I need to make a couple of tweaks to it, but yay finished and from stash ( Read more... )

The first thing I did sewing related when I got home was slash the lining and unpick the bodice tuck and the pleated skirt for an inch or so.

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Okely dokely. I want to take achievable things, and not pack too much ( Read more... )

A second stoneware jug for my bumboater character, a little more modern looking, but so are some of the jugs/jars etc in paintings of the time.


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I may hate hand sewing but I'll do my best if I have to do it.  Here's the bodice neck edges, the front of one side and the reverse of the other. One sleeve is hemmed too, so that leaves 1 sleeve hem and the skirt hem. I'm trying to have less of that to hem than 3m, but 2m is still more than I want to do.

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OK I'm willing to concede that any hand sewing is too much. All those who love it, my brain doesn't comprehend. Intellectually I see you must just as there must be people who like waking up early, but I don't "feel" it ( Read more... )

I've cut out and started stitching my blue wool shortgown, and hopefully will get a chunk done tonight. I've made the pattern twice before, and am tweaking it a little as I've lost weight.  Hopefully I've guestimated it right, but as it's working class, not upper or middle it's less important to reach an ideal ( Read more... )

Just ordered on eBay (waiting to hear when I can pay & collect it) a folding stool, that's suitable for regency events.  I really want a chair, but this will be lighter as I'm schlepping myself around on by public transport - both bus and train.  Seeing as Winterfest is at the end of this month I'm really looking forward to having my own seat. ( Read more... )

I can't resist a costume related book. Well, technically not quite true. There are some I can cos they are so spendy that I just can't justify it to myself. (Barbara Johnson's swatch book. Wants but won't pay crazymoney)

So today I was reading a blogpost about the Foundling Hospital exhibition Threads of Feeling (it has a FB page), and it ( Read more... )

ugh, the interwebs just ate my post as I went to post. Lets see what I can remember ( Read more... )