I knitted my own wedding dress! Without a pattern. It took me around two months.

I started with the base: I knew I wanted an edgy minimalist dress, so I started knitting a slip dress, thinking I would decide about adding embroidery later. The dress part was quite easy, knitting in the round, I didn’t have to frog or redo any part of it. For the hip increases, I checked a pattern just to be sure I was following the correct method.

For the slit on the back, I had no idea how to do it, but I checked some youtube videos and made it my own way. I was impressed by how simple it was, it took me only 3 or 4 weeks to finish the base. But the rest… omg 😅

Because of my wide hips, I thought it would be nice to add an off-the-shoulder detail to balance the silhouette. And I decided to add the embroidery on that.

So I went for an extra piece: I crocheted it in mesh stitch and embroidered randomly with pearls, beads, mother-of-pearl buttons, stones, or whatever else I thrifted or found online. There are even shells a friend of mine brought from Brazil just for that. 😍 The embroidery took me some more weeks, and it got heavy… so the hard part was attaching the two parts in a way that the strapless dress underneath wouldn’t just fall. After many, many trials and redos (around 15 maybe), I managed 🙏🏻😭

I knitted an extra finishing and was able to attach it to the base with slip stitch crochet.

I left a thread to easily pull because I also did and embroidered a pair of removable straps (to attach with a button) to remove the extra piece and dance freely. I became a dress to be worn in three different versions, which I’ll show soon.

I finished everything exactly one week before the big day (23/05/2026). But it was worth it! Got really nice comments on my dress on the wedding day 🥹

*I used needle number 5 with three threads: 2 of undyed mulberry silk (for shine, from a sustainable supplier from Germany I found on Etsy) and one of undyed raw silk (more opaque, pure undyed from the brand Knitting for Olive).