Gallery of In Progress Projects

[Anna Iram]

I've been keeping an eye out as well. Generally I've seen it listed near or over $20.

I'm curious too how it might compare to the Shakespeare in Love pattern. (8881) I have that one.

[Lady Isabella]

Ok... love the smock. The sleeves are very full, the collar is a pain but turns out really nice. FIrst time I did the cuffs, this time I just added a casing for elastic. I've made both view A (kendyl's) and view B )for my sister in law). Both really easy. You can do boning, the pattern calls for it, but I didn't. We all wear corsets, enough boning there. The skirt is only about 125 wide. So not good for hoops. Just add another skirt piece. Would be too short for me. I use Margo Anderson patterns for that anyways. Made the hat for Kendyl, very small. Almost to small.

[DonaCatalina]

ta da! It turned out lovely Isabella.

[Syrilla]

Just starting on pinking and slashing low slubbed, dupioni silk.  Does anyone have any suggestions on the best technique.  I will post pictures.  I'm being inspired by http://www.festiveattyre.com/research/diary2002/page2.html  .  So I am going to also use the Trapunto process.  Pray for me... and finding patients.

[CenturiesSewing]

Syrilla have you been here?

http://www.alyxxndon.com/Alyxx/Fabric_stamping.htm

I've done some pinking on cheap acetate satin with a wood chisel and an ice pick, I'd keep a small whet stone on hand to keep an edge if you go that route, if you use something like an old cutting board under it.

[Syrilla]

Yes, I have seen and took notes!  Thank you

[Kate XXXXXX]

Yesterday's quick and dirty!  My friend and I made a whole caraco, sans hooks and eyes and a teeny bit of finishing on the inside, a complete petticoat (fully lined and pleated up over pocket hoops) and 3/4 of a banyan!

           

We started at 10:00am and finished at about 7:00 pm.  We did have supervision! 



Quick, but maybe not so dirty: fast machine finishes, but of sell-to-customer quality.

[Syrilla]

First test with new stone carving tools.  And stuffing channels.  The leather punches didn't make a dent.


Starting to re-bead an older forepart and restyle the sleeves!

[LadyShadow]

Lovely. I extremely like how the sleeve on the right looks. That is beautiful. Great work.

[Lady Rebecca]

Wow, that beading looks amazing!

And Kate, great work! I can't believe you did all of that in one day.

[Lady Isabella]

Wow ladies!!!!

[Anna Iram]

I'm really interested in seeing how the pinked sleeves turn out. Do I understand that you don't need to reinforce or fray check the edges?

Kate, I love that gold patterned fabric. Is that to be worn with the orange dupioni?  Fun outfit. What's it for?

[Kate XXXXXX]

The caraco with the gold lace goes with the orange petticoat.  They were needed for an event this weekend, and will be worn again next month at Masquerade, a freeform LARP event.  The banyan is my dressing gown for Masqueraqde!

They used to wax the edges of pinked holes if they were likely to fray, but a nice tightly woven silk doesn't fray that easily, and fray-checking the holes can show quite a bit.  If the holes are cut on the bias, they fray far less, which is one reason you see diagonal slits in some things.

[Lady Rosalind]

The caraco with the gold lace goes with the orange petticoat.  They were needed for an event this weekend, and will be worn again next month at Masquerade, a freeform LARP event.  The banyan is my dressing gown for Masqueraqde!

They used to wax the edges of pinked holes if they were likely to fray, but a nice tightly woven silk doesn't fray that easily, and fray-checking the holes can show quite a bit.  If the holes are cut on the bias, they fray far less, which is one reason you see diagonal slits in some things.

Fray-check definitely shows! I did a whole pane of my son's slops before realizing that it dries darker!!!! When I did the slashes on his doublet, I didn't use fray-check at all, and the whole thing still looks great!

[gem]

This is neither pretty nor impressive, but it is proof that I am working away at my damask kirtle! I've finished the innards (the boned flatlining) and am satisfied with my second attempt at draping the skirt, so the next step (gasp!!) is to actually cut into the fashion fabric. 



And this is my first quick skirt draping. I have since done another much better version, but I don't have pictures (nb: dark purple is the WORST color possible for a muslin. You can't see what's going on with it, and it photographs *terribly.* This was actually an unfinished cotton sateen skirt I had handy, otherwise I'd have gone with something much more sensible!). Oh!! And I've also since discovered that my dressform is actually adjustable (!!), so it's now my height and there's not 15" of skirt pooled on the floor.