Getting married can be an expensive endeavor, even if it doesn’t always have to be.
Veronika Lindberg thought she could make a wedding dress better than any she could afford.
The bride-to-be was also a talented seamstress. It came to her that she could simply make her own dress. It’d take some time and a lot of materials, but Veronika had no doubt that she could do it.
Her forte was knitting and crocheting.
Veronika had an idea of the dress she wanted. She envisioned a minimalist but elegant dress with just the right amount of patterning and embroidery.
And she had the skills to make it happen.
First, her materials. Veronika ordered a whole box of the special yarn she needed. It arrived on her doorstep soon enough.
The yarn she ordered was appropriately prestigious for the occasion. Inside the box was pure-silk yarn from Knitting For Olive.
It glimmered and gave off a sheen under natural light – owing to its quality. Now that is yarn worthy of being a wedding dress.
Veronika’s dress would use this yarn, and she would make it happen one stitch at a time.
The process would use both knitting and crocheting – and Veronika happens to be good at both.
She went at it. Thread by thread, stich by stich. She poured love and passion into each section that she knitted.
But weaving and knitting something this complex is bound to be a little tricky.
Veronika did eventually run into some bumps on her crocheting road.
Some of her initial designs weren’t structurally sound, and she had to redo many sections to make sure they would hold.
She worked on it day and night, for she only had 6 weeks before the big day.
Veronika would work on it at home and on vacation – even knitting at the beach at one point.
A wedding can’t wait, so the bride-to-be made sure she’d be ready when the big day comes.
Planning the wedding and making the dress weren’t the only things she had to do. Veronika and her fiancé also had to move their stuff to their new home.
So yarn wasn’t the only thing she had her hands full with.
The journey matters just as much as the destination. For Veronika, every thread and section she finished was a page in a story.
And that story was written in silk yarn, with its happy ending fast approaching.
The dress was coming together, and things got exciting at the final stretch.
She had a bit of trouble with the skirt portion. Getting it to fit and connect to the rest of the dress needed some more revisions, but she eventually found a way.
After 6 long weeks of hard work and anxiety, the dress was done.
Every thread was made with love and represented a day when Veronika was working on it.
The whole dress represented the kind of hardworking, persistent, and achieving person that Veronika is. So it was the perfect dress to wear on her wedding.
See how she knit it all together in the video below!
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