Friday, April 15, 2011

Mary's First Communion

I am currently working on a First Communion dress for my daughter Lucy.  I have already made one for my oldest daughter, Mary.  She received her First Communion three years ago.  At first I thought I would use that same dress for all my daughters' First Communions, but then, because of the encouragement of a good friend, I decided it would be nice for each girl to have their own to pass down in their own families.

Mary's dress is "Pure of Heart" from AS&E issue 77.    It is a beautiful dress with silk ribbon embroidery, pearls, pintucks, hemstitching at the collar and sleeve bands, and smocking at the waist.  There was a lot of hand work involved with this one, so it took me a while to finish.  Her veil is a headband with silk organza attached.
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4 comments:

  1. UnknownApril 16, 2011 at 10:13 AM

    Hi Nadine! This communion dress is absolutely gorgeous! I can't wait to see the next one!!! I saw your message regarding the veil and I am using a "tiara" headband thing that I bought when I visited NY a couple years ago. I found it at Pacific Trims for a good price ($15), and I'm going to add the tulle veil via a comb placed directly behind it. I'll be blogging about it soon... Good luck, I'm looking forward to seeing your finished product!

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  2. Catholic BibliophagistApril 17, 2011 at 2:09 PM

    This is lovely. What an inspiration!

    --Mary, over here from patternreview.

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  3. FirstCommunionSuppliesApril 18, 2011 at 1:21 AM

    Lovely and beautiful dress for first communion! You should have posted your 1st holy communion invitations too.

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  4. IowaHoodlumMay 13, 2011 at 1:13 PM

    The details you did on this dress are just gorgeous. You've created an heirloom.

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