I got the 2-disc Moulin Rouge! today. It does have an extended can-can sequence, which is helpful if not ideal- especially if you want to do Nini or Travesty (which I have just learned is the name of the girl in the man's jacket/top hat) as there is a good amount of focus on the two of them in the middle of the circle. And it's very nice for ( Read more... )

Those who follow my Twitter may have seen me lamenting about ruffles over the past few weeks. Here is the Tale of Ruffles ( Read more... )

Well, hell. I finally sat down and started sewing ruffles on my can-can skirt lining to discover... I have NOWHERE NEAR enough ruffles. I cut them too narrow and so it's going to take twice as many rows to get to the top of the skirt. Pretty sure I don't have enough fabric to make enough to do that at this point. I wanted to replace them with ( Read more... )

I've got all the ruffles I need, I think, and I'm working on the bodice pattern. I'm worried that I don't have the main fabric for my skirt and bodice piping, and I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it. Hot pink and yellow damask? wtf.

Serger: $1500

Gathering attachment for sewing machine: $30

Not having to manually hem and gather 50 yards of can-can skirt ruffles: priceless

It pains me to say it, but the cheap mass-produced Indian corset I bought on ebay is actually pretty well made and quite comfortable. And shipped crazy fast, so this weekend's project is to draft the pattern for the bodice. I can't actually put it together until the other fabrics come, but drafting and fitting is always the part that takes me the ( Read more... )

I'm slowly cobbling together the materials I need for Mome Fromage from across the internets, but the important thing is that the blue and aqua taffeta I need for the skirt lining has arrived, and so it's time for me to start making ruffles, since that will be BY FAR the most time-consuming part of all of this. And a part I am not looking forward ( Read more... )