Wedding Wasitcoats

This I think is the first project which I have done which has had a proper deadline. Those of you have been over to my youtube channel and have seen the Blog Round Up video, you will have seen these waistcoats being made and they were for my Mam's wedding.

The theme for the wedding was purple, and we had decided it would be great to have purple waistcoats, but we were sure we couldn't find what we wanted in the shops. So Mam got out an old pattern for a waistcoat that she had used years ago, and we made one waistcoat to see how it went.

The outcome was good, Mam loved it and suddenly I had four more to make. The waistcoats were for Me and Emma (we were firing the wedding train as it was on the Talyllyn Railway) and then another three. One each for my two brothers and then one for Mr M, all who had roles to play on the day.

I did learn a lot, having to make them all in different sizes. This was also the first time I had properly sewn something for someone to wear. I had once sewn myself a basic skirt, but this was a whole new ball game.

Luckily they all came out pretty well, and we had a great day.

The Happy Couple and Children

The Firemen