Monday, May 07, 2007

Wedding Dress Memories

After reading an article in Interweave Knits Summer 2007, pg 16 about the knitted wedding dress, I was reminded of the confection I concocted for my own wedding in 1983. I was doing my internship in Internal Medicine, and didn't have much money, but decided to design and make my dress. I was into crochet at the time, and thought it would be fun to design the lace for the dress. This was prior to digital cameras, of course, and unfortunately the dress won't fit over my decidedly more muscular upper arms these days, so here are some photos of the gown anyway. I'm most amused by the shoes, which were created on a pair of clogs with the tops removed. Those still fit, and are still white, while the dress has yellowed some with age. Fond memories...



5 comments:

Jill said...

wonderful job on the wedding dress and shoes.

Romi said...

Wow! Beautiful work! :)

Sande Francis said...

Wow. I'm impressed. I sure wish you had some photos of you wearing it.
sandeleh@sbcglobal.net

Barbara said...

Very cool Jeri

I especially like the shoes.

Dj said...

What a beautiful heirloom!