Really, Actually, Completely Finished. For Now.

*note: more/better photos coming.*

Among costumers, it is known that a sewing project is never actually finished. It is "wearable," or possibly "good enough," but there is always something that gets left off because it's 2am and your fingers are bleeding and the event is tomorrow morning and you have to wake up in 4 hours to drive another 4 hours to the event.

So maybe you get all of the construction seams done, and plan on binding the raw edges later. Nobody but you is ever going to see them, right?

Or you leave off that last bit of trim that would take it from attractive to fabulous, because nobody needs to know that you actually intended for there to be TWO rows of knife pleats and a line of beaded lace around that 6-yard hem, instead of just one.

Or you opt for the quick-and-dirty modern construction method instead of the well-researched and documented historically accurate method, because only the snobbiest of costume snobs will know the difference.

But there's always some little niggling thing that you mean to go back and finish later, once the time pressure is off.

So it was with my wedding dress.