How to make a garter of the bride with your own hands?

The wedding celebration is filled with various ritualsand traditions. Despite the fact that many young people do not like to adhere to the tens of years of the established course of life, they still choose the traditional celebration of the wedding in the overwhelming majority of cases.

Traditions concern everything:and meeting young people before marriage, and decorating the room, and, of course, the appearance of the newlyweds. The bride's dress can be chic or reserved, closed or frank, but under it the garter will always be hidden. This intimate attribute can be purchased at any wedding accessories store, but if you make it yourself, it will be even more valuable. How to sew a garter for the bride with your own hands, you can learn from this article.

What is a garter

Even a hand-made garter of the brideIt is an elastic lace ribbon with decorations in the form of beads, stones and ribbons. It is customary to make a garter in accordance with the dress and wedding design, for example, if the wedding is decorated in lilac tones, then gently lilac ribbons can be placed on the garter, and if the wedding theme is a shekie-chic, this element of the wedding dress of the bride can be decorated with flowers and pearls. The garter is worn, as a rule, on the right foot of the future mistress of the family hearth.

Why do I need a garter

Brides are very sensitive to the choicegarters, because despite the fact that during the entire wedding, she will be hidden from prying eyes under the dress, at the end of the celebration she will get one of the guests.

At the end of the wedding, as a rule,a competition is held: first bachelors, then unmarried girls. The bride tosses her unmarried girlfriends a bouquet and the one that will catch him, according to a sign, will marry next. The same rule applies to unmarried friends of the groom: the newly-born spouse removes the coveted garter from his lady's leg and throws it into the crowd. Anyone who becomes the owner of this little thing, will soon say goodbye to his free status.

What may be needed

Materials for this tiny, but important detail of attire need not so much. In order to make a garter on the leg of the bride with his own hands, you will need:

• Meter lace, lace tape or elastic lace tape. You can also select a cut of atlas.
• A small piece of tape that matches the color of the entire image.
• Several beads.
• Scissors.
• Tape measure.
• Sewing machine.
• Super glue or glue gun.
• Needle and white thread.

Choice of materials

Since the garter is most often made of lace,You can immediately choose a finished lace ribbon, which is very much in the sewing shops. They come in a variety of colors, with interwoven Lurex threads, with carved edges or with small precious stones. You need to choose a not very wide ribbon and before buying it is better to consider and touch it well. If the lace is too prickly and stiff, then wearing such a bride's garter made with your own hands all day will be very uncomfortable.

Tapes are better to take very thin, sinceDelicate details of the image of large ribbons will look very unnatural. It is necessary to combine lace with underwear and take into account the pattern on the ribbon stockings with a pattern on the lace. The image of the bride should be thought out to the smallest detail. If you could not find a suitable lace ribbon, you can purchase a small piece of raw lace. True, you need to know that the work on its processing will take much longer and cost such a piece of fabric will be much more expensive.

Garter of the bride with his own hands: a master class garters of elastic tape

Making a garter is not at all difficult. You need to perform simple steps:

1. Find the front side of the lace elastic ribbon: on it the pattern is clearer, more even, bright.
2. Measure the foot with a measuring tape in its fullest place.
3. Cut the required amount of lace ribbon, sweep the seam by hand of a contrasting color with threads.
4. Sew a seam on a sewing machine, remove basting threads. On this basis, the future garter is ready, if the lace ribbon was elastic.
5. Next, you need to decorate the garter to your liking and in accordance with all the details of the image.

Garter made from stretch lace tape or cut fabric

In order to understand how to make a garter for the bride with your own hands from lace that does not stretch, you need quite a bit.

1. The first thing that needs to be done is to measure the hip at its fullest point with a measuring tape.
2. Then you need to add 20 centimeters to the result and cut the lace.
3. If not a lace ribbon is chosen for the garter, but a piece of fabric, then the width should be taken about 8 centimeters.
4. Next, you need to process the edges of the lace, bending them and stitching them or processing them on the overlock. If there is no overlock, you can walk along the edge of the lace cut with a zigzag stitch on a sewing machine.
5. Then you need to sew the edges by sewing them first manually and then on a typewriter.
6. Next you need to cut off the elastic linen elastic by 2-3 cm less than the legs, sew the ends in the shape of a circle.
7. It is necessary to curry a little lace ribbon and sew it to the elastic band. But it is necessary to sew a centimeter through a centimeter, otherwise the garter will not stretch.
8. The last step is to sew decor.

Garter of the bride do it yourself without a typewriter

To sew a garter manually from inelastic lace ribbon, you need:

1. Cut the tape to the size of the thigh + 20 cm and linen elastic.
2. To process the edges of the lace cut, you need to bend the edge 2 mm and sew with small stitches with threads to match the lace.
3. Carefully seam, sew the edges of the lace, sew the edges of the elastic.
4. From the inside of the lace sew gum,making a stitch, tying a knot and cutting the thread. These stitches need to sew all the gum around. Lace while you need to prisborot, so that when the gum stretched along the leg, the lace fit the thigh nicely.
5. Sew a bow folded from a ribbon to the blank and a bead on top.

Design options

You can issue a garter in so many ways.One of them is decoration with feathers. You can glue the feathers behind their base, so as not to crush the down. To hide traces of glue, you need to paste beads on top. Imitation pearls or mother of pearl will look very beautiful. Well combined feathers with imitation of precious stones.

An interesting detail on the garter will be small.pendant in the form of a key. You can buy it in the shop for crafts or scrapbooking. Also such blanks for jewelry are sold in stores for sewing.

You can decorate the garter with flowers made fromtapes. Such flowers are easy to roll yourself. Many, even from the lessons of labor, know how to make ribbon flowers for the bride's garter with their own hands. Ribbon is better to take in tone holiday decorations. Contrast ribbons look especially impressive. Flowers can also be made from foamiran. The main thing is to make them small so that they do not stick out from under the skirt or get stuck by the end of the evening under the dress. Garter with such colors will look very gentle.

Garters made fromsatin fabric. It is very easily processed, well draped. From the atlas very beautiful flowers turn out. It is easy to burn their edges with a lighter, then they bend a little - this makes them look like petals of real flowers. Inside you can sew a few small beads or beads instead of stamens.

An interesting decor will be a brooch stabbed on a garter.

We led simple brides garter workshopstheir own hands, but they are crocheted. Lace made by the bride herself will look very original. It’s not a shame to give such a garter to a friend of the groom, although it’s a pity, because a lot of time and love is invested in it. It is better not to decorate it very richly: enough of a ribbon bow and small pearls.

Таким образом, стало понятно, что сделать Garter brides with their own hands is not difficult. For this, a sewing machine is not always necessary; you can also cope with a needle and thread. This accessory will be a real highlight of the image of the bride and will not leave anyone indifferent.