Gallery of In Progress Projects

[amy]

Oh I have that pattern and have always wanted to make it but had no reason.  I love the collar and the small shoulder rolls.  Let me know how it goes.  I am sure it would look very flowing and lovely in a lighter weight fabric.

[Lady Rebecca]

That's the first thing I ever sewed. I'm sure yours will turn out better than mine, though.

[LadyStitch]

All I have to say, pregant or not, the 'dress' part is HUGE.  The dress even has side gussets to make it even more flowy.  There is a reason they say the dress takes 7 yards!   The bodice is a seperate piece.  I love the color of blue cotton.  I'm hoping it will turn out nice.

[CaraGreenleaf]

Looks like a fun pattern!

I'm working on a lovely skirt for a friend of mine, but I need help! The fabric she chose is a lovely suede-cloth (with no poly-backing) and my machine is finding it impossible to pick up the bobbin through it! I've already run a cotton scrap through the exact set up to make sure that there wasn't anything wrong, and it picked up just fine. The machine just doesn't want to pick up through the suede. It's like I'm running with no bobbin. Any suggestions??

[DonaCatalina]

I started cutting the heavy mint green velvet.
I know, everytime I saw I'm not going to make anything else in velvet, I have a project come up that only velvet will work.
I'll make another stab at getting Windows Vista to read my photo card. <sigh>

[Kate XXXXXX]

My latest round of insanity:

  Not this, not that: 

Not this neither... 

My version: 

   

The skirt will be split up the front, and it'll have big puffy sleeves... 

Worn over a VERY FULL self stripe cotton sateen sheeting Dawn's Pages chemise with lace trim: 

Another stash buster, this!

Also a brown linen mediaeval style frock, pics later...  All made to a fantasy work image of history, and to be worn over regular underpinnings rather than corsetry, becaue I'm likely to be on the crew and dragging about in the mud.  We are talking July in England, after all, and camping...

[Syrilla]

The one line of channels are stuffed, but I didn't like them. I started doing them by hand sewing, but decided to machine them due to time and a good backstitch looks like bad machine stitching.  My old machine did irregular stitches before it died and I had to switch to cheap modern machine that is regular.

S0...
I added another row.  Then I pounded the large areas, in between the rows, with angled cuts.  Thank you for the help!

The mock-up, with the tuck at the chest.  Sadly, when the fashion fabric, that was cut on the bias. was sewn to the straight lining the area that I took out the extra material for the tuck, did great on the left side but stretched on the right side... UGH!

[Kate XXXXXX]

Glorious colour, Syrilla!  And the stomacher looks great.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

I second that!!

The samples for a vendor friend of mine in Michigan are ready to go out tomorrow. She will be at the Chippewa Festival during its run.

Two corsets ready to go to the Shoe Repair for grommetting, finishing shirts for the son of Lady Renee Bychannan, as well as getting the Elizabeth Bathory ensemble ready to get cut out.

No rest for the wicked.

[Cilean]

So I am working on a Summer tourney and I wanted to add some fancy to it so check out This is my Bodice It is in Lavender Blue Linen

Here it is finished this was 37 changes and used 9 different greens!




And then I added Beads to get a better because the strawberry just was not loud enough!


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Close up of the Sleeve detail:


Now to add the boning interior and then add the linen backing. I will be adding brass rings to the bodice shoulder and blue is what I have chosen to really make the whole thing look good for ties and trim around the bottom of the skirt.  This is a Summer Gown so I don't think I will use more than 3 panels. I might some left over...who knows? And I will be making an apron in heavier linen and I will be using Myst to embroider Tudor Roses all around the edges!

Cilean

[Lady Kett]

Cilean....OMG that is GORGEOUS! I cannot wait to see the finished product!

[Kate XXXXXX]

Lovely stuff!  I won't envy you at all when I finally buy me embroidery machine...

[Adriana Rose]

I want one too! The price is rather scary though

[Kate XXXXXX]

I had a long discussion with a sewing machine selling guy I know...  He and Alan agree that what I REALLY need is one of these!



Price about £7,000.
It'll embroider 10 different colours at the same time!  Ooer, missus!  But considering the type of thing my sewing partner and I want to do, it's about what'll cope with the size and volume.  And there's nothing like the set-up time and thread change time for a domestic machine.  Big thing will be finding a space to put it!

[ArielCallista]

WANT!