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We’ve all been there – the awkward moment when another wedding guest arrives wearing the same high street accessories as you. Ensure that sinking feeling is merely a bad thought by stitching an original coordinating set. We've drawn inspiration from pastel trends and vintage femininity to create a fascinator and clutch that’ll set your soul singing.
Make a clutch bag
Cut a 50cm square of pink silk taffeta and iron medium-weight to the wrong side. Use the templates to cut out each of the bag pieces, as . Repeat with the rest of the pieces, using pink silk dupion for the lining. Place the two buckram bag pieces right sides together, and stitch with a 1cm seam along the bottom edge. Fold the seam out and machine stitch it down, close to the edge (Fig 1).
Place the silk taffeta outer fabric pieces right sides together, and stitch along the bottom edge, with a 1cm seam allowance. Iron the seam flat. Place on top of the buckram with right sides facing and match the seams, sewing all the way around very close to the edge, leaving a 1cm seam allowance.
Square off the two bottom corners (Fig. 2), by flattening the bottom of the bag, centring the seam. Measure 3cm in from the corner point, and machine stitch a line across the bottom of the bag. Cut the point off just before the stitches and turn right sides out.
To make the flap, sew one piece of silk taffeta fabric to the buckram, with wrong sides facing, working close to the edge. Attach the flower trim very close to the edge with small hand stitches, working around the curve so that it sits just inside.
Lay the other taffeta flap on top of the buckram-lined piece, with right sides facing.
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