Purple Yarn Belt and Wedding Plans

So, first of all, apologies for the late update.  Easter holidays and birthday celebrations took up most of the weekend (and were very fun).  Next week's will probably be late as well, or I'll skip a week depending: this weekend I'll be serving as maid of honor in a wedding with events all through the weekend, and Monday will be dedicated to working on schoolwork and an afternoon meeting with a community partner for service learning.  But!  The crafting will not slip quietly away!

Purple Yarn Belt

I actually did this on Monday while Mr. Couchcrafting was catching up on a horrendous lack of sleep.  The process was pretty much the same as the previous yarn belt, so I didn't take any progress photos.  A couple of hours and a few episodes of The Walking Dead and BOOM!  A finished yarn belt.

From the stuff on both sides, you can guess how crowded my office floor is.
To the left, my box of fabric.  To the right, supplies for the bachelorette party this Friday.

Maybe next week I'll get started on making some cute aprons.  I keep seeing adorable designs on Pinterest, and I could use an apron, given the amount of flour I seem to fling everywhere when I bake.  Besides, I need to use these two plaid fabrics somehow:

Wedding Plans

So, in other news, I'm getting married in October.  Mr. CouchCrafting and I still have quite a lot to do in the planning department, but neither of us are really "event people."   We want things easy and fun.  Still, there's always work to do.  

Right now, the major thing I need to do is settle on whether or not I'm buying or making my own dress.  It's fun to put on the fancy store dresses, but I don't really feel right in a lot of them.  I love the mermaid type with the old Hollywood glamour look to them, but they don't really fit the wedding (plus, they're always too small to really get an idea of how one my size would look on me.  Really wedding world?  What's your beef with women in the 12-16 size range?  Trying on something in a wedding size 8 is completely pointless...it doesn't even cover both boobs properly!  And a 20 is a tent! Okay, rant done.).  

I also am trying to stick to something simpler.  I don't mind a little bling, but the mister hates too much frufru. It may be my dress, but I'd like him to enjoy the whole picture, not just the neck up.  So, there are dresses I like, but I haven't found anything that I really love.

The other option is, of course, making my own.  A lot more work, but I would love to do it, and the mister thinks it would be fantastic.  So what am I thinking?

Well, first of all, I've never been able to get this dress out of my mind after I first saw it:

Featured on the Austin Wedding Blog

Is that not GORGEOUS?  She hand crocheted and sewed together all of those doilies.  Well, I still haven't figured out crochet, and I don't have quite that much dedication.  But I could do white lace over a green dress.  Yes, sir, I can.  

The dress pattern I have my eye on (and need to get started on a muslin mock-up of) is the Vintage Vogue V2903 pattern: 

Vogue V2903

It's nicely fitted through the torso, has short sleeves for my gargantuan arms, it kinda has the drop shoulder look I've loved since Beauty and the Beast first graced my eyes, and I can wear a crazy orange or purple petticoat/crinoline underneath!  Pretty, elegant, but also fun and suited to an outdoor wedding.  

I'm keeping my eye out for good fabric and lace.  I have nice green fabric already, but it won't be enough since I used some of it to make a New Year's dress in 2012.  As for the lace, I'm aiming for something nice but not overly formal or blatantly "flowery."  I was debating some of the less "lacy" options, but I think they go too far in the other direction:

Too small.  Oh, and that's my ring!

This stuff is REALLY COOL.  But not exactly the wedding look I'd like.  

We'll keep in mind for bellydance, yes?

Anyway, that's the current progress on the dress front.  Have you seen any good lace around?