Butterick Pattern B5440

[DonaCatalina]

I haven't seen Butterick pattern B5540
but it looks like it would be easy to alter for something more Elizabethan.

[Genievea Brookstone]

I have that patteren and was planning on using it to re create this:

[DonaCatalina]

oooh.
do you have a link to a larger view?

[Genievea Brookstone]

Its actually a bookcover from Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn.  I havent read the book but it was  our mail room for the taking and the cover is what caught my eye.

[gem]

And see, this is why you need to come to my event on Saturday at Pudd'n Head!! Sharon will be there. (I knew that picture the moment you posted it!)

[Genievea Brookstone]

 

And see, this is why you need to come to my event on Saturday at Pudd'n Head!! Sharon will be there. (I knew that picture the moment you posted it!)

Gem~

She would probably cry if she saw the condition of the book...it looks like a dog got to the corners of it... I wish I could go Saturday night to your signing and event but by the time we got down there I would have to turn around and come back this way for my sleep study and sadly I have put that off for far too long...Next time you are down here for an event we WILL mke it!  But I will see you Sunday!

[Lady Christina de Pond]

ohh i like it

[Lady L]

Yes, I  bought that pattern, too.

[Drac]

Amy just picked it up and was thinking of using left over tartan for the bodice instead of the lace, just the center area.

Drac

[DonaCatalina]

Okay- we have here Laudomia de Medici. This pattern could work for this dress if you altered the collar.
Everything else looks almost exactly the same.

[gem]

Except... there's something very weird and modern about the way that it fits the model, and I think it's that she doesn't have ANY undergarments on (except probably a bra), and the shape is too limp and... and small. And because the bodice is stiff/ened, and she doesn't have the proper undergarments on, it looks like it doesn't fit like it should.

Dona C, hurry up and make this, so we can all see how it *should* look! LOL

[Lady Caroline]

Gem, my thoughts exactly.  It isn't tight where it should be, or flat where it should be and my eye tends to follow that seam line up both sides of the front to her shoulders.  I'm guessing the model was just a bit smaller than the dress size. Limp is a very good choice of words It has defnate possibilities, and I'd love to work with it.

I think the thin material on her sides, which is bunching up, may really be what doesn't look right to me.  If it were a nice thick material with boning, I think it would look a lot nicer.

[Adriana Rose]

Is the head piece included in the pattern? I would love to see how those are made!

[Genievea Brookstone]

Is the head piece included in the pattern? I would love to see how those are made!

Sadly no, but they include a pattern for both the neck and wrist ruffles and the *snowflake* design on the tabs.

[operafantomet]

Okay- we have here Laudomia de Medici. (...)
http://www.myartprints.co.uk/kunst/agnolo_bronzino/portrait_laudomia_medici_hi.jpg

I'm pretty sure that is Isabella de' Medici, daughter of Eleonora di Toledo:
http://operafantomet.livejournal.com/196342.html

But I agree about the similarity; if not in silhouette then at least in details.