Next "cash flow" I will start working on the Roman styled dress I've planned to make for some 3 years. The cardboard linen for bodice stiffening has been sitting in my closet for two years, and every time I see it I am reminded of the project. But I want a nice black velvet or wool, and and I need a couple of meters, and for that I need money ( Read more... )

Because Bella at Realm of Venus came up with an "Idle Hands" challenge in October, I just felt a strong urge to make a 16th century muff ( Read more... )

If anyone has a really good memory, you might remember the blue Florentine dress, the peacock dress, I started on ages ago. Like, two or three years ago. It is for the most based on the pattern of Eleonora di Toledo's funeral dress, and partly on the crimson Pisa dress. Both were made in the early 1560s. For some reason I just never got the skirt ( Read more... )

NEW DRESS PAGE: http://geocities.com/pisslei/peacock (ETA: site has been re-done ( Read more... )