PPG, Part 2
On to cutting! ::insert montage here:: Well, dress is cut out… gores are sewn together, as is back seam… time to tweak the fit. Great idea, except for the part where it doesn’t fit at all. Apparently this fabric doesn’t stretch as much as my other pull-over kirtles (which still fit!), thus I can’t actually [...]
Pennsic Pregnancy Garb – Dress 1, part 1
So. 7 months preggers @ Pennsic. I’m probably crazy. But then everyone said I was crazy for wearing the garb I wore at Pennsics past, so my new goal: how not to roast the kid while still looking *reasonably* true to my actual persona. (And before I get the health-and-safety lecture, *I know*. No, really, [...]
ISBN.nu: Find the best price for books online
ISBN.nu: Find the best price for books online. This site is *fabulous*. I got sent to this from a random article, and just as a test, typed in a book I had been looking for for *years* (Margaret Scott’s The History of Dress: Late Gothic Europe, 1400-1500) and never found for a price I was [...]
A long weekend…
Well, really it wasn’t that long. In fact, I wish it had been longer, as I didn’t get as much done as I planned, but enough thinking about that. As I was blockaded in my sewing room for much of the weekend, I listened to a lot more music than usual. And as a confession? [...]
Expensive Fabric is Expensive…
So someone on h-cost posted a link to this company (click the picture) earlier today. It’s completely unfair that to make a houppelande out of it (it’s 100% silk) it’d cost me something more than a mortgage payment. I really ought to be able to dress myself in the style of my persona. Even if [...]
Black and Gold Houppelande
Black and Gold Houppelande, circa 1420 The goal for this gown was to make something fun and dramatic for Atlantia’s Kingdom 12th Night (2007). This gown is not based on any specific illumination; elements are taken from several roughly contemporaneous images but I can’t say for sure they would have been combined this way. The [...]
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