Current Project!
So my next day in travel is really daunting ‘cause we took like 1000 pics (we did the Rome circuit at a run basically) so I keep putting it off. So much so, that I’m actually going to post progress pics of what I’m working on right now. Whoooo current!
So this project is pretty much a challenge to myself, on multiple levels. I wanted to use up fabric (so no buying anything fabric for this), I wanted to work more with creating my own textiles (inspired by the awesome art quilts I keep seeing), I wanted to create something out of my norm (organic and not about the clean lines), and I wanted to create a fairy that wasn’t a corset with stuff shoved under it.
Right now I’m succeeding with using up fabric, and not being clean about it (uh, it is, in fact, a mess).
So just a heads up, a lot of these were taken at night so the lighting is just… weird. And I didn’t want to muck about with fixing it.
I started with a pile of fabric:
The same pile, with flash:
Okay actually I started with cutting a loose vest shape based on a diagram in The Cut of Men’s Clothes, a 1770s-ish one if I remember right.
And a roll of stabilizer.
I intentionally cut it big, for shrinkage, but actually I ended up cutting a LOT off later (which I should have taken a pic of, but didn’t).
Anyway, then I just kept cutting strips in the various fabrics and semi places them.
And stitched the strips on!
I had a full size pic of it more complete, but it was super blurry.
Here’s the back:
Oh here is a cellphone pic:
Anyway, so then I thought this needs pockets.
For the back of the waistcoat I was going to put lace ups… here is a really not great pic to show how I failed at grommeting.
So I did button holes instead, but I don’t seem to have taken a pic of that.
And then on to work on the jacket!
I cut leaves while watching Batman: Under the Red Hood (again) and crying on the inside.
This was not enough leaves, and I still have more to go, but it was a start!
This was again loosely cut out after looking at the diagrams in my book, and modifying the pattern I made for my 1850s coat for Dickens last year.
Basically I just used the back from my old pattern and eyeballed the front…
And now cell phone pics!
Alright! I’m further along, but I guess I haven’t been taking as many pics as I thought.
We’ll just… see where this goes….
So this project is pretty much a challenge to myself, on multiple levels. I wanted to use up fabric (so no buying anything fabric for this), I wanted to work more with creating my own textiles (inspired by the awesome art quilts I keep seeing), I wanted to create something out of my norm (organic and not about the clean lines), and I wanted to create a fairy that wasn’t a corset with stuff shoved under it.
Right now I’m succeeding with using up fabric, and not being clean about it (uh, it is, in fact, a mess).
So just a heads up, a lot of these were taken at night so the lighting is just… weird. And I didn’t want to muck about with fixing it.
I started with a pile of fabric:
The same pile, with flash:
Okay actually I started with cutting a loose vest shape based on a diagram in The Cut of Men’s Clothes, a 1770s-ish one if I remember right.
And a roll of stabilizer.
I intentionally cut it big, for shrinkage, but actually I ended up cutting a LOT off later (which I should have taken a pic of, but didn’t).
Anyway, then I just kept cutting strips in the various fabrics and semi places them.
And stitched the strips on!
I had a full size pic of it more complete, but it was super blurry.
Here’s the back:
Oh here is a cellphone pic:
Anyway, so then I thought this needs pockets.
For the back of the waistcoat I was going to put lace ups… here is a really not great pic to show how I failed at grommeting.
So I did button holes instead, but I don’t seem to have taken a pic of that.
And then on to work on the jacket!
I cut leaves while watching Batman: Under the Red Hood (again) and crying on the inside.
This was not enough leaves, and I still have more to go, but it was a start!
This was again loosely cut out after looking at the diagrams in my book, and modifying the pattern I made for my 1850s coat for Dickens last year.
Basically I just used the back from my old pattern and eyeballed the front…
And now cell phone pics!
Alright! I’m further along, but I guess I haven’t been taking as many pics as I thought.
We’ll just… see where this goes….