As it got closer to the ball, I had to stop posting updates so I could focus on actually getting all my sewing done. But in the end, I got it finished in time to wear to the ball! With a little help from my Fairy Godmother (aka sewaddicted) and The White Queen (aka Hairstyling extraordinare poisoned_kitty) of course! These wonderful ladies helped me get dreassed and ready ( Read more... )

Possibly :P ( Read more... )

I finally feel well enough to actually do stuff, yay! Still not completely recovered, but hopefully should be by the time the ball comes around! So, what have I been up to ( Read more... )

Which is... nothing ( Read more... )

So today was a complete bust! I decided I'd quickly get the frill for my second petticoat done before moving onto the overskirts, as I was still thinking about the maths involved with that and frills are easy, right? YEah... right ( Read more... )

I'm thinking lots about decoration ideas for my bustle dress. I've recently bought a couple laces off Ebay and I'm looking at buying some different flowers and some pearls online as well. I'll need to order them soon if I want to have them here in time to attach to the dress. So I need to make some decisions.


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I originally tried to drape the overskirts of my dress with a length of fabric, and had a kinda thing happening. But then I asked my teacher her opinion, and she was able to work out a much easier way to do it (which I would never have thought of, and it's probably much closer to period accurate!). We ended up doing a mini version, which I have ( Read more... )

The frilled back petticoat ended up taking me a day and a half to sew together, WAY longer than I had thought! There was so much detail that went into it, but it was SO worth it because it looks amazing! I took it all into Tafe today, and took some photos of each piece on the mannequin. I didn't take photos of the Shot Taffeta underskirt as I do ( Read more... )

I made a decision on the petticoat situation! After having another look at this amazing Lady's Early Bustle Underwear (which I discovered last year whilst researching for my talk on Bustles), I decided to heck with it, I'll make TWO petticoats! So I got those cut out today at my Tafe's Open Day - Access to large tables for cutting, access to ( Read more... )

In my last post I mentioned I was having some trouble deciding about petticoats. I have 3 different ones that I am trying to choose between, or I could do a combination of them.

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