I am taking a break from hand sewing my loose gown sleeve puffs trim. It is curved, and shaped, so I can't do it very well by machine. Thankfully, it is small and easily dealt with by hand. I have one puff done, and started into the next puff ( Read more... )

Yeah, I have been writing a lot today ( Read more... )

Well, I've been working on the foresleeves again. And I messed up, I made them with eight pleats instead of the ten pleats in the image (five are seen, presumably five are on the other side). But otherwise, they look good. Only ones who will know I messed up are reading this entry. Nice thing is with the pleats, I can see the different colors in ( Read more... )

Now I remember the reasons I had put the foresleeves on my back burner for so long (over a year)... the scraps I have left (thankfully one is pretty large) that need to be pieced together first. And the need to drape the pleats into the pattern before making up the pattern ( Read more... )

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I am slowly working on uploading my photos to Photobucket, so I can share them with people. Just click on the images to view the whole photo album thumbnails.

Here are some from Collegium Caidis this fall. I didn't take but a few, but here they are.

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I just edited my earlier post on my Tudor gown and kirtle that was in the Hanford RoK post. I wanted to keep it separate as a dress diary entry, and I added a bit more in. ( Read more... )

The ouches and pearls took longer than expected to sew onto the kirtle neckline, but they are done now. So is the fabric girdle I found and shortened ( Read more... )

,,, from my attachment of the jewels and beads, to make the edge of the Tudor kirtle. It looks great, and I will definitely have enough of the ouches to make the complete neckline. I am just not sure how far back to set the ouches and pearls (plastic), since part of the gown covers up the back area. I may just run the rest of the back as pearls. So ( Read more... )

One more item done for tonight, the refitting of my Tudor kirtle ( Read more... )