Saturday, August 1, 2009

This is a different day as I am meeting Anna and Jacob at the airport as they fly through on their way to a Kenneth Copeland Conference. We finally find each other in the baggage claim area and go into the bathroom. Jacob goes to sit down as Anna and I have our first dress fitting in the handicapped stall in the airport – Can you believe that! There are six hours between Anna and I so whenever and wherever we can meet in the next few months, we will be having a dress fitting! I have brought the mulin pattern for the underdress with me. We pin up the bottom so it is not on the bathroom floor – at least they don’t look to dirty – and I begin to pin. The pattern is not too far off as I had her measurements before we started so I had an idea of what the size should be. This is a very fitted strapless dress so it has to fit perfectly. (Although we may put some small straps on it covered in the Alencon lace, not sure on that design element yet.) The thing that is so cool about the muslin pattern is you can put the dress on your model inside out enabling you to pin the seams to fit perfectly, but when you do this on a normal dress with your fashion fabric, when you put the dress back on right side out, the sides you pinned will now be on the opposite side of your model. With the muslin, the sides I am pinning will actually become the pattern for that side of the dress so it WILL fit perfectly! This is the coolest thing and I learned it from the books! I was going to make the dress out of the muslin just to practice. I never thought that I would be able to take the muslin dress apart after fitting it to her and use that for the actual pattern! It makes so much sense, I love it and I found it out from a book! Imagine that! Love the books! So after we get finished with the pinning I mark all the pins with a pen just in case any fall out and we go out to meet Jacob. We get a Starbucks and look through some pictures I brought with me from the designer that Anna has chosen. We can see the front of Anna’s dress, but not the back so I want her to look at some examples I have then see what I have drawn to get an idea of what she it thinking. We talk and design and finally come up with a meeting of the minds. It is so important to me that I understand what is in her head so we can get it down on paper and work with it. Jacob is so great, he just sits there with his I-phone entertaining himself as he knows he is not allowed to see ANY of these pictures and I can see that he really doesn’t want to see them, he wants this to be a surprise for him too! No wonder she loves him so much! We part ways, I find my way back to my car, stop and pick up a corsage and boutonnière for Mom and Dad (today is their 65th wedding anniversary) head home to get cleaned up and changed. Randy and I drive over to Mom and Dad’s to pick them up, they are dressed in black and white. Dad has rented a white dinner jacket and we are on our way to my nephew’s wedding! They are adorable and a wonderful testimony of committment and true love! Wow a busy day!