You've made me feel guilty, but I already have a commitment on Sunday. I finally asked a couple members of our guild to comprise a sewing group at my home, because I need HELP with my fitting and sewing. I'm glad to hear you get groups together too. Do you have any specifically costumes, or is it just crafts? BTW, do you have any photos of any of your costumes?
Awww... oh well. There will be more get-togethers in the future, I'm sure. At this point, I don't have costume-specific get-togethers, simply because if I did, I'd be the only one there! I only have two or three friends who sew, and they're all located in L.A., and refuse to come visit me. Or at least, I *had* two or three friends who sew, until I found out about the costumers' guild. :)
As for photos of my costumes, I've got a few lying around somewhere, although a bunch of them got lost when my computer died a few years ago. Really though, I don't have a lot of complete outfit-type-costumes. I just have a pile of corsets and a bunch of interesting odds and ends, although I'm working on putting together a few more actual outfits these days. My most impressive one is probably this early 1600's court gown that I put together for the DTASC Shakespeare Festival competition in my senior year of high school. (Please excuse the mediocre web design and broken links... I haven't updated that page in YEARS. Eventually, I'll get
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Wow, your green dress is beautiful. Let me see how my sewing group goes because if there isn't a lot of people interested, I can ask a few more. I have six right now and I want to make it monthly. I have a feeling one of them won't be a regular so that will leave a spot open, and I can pull you into my web. :) I should know in the next week how many there will be. It's on the 18th, btn 10 & 5. I live in Rancho San Diego, south of El Cajon.
Whoo! More sewing groups! Rancho San Diego's a bit farther than I'm usually willing to drive, being somewhat of a lazy bum, but it'd definitely be worth going at least once, if there's an opening. :)
BTW, I like the purple print that you found for your 1830's dress. I've been looking for what seems like ages for a nice cotton print to make up Simplicity #4551, but I'm not having any luck (although, to be fair, I'm probably just being too picky. Really, is a charcoal grey/black early-victorian-style print with kind of a stripey design going on so much to ask?)
Well, you know in the futuristic cartoon, the Jetsons, they just pushed a couple buttons and the computer made up whatever they wanted. So you have just about as much a chance. You should check out Rosie's Calico Cupboard, on El Cajon Blvd, off 70th Street sometime. It's a quilting fabric store, but they have a room in the back that is all repro fabric designs for CW and I saw a couple they labeled as Regency today too. Prices are about $6.95 but they have sales occasionally where they put out last season's stock and they're $3. But then some of the bolts are down to 4 yards or less, or if you're lucky like I was, 11 yards.
I finally asked a couple members of our guild to comprise a sewing group at my home, because I need HELP with my fitting and sewing. I'm glad to hear you get groups together too. Do you have any specifically costumes, or is it just crafts?
BTW, do you have any photos of any of your costumes?
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As for photos of my costumes, I've got a few lying around somewhere, although a bunch of them got lost when my computer died a few years ago. Really though, I don't have a lot of complete outfit-type-costumes. I just have a pile of corsets and a bunch of interesting odds and ends, although I'm working on putting together a few more actual outfits these days. My most impressive one is probably this early 1600's court gown that I put together for the DTASC Shakespeare Festival competition in my senior year of high school. (Please excuse the mediocre web design and broken links... I haven't updated that page in YEARS. Eventually, I'll get ( ... )
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Let me see how my sewing group goes because if there isn't a lot of people interested, I can ask a few more. I have six right now and I want to make it monthly. I have a feeling one of them won't be a regular so that will leave a spot open, and I can pull you into my web. :)
I should know in the next week how many there will be. It's on the 18th, btn 10 & 5. I live in Rancho San Diego, south of El Cajon.
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BTW, I like the purple print that you found for your 1830's dress. I've been looking for what seems like ages for a nice cotton print to make up Simplicity #4551, but I'm not having any luck (although, to be fair, I'm probably just being too picky. Really, is a charcoal grey/black early-victorian-style print with kind of a stripey design going on so much to ask?)
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You should check out Rosie's Calico Cupboard, on El Cajon Blvd, off 70th Street sometime. It's a quilting fabric store, but they have a room in the back that is all repro fabric designs for CW and I saw a couple they labeled as Regency today too. Prices are about $6.95 but they have sales occasionally where they put out last season's stock and they're $3. But then some of the bolts are down to 4 yards or less, or if you're lucky like I was, 11 yards.
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