping on the fabric and not letting me cut or move it.

The dress turned out fantastic and my fiance loved it.



I then went back to the fabric store and bought white jersey for the underneath, platnium satin for the long sash and some cheap clearance lace for the outside. I have been going to all of the fabric stores on Queen Street in Toronto looking for the perfect lace. I think I have found it but it's $75 a metre. So I don't mind spending $20 on 4 metres of clearance lace to practice.



I think to date I've spent about $80 on my practice dress which includes the pattern, notions and fabric.



I'm going to keep looking for lace on my lunches and after work because I didn't want to spend more than $300 on the finished dress.