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Hey everyone! I’m in the process of planning my wedding and my wife and I are theming around a Spanish villa style venue. We are both Mexican as well and we are leaning into this for our colors, decor, and dresses. I found this dress on Etsy (Pic 1) that I absolutely loved with this Mexican embroidery style! Unfortunately I realized it wouldn’t fit well with my body type. I had the idea to have a friend DIY embroider a basic white satin wedding dress (Pic 2). We were going to come up with our own pattern and hand embroider but I did some digging and I found the original embroidered flowers sold on a sheet of lace mesh! (Pic 3) It’s sold around $30/yd. Link to listing: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1161001985/maria-multi-color-mexican-sarape-floral?ref=share\_ios\_native\_control

My question is, would it be possible to individually cut out the flowers from the lace and stitch them on the dress like patches? Or would this type of material fall apart and unravel? It looks like that was what the creator may have done on the original but it’s hard for me to tell. If we can’t cut the individuals out, how would we apply this to fabric in a similar way to the example? Any experience you can share about working with this type of embroidered lace would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hey everyone! Posted this originally to sewing help but I think y’all might have some helpful tips as well!

I’m in the process of planning my wedding and my wife and I are theming around a Spanish villa style venue. We are both Mexican as well and we are leaning into this for our colors, decor, and dresses. I found this dress on Etsy (Pic 1) that I absolutely loved with this Mexican embroidery style! Unfortunately I realized it wouldn’t fit well with my body type. I had the idea to have a friend DIY embroider a basic white satin wedding dress (Pic 2). We were going to come up with our own pattern and hand embroider but I did some digging and I found the original embroidered flowers sold on a sheet of lace! (Pic 3) It’s sold around $30/yd.

My question is, would it be possible to individually cut out the flowers from the lace and stitch them on the dress like patches? Or would this type of material fall apart and unravel? It looks like that was what the creator may have done on the original but it’s hard for me to tell. If we can’t cut the individuals out, how would we apply this to fabric in a similar way to the example? Any experience you can share about working with this type of embroidered lace would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hey everyone! I’m in the process of planning my wedding and my wife and I are theming around a Spanish villa style venue. We are both Mexican as well and we are leaning into this for our colors, decor, and dresses. I found this dress on Etsy (Pic 1) that I absolutely loved with this Mexican embroidery style! Unfortunately I realized it wouldn’t fit well with my body type. I had the idea to have a friend DIY embroider a basic white satin wedding dress (Pic 2). We were going to come up with our own pattern and hand embroider but I did some digging and I found the original embroidered flowers sold on a sheet of lace! (Pic 3) It’s sold around $30/yd.

My question is, would it be possible to individually cut out the flowers from the lace and stitch them on the dress like patches? Or would this type of material fall apart and unravel? It looks like that was what the creator may have done on the original but it’s hard for me to tell. If we can’t cut the individuals out, how would we apply this to fabric in a similar way to the example? Any experience you can share about working with this type of embroidered lace would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!