some sewing
Just a couple of random bits:
I did finish my remnant 1950s skirt, and am reasonably pleased with it (it's a skirt with three pieces, how exciting can it be?). I wore it today and took an extremely crappy picture of it.
Apart from that skirt, I haven't sewn this week, but I did take out the stripey 1770s dress and start putting trim on the sleeves. The red silk trim appears to have had a fraying party while I wasn't looking, which has massively displeased me. If that means I have to hem all the red silk I want to use for trim - it's not happening! Must ponder.
I ought to keep working on that stripey dress, as I think it's what I want to wear to the francaise dinner, but that would mean I have to figure out what to do about the fraying silk, so...I might move on to something else tomorrow! It feels appropriate, weather-wise, to start my wrapper for Gettysburg (it's about 15F now) so I might do a little of that tomorrow. I can't remember whether I've posted my inspiration for it, so here you go:
I can't start the quilting yet, since I don't have wool batting, and I'm temporarily banning myself from buying any costume supplies (because look at your stash. You can keep busy without buying things for a few weeks), but I can at least construct the basic wrapper for now. It's light blue wool flannel (and the quilted bits will be dark blue flannel), so, snuggly and warm! Fun to work with! More so than in July, anyway.
I did finish my remnant 1950s skirt, and am reasonably pleased with it (it's a skirt with three pieces, how exciting can it be?). I wore it today and took an extremely crappy picture of it.
Apart from that skirt, I haven't sewn this week, but I did take out the stripey 1770s dress and start putting trim on the sleeves. The red silk trim appears to have had a fraying party while I wasn't looking, which has massively displeased me. If that means I have to hem all the red silk I want to use for trim - it's not happening! Must ponder.
I ought to keep working on that stripey dress, as I think it's what I want to wear to the francaise dinner, but that would mean I have to figure out what to do about the fraying silk, so...I might move on to something else tomorrow! It feels appropriate, weather-wise, to start my wrapper for Gettysburg (it's about 15F now) so I might do a little of that tomorrow. I can't remember whether I've posted my inspiration for it, so here you go:
I can't start the quilting yet, since I don't have wool batting, and I'm temporarily banning myself from buying any costume supplies (because look at your stash. You can keep busy without buying things for a few weeks), but I can at least construct the basic wrapper for now. It's light blue wool flannel (and the quilted bits will be dark blue flannel), so, snuggly and warm! Fun to work with! More so than in July, anyway.