The last item to complete my wedding ensemble is of course the bag, I thought just a simple clutch bag will do the trick!
For the exterior of the bag I chose to use the white silk but I needed to give it more ‘body’ so I layered up a sandwich of silk, wadding and the habotai and quilted them together in a diamond shape. Having done this I looked at it and deliberated over whether to stitch some beads onto it, I was in 2 minds about this! Firstly I had spent over 14 hours beading my dress with those little black beads and quite frankly I was rather fed up of them, but then the old saying ‘don’t spoil the ship for a h’peth of tar’ came to mind, so I set to and beaded where the ‘diamond’ stitching met. It really didn’t take me very long and I was pleased I had put in the effort.
I then cut out the ‘V’ shape for the envelope closure at the front of the bag and layered it with grey organza over grey dupion and piped the edges of the ‘V’ with black piping, this then ties up the bag with the black piping on the dress. I attached this to the quilted piece and folded to make the clutch bag. I added a magnetic clasp for the closure carefully making sure that it was lined up correctly. I made up the lining of the bag with the silk habotai and attached. Once again Tracy made another beautiful embroidered corsage to match the others and I attached this to the front of the bag for the finishing effect.
