All I have to do is bone the bodice, and the Italian gown is done...with a week to spare. This can't be right. I have to be forgetting something.

I had such a wonder time this weekend.
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Sigh.  I was almost finished the teens dress. I only needed to hem it, and now it dosent fit.  It fit the other day and I don't think I had that many cookies.  I don't know what to do next.  I could try swaping out the snaps for hooks and eyes, I won't be able to get in and out by myself, but it may hold better under pressure then the snaps.  Or I ( Read more... )

Thank you all for your kind words on my last post, I'll try to keep posting about it. I took a short break to get ready for fort fred, Its supposed to be seasonably cold, so I've been trying to figure out what to wear to keep warm without bundling up too much.  Then I vaguely remembered reading somewhere ( probably online) about flannel shifts.  At ( Read more... )

Despite a sad lack of posts, I have been sewing.  I wanted a cotton lawn gown with sequence like this one from the Napoleon fashion exhibit for the tiara party and the Jane Austen Ball.
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So with all the pretty 18th century gowns on LJ and with Basile day coming up, I thought I would try my hand at a francaise again.  Now for those of you keep score at home, this is my 3rd attempt at this style. That's right, number 3! This time is a pretty white and red cotton print
from Burnley and Towbridge.   And once again I am at the part ( Read more... )