Two petticoats down! :) I mean, they are pretty easy. But I bled on this one. :P My thumb isn't happy with me.


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I finished my quilted petticoat! :) It's ankle length but you can't tell, and the center crease won't iron out... :/


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I'm going with the green! And I think it matches the petti very well! :) But I also bought the yellow since it was a remnant and just 1 3/4. Couldn't resist, so Jenni, some day we may actually matching after all! ;)


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Would either of these work?


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Bad lighting and I should have used a smaller weave backing. Oh well live and learn!


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Last night I got motivated to sew and decided to figure out a mygar blouse because I was hoping it would be fairly simple. And boy was it! I think I only spent an hour on it, two hours if you include the lace appliqué I dyed and the mockup.


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Thanks everyone for your confirmation that loops is the way to go. I like them a lot, so hopefully I'll have time to do it.

Last night I attached my sleeves (still debating about adding lace to them as well... I'm going to wait until the bodice trimming is done and see if it's too much) and tried the bodice on over my corset. Of course the ( Read more... )

I made some progress on the civil war ball gown this weekend, though not as much as I would have liked considering the ball is this Saturday! But I got the bodice done up, all that's left besides trimming is finishing and attaching the sleeves (which means making more piping as well) and the hand work of finishing and closures and stuff, so then ( Read more... )

I am on my way to Colonial Williamsburg for the first time ever! Yay! :)

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Heres a blurry pic of my kirtle bodice:


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