I've been feeling a bit under the weather lately - I suspect I was really, really tired and needed the vacation. Now I have regained some energy and I give you the obligatory "yearly costume review" post ( Read more... )

My green 1872 polonaise, here it is ! Finally done... I worked on this like a madwoman for the last two weeks, I gave up on the batiste jacket (it would work better with a solid color than with a print anyway), and finished the hat on Sturday even... wait, Sunday morning at half past one.


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... Maybe I'm not going to achieve everything I wanted to achieve by Sunday. I won't have an embroidered batiste vest. Maybe I even won't have a hat. But I do have a dress...

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I'm-going-to-make-it. I'm-going-to-make-it. I'm-going-to-make-it. I'm-going-to-make-it. I'm-going-to-make-it ( Read more... )

Woohoo !!! I. Am. Excited.
I just basted the sleeves in and tried the polonaise on... and it looks pretty darn awesome ! Pinned the trim in place to check distance from the edge. There's going to be more around the neckline and at the wrists, plus some going all the way around teh bottom of the polonaise.

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No piccies, too lazy, too little time, too late at night. Most of my sewing has been night sewing lately (I got backk to work a week ago). I'm feeling soooo much better being back in the "business", and the kid is doing better each day with the sitter. Yay ( Read more... )

It's late and I'm tired. That's what I get for sewing late into the night ( Read more... )

Mock-up #2 for the skirt portion of the polonaise. I was too lazy to dig around and exhumate the last pock-up, started from scratch, and now I'm all full of SQUEE! over how it looks ! Yay ! Now, please, dear Bastet, dear FSM, dear whateveryournameis-God-of-Fabric, make my fabric be enough for the dress !

With Lady Darkstone's help, I got a mock-up that fit my torso for the polonaise. I even went as far as draping a sleeve tonight, and I love how it looks ( Read more... )