My heidi dress is all done and ready to go to a wedding on Saturday. I’ll wait until then to get some proper photos, partly because I want to get the effect of the whole look and partly because I was waiting until yesterday for my shoes to arrive…. I’m really glad they came in time as I don’t think havaianas are suitable wedding attire!
The Burda Heidi is quite a simple dress but the instructions for attaching the lining made absolutely no sense to me so I made it up as I went along. I made a size 40 and it’s quite roomy on the top but not so much on the bottom which is a pretty good fit and I made a change to the centre front panel to allow the pleats to be bigger. Anyway, all will be revealed in the photos which are coming soon.
On another note, have any of you photography peeps seen Epiphanie bags? They’re a cross between a handbag and a camera bag so you can carry a DSLR plus lenses and accessories without lugging around a big, ugly black boxy thing. You need to visit their site to see the full glory – www.epiphaniebags.com
I’m seriously lusting after this red Lola version. How cool would that be to take to a wedding (or anywhere for that matter) and do some subtle papping? Much better than what I have been doing when I don’t want to take my whole kit, which is to shove my camera in a canvas shopping bag and then wrapping my extra lenses and flash in socks and sticking them in too. That’s not really a good way to treat equipment which cost as much as my car (I actually sold my car to buy the camera and now the Pies share a car). The seamstress in me is now wondering if it’s possible to make something like an epiphanie bag myself or if I could make a padded insert for a regular handbag….. oh the possibilities.
[...] 5661 View B back in May using the black and white floral stretch cotton, leftover from my Heidi dress. I took photos of me wearing it but somehow lost them. Over the Summer I wore it loads and [...]