Some Tags that I've been using.

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A scant photojournal of making my zimmara style jacket. It's not complete, as it has some things on it that are missing, but what period cosutme is ever complete in my wardrobe ( Read more... )

Hand sewn doll cloths for my daughters cloth doll. She's a Groovey Girl I think.

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attack_laurel, I am now the proud owner of your Francis Pattern. Berry's and Bugs: what could be better? Maybe berries bugs and butterflies, but I only could get supplies for one! I found this pattern at a recent SCA demo event here in the pacific northwest called Ursalmas. Krazy Kat was delightful enough to be there with a delicious assortment of silks, ( Read more... )

I hope this isn't rude, but this reminded me of you Leigh. This one especially.

I worked on the stays again today. I have fabric failures all over the place and now I'm regretting the very narrow wares I used to bind the stays. It would have been at least annother couple layers before I had to think about re- working.

( Fabric ahoy! )

So here you can see that after a week I've only done the bottom binding. It should take me a day to do the top when I decide what I'm doing. For now, I'll just stick some eyelets in the front and back (I have a gross sitting around after all) and get to playing around with my bigger pieces of fabric.

( Why does this take so long? I want a dress already :( )

Current stays, finish is just around the corner....( Read more... )

I selected this for my sister about three years ago. I tucked it away due to a thread shortage. Her birthday is in a week, and I just decided to omit the parts I was short since they weren't critical to the finished 'look'. I use the term 'look' very loosely ( Read more... )