Making baby burial gowns from wedding dress

[Leah2005]

Can anyone help who has experience of making gowns from a lace wedding dress? I'm trying to line them with soft brushed cotton and haven't worked out a way of enclosing all hems which doesn't look clumsy. Any advice please?

Wedding dresses often use a scalloped edge of lace as the hem, and most of the ones I've seen, this edge is a separate piece of lace that's stitched on to the lace panels. If you remove that, you could use it as you need to, to hem your wee gowns. If it's too deep, you could maybe find a lace "ribbon trim" that you could sew on instead. If you find one that works with your lace fabric, it works beautifully.

Alternatively if your lace doesn't fray, you could just trim the hem edge to follow the lace pattern, rather than stitching it. It's a really delicate finish that I've used on some wedding gowns myself. It all depends on what the lace looks like as to whether this will work.

www.bridalfabrics.co.uk/lace-trim-by-type

This site has lots to choose from. It might solve your problem...

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I'll have a look at that website.