Posts Tagged ‘mauve gown’
… 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 [...]
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 [...]
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’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 [...]
You double check that you are correctly remembering the orientation of buttonholes relative to the garment edge.
(A: perpendicular, just like I thought.)
Blogged with the Flock Browser
So many of us say that one reason we play in the SCA is for those magic moments, the ones when you’re transported to another time, another place. Whether you call this “The Dream” or something else, it’s a wonderful reminder of why we do what we do. I remember my first “magic moment”; it [...]
