Cake Stand

Well, another wedding project well under way and "almost" completed.

Last night my daughter Emily, my husband Peter and her finance Jared worked on the cake stand plans.

If any of you are married to a "planner" then you know you can't begin without PLANS!

Detailed plans...which also required buying a cup cake to determine size and fit.

Now, I will add a small disclaimer here...I have suddenly come down with a bad case of the flu, so they were all working in the garage last night totally unsupervised (by me or course.)  That also meant no official documentation of the process.  The pictures provided here are ones my daughter took on her cell phone...so forgive me, they are not the best quality.

Emily and her dad have talked the idea all though and they knew exactly how they want the end result to be accomplished.  These two work quite well together (they are usually working together on various welding projects, but today they took to the saw!)

Once they had all the pieces measured and marked they began to cut them out.

The assembly process began next.  Emily wanted to cupcake holder to be quite dramatic.  It will hold over 90+ cupcakes, along with the top of the cake, which will be a separate cake.

Each layer was added and reinforced (guess they're thinking heavy cupcakes!)

Decorative trim was added along the bottom to finish it off.

It's quite an emposing sight.  They asked me what I thought...I could only think of one word..."LARGE!"

It's exactly what Emily envisioned!

There's still finish work (sanding and painting and probably some decorative embellishments) to complete the project...but I think we are finally seeing an end in sight to the wedding list (oh...I forgot...she needs a Kindle cover and a messenger bag to take on her honeymoon!)

Hoping I'll be over the flu soon...I have work to do!

Till tomorrow...

debi

Wedding Flag Banner

Only six weeks left till the big Wedding Day!  The pinwheels are pretty well finished.  I still have to spray paint the "trees", but I'm waiting for a nice "non windy" day!

I have fabric left over from the pinwheels, and decided to make banners to hang from the trees.

I decided on an 8.5 x 10.5 size for the flags.

I also used my pinked rotary cutter blade to cut the flags.

All of the flags were cut from the left over red and teal colored fabric.  I wanted to add some interest to the banner and make it more "wedding" so I added hearts.  I mimicked the shape of the flags and cut the hearts the same length and width as the flags.  I cut a V-shape from the middle to create the heart, but added two small tabs along the top of the hearts so I could sew it into the seam binding without losing the shape of  the hearts.

I used a "matelasse" type fabric for the brown hearts and

 embellished each heart to dress them up.  I made rolled fabric roses to dress up this heart.

I also dug out a "cutter quilt" that had some red and turquoise in it and cut additional hearts.

Each of the quilt hearts were also embellished

creating a different look for each heart!

I dug into all my "scraps" to find the lace, crochet, ribbon, buttons, etc. to use as embellishments.

I sewed all the flags and hearts together using seem binding (also in my stash!)

I think when we get all the banners strung up in the trees they will really add to the festivities. (I'll post pictures of the various completed projects when they are all put together at the Wedding.)

We are headed to the "lake" this weekend to check out the wedding location and work out all the logistics of an outdoor wedding (and assure we have a Plan B in case of bad weather!)  We also are looking into accommodations for everyone...so very busy weekend ahead, but it will also be time away to relax and re-group.

There are still a lot of wedding projects...but they will all be finished before the BIG DAY!

Well...back to sewing!

Till tomorrow,

debi