I'm really tired of altering this dress... but when you loose a quarter of your body weight in a year, it's kinda inevitable -- and it's the only one of my gothic fitted dresses that even CAN be altered to my new size, so I suppose I should consider myself lucky... at least I have a dress that fits! (And I know, no one has any sympathy for my ( Read more... )

I finally finished the underdress to my 1475 english burgundian! OK, so I finished it enough to wear it to Pennsic in 2011, but then I decided that the back neckline was a mistake, as the sleeves were falling off my shoulder points and I ripped it apart and it's been languishing in pieces in my sewing room ever since. But it's wearable again!! Of ( Read more... )

I finally finished my last YWU’d paper on the black velvet titanic-era evening dress! Yeah!!! *Happy Dance!* I’m so tired of this paper… the dress turned out to be very difficult to pattern and document. Which I predicted it would be - I thought it would be a nice challenge. It was beyond challenging. I am exhausted. I’d say, I never want to see it ( Read more... )

I was hit with inspiration when I was unlacing my GFD:


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Based on the test pictures I did comparing the curved-front GFD to the straight-front GFD when worn under a Burgundian, I decided to make the underdress for my English Burgundian with a curved front - multiple etchings have the double arches over the bosom and I get that with the curved front dress but not the straight front version.


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I’ve been meaning to post about this since before I got distracted with my regency petticoat. I decided that while I’m waiting to buy all the materials for my green May Dress (and most especially waiting to have enough “fun money” saved up to actually afford the materials) I decided to start on a completely new and different 15th century project:


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