Hello community! I am coming up for air and rest after a month and a half of non-stop sewing. I accepted a custom corset wedding dress commission at the beginning of January for a wedding Valentines Day weekend (yesterday was the wedding), and then let my weak-willed heart sucker me into an 11th-hour wedding dress for a friend whose fiancé was ( Read more... )

Kings Musketeers frocks!  Time to get started...

( En Garde! )

A week ago now, this minute, I was carefully packing the gown and veil for delivery...   And for once ravenrigan and I did not have to make our own frocks as well!  We already had suitable stuff.  Phew!

This one went to the wire.  The last stitches went in the night before.  But it really wasn't our fault.

( Pretty in Pink )

The continuation of my last post, this time about the dress, its decoration and accessories.
( Pictures )

Begging of the year I started to slowly make myself an 1840's ensemble (Corset, petticoats, combination) intending to make myself a nice day dress for wearing to events like Dickens. In a serendipitous moment I got assigned a school project to make a period ball gown; so I used it as an opportunity to go all out since I was getting a lot of support ( Read more... )

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Today I am showing off the ballgown and undies that I made for the DPP Competition over at Your Wardrobe Unlock'd!


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Front-Lacing Stays
Started on 9 January 2011
Aylwen Gardiner-Garden, Canberra, Australia

I've just started making a set of front lacing 18th century stays.  I'm adapting the JP Ryan strapless stays pattern, which I have used successfully in the past for a normal back-lacing stay that is really comfortable to wear dancing.

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