Fake bridal veil project, entry 2

[amethyst73]

I went to JoAnn's after posting the previous sewing entry to acquire more lace.  While they had another spool of lace in the same pattern, it wasn't exactly the same color - more of a stark white than the cream I had already pinned in.  And they only had the one spool left, period.  So I shrugged and bought it - that's one of the nice things about knowing that nobody will see it closer than many feet away!

I was able to use my mom-in-law's sewing machine, from circa 1951.  (You can tell from the centenary medal they put on it.)

As I mentioned, it only does straight stitching, but it still works!


After I hemmed the whole thing (yeah, it's puckered, big deal for my purposes), I decided to hand-sew it to a hairband, so that I'd have a way of actually putting it on without having to hide my whole head.  I ruffled it to give the affair some height. I think it came out pretty well.

Later this weekend, I'll put up photos of me in the whole outfit!

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[marginaleye.livejournal.com]

I love the old fashioned sewing machine. My mother had one a lot like that, only it folded up into a freestanding table. As I recall, it weighed a ton, and seemed to be built to shrug off armor-piercing bullets.