You know how you sometimes think, "Why don't all my people know each other more?!? My friends are the greatest and my family rocks! We like the same things! Costumes! Booze! Adventure! How can we all spend more time doing that stuff together...  I have a brilliant plan!"

And thus CoCo 2013 was born.*

claughter713 and I were lazing around on the interwebz one ( Read more... )

Signed up for four limited classes at CoCo.

Got into all four.

And I'm acting as a model in one of them (which means I get Free Pattern Goodness!).

SUCCESS!

*grin*

So awhile back I was harassing a Landsknecht friend of mine about his uncovered head. After bearing up under the torment for a bit, he pointed out that if I didn't like him walking around without a hat on I was perfectly capable of making him a hat to fix the situation.

Well crap...

So, after some discussion and some woodcut viewings he decided upon ( Read more... )

As you may remember, I had decided awhile back to tackle a project to recreate false braids ala the 16th C in Germany. These items, known as ' Zopfe' in Nürnberg, were frequent items in the dress indices of the period of study covered by Jutta Zander-Seidel's research in the " Textiler Hausrat".

I actually started with an attempt at a reconstruction ( Read more... )

...and that I can appreciate other people's children while not wanting any of my own...

http://thewinchesterbros.tumblr.com/post/13854055418

Yes, I have been bad about posting for the past few months ; mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!

It wasn’t you LJ, it was me.

Sure, I’ve been sewing and gardening and reading and generally Being Alive and ( Read more... )

OK, one last post. I swear. *crosses fingers behind back*

Working on the dress this past week, and reading along as vanagnessayem has been working on hers, made me wonder something.

What order do you guys put your (German) dresses together in?

Just curious, since it is apparent that vanagnessayem and I have a slightly different order and it made me wonder what other ( Read more... )

That's right folks...she's sewing again...

Inspiration piece:


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I was recently asked by a friend to describe how I had made one of the first Steuchlein’s I ever attempted. I make no bones about the fact that this is *not* a historically correct version - although the end results are nice looking.

What you will need:

Get a large, plastic coffee tin lid. The old fashioned Yuban or Folgers type. This need to be ( Read more... )

*And yes, I add that every time that I use a “2” in a title to indicate the second part of a post. Because I am an idiot.

For those of you who don’t know, claughter713  is BRILLIANT!

She found me this page, which goes into great detail about making a 18th century corset pattern. Out of cardboard.


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As someone who has only been lurking on the Yahoo ‘h-cost’ list for a little bit; I am constantly amazed by the brilliant sewing tips that pop up there. For example, this little gem:

“A note on fitting corset muslins:

“A hint I got several years ago - don't remember from where - was to create two strips out of heavy material - old jeans will do in ( Read more... )