Archive for February, 2009
… when I step away from a project for a while.
I got the mauve gown out to work on it during textile guild Tuesday night. I’m in the process of attaching the side gores… so I merrily seamed the one that was pinned to the body panel and then moved on to sewing the two [...]
Remember the award medallions that I was embroidering on and displayed at Pennsic? I finally got around to starting to make them into actual medallions last night.
I was taught how to make award medallions aeons ago, one evening sitting around in the barn with a bunch of people at Great Northeastern War. I actually [...]
I’m working on a portfolio for Aethelmearc Kingdom A&S Championships and one of the items that I’m putting in the portfolio is the Pelican cushion I embroidered in … A.S. 37. So here are some good pictures of it, which I didn’t have before.
The ground fabric is scrap linen from my first set of 13th [...]
Tall Child wants me to make her a 13th century riding tunic. The fashion layer will be the purple wool in the middle of this picture; the lining will be either the periwinkle blue on the right or white.
C, what do you think? What does the peanut gallery think?
I finished hemming HRH’s gown last night and wrestled the layers together and onto the dress form for a photo shoot.
It lies so much better with the underdress filling it out – the fashion fabric is very drapey, so it looked kinda weird all by its lonesome.
I did recycle my seam finishing error on the [...]
I’m on the “reserve list” to teach my hosen class at C3R on the 28th… if you’re interested, even if I don’t end up stepping into a slot, find me and I’ll be happy to let you have a handout!
It’s not FINISHED finished, but it is all assembled. And suffering from “looks better on a person than the dress form” disease, but you will get the idea.
For this gown, I tried something new in terms of the neckline – I made bias tape and finished the neckline with it. Since it’s a keyhole neckline, I had to miter the corners, and I even did it correctly on the first try! (Hooray, I get to pass ninth grade geometry!)
In general, I like [...]
