Gallery of Finished Projects

[Irish Kate]

Me wearing my new Elizabethan gown at our Minnesota Renaissance Festival Friends 2015 Spring Feast.



With my friend, Dr. Deb Suppes in her newly made Tudor gown from the Andrea Shewe Simplicity pattern. Deb did an awesome job and pictures does not do her gown justice.

Loved loved LOVED this when you cross-posted it to the EC FB page! Just beautiful!

[Dinobabe]

Finished my stash only bodice!  It is 99% stash (had to buy grommets and ribbon for ties).  Just lacks sleeves and matching hat at this point.  Bodice is completely reversible.  Orange with green and teal accents/green with orange and teal accents.
Here is the diary for it on my FB page.
https://www.facebook.com/natasha.mccallister/media_set?set=a.10206187509151928.1073741838.1390225917&type=3&uploaded=23

[isabelladangelo]

18th Century and it needs buttons but I wore it as is to Fort Fred (an 18th Century Wilderness Fort in MD).


Close up of the Zone Front par Isabella, on ipernity

The cotton is a last quarter of the 18th century print in blue and cream.  The solid blue is silk satin.  The petticoat was an old bedspread at one point in it's life - it simply went better with the blues of the dress than the orange quilted petticoat I have.  It was so cold at Fort Fred it actually snowed this morning. 

[Dinobabe]

Your dress is lovely.  I love the colonial clothing!  We just don't live in an area with colonial history.  All Civil War around here.

AND I love the use of old bedspreads and sheets and curtains!  lol

[Dinobabe]

UPDATE:
Finished the hat and reversible sleeves.
Can't wait to wear it to the TN RenFest May 24!

[isabelladangelo]

Thanks, Dinobabe!  We have a lot of different eras in the Maryland/Virginia area.  Renaissance, 17th Century, 18th Century, Regency, 1840's (Edgar Allen Poe), American Civil War, early 20th Century... If my neighborhood became the next Pompeii tomorrow, archeologists would be baffled a few hundred years from now. 

The old bedsheets are normally used as mock ups and in pattern making.  I really hated to ones that were on my bed at the family beach home.  Really, really hated them. Hideous lime green shells on a not quite red not quite coral background.   I was so happy to be able to cut them up.  My family and non-sewing friends know to give me the large pieces of cloth items they no longer use. 

Love the hat!

[Rowan MacD]

Absolutely Beautiful, Irma. Well done!

A finished shirt in 100% Linen, Gold decorative stitching, with Gold metallic trim for the ruff edges, Gold with Pearl center buttons for a client in Idaho. This shirt is a gift to the client's husband. This is the second shirt I have done for this client. Any inquiries, feel free to PM me.



Close up of the decorative stitching and trim.

I ordered one of these in an open front, parlet style.  wonderful work!
Seriously loving it- I will be wearing it this weekend at the Nebraska Faire.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Be sure  to post photos, Rowan.   

[isabelladangelo]

DSC07954 par Isabella, on ipernity

My latest.  :-)

[gem]

So cute! Every time you post one of these, I think, "I NEED a colored apron." And I haven't made one yet!!

[isabelladangelo]

Lol.  If you are near a Joanns, check out their remnants section.  I often find 1 yard pieces of linen for half off. Perfect for making an apron.

[gem]

LOL; I have about twenty yards (or probably more!) of linen in tons of different colors already; I just can't talk myself into what-goes-with-what! I've gotten so far as pulling a yard of ginger brown linen from the stash & pressing it... but there's also a very nice green, navy, rust, another green, um.  And then I decide it would be simpler (??) to go with lace insertion or embroidery... and end up apronless for another season.

I am making a "period correct" Hobbit ensemble, and got smart: I bought a vintage embroidered hostess apron from the 1940s.

Apron block--is that a thing? LOL

[isabelladangelo]

Yes, apron block can be a thing.   

My block for historical garb making is almost always stays and any underwear that isn't the chemise.  I can whip out a chemise in a half hour but bloomers?  Petticoats?  Stays?  Yeah...those tend to not happen. 

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

That's quick, isabella!   You are so creative in all that you do.

It gakes me a few hours to make a chemise. That because in some cases, I vary the decorative stitching, add lace, etc. But then, it also depends on the length as well.

For the more Elizabethan shirts and Chemises/Shifts, 6+ hours. Making the figure 8 ruffs for the neck and wrist bands take time to prepare, decorative stitching, serging my seam edges, etc.  before I put everything together.

[isabelladangelo]

I admit, what I do tends to be very plain.  The half hour was with a machine; it's 8 hours by hand.   I've done a couple more decorative ones but I get frustrated at doing embroidery and all my embroidery tends to go hide in the bad corner for months at a time.   ;-)

I'd love to be able to serge things - I destroyed my serger 24 hours after I got it.   I should get it taken it to be fixed...along with the other two sewing machines I have lying about....

Lady Kathleen, what is your favorite decorative stitch to do?  What machine do you use?