How to make a bridal garter with your own hands?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

The wedding celebration is filled with various rituals and traditions. Despite the fact that many young people do not like to stick to the established course of life for decades, they still overwhelmingly choose the traditional wedding celebration.

Traditions concern everything: the meeting of the newlyweds before marriage, and the decoration of the room, and, of course, the appearance of the newlyweds. The bride's dress can be chic or restrained, closed or revealing, but a garter will always be hidden under it. This intimate attribute can be purchased at any bridal 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 bride's garter is an elastic lace ribbon, on which there is decor in the form of beads, stones and ribbons. It is customary to make a garter in accordance with the dress and decoration of the wedding, for example, if the wedding is decorated in purplecolors, then pale purple ribbons can be placed on the garter, and if the wedding theme is shabby chic, then this element of the bride's wedding dress can be decorated with flowers and pearls. A garter is put on, as a rule, on the right leg of the future mistress of the family hearth.

What a garter is for

Brides are very sensitive to the choice of a garter, because despite the fact that throughout the wedding it will be hidden from prying eyes under the dress, at the end of the celebration it will go to one of the guests.

At the end of the wedding festivities, as a rule, a competition is arranged: first bachelors come out, then unmarried girls. The bride throws a bouquet to her unmarried friends, and the one who catches it, according to the sign, will marry next. The same rule applies to unmarried friends of the groom: the newly-born spouse removes the treasured garter from the leg of his lady of the heart and throws it into the crowd. Anyone who becomes the owner of this little thing will soon have to say goodbye to their free status.

What you may need

Materials for this tiny but important detail of the outfit do not need much. In order to make a garter on the bride's leg with your own hands, you will need:

• Meter of lace, lace ribbon, or elastic lace ribbon. You can also choose a satin cut.
• A small piece of ribbon that matches the color of the whole outfit.
• A few beads.
• Scissors.
• Metric tape.
• Sewing machine.
• Super glue or adhesivegun.
• Needle and white thread.

Selection of materials

Since the garter is most often made of lace, you can immediately choose a ready-made lace ribbon, which are very numerous in sewing stores. They come in different colors, with lurex threads interwoven, with carved edges or with small non-precious pebbles. You need to choose a not very wide tape and before buying it is better to examine and touch it well. If the lace is too prickly and stiff, then wearing such a bridal garter made by yourself all day will be very uncomfortable.

It is better to take very thin ribbons, as large ribbons will look very unnatural on such a delicate detail of the image. It is necessary to combine lace with underwear and take into account the pattern on the stocking tape 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 the cost of such a piece of fabric will be much more expensive.

Bridal Garter DIY: Elastic Ribbon Garter Workshop

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

1. Find the front side of the lace elastic band: the pattern on it is clearer, smoother, brighter.
2. Measure the foot with a tape measure at its fullest point.
3. Cut off the required amount of lace ribbon, sweep the seam by hand in a contrasting colorthread.
4. Sew the seam on the sewing machine, remove the basting threads. On this, the basis of 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 non-stretch lace ribbon 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 to do is to measure the thigh with a tape measure at its fullest point.
2. Then add 20 centimeters to the result and cut off 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 sewing or processing on an overlock. If there is no overlock, you can go along the edge of the lace cut with a zigzag stitch on a sewing machine.
5. Then you need to sew the edges, sewing them first by hand, and then by machine.
6. Next, you need to cut off the elastic band 2-3 cm less than the leg, sew the ends in a circle.
7. You need to gather 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 on the decor.

Bridal garter with own hands without a typewriter

To sew a garter by hand from non-elasticlace ribbon, you need:

1. Cut the tape to fit the thigh + 20 cm and elastic band.
2. To process the edges of the lace cut, you need to bend the edge by 2 mm and sew with small stitches with threads to match the lace.
3. Carefully make a seam, sewing the edges of the lace, sew the edges of the elastic band.
4. From the inside of the lace, sew an elastic band, making a stitch, tying a knot and cutting the thread. With such stitches, you need to flash the entire gum in a circle. At the same time, the lace must be gathered up so that when the elastic is stretched along the leg, the lace fits the thigh beautifully.
5. Sew a bow folded from a ribbon to the blank, and a bead on top.

Design options

You can make a garter in so many ways. One of them is decoration with feathers. You can glue the feathers at their base so as not to crush the fluff. To hide traces of glue, glue beads on top. Faux pearls or mother-of-pearl will look very nice. Feathers go well with imitation gemstones.

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

You can decorate the garter with flowers made from ribbons. These flowers are easy to roll yourself. Many people know from labor lessons how to make ribbon flowers for a bride's garter with their own hands. It is better to take a ribbon to match the decorations of the holiday. Especiallycontrasting tapes look spectacular. Also, flowers can be made from foamiran. The main thing is to create them small so that they do not stick out from under the skirt or are not rubbed under the dress by the end of the evening. A garter with such flowers will look very delicate.

Garters made of satin fabric look interesting. It is very easy to process, drapes well. Very beautiful flowers are obtained from the atlas. Their edges are easy to burn with a lighter, then they bend a little - this makes them look like real flower petals. Inside, you can sew a few small beads or beads instead of stamens.

An interesting decor would be a brooch pinned to a garter.

We gave simple do-it-yourself bridal garters, but there are also crocheted ones. The lace made by the bride herself will look very original. It will not be a shame to give such a garter to a friend of the groom, although it is a pity, because a lot of time and love has been invested in it. It is better to decorate it not very plentifully: a ribbon bow and small pearls will suffice.

Thus, it became clear that it would not be difficult to make a bride's garter with your own hands. To do this, you don’t even always need a sewing machine, you can do it with a needle and thread. Such an accessory will become a real highlight of the bride's image and will not leave anyone indifferent.