That ribbed silk sounds like it would make good pillows. :-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bjarne og Leif Drews Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] bad luck!
Hi, Its ben a while since i last posted here. I had almost lost all my good patience with a projekt i started. It is such a lovely ribbed silk, but its so difficult to work with. I think its the worst silk i have ever tryed. I had cut out the forepart, and the back, the sleaves, and the cuffs. I always starts to make the sleaves of a suit, as it is so easy going. I had just finished both cuffs, and was sewing the buttons on to the cuffs and sleaves, when i stuck my hands so badly and bleeded all over on the inner cuff side for the left sleave. I tryed everything, spit on it, and used earsticks with salt water, but the collour of the silk is so fragile, that it wasnt going to be saved. Then i thoaght, well thats what happens, and i started on the other sleave. You wont believe, the same thing happened to this cuff. I compleately lost my interrest in this, and gave up. The silk is interlined with a calico cotton, and it was so hard to stick into, that i often stuck myself. In the end, i shouted out loud to myself, to h... w... i. Then i rushed off to the fabric shop, and baught myself some lovely oldfashioned silk taffeta. Thank god for that, i know how to work with that. It ended up with a very opalescence shot green taffeta with shades of very pale green. This is for jacket and breeches, and a matching green in the same collour of the pale green, for waistcoat and cuffs of the jacket. It is all going to be embroidered with silver spangels and cut glass beads that looks like the old spangels made of paste. I found these cut glass in excactly same greens as the taffeta.............. As for the ribbed silk projekt, it is put away, and i have stabbed it at the bottom................................... I had hoped to go to an event at the Gustavians in august, but now i am sure, i wont make it because i wanted to wear something new. I guess reenacting is canselled this season........... Bjarne Leif og Bjarne Drews www.my-drewscostumes.dk http://home0.inet.tele.dk/drewscph/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
