Tuesday, July 21, 2009

During one of our conversations, Anna tells me she really likes the Alencon lace. Her dress has a section of lace that peaks out in the front and a little lace up at the sweetheart neckline. Because we are creating the dress, we can do anything we want so she decides she really likes the scalloped lace that goes all around the edge of the bottom and the train. So I am now searching for a pretty pattern in the Alencon lace. We live very close to one of the largest fabric stores in the nation, Mary Jo’s, and Anna and I have spent hours in that store looking at fabric over the years. Sometimes we would wander into the bridal department and dream of the day that I would make her dress – IT IS HERE! Yea! So I am off to Mary Jo’s with Penny (Randy’s cousin’s wife) to look at the lace, buy the muslin for the dress pattern, and buy the fabric for the beautiful velvet cape trimmed in fur that I am also making for her. I get all my fabric cut for the cape and go take a look at the lace. They have the Alencon lace and it is exquisite, how beautiful it will look on her dress! Next order of business is to figure out the pattern and calculate the yardage.