More trim is now attached. The bodice is done, and I've managed to cartridge pleat five widths of fabric onto the waistband.

( Some pics )

Put down the needle and step away from the sewing machine...

Last minute buttons were sewn on in the car in time honoured fashion.

( How we were nearly eaten by Stomacthulu! )

What do you do with twelve metres of ice-blue silk satin?

( The Snow Queen, 1790 )

Fast work in the week that had us almost running screaming for the hills!

( Fat bottom girls, you make the frocking world go round... )

Sneaked this one in under the wire...

( Fast stuff and nifty sneakiness... )

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I've been wanting to make a zone front for a very long time. Ever since seeing the Coppola Marie Antoinette movie. I love that movie. It's so pointless, and I'm pretty sure that they never actually talk. lol.... but the dresses are amazing ( Read more... )

You have been warned!         ( Hubble Bubble... )

...In the britches of the doctor who attends the mistress of the  king at the court of King Caractacus

Have just passed by!

( I never promised you a rose garden... )

I finished the Banyan yesterday...

( I feel like a Christmas Tree decoration! )