Gallery of In Progress Projects

[LaurenLee]

OOOOOOH that fabric is to DIE for.... and beautiful work, m'lady!

[LadyElizabeth]

I love your attention to detail, something to truly admire!!  Those two sides line up perfectly in the front there!!  And I do really like that fabric!

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

Once again Kathy You astonish us with your work. And take our breath away with what you do.

OH and I love that fabric

HUZZAH to you

[Syrilla]

Wonderful use of fabric design!

[DonaCatalina]

The Marques's new doublet in progress.

[LadyShadow]

Oh wow, Cant wait to see it finished.

[Sorcha]

More amazing work Ladies!!

[DragonWing]

  I aspire to be as good as you two ladies.   Great work.

[Lady Catherine]

Hello! so, I finally have something to brag on that I did ALL by myself! I am going to be a Scottish dressmaker, middle Class on cast at our faire in TN.

This is my cable-tie boned, heavy duty eye tape for lacing rings, and %100 Linen bodice...... more to come.....

[LadyShadow]

nice work.

[CapnFayeCutler]

Great job, Lady Catherine. Can't wait to see it in person in FIFTY EIGHT days!

[Kate XXXXXX]

Nicely done.  Now, where are the pix of you modeling it?   

[DonaCatalina]

Great job on the boning layout.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

That is one sturdy corset!!!  Well done!!!

[Luciana]

Hello ladies. I didn't post here for a while. A friend of mine have suggested that for my next project should be a traditional Romanian costume. The Romanian costume is usually really easy to cut. It is practically a peasant blouse, a skirt (circle or gathered or gored one) and in most cases one or two aprons. What makes the costume different is the embroidery. Depending on the region the embroidery and the aprons are different. My aprons are wool woven, black with burned orange and embroidered with some flowers. Right now I am working at embroidering the blouse. The pictures are showing one of the sleeves, the embroidery will be like a block 15 inches long per 12 inches wide. Picture of what I am talking about.



The embroidery will go 3 inches higher than the line of the bottom of the fabric. It is easier for me to do the embroidery for each part of the blouse instead of putting it together and doing it later. The sleeves will have most of the embroidery, also the front will have some, especially around the neck and yoke. The skirt will be embroidered at the bottom, with an 1 inch wide pattern. I didn't decide yet if I will repeat the pattern from the blouse or I will go with a differnt one.



Now I need your help. My initial idea was to do a combination of black embroidery and orange beads. I tried on a little are but it doesn't look very good to me.



You can see on the top where I did a bit with beads. The rest is done with orange cotton thread. Please let me know which one you think is better.