Archive for the 'Costuming' Category
This evening I cut out HRH’s gown and put together the front & back panels with their gores, cut the neckline, and assembled the sleeves. OK, when I write it that way, it doesn’t seem like all that much for two hours of work. The cutting took me about half an hour. As I was [...]
I finished up Liadain’s underdress last night during textile guild. Hooray!
Here’s a sampling of what the finished seams look like. The shoulder seams were on the selvedge, so I didn’t bother to fell them, I just laid them flat and stitched them down.
I ALWAYS seem to mess up when I fell the [...]
The sleeves were too narrow – fine on top, but not big enough just below the elbow. So I ripped out the old ones and cut entirely new ones. I COULD have just used a teenytiny seam allowance and made the old ones work, but those sleeves are a good size for me, so I’ll [...]
I’m making a set of 13th century gowns for HRH Liadain and took today (while watching the inauguration) to do the bulk of the construction on the underdress. It’s all together now… I’m a little concerned about the fit of the sleeves, but we’ll know for sure how they’re fitting on Thursday.
The whole thing, inside [...]
I used to keep everyone’s measurements in a little notebook, where I would also sketch patterns, cutting diagrams, etc. These days, though, I keep everyone’s measurements in a spreadsheet. It makes the math much easier, and means I don’t have to go flipping back through the notebook to see if I have them already. Plus [...]
I finally got a picture of Shoshanna in her striped woolen cyclas that she’s had for several months. That plus a brief description are here.
Go here for a first draft of the hosen handout. I’d appreciate feedback on it – I’ll be using it for a class at Have Fun Storming the Castle in a couple of weeks.
I gave up. I CAN sew with the threads gleaned from the fabric, but I was getting too frustrated with them breaking, and I could only sew at about 1/3 my normal speed. Since I’m kind of on a deadline for this gown (yeah, I know, the deadline is six months away, but I have [...]
I’m seeing “Pennsic Panic” posts & e-mails all over the intarwebz these days… only two weeks to land grab, after all!
There is no panic here. I have learned my lesson – I make huge lists of things that I have to get done before War and they get whittled and whittled and whittled and I [...]
I displayed what exists of the mauve gown at Baronial Champs on Saturday. By that point it actually had six buttons on the sleeve and one almost-finished buttonhole. I’m pretty pleased with how the buttons are coming out… may need to re-wrap some of the shank because it gets moved around as I [...]
