Posts Tagged ‘Costuming’
As in the past 2 years, we are having a cavalcade of houseguests making their way from Points East to Pennsic. This year is the Most Houseguests Ever – we will have 3 folks here tomorrow night, 2 more Saturday night, 3 a week from Friday, and… I think 4 on Saturday the 9th. Oh, [...]
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 [...]
And documentation is even written! I was working on the hosen handout I’ve promised to approximately a zillion people and I realized that I needed to actually test out one of the patterning methods I was suggesting (measuring and sketching, as opposed to draping). So I made a pair, using some scrap linen/cotton [...]
I cut out the mauve gown tonight. I’m trying a couple of experiments with this one. More than a couple, actually.
-> Button cuffs. I’ve done stuffed buttons before, so this isn’t totally new to me, but I’ve never done buttoned cuffs before.
-> Actual math… usually I don’t try to factor in [...]
I washed the wool for my mauve gown (A&S 50 challenge project #10) this afternoon. The damask for the lining is all prepped (read: ripped apart; it’s an old gown that I hadn’t worn in ages and couldn’t document for a number of reasons); I don’t know if there will be quite enough and [...]
Shoshanna and I will be at Aethelmearc coronation next weekend, and we’re counting on the weather being coolish. Since her brown flannel tunic is getting too small on her and I’m not sure that the cotton smock, red linen tunic, and coat will not be enough. I had been intending to make her [...]
I have finally been pushed to get off my rear and write up a handout on braies. I’m hoping to have it done by the beginning of next week – will post when I do.
Ice Dragon is coming up, and Beau Fleuve is hosting spring coronation/Queen’s Rapier at a mostly-outdoor site in April. I refuse [...]
The plan for textile guild this month was for Irene to talk about patterning garments out of Patterns of Fashion and for me to talk about making late 12th – early 14th century clothes. When we asked for head counts it looked like there were going to be a bunch of people for her [...]
I might have underestimated the amount of time the documentation was going to take to write, but it’s done and perfectly respectable. I just need to get a couple of shots of M in the garment, and then it’ll be completely done.
