Neptunes Bride--detail

Neptune's Bride/Beauty and the Beast

The beast being all the fabric that could have been thrown away into landfill! The challenge was to make a dress from many different scraps of material, some vintage lace, old curtains, and bedspreads. Scraps from the dress makers floor, old netting, old beads that needed restoring and anything cream or white that we could lay our hands on. The team of clients at the Day Centre have pooled their ideas together and have come up with designs. Together with measuring out the squares for the patchwork, stitching and making the flowers, which is a technique in itself. One client has been busy making the cape out of weaving scraps of fabric together. The dress has also encouraged a lot of reminiscence about the clients own wedding dresses and usually being a happy occasion has been a very fun and cheerful project to do. Many clients really look forward to coming in to the Centre to see what progress is being made. The initial project started off with a lot of brainstorming regarding the design of it back in February and everyone agreed to one particular design.