Before I forget everything, I better finish my recap.

Friday I dressed in my white striped Regency dress. I had a red ribbon in my hair (the one from Snow White) but managed to lose it by the time I got downstairs. My hair is just too slippery! I attended Trystan's "Suffragette Fashions" lecture and Abby Cox's "Finishing Your 18th C. Look" lecture ( Read more... )

Went to an event today with living history folks. It was a fundraiser for the Manitoba Museum/trade show for local businesses. We were dressed c.1800-1860. I finished up my sleeves yesterday afternoon, so for once in a long time I wasn't up late sewing! I took some pictures when I got back. I wanted to take outdoor ones, but it started raining when ( Read more... )

I drafted up a new sleeve with a much shallower sleevehead. And it fits so much better! There isn't any more pulling and I can move my arm around, both forward and up! It has a little bit of wrinkling in the front of the arm, which was bothering me. But upon looking at pictures of people who made up the Past Patterns gown (which has a similar ( Read more... )

Ok, so I don't ACTUALLY need a new dress, but our living history group got invited to a fundraising event for the Manitoba Museum this Friday and it will be a bit fancier we are dressing 1800-1850. I don't want to wear my print ensemble again, because I don't think it's very fancy. My striped chemise dress comes to the rescue. Even though I made it ( Read more... )

Things I made in 2014 (some still need a bit of finishing, but are mostly done), with comments:
1. Smooth Sailing grey wool trousers: need hemming, nice wardrobe staple, will be good for when I have to look professional or something like a grown-up ;p

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I recently joined the local Jane Austen Society of North America on the recommendation of a friend. Here are some pictures of me at the annual celebration of Austen's birthday. My friend is the photographer. It was rather dark because it's winter, so you can't really see the little ringlets I made out of my way too long bangs, but Look! whole ( Read more... )

There always seems to be stuff to do! I've got my thesis going, which is getting to crunch time. There's work and family stuff and friends. Sewing is increasingly getting the short end of the stick. So far I have half of my corset pattern traced out on a mock-up fabric. That's it. I did make a trip to the fabric store the other day and got some ( Read more... )

I bought my Costume College ticket the other day! And a ticket for the Gala! Yay! I can't believe that it's really happening. All I need to do is make a bunch of things to wear now... It looks to me like there are about 4-5 opportunities for costume wearing (not including vintage stuff that can be worn whenever, like it in classes). So here's what ( Read more... )

I finally put in the last stitches of hemming and finished off my entry for the HSF challenge: Art. I was inspired by 1790s chemise gowns. In contrast with 1780s chemise gowns, these ones have fitted backs and often long sleeves.

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Finally some progress. I have the skirt just over half hemmed after working on it for a couple of hours today. A couple more tomorrow and it should be done. And only two weeks after the HSF deadline. ;p (Although this one could technically count for either challenge this month: Art and Politics of Fashion. It is very French Revolution and the time ( Read more... )