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May. 22nd, 2009 03:13 pm |
I have a tricorn !!! Now, I can think of doing myself piraty :) |
(And yes, I'm terrible on that picture, but that was the better of all the pictures I did of the tricorn...)
(And yes, I'm terrible on that picture, but that was the better of all the pictures I did of the tricorn...)
i put the quilted petticoat on hold, because I have to work on a new gown, urgently. I have to wear it in 20 days, and I'm a slow seamstress. Except that I'm not working on it. No, no ! Because, when I'm in the urge, I always feel like an irrepressible need to make a hat. I tell you, this is psychanalytical !
( pix ! )
( pix ! )we don't have a Gainsborough hat...
Feb. 15th, 2008 02:24 ambut we have a big hat, and big feathers :
It's in case I manage to finish my anglaise for the 23th.
on other news, the ume dress is driving me crazy, and i'm beginning to hate it : kilometers of handsewn bias (every time i used machine, i ruined my bias), I manage to bleed on the white silk, have to wet it to remove it, but it's a silk which doesn't like water, and which apparently doesn't let the iron press it. and I will never have the time to make a matching hat.
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green_martha, I'm also giving up on the 20s dress, because I didn't excpect that the ume dress would be so time consuming, and the 20s dress is also time consuming. sorry.
and tonight, i'm on caps strike.
It's in case I manage to finish my anglaise for the 23th.
on other news, the ume dress is driving me crazy, and i'm beginning to hate it : kilometers of handsewn bias (every time i used machine, i ruined my bias), I manage to bleed on the white silk, have to wet it to remove it, but it's a silk which doesn't like water, and which apparently doesn't let the iron press it. and I will never have the time to make a matching hat.
green_martha, I'm also giving up on the 20s dress, because I didn't excpect that the ume dress would be so time consuming, and the 20s dress is also time consuming. sorry.and tonight, i'm on caps strike.
Crafty day
Jan. 9th, 2008 10:50 pmI'm very happy tonight. It's been a long time I haven't been that crafty : today I
- make self-fabric bias for my 1928 dress,
- begin making the related self-fabric pipping,
- sew together the parts of the overskirt of said costume,
- then I try to make a pattern for a 1880 poke bonnet (you can see here, here, here, here, here, here and here -- the first hat -- that poke bonnet was indeed very fashionnable in the first years of the 1880s), with so-so results, but it's only my first attempt,
- and I'm also hoping to finish my crocheted so-called 1928 cap tonight, while lazily surfing on internet.
A good day, really.
- make self-fabric bias for my 1928 dress,
- begin making the related self-fabric pipping,
- sew together the parts of the overskirt of said costume,
- then I try to make a pattern for a 1880 poke bonnet (you can see here, here, here, here, here, here and here -- the first hat -- that poke bonnet was indeed very fashionnable in the first years of the 1880s), with so-so results, but it's only my first attempt,
- and I'm also hoping to finish my crocheted so-called 1928 cap tonight, while lazily surfing on internet.
A good day, really.
Crafty day
Jan. 9th, 2008 10:50 pmI'm very happy tonight. It's been a long time I haven't been that crafty : today I
- make self-fabric bias for my 1928 dress,
- begin making the related self-fabric pipping,
- sew together the parts of the overskirt of said costume,
- then I try to make a pattern for a 1880 poke bonnet (you can see here, here, here, here, here, here and here -- the first hat -- that poke bonnet was indeed very fashionnable in the first years of the 1880s), with so-so results, but it's only my first attempt,
- and I'm also hoping to finish my crocheted so-called 1928 cap tonight, while lazily surfing on internet.
A good day, really.
- make self-fabric bias for my 1928 dress,
- begin making the related self-fabric pipping,
- sew together the parts of the overskirt of said costume,
- then I try to make a pattern for a 1880 poke bonnet (you can see here, here, here, here, here, here and here -- the first hat -- that poke bonnet was indeed very fashionnable in the first years of the 1880s), with so-so results, but it's only my first attempt,
- and I'm also hoping to finish my crocheted so-called 1928 cap tonight, while lazily surfing on internet.
A good day, really.
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Mar. 16th, 2007 02:20 amThank you all for the nice comments on my bustle dress :) You're all great and sweet !
One precision, because someone mentionned it : the velvet of the bodice is not black but of a very dark green. But oh well!, the original idea was to make it out of black velvet, so I think it's all for the best, uh ?
Now I have picture of the hat and the dolman, but it doesn't really show the dolman correctly : so orange ! (or maybe it's my comp...)
As for the bird, it's an original vintage 19th century piece my mother found on a flea market.
( The hat )
( The dolman )
One precision, because someone mentionned it : the velvet of the bodice is not black but of a very dark green. But oh well!, the original idea was to make it out of black velvet, so I think it's all for the best, uh ?
Now I have picture of the hat and the dolman, but it doesn't really show the dolman correctly : so orange ! (or maybe it's my comp...)
As for the bird, it's an original vintage 19th century piece my mother found on a flea market.
( The hat )
( The dolman )
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Mar. 16th, 2007 02:20 amThank you all for the nice comments on my bustle dress :) You're all great and sweet !
One precision, because someone mentionned it : the velvet of the bodice is not black but of a very dark green. But oh well!, the original idea was to make it out of black velvet, so I think it's all for the best, uh ?
Now I have picture of the hat and the dolman, but it doesn't really show the dolman correctly : so orange ! (or maybe it's my comp...)
As for the bird, it's an original vintage 19th century piece my mother found on a flea market.
( The hat )
( The dolman )
One precision, because someone mentionned it : the velvet of the bodice is not black but of a very dark green. But oh well!, the original idea was to make it out of black velvet, so I think it's all for the best, uh ?
Now I have picture of the hat and the dolman, but it doesn't really show the dolman correctly : so orange ! (or maybe it's my comp...)
As for the bird, it's an original vintage 19th century piece my mother found on a flea market.
( The hat )
( The dolman )
(Nearly) not yet dead and change of plans
Jul. 29th, 2006 03:17 pmThe next person who tells me global warming is a fake, and there's no canicule in France compare to [choose a place between Texas and Nigeria], and environnment is just fine, and ozone is just fine, and Kyoto treaty is shity, and blah blah vlah, I break his/her nose. Honest. I make a carnage, a bloodshed !!
I'm in Bretagne, right now. Bretagne is suppose to have the same clime as England. What do I say, England : Scotland !! Rain, rain, rain, grey skies, coldness, and furious black ocean.
Well well, I'm burn to the bones (first time in 26 years that I am sunburned in Bretagne, and it's really really bad, I should wear camouflage to go out, else people will thought that I'm a lobster gone human !), I sleep windows open, and I'm still sweating at 2 in the morning, and the north Atlantic ocean is as hot as the mediterranea (I'm surprised all the fishes are not yet dead).
Really, Simili-Scotland is no more what it used to be !
On other news, my young aunt having a bad disease no one as diagnosis correctly yet, she has to spent some time at the hospital. And as it's August, and August in France, is like a subburb of Mars (Life is dead, definitively), the parents couldn't find a nanny for the teeny weeny baby cousin, so, yes I'm going to baby-sit the anorexic baby for the next month, hurra !! My only decent T-shirt goes from black to yoghurt-white in just 10 hours, it tells a lot on what I'm going to live for the next month...
***
Anyway, I will have to improvise for sewing. I don't have any of my books, I have the minimum supplies, I don't have my corsets, but I have two places to buy fabrics !! : first I will finish hat 2 (1855 or something). Second, I'm only going to do a flounced 1845-55 skirt (I didn't tell you that I was doing a 1845s-55s founced dress ? Hats. It's all because of hats), because, well, impovising a fan front bodice without corset is, what, suicide ?
But, but, but... Please, I need someone to scan for me the page(s) on 1840s-50s flounced skirts in Hunnisett. It's not a pattern, it just gives the lenghts to use for the different skirting and the lenghts of the flounces (I will do three).
Oh, and I will try to begin my 1840s corded petticoat that I will wear under that dress. Insane, yes. I am strangely happy about that bit of insanity... It's been a year I told I will do it, and I just didn't even begin. Bad me. But now I have no choice :))
I'm in Bretagne, right now. Bretagne is suppose to have the same clime as England. What do I say, England : Scotland !! Rain, rain, rain, grey skies, coldness, and furious black ocean.
Well well, I'm burn to the bones (first time in 26 years that I am sunburned in Bretagne, and it's really really bad, I should wear camouflage to go out, else people will thought that I'm a lobster gone human !), I sleep windows open, and I'm still sweating at 2 in the morning, and the north Atlantic ocean is as hot as the mediterranea (I'm surprised all the fishes are not yet dead).
Really, Simili-Scotland is no more what it used to be !
On other news, my young aunt having a bad disease no one as diagnosis correctly yet, she has to spent some time at the hospital. And as it's August, and August in France, is like a subburb of Mars (Life is dead, definitively), the parents couldn't find a nanny for the teeny weeny baby cousin, so, yes I'm going to baby-sit the anorexic baby for the next month, hurra !! My only decent T-shirt goes from black to yoghurt-white in just 10 hours, it tells a lot on what I'm going to live for the next month...
***
Anyway, I will have to improvise for sewing. I don't have any of my books, I have the minimum supplies, I don't have my corsets, but I have two places to buy fabrics !! : first I will finish hat 2 (1855 or something). Second, I'm only going to do a flounced 1845-55 skirt (I didn't tell you that I was doing a 1845s-55s founced dress ? Hats. It's all because of hats), because, well, impovising a fan front bodice without corset is, what, suicide ?
But, but, but... Please, I need someone to scan for me the page(s) on 1840s-50s flounced skirts in Hunnisett. It's not a pattern, it just gives the lenghts to use for the different skirting and the lenghts of the flounces (I will do three).
Oh, and I will try to begin my 1840s corded petticoat that I will wear under that dress. Insane, yes. I am strangely happy about that bit of insanity... It's been a year I told I will do it, and I just didn't even begin. Bad me. But now I have no choice :))
(Nearly) not yet dead and change of plans
Jul. 29th, 2006 03:17 pmThe next person who tells me global warming is a fake, and there's no canicule in France compare to [choose a place between Texas and Nigeria], and environnment is just fine, and ozone is just fine, and Kyoto treaty is shity, and blah blah vlah, I break his/her nose. Honest. I make a carnage, a bloodshed !!
I'm in Bretagne, right now. Bretagne is suppose to have the same clime as England. What do I say, England : Scotland !! Rain, rain, rain, grey skies, coldness, and furious black ocean.
Well well, I'm burn to the bones (first time in 26 years that I am sunburned in Bretagne, and it's really really bad, I should wear camouflage to go out, else people will thought that I'm a lobster gone human !), I sleep windows open, and I'm still sweating at 2 in the morning, and the north Atlantic ocean is as hot as the mediterranea (I'm surprised all the fishes are not yet dead).
Really, Simili-Scotland is no more what it used to be !
On other news, my young aunt having a bad disease no one as diagnosis correctly yet, she has to spent some time at the hospital. And as it's August, and August in France, is like a subburb of Mars (Life is dead, definitively), the parents couldn't find a nanny for the teeny weeny baby cousin, so, yes I'm going to baby-sit the anorexic baby for the next month, hurra !! My only decent T-shirt goes from black to yoghurt-white in just 10 hours, it tells a lot on what I'm going to live for the next month...
***
Anyway, I will have to improvise for sewing. I don't have any of my books, I have the minimum supplies, I don't have my corsets, but I have two places to buy fabrics !! : first I will finish hat 2 (1855 or something). Second, I'm only going to do a flounced 1845-55 skirt (I didn't tell you that I was doing a 1845s-55s founced dress ? Hats. It's all because of hats), because, well, impovising a fan front bodice without corset is, what, suicide ?
But, but, but... Please, I need someone to scan for me the page(s) on 1840s-50s flounced skirts in Hunnisett. It's not a pattern, it just gives the lenghts to use for the different skirting and the lenghts of the flounces (I will do three).
Oh, and I will try to begin my 1840s corded petticoat that I will wear under that dress. Insane, yes. I am strangely happy about that bit of insanity... It's been a year I told I will do it, and I just didn't even begin. Bad me. But now I have no choice :))
I'm in Bretagne, right now. Bretagne is suppose to have the same clime as England. What do I say, England : Scotland !! Rain, rain, rain, grey skies, coldness, and furious black ocean.
Well well, I'm burn to the bones (first time in 26 years that I am sunburned in Bretagne, and it's really really bad, I should wear camouflage to go out, else people will thought that I'm a lobster gone human !), I sleep windows open, and I'm still sweating at 2 in the morning, and the north Atlantic ocean is as hot as the mediterranea (I'm surprised all the fishes are not yet dead).
Really, Simili-Scotland is no more what it used to be !
On other news, my young aunt having a bad disease no one as diagnosis correctly yet, she has to spent some time at the hospital. And as it's August, and August in France, is like a subburb of Mars (Life is dead, definitively), the parents couldn't find a nanny for the teeny weeny baby cousin, so, yes I'm going to baby-sit the anorexic baby for the next month, hurra !! My only decent T-shirt goes from black to yoghurt-white in just 10 hours, it tells a lot on what I'm going to live for the next month...
***
Anyway, I will have to improvise for sewing. I don't have any of my books, I have the minimum supplies, I don't have my corsets, but I have two places to buy fabrics !! : first I will finish hat 2 (1855 or something). Second, I'm only going to do a flounced 1845-55 skirt (I didn't tell you that I was doing a 1845s-55s founced dress ? Hats. It's all because of hats), because, well, impovising a fan front bodice without corset is, what, suicide ?
But, but, but... Please, I need someone to scan for me the page(s) on 1840s-50s flounced skirts in Hunnisett. It's not a pattern, it just gives the lenghts to use for the different skirting and the lenghts of the flounces (I will do three).
Oh, and I will try to begin my 1840s corded petticoat that I will wear under that dress. Insane, yes. I am strangely happy about that bit of insanity... It's been a year I told I will do it, and I just didn't even begin. Bad me. But now I have no choice :))
