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Mine is wearing a (modern, commercial) English Riding coat that is all pinned up to be altered, but I'm not excited about it at the moment. :) My daughter has the shoulder width and arm length of one size, but the bust and waist measurement of two sizes smaller, so all her riding clothes are either custom made (by me) or purchased too big and altered (also by me). Denise Iowa ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
On the dummy: An unfinished pirate shirt, an embroidered peasant top that needs cut down in size, an odd little jacket I'm contemplating something steampunky about, all of the Dear Hubby's shirts I need to iron, but can't get to until the duct-suckers leave. (And my goodness, aren't they a Decorative pair of young men!) There is a windbreaker getting new cuffs, and a knitted scarf that's about 4 rows from casting off sitting on my table beside the recliner. There's a giant dreamcatcher-like object from a yard sale in the laundry room waiting for a few new bits of suede ties to repair its webbing. There's an amazingly small bundle of assorted mending on the to-do pile, just hem button repairs, dead elastics etc. 4 lengths of jewel-toned velvets in a comforter's plastic zip-bag sitting on the Bowflex awaiting mail order bias binding in colors I can't get from JoAnn's. Those will be Xmas tree skirts other holiday dress-things-up-by-swathing-them-in-color objects. I just love the plastic bags that bedding comes in. They make such good project bags! On the Work-On-This-Next-Pile: an Indian embroidered tote bag that needs some interior pockets dividers to be usable, and a dead purse with a beautiful South American cross-stitch panel I need to salvage. Heaven only knows what else I'm gonna find to work on after I move everything back from where I stashed it so the workmen could get at all the vents the carpet cleaners can do their thing! Which reminds me - where the devil did the fabric for the black-out curtains for the recroom get to? What's fizzing in my mind are quilt projects. Dear Hubby surprized me with a stop at Quilt National on our daytrip to Athens Ohio last week, and now a bunch of old ideas have come forward from the back of my head and are jostling for attention I don't have time to give them. (argh!) I don't generally much like contemporary textile art, but this show had some extraordinary work. I need to get some sketches done before the stimuli fades. Just what I need - another project! And oh, yeah, the Autocrat for our shire's big mid-winter event wants to have tabards for the servers lots of hangings for the hall. The new King is from here, she wants to up our game. Mary ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Suzie is wearing a sheer undergown in pink and brown on white. Over this goes a brown and gold 16th c. Italian with natural waistline and hanging sleeves lined with a brownish-gold. Promised to a friend. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:53 AM, lis...@juno.com wrote: One of them is about to be dressed splendidly in an 1895 two-piece indigo velvet dress with cream lace decoration that I bought at an auction in July. Another is dressed in a gorgeous 1887 black dressof heavy satin, with a bustle and incredible beadwork on the collar, bodice and cuffs. The third iswearingwhat will be my costume for the Haunt I'll be performing at: a Redneck Zombie Grandma, with a zombie squirrel on my shoulder (the squirrel has to have the attachments made so it will stay solidly attached to me). Yours in costumign, Lisa Ashton AKA Miss Lizzy, Miss Lizzy's Traveling Historical Fashion Show ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume -- *Maitresse Aspasia * ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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One of them is about to be dressed splendidly in an 1895 two-piece indigo velvet dress with cream lace decoration that I bought at an auction in July. Another is dressed in a gorgeous 1887 black dressof heavy satin, with a bustle and incredible beadwork on the collar, bodice and cuffs. The third iswearingwhat will be my costume for the Haunt I'll be performing at: a Redneck Zombie Grandma, with a zombie squirrel on my shoulder (the squirrel has to have the attachments made so it will stay solidly attached to me). Yours in costumign, Lisa Ashton AKA Miss Lizzy, Miss Lizzy's Traveling Historical Fashion Show ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Done: One quilt top pieced and needs to be sandwiched and quilted for youngest sister's new baby (due in January) Cutting: one quilt top for niece for Christmas Planning: one quilt for middle sister's new baby (also due in January!) Also on the want/need-to-do list: more linen shirts, possibly with blackworked collar and cuffs; blackworked coif Rebecca Schmitt aka Agnyss Cabot, Guilde of St. Lawrence, Bristol Renn Faire ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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On 09/10/2013 12:59 PM, Cin wrote: It's been forever since I asked my seasonal question, so here it is: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? A Middle Byzantine tunic to wear over the Manazan shift (it's a bit long to be a shirt) that I made a few years ago. Admittedly I haven't gotten very far http://cathyscostumeblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/sewing-for-byzantium-starting-himation.html http://cathyscostumeblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/return-to-byzantium-tunic.html Pictures of the Manazan shift: http://cathyscostumeblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/sewing-for-byzantium-manazan-shirt.html And here's a hint of what the outfit will be like when completed (I'm wearing all the components but using an old ordinary gold overtunic instead of one cut like the Byzantine tunic will be: http://cathyscostumeblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/behold-mantion.html -- Cathy Raymond ca...@thyrsus.com (610) 805-9542 Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. - Oscar Wilde ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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The heads, Anne, Catherine, Charles the new guy, are wearing: * Most of a c1817 bonnet for the GBACG Tallships event next month. It's a fat stripe silk in cream tan with a soft turnback brim that shouldnt catch too much air when on the bow of the ship. Bonnet will have fat lappets bows that will soon have deep red edging. * Most of a c1804 straw bonnet that needs the white lappets with embroidered cherries to be applied. * An 1890s straw hat. * A 1490-1510 pointed bonnet (modernly, a hood) of silver satin trimmed with a cloth of mylar frontlet worn over a pointed gable-style paste. Needs a matching gown. The dummies: Euphrosnia wears a velvet skirt that needs a waistband. Aglaia has on the bodice section of a 16th c boned kirtle in red satin taffeta. (The skirt portion is on the table.) Adonis sports a hip-length fur jacket lining of grey astrakhan-style lamb's wool while I contemplate what to do with it. (If the fur was black I'd call it budge and get all Tudor with it.) Quilts: Five of them, tho the current work in progress is using treasured pieces given to me by my mom's best pal, Esther. Her great-grandmother made the squares using fabrics from 1840-70. (The GGM died in 1916.) I'm finishing the quilt plan to gift it to her when it's done. It's going to be a great little sampler of fabrics that were available in Virgina in those years. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:20 AM, annbw...@aol.com wrote: She should be wearing a red Regency-era ballgown that I need to finish by the end of the month--it is in pieces, and I need to finish the bodice and try the skirt for length. It's a new pattern, so I'm not sure how much hem I will have. And, not on my dummy, but also in progress, a turban to match that gown. This is also a sample for the turban workshop I'll be giving at the Gadsby's Tavern costume symposium in Alexandria, VA, on Sept. 27. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tue, Sep 10, 2013 1:01 pm Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's been forever since I asked my seasonal question, so here it is: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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She should be wearing a red Regency-era ballgown that I need to finish by the end of the month--it is in pieces, and I need to finish the bodice and try the skirt for length. It's a new pattern, so I'm not sure how much hem I will have. And, not on my dummy, but also in progress, a turban to match that gown. This is also a sample for the turban workshop I'll be giving at the Gadsby's Tavern costume symposium in Alexandria, VA, on Sept. 27. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tue, Sep 10, 2013 1:01 pm Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's been forever since I asked my seasonal question, so here it is: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
It's been forever since I asked my seasonal question, so here it is: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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By any chance, is the ballgown for the JASNA AGM at the end of this month? If so, I'll be there too. I'm not making a new ballgown, but I do want to come up with something new to put in my hair. Emily On 9/10/2013 1:20 PM, annbw...@aol.com wrote: She should be wearing a red Regency-era ballgown that I need to finish by the end of the month--it is in pieces, and I need to finish the bodice and try the skirt for length. It's a new pattern, so I'm not sure how much hem I will have. And, not on my dummy, but also in progress, a turban to match that gown. This is also a sample for the turban workshop I'll be giving at the Gadsby's Tavern costume symposium in Alexandria, VA, on Sept. 27. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tue, Sep 10, 2013 1:01 pm Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's been forever since I asked my seasonal question, so here it is: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume . ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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A stack of fabric and the adjusted pattern for an Edwardian outfit. Margaret Decker - Original Message - From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:59 AM Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's been forever since I asked my seasonal question, so here it is: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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In a message dated 9/10/2013 7:37:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, emchantm...@gmail.com writes: is the ballgown for the JASNA AGM at the end of this month? No, not going to make it this year. Maybe 2015, in Louisville, and FOR SURE DC in 2016. I'll be going to the Gadsby's Tavern Road to the Regency ball on Sept. 28. Hope to have it done then. Ann Wass ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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After I finish replacing the zipper in DH's winter coat. Ugh! Mending! DH has a suit jacket that needs little patches--going to try fusible web for that--then need to replace broken buttons. Our local JoAnn's no longer carries brown suit buttons, so I had to go a bit further to Hancock, who still has them. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Pierre Sandy Pettinger costu...@radiks.net To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Fri, Nov 16, 2012 11:42 pm Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? No dressmaker's dummy, but piled on the worktable: The (sorta) saloon girl that I didn't get finished in time for the event last year, to be finished before Mar. 1 for this year's event... After I finish replacing the zipper in DH's winter coat. Sandy At 12:51 PM 11/13/2012, you wrote: It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, theater season, company dinners, Dickens Fair, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making (or re-making) something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's on your design sketchbook, worktable, at the sewing machine or even in the embroidery hoop. International Costumers' Guild Archivist http://www.costume.org/gallery2/main.php Those Who Fail to Learn History Are Doomed to Repeat It; Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly - Why They Are Simply Doomed. Achemdro'hm The Illusion of Historical Fact -- C. Y. 4971 Andromeda ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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My size 16 dummy is wearing a camicia made from wonderful soft, silky cotton voile that I got from Dharma Dyeworks. It's part of a Venetian ensemble that I'm making up as a sample for a new pattern. I'm making the gown in white brocade so I can sell it as a wedding dress. My half scale male form, General Tom, is wearing a mockup Tudor shirt with machine faux smocking, and his partner Lavinia is wearing a camicia and a roped petticoat, also working samples for the Italian patterns. The somewhat larger me size form is nude. The shoemaker's children go barefoot... Margo ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Mine is being used as a hoop hanger--2 are hanging around her neck. I'm working on refurbishing my Dickens bonnet. All black, as I play a widow; I found some great black velvet leaves and black flowers. Sharon C. -Original Message- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of Cin Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 10:52 AM To: H-costume Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, theater season, company dinners, Dickens Fair, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making (or re-making) something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's on your design sketchbook, worktable, at the sewing machine or even in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Mine's wearing an almost finished (just needs buttons and buttonholes) summer cotton lawn 1918 dress, based on the Armistice Blouse. My head is wearing a broad-brimmed hat that I made from scratch, covered with cream colored silk georgette. The crown is a little taller than what we would usually see now, and the silk georgette on the crown is underlined with some cream silk organza that I had to give it a slightly puffy but not limp top. The hat is trimmed with ribbon and two types of feathers. While the dress is a soft green with a cream and brown vine pattern, the Votes For Women sash is bright golden yellow. I'm going to be a middle-aged suffragette with a petition at our next ghost tour of our old cemetery next April. Oh, and cream stockings, white gloves (the dress has white cuffs and collar), my grandmother's purse, and a pair of 1930s lace up sensible shoes. I couldn't come up with any good reproduction shoes for the late teens. The two styles that I saw recommended had been discontinued. Vicki Betts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Leather. It has a more interesting life than I do! -C. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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No dressmaker's dummy, but piled on the worktable: The (sorta) saloon girl that I didn't get finished in time for the event last year, to be finished before Mar. 1 for this year's event... After I finish replacing the zipper in DH's winter coat. Sandy At 12:51 PM 11/13/2012, you wrote: It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, theater season, company dinners, Dickens Fair, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making (or re-making) something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's on your design sketchbook, worktable, at the sewing machine or even in the embroidery hoop. International Costumers' Guild Archivist http://www.costume.org/gallery2/main.php Those Who Fail to Learn History Are Doomed to Repeat It; Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly - Why They Are Simply Doomed. Achemdro'hm The Illusion of Historical Fact -- C. Y. 4971 Andromeda ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making (or re-making) something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? At the moment I am knitting what will hopefully soon be a finished moebius scarf for my father's girlfriend, and then I an hoping to get Dad a hat done before the holidays. The last *sewing* project had a deadline of last Thursday--a 13th c. silk surcoat made from the 13th c. reproduction silk we bought from Zusana. The next sewing project...um...I'm sure I have it written down somewhere. I'd be more embarrassed about not knowing but I'm having too much fun knitting. ;-) Jen ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Alas, nothing right now, except a couple of my husband's suits to mend (he started a day job again this week.) I'm trying to write instead of sew, but that is slow going, too. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tue, Nov 13, 2012 1:52 pm Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, theater season, company dinners, Dickens Fair, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making (or re-making) something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's on your design sketchbook, worktable, at the sewing machine or even in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Appalling combos on most of mine: Euphrosnia: 1830s bodice of giant cabbage roses (a repro of an 1835 calico in the Smithsonian). She this bodice over a huge pointy silly chemisette waiting to be marked for the drawstring waist ties. She wears this over an 1860s hoop and and an 1861 skirt waiting to be marked for a hem. Aglaia: 1912 winter dance frock in deep burgundy with small geometric patterns. She's oping someone will come along and finish the sheer chiffon kimono sleeves and finally attach that velvet waist so it can be done. Her neck stub sports a 1920s cloche in bubblegum pink light grey silk satin with a propeller bow as trim. Adonis: a large vintage passementerie of glass jet probably from an 1890s cloak. Needs repair. Anne, Katherine (2 of the heads) are wearing an 1912 feathered headdress as worn the Last Dinner on the Titanic event this year, and a charming 1940s black wool felt hat found at the San Jose Historical Museum yard sale this summer. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:59 AM, annbw...@aol.com wrote: Alas, nothing right now, except a couple of my husband's suits to mend (he started a day job again this week.) I'm trying to write instead of sew, but that is slow going, too. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tue, Nov 13, 2012 1:52 pm Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, theater season, company dinners, Dickens Fair, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making (or re-making) something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's on your design sketchbook, worktable, at the sewing machine or even in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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2 of the heads Oh, if you are counting heads, mine is still wearing my Hurricane Sandy sewing project, an early 19th century linen cap using the Country Wives Caps for the Upper Crust pattern. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tue, Nov 13, 2012 2:21 pm Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? Appalling combos on most of mine: Euphrosnia: 1830s bodice of giant cabbage roses (a repro of an 1835 calico in the Smithsonian). She this bodice over a huge pointy silly chemisette waiting to be marked for the drawstring waist ties. She wears this over an 1860s hoop and and an 1861 skirt waiting to be marked for a hem. Aglaia: 1912 winter dance frock in deep burgundy with small geometric patterns. She's oping someone will come along and finish the sheer chiffon kimono sleeves and finally attach that velvet waist so it can be done. Her neck stub sports a 1920s cloche in bubblegum pink light grey silk satin with a propeller bow as trim. Adonis: a large vintage passementerie of glass jet probably from an 1890s cloak. Needs repair. Anne, Katherine (2 of the heads) are wearing an 1912 feathered headdress as worn the Last Dinner on the Titanic event this year, and a charming 1940s black wool felt hat found at the San Jose Historical Museum yard sale this summer. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 10:59 AM, annbw...@aol.com wrote: Alas, nothing right now, except a couple of my husband's suits to mend (he started a day job again this week.) I'm trying to write instead of sew, but that is slow going, too. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tue, Nov 13, 2012 1:52 pm Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, theater season, company dinners, Dickens Fair, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making (or re-making) something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's on your design sketchbook, worktable, at the sewing machine or even in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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... and Charles, another head, is wearing a mostly-done 1940s navy blue silk satin and and navy wool hat from the Vogue retro series. It needs the edge binding and fabric roses attached. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com -Original Message- Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, theater season, company dinners, Dickens Fair, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making (or re-making) something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's on your design sketchbook, worktable, at the sewing machine or even in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I'm currently working on a gather skirt in dark pink velvet which will be part of a steam punk outfit. I've lost 50 lbs in the last year leaving 100 to go so I'm not being very ambitious. Margaret Decker - Original Message - From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:51 PM Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, theater season, company dinners, Dickens Fair, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making (or re-making) something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's on your design sketchbook, worktable, at the sewing machine or even in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Margaret- Congrats on the weight loss! I wish you continued success but please don't send your extras my way! Enjoy sewing your new size! Susan NJ On Nov 13, 12, at 3:37 PM, Margaret Decker wrote: I'm currently working on a gather skirt in dark pink velvet which will be part of a steam punk outfit. I've lost 50 lbs in the last year leaving 100 to go so I'm not being very ambitious. Margaret Decker - Original Message - From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:51 PM Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, theater season, company dinners, Dickens Fair, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making (or re-making) something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's on your design sketchbook, worktable, at the sewing machine or even in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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skirt elastic, not too bad... well, the channel in one really cheap skirt is unstitching itself, but the elastic is pretty OK. On another hand, has anyone else had inexpensive sweat pants suddenly start burning up the waist elastic in the dryer, and stinking up the whole dryer-ful something awful? My 19yo is NOT a clothes-horse, typical teen who wears pretty much all black, and his staple 3 pair of cheap black sweat pants started doing this a couple of months ago! I have finally decided those pants do not EVER go in the dryer again! I'm line-drying them now, and that's working. But it sure was a pain figuring it out! (I only do about one cold wash a week, so it took me a while to work through a couple of possible solutions. chimene On May 20, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Lavolta Press wrote: If we can whine about how things ain't like they usta be, has anyone else noticed that most elastic does not last as long as it used to? I've been fixing all these skirts with elastic waists that just died after a few months, and I wasn't even wearing them much. Fran ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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As soon as I decide which dressmakers dummy I am going to be buying it will be wearing a rework of the 1909 directoire evening dress in the VA together with a jacket (pattern to be worked out) of a beautiful long jacket from the same year showing in Journal des demoisselles (picture in Cut of Womens clothes). I have wanted to make the jacket for at least the last 10 years but i don't normally sew for this period so have had no reason to make it. My sisters wedding in October is the perfect excuse. As I normally sew Elizabethan clothes, by hand, I am looking forward to a dress that won't take months and months of sewing to make and can be done on a machine. Rachel On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Mary + Doug Piero Carey mary.d...@pierocarey.info wrote: Mine is still wearing most of what she had on the last time this question got asked. rueful grin The pirate shirt awaiting buttonholes is now on top. Most of the current action is from the mending baskets. Several snaggy neckties fixed, an embroidered blouse's unruly facing tacked down, replacement elastic waistbands going in, a pair of pants that needs a new waistband probably hemming. I found the UFO box that has the summer clothes that need work. I can't stand the scratchiness of the embroidery on a couple of outfits I bought in Florida the last time we went down for a shuttle launch, so, I need to devise a partial lining that won't make them too hot. And the new bedroom window treatments... And a bunch of embroidered Xmas ornaments that need finished. They look like little pillows with hanging loops. The embroidery is one of my favorite things. The stuffing - not so much. Good thing I've got a vacation starting next week! Mary ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I saw Ansel this weekend - he's looking great! I can't wait to see what he'll be wearing this season :) Rebecca Schmitt aka Agnyss Cabot, Guilde of St. Lawrence, Bristol Renn Faire -Original Message- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of REBECCA BURCH Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 10:53 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? Rebecca Burch Center Valley Farm Duncan Falls, Ohio, USA The only twelve steps I'm interested in are the ones between the flat folds and the brocades. --Anonymous Costumer-- Ansel Jr is currently wearing the mock up of the new doublet I will be making for Frobisher this year. Ansel has been on a diet and lost many inches since the last Frobie suit I made him, so the old pattern won't fit any more. I am going to take the opportunity of our visit next week to fit him in person. I'm also going to bring the old suit home and hopefully remake it. Tropical weight wool is hard to find anymore. Slightly off topic - my husband and I will be in Chicago next week. We will have Tuesday and Wednesday available to sight see. Anybody have any must see things to suggest? We will be in intensive rehearsals for a concert at the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette the rest of the week. If anybody is interested, there will be two free concerts on Sunday, May 27 at 9:30a and 12:30p. -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Fri, May 18, 2012 5:26 pm Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2169 / Virus Database: 2425/5008 - Release Date: 05/18/12 ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I am currently working on a lightweight wool kirtle in a dirty light yellow (almost tending to cream) with grey fabric strips for trim. I just need to pin the skirt to the bodice and finish all the eyelets for lacing. After that, an English fitted gown in maroon wool! Rebecca Schmitt aka Agnyss Cabot, Guilde of St. Lawrence, Bristol Renn Faire -Original Message- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of Cin Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 4:26 PM To: H-costume Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2169 / Virus Database: 2425/5007 - Release Date: 05/18/12 ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Rebecca, congratulations on being able to cut one outfit from another. However, if you need new summer-weigt wool, please check out B. Black and Sons in Los Angeles California. They have all sorts of colors and prices. Their website is www.bblackandsons.com but their customer service is fantastic. At least any time I've been there I've had nothing but wonderful service. I have no financial connection to B Black Sons except for the hundreds of dollars I've given them over the past 12-15 years. It's pretty much the only place I go for wool anymore except for Britex in San Francisco. LynnD On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Rebecca lotsofteap...@charter.net wrote: I saw Ansel this weekend - he's looking great! I can't wait to see what he'll be wearing this season :) Rebecca Schmitt aka Agnyss Cabot, Guilde of St. Lawrence, Bristol Renn Faire -Original Message- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of REBECCA BURCH Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 10:53 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? Rebecca Burch Center Valley Farm Duncan Falls, Ohio, USA The only twelve steps I'm interested in are the ones between the flat folds and the brocades. --Anonymous Costumer-- Ansel Jr is currently wearing the mock up of the new doublet I will be making for Frobisher this year. Ansel has been on a diet and lost many inches since the last Frobie suit I made him, so the old pattern won't fit any more. I am going to take the opportunity of our visit next week to fit him in person. I'm also going to bring the old suit home and hopefully remake it. Tropical weight wool is hard to find anymore. Slightly off topic - my husband and I will be in Chicago next week. We will have Tuesday and Wednesday available to sight see. Anybody have any must see things to suggest? We will be in intensive rehearsals for a concert at the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette the rest of the week. If anybody is interested, there will be two free concerts on Sunday, May 27 at 9:30a and 12:30p. -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Fri, May 18, 2012 5:26 pm Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2169 / Virus Database: 2425/5008 - Release Date: 05/18/12 ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
Mine is still wearing most of what she had on the last time this question got asked. rueful grin The pirate shirt awaiting buttonholes is now on top. Most of the current action is from the mending baskets. Several snaggy neckties fixed, an embroidered blouse's unruly facing tacked down, replacement elastic waistbands going in, a pair of pants that needs a new waistband probably hemming. I found the UFO box that has the summer clothes that need work. I can't stand the scratchiness of the embroidery on a couple of outfits I bought in Florida the last time we went down for a shuttle launch, so, I need to devise a partial lining that won't make them too hot. And the new bedroom window treatments... And a bunch of embroidered Xmas ornaments that need finished. They look like little pillows with hanging loops. The embroidery is one of my favorite things. The stuffing - not so much. Good thing I've got a vacation starting next week! Mary ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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If we can whine about how things ain't like they usta be, has anyone else noticed that most elastic does not last as long as it used to? I've been fixing all these skirts with elastic waists that just died after a few months, and I wasn't even wearing them much. Fran Lavolta Press www.lavoltapress.com www.facebook.com/LavoltaPress On 5/20/2012 1:42 PM, Mary + Doug Piero Carey wrote: Mine is still wearing most of what she had on the last time this question got asked. rueful grin The pirate shirt awaiting buttonholes is now on top. Most of the current action is from the mending baskets. Several snaggy neckties fixed, an embroidered blouse's unruly facing tacked down, replacement elastic waistbands going in, a pair of pants that needs a new waistband probably hemming. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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My poor dummy is in the closet with a broken shoulder right now, but there are many projects scattered around my studio. I have been working on a new fitter for myself and just finished a rough made corset to use as a pattern for a pair of bodies test garment to wear at a couple of events before I cut the dearly expensive coutil. There is a black/grey striped tunic cut out with a contrast facing to sew the neck so I can use it for a class next weekend on trimming corners and curves (which I need to make some more samples for and write the handout). There is a UFO blue striped linen Tudor kirtle that I made entirely too large that I have taken apart to alter (I HATE alterations) and decided I should add some trim while I had it apart. And lastly a cotton chemise to finish to go with the kirtle. On the beading table is a project to make a Byzantine style gemstone bead link necklace and some pendants that need leather necklaces. Also a knife sheath that needs to be repaired. Finally I am reading *Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII* in preparation for a research paper/class handout on *Methods and Materials of Late Renaissance Doublets, Jerkins and Bodies *in June. Marlo Lady Meryell Redferne http://www.amazon.com/Dress-Court-Henry-MANEY-PUBLICATIONS/dp/1905981414 On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Paula Praxis praxis_...@hotmail.comwrote: The ladies on this list are all so talented. I feel honored just to be able to say I belong! Penny is currently wearing a mock up of a Victorian bodice that has been altered to show off the lady's charms. Petula is doubling as a photo prop for various men's vests and Pricilla is draped in my daughter's Fall coat that needs to be repaired. Petula is cranky and says I need an Adonis. I live near Los Angeles- with out it costing me too much money are there any suggestions where I can look? I've had to make several men's frock coats lately and they just don't fit right on my ladies. Paula Sent from my iPad On May 18, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Beteena Paradise bete...@mostlymedieval.com wrote: GFD= gothic fitted dress (sometimes referred to as cotehardie or kirtle). I believe Robin Netherton came up with the term. Teena From: annbw...@aol.com annbw...@aol.com To: h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? GFDs ??? Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Beteena Paradise bete...@mostlymedieval.com To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Fri, May 18, 2012 6:29 pm Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? I'm working on finishing two UFO GFDs. All that is left is hems and about a zillion button holes. Teena From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 5:25 PM Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Current sewing: bag to keep 2 sleeping bag pads together! Dummy can't wear them, but they will make my (camping) nights much easier! I think I'll come home finish the Shinrone Gown, which has been threatening completion for some time now. It's not complete enough even for a dummy to wear. I've finally found a fitting friend (hands!! all-important pinning hands!). She's not a costumer but she can pin up a storm. ==Marjorie Wilser @..@ @..@ @..@ Three Toad Press http://3toad.blogspot.com/ On May 18, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Cin wrote: It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Alas, my one at home is just a clothes rack right now. But I have two at the museum where I work modeling early 19th century African American dress. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Fri, May 18, 2012 5:26 pm Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I'm working on finishing two UFO GFDs. All that is left is hems and about a zillion button holes. Teena From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 5:25 PM Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I'm following firm resolutions to do umpteen things I have been putting off forever. There are few things I hate more than cleaning and organizing stuff, but it had to be done. So far I have organized and in many cases, first cleaned and ironed bags of vintage lace yardage, pieces of lace, ribbon, appliques, lace collars, vintage handkerchiefs, commercial bias binding both packaged and in pieces, rolls and pieces of elastic, and long shoelaces for drawstrings. I sorted a lot of loose buttons and put them into little baggies. Then I put everything into used printer-paper boxes. I replaced my ironing board cover, and last night I ordered a sunlight craft lamp, so I can have natural light while sewing in the evening. In the process I have also been cleaning my desk, which aside from heaps of paper has yielded a number of lace appliques. I have been trying to replace my iron and have returned four already. What idiot designed huge irons with a wide handle too far back, the temperature dial located right under the handle where it's hard to reach or even see, and an automatic cutoff after 3 seconds of immobility? Not to mention the ones that additionally imitate a volcano, spewing and leaking hot water all over the place? My latest try is a vintage GE off Etsy, not yet arrived. Next project: Take my sewing machine in for a long overdue cleaning and tune-up. Yesterday I had more fun, dyeing several garments in a very limited-run Dharma Trading jar of Wet Sand. I had no idea wet sand was green, but it's a great shade of green. Today I am washing (currently soaking in the sink) a lovely but totally filthy (straight from the attic, apparently) Victorian petticoat with lots of hand bobbin lace on it. Which petticoat, however, may still end up being dyed, as I am not sure I can get all the gray tones out. Then it's back to attacking my much too large collection of boho skirts and other clothes that need hand hemming. THEN, maybe I can finally get back to actually making something. Fran Lavolta Press Books of Victorian and Edwardian clothing patterns www.lavoltapress.com www.facebook.com/LavoltaPress ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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As soon as I get one more research project finished and emailed I'll be tackling a 1918 dress based on Folkwear's Armistice blouse, only with 3/4 sleeves. Probably three wide tucks in the skirt. Draped across my dressmaker's dummy is a piece of green lawn with ecru and dark brown stylized vines running lengthwise, a modern white linen table runner with drawn thread design that I'll be cutting up for the collar, a wonderful vintage faux mother of pearl pass through oval buckle about four inches tall and 1 1/2 inches wide for which I'll make a self-fabric belt, a piece of ecru silk georgette to cover a broad brimmed hat), and various trims to try once the hat is made. I can't decide on feathers or flowers. Ecru shoes with double faux buttoned straps are on order. Not sure of proper stockings. Vicki Betts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Aren't vintage embroidered linens great? I've uncovered heaps I had forgotten about and am planning to put them to use. Fran Lavolta Press Books on historic sewing www.lavoltapress.com On 5/18/2012 4:06 PM, Vicki Betts wrote: a modern white linen table runner with drawn thread design that I'll be cutting up for the collar, ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Euphrosnia is wearing a 1913 evening gown in burgundy silks with brocaded borders velvet trim. Aglaia, the newest member of the household, has been wearing her very first costume. At the moment it's just a few parts of a Regency era ball gown as the bodice skirt are being gathered pinned on the sewing table. Adonis, the male dummy is, as all Adonis' should be, rather nude. Anne Catherine, the disembodied heads, are in a suitcase waiting to go into a display of vintage 20s hats tomorrow. They'll be showing items in a delightful collection of vintage clothes owned by neighbors friends at a Speakeasy Open House in my historic neighborhood. http://www.hanchettpark.org/index_files/Page332.htm Charles, the 3rd head seems to have disappeared. If found he'll go, too. You are all welcome in 20s costume or otherwise. --cin On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Vicki Betts vbe...@gower.net wrote: As soon as I get one more research project finished and emailed I'll be tackling a 1918 dress based on Folkwear's Armistice blouse, only with 3/4 sleeves. Probably three wide tucks in the skirt. Draped across my dressmaker's dummy is a piece of green lawn with ecru and dark brown stylized vines running lengthwise, a modern white linen table runner with drawn thread design that I'll be cutting up for the collar, a wonderful vintage faux mother of pearl pass through oval buckle about four inches tall and 1 1/2 inches wide for which I'll make a self-fabric belt, a piece of ecru silk georgette to cover a broad brimmed hat), and various trims to try once the hat is made. I can't decide on feathers or flowers. Ecru shoes with double faux buttoned straps are on order. Not sure of proper stockings. Vicki Betts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I returned from Costume Con 30 with some interesting things to play with. At the Grand Canyon Visitor Center, I found a set of 4 vintage post cards printed on fabric squares and plan to make an itneresting wall quilt. I also found fabric at a store with all the Arizona cactuses pictured on a black background, PLUS I am just learning to print my own photo fabric, so Ill print up some of my own photos for the border. Got other costume ideas, but they have stay quiet for now. Yours in costumign, Lisa A On May 18, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Cin wrote: It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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GFDs ??? Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Beteena Paradise bete...@mostlymedieval.com To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Fri, May 18, 2012 6:29 pm Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? I'm working on finishing two UFO GFDs. All that is left is hems and about a zillion button holes. Teena From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 5:25 PM Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I can't decide on feathers or flowers. You can do both! Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Fri, May 18, 2012 7:59 pm Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? Euphrosnia is wearing a 1913 evening gown in burgundy silks with brocaded borders velvet trim. Aglaia, the newest member of the household, has been wearing her very first costume. At the moment it's just a few parts of a Regency era ball gown as the bodice skirt are being gathered pinned on the sewing table. Adonis, the male dummy is, as all Adonis' should be, rather nude. Anne Catherine, the disembodied heads, are in a suitcase waiting to go into a display of vintage 20s hats tomorrow. They'll be showing items in a delightful collection of vintage clothes owned by neighbors friends at a Speakeasy Open House in my historic neighborhood. http://www.hanchettpark.org/index_files/Page332.htm Charles, the 3rd head seems to have disappeared. If found he'll go, too. You are all welcome in 20s costume or otherwise. --cin On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Vicki Betts vbe...@gower.net wrote: As soon as I get one more research project finished and emailed I'll be tackling a 1918 dress based on Folkwear's Armistice blouse, only with 3/4 sleeves. Probably three wide tucks in the skirt. Draped across my dressmaker's dummy is a piece of green lawn with ecru and dark brown stylized vines running lengthwise, a modern white linen table runner with drawn thread design that I'll be cutting up for the collar, a wonderful vintage faux mother of pearl pass through oval buckle about four inches tall and 1 1/2 inches wide for which I'll make a self-fabric belt, a piece of ecru silk georgette to cover a broad brimmed hat), and various trims to try once the hat is made. I can't decide on feathers or flowers. Ecru shoes with double faux buttoned straps are on order. Not sure of proper stockings. Vicki Betts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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GFD= gothic fitted dress (sometimes referred to as cotehardie or kirtle). I believe Robin Netherton came up with the term. Teena From: annbw...@aol.com annbw...@aol.com To: h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? GFDs ??? Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Beteena Paradise bete...@mostlymedieval.com To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Fri, May 18, 2012 6:29 pm Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? I'm working on finishing two UFO GFDs. All that is left is hems and about a zillion button holes. Teena From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 5:25 PM Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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-- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 14:25:48 -0700 From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? Message-ID: cam1w8k4amluze+ddpvltkjry4cdq29gfdnb3v8p78xfgttj...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com ** It's might be that time of year for you. :-) My dummy has a big heap of summer clothes that I haven't gotten around to putting away for the winter yet. I haven't done much sewing at all lately. I have been too busy with study and organising a big event in July. Because, you know, work and kids is not enough :-) I do have early stage plans for a late 16th century French gown (and some nice red and blue shot silk to make it), so in my imagination, she is wearing that. Claire ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Well to be truthful, my dummy isn't wearing it, but I am making a chiton! Sg On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Claire Clarke angha...@adam.com.au wrote: -- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 14:25:48 -0700 From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? Message-ID: cam1w8k4amluze+ddpvltkjry4cdq29gfdnb3v8p78xfgttj...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Rebecca Burch Center Valley Farm Duncan Falls, Ohio, USA The only twelve steps I'm interested in are the ones between the flat folds and the brocades. --Anonymous Costumer-- Ansel Jr is currently wearing the mock up of the new doublet I will be making for Frobisher this year. Ansel has been on a diet and lost many inches since the last Frobie suit I made him, so the old pattern won't fit any more. I am going to take the opportunity of our visit next week to fit him in person. I'm also going to bring the old suit home and hopefully remake it. Tropical weight wool is hard to find anymore. Slightly off topic - my husband and I will be in Chicago next week. We will have Tuesday and Wednesday available to sight see. Anybody have any must see things to suggest? We will be in intensive rehearsals for a concert at the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette the rest of the week. If anybody is interested, there will be two free concerts on Sunday, May 27 at 9:30a and 12:30p. -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Fri, May 18, 2012 5:26 pm Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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The ladies on this list are all so talented. I feel honored just to be able to say I belong! Penny is currently wearing a mock up of a Victorian bodice that has been altered to show off the lady's charms. Petula is doubling as a photo prop for various men's vests and Pricilla is draped in my daughter's Fall coat that needs to be repaired. Petula is cranky and says I need an Adonis. I live near Los Angeles- with out it costing me too much money are there any suggestions where I can look? I've had to make several men's frock coats lately and they just don't fit right on my ladies. Paula Sent from my iPad On May 18, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Beteena Paradise bete...@mostlymedieval.com wrote: GFD= gothic fitted dress (sometimes referred to as cotehardie or kirtle). I believe Robin Netherton came up with the term. Teena From: annbw...@aol.com annbw...@aol.com To: h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? GFDs ??? Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Beteena Paradise bete...@mostlymedieval.com To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Fri, May 18, 2012 6:29 pm Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? I'm working on finishing two UFO GFDs. All that is left is hems and about a zillion button holes. Teena From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 5:25 PM Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year: spring parties, summer balls, summer theater season, LARPs, historic recreation events, costume conventions fandom. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale or a historic site. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I always love this thread but, alas, I have no dressmakers dummy. If I did, however, she would be wearing one of the pieces I need to make for a Federal/Empire/Regency wardrobe I have to finish by mid-January. The ball gown is mostly done but I still need a pelisse, walking or carriage gown, new shift, new stays, new bonnet, and maybe a new cap. - Hope ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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On Oct 5, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Kimiko Small wrote: So right now, poor Bessie Blunt is rather naked. But isn't that what she is most famous for? OChris Laning clan...@igc.org - Davis, California + http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I love this thread too, and this time around I actually have an answer! My lady form is currently in the kitchen, where it's the best place to photograph for tutorials. She's wearing a paritial completed 1876 Dolman Wrap with an accordian pleated back trim, and wonderfully long cape-like sleeves. The whole thing is in a black medium weight wool, which I'm going to line with quilted sliver-grey silk. Since is from an original Harper's pattern, there's tons and tons of trim yet to apply - and it calls for - four inch wide saddle silk fringe all around! Shooting photographs for a tutorial on how to sew up the pattern. Janyce Hill www.vpll.org ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I have several dress forms, since I find them at estate sales and yard sales One is wearing my purple costume from last Balticon (May 2011 convention in Baltimore) called Something Purple This Way Comes. It has a HUGE beaded collar (somethingl ike 8 lbs) over the shoulders, and a nice straw hat on it that will be used for another Victorian parody. Another is modeling the skirt and overskirt combination from a parody of a Tudor skirt and overskirt that I made many years ago in Hawaiian tropical fabrics, and that I am making over for a Victorian silly costumes (very colorful though; the overskirt is a fabric with all sharks). Upstairs, the dress form has one of my 1861 outfits, this one, I re-made the swallowtail bodice pattern into a one-piece belted dress, in a lively beige and brown cotton print with a design of small diamonds with little flowers and wheat sheaves in t he middle of the diamonds. I was reseraching for a dress for Sarah Ballou, made a two-piece dress with a deep blue printed fabric, saw the beige and brown at Surplus City in LaVale, near Cumberland, Maryland on one of our trips through there, and it spoke to me. I am going to do a scene from Little Women with it. My other T-stands have various costumes on them in bright colors to keep me cheerful and remind me how creative costuming is. Yours in costuming, Lisa A ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I've done talks in various places about this period, usually couched in terms of fashion and Jane Austen. This particular occasion will be extra fun. A local BB, the Governor's House in Hyde Park, VT, offers 4 Jane Austen weekends throughout the year focusing on one book and then a topic related to Austen's period (http://www.onehundredmain.com/calendar2.cfm). There's a Friday evening talk, Saturday tea, dinner and book discussion, and Sunday brunch and quiz. Next year's book is Emma and the general topic will be the fashion of the times. So, I'll be doing the talks and decided I needed a multi-day wardrobe for each of the 4 weekends which are each in a different season! Buying the fabric and designing the gowns was fun, but actually creating them now is a bit daunting. - Hope annbw...@aol.com wrote: I need to make for Federal/Empire/Regency wardrobe I have to finish by mid-January. What is the occasion for this lovely wardrobe? ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Oh, yes, I've read about them. I would love to do something similar at the house where I work, but, alas! we are limited in what we can do for men at our site. Doesn't that place have fishing and am I remembering horses, too? And yes, for me, too, the ideas and shopping are the fun part--the making up not so much, unless I'm trying something new. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Hope Greenberg hope.greenb...@uvm.edu To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 4:39 pm Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? 've done talks in various places about this period, usually couched in erms of fashion and Jane Austen. This particular occasion will be xtra fun. A local BB, the Governor's House in Hyde Park, VT, offers 4 ane Austen weekends throughout the year focusing on one book and then a opic related to Austen's period http://www.onehundredmain.com/calendar2.cfm). There's a Friday evening talk, Saturday tea, dinner and book discussion, nd Sunday brunch and quiz. Next year's book is Emma and the general opic will be the fashion of the times. So, I'll be doing the talks and ecided I needed a multi-day wardrobe for each of the 4 weekends which re each in a different season! Buying the fabric and designing the owns was fun, but actually creating them now is a bit daunting. - Hope annbw...@aol.com wrote: I need to make for Federal/Empire/Regency wardrobe I have to finish by mid-January. What is the occasion for this lovely wardrobe? __ -costume mailing list -cost...@mail.indra.com ttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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A pirate coat (1730sih, but I make no claims to accuracy) made from old drapes and a felt tricorn to go with. I hope to wear them to the local renn faire before the season ends; if not, I'm sure I'll find something to do with them :P Allison T. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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And yes, for me, too, the ideas and shopping are the fun part--the making up not so much, unless I'm trying something new. I never really liked to sew but when I got involved in the SCA, I kind of had to do it. Several years ago, though, I decided I would just pay people to do that part. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't... Right now, I'm working with a pagan lady (used to weird costumes) who needs to supplement her disability payment and we are doing well together. Right now, she's working on a couple flannel nightgowns in preparation for the upcoming winter. Janet ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Oh, you lucky! I wish I were close enough to attend. That event they did last August with people being Jane Austen characters sounds even more fun. Did you attend that? Emily On 10/6/2011 3:39 PM, Hope Greenberg wrote: I've done talks in various places about this period, usually couched in terms of fashion and Jane Austen. This particular occasion will be extra fun. A local BB, the Governor's House in Hyde Park, VT, offers 4 Jane Austen weekends throughout the year focusing on one book and then a topic related to Austen's period (http://www.onehundredmain.com/calendar2.cfm). There's a Friday evening talk, Saturday tea, dinner and book discussion, and Sunday brunch and quiz. Next year's book is Emma and the general topic will be the fashion of the times. So, I'll be doing the talks and decided I needed a multi-day wardrobe for each of the 4 weekends which are each in a different season! Buying the fabric and designing the gowns was fun, but actually creating them now is a bit daunting. - Hope annbw...@aol.com wrote: I need to make for Federal/Empire/Regency wardrobe I have to finish by mid-January. What is the occasion for this lovely wardrobe? ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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It's not that I don't like to sew, but it is hard to fit in time. But I don't much like really plain and boring things like men's shirt, and I need a new period petticoat that I'm dreading. Used to make things like flannel nightgowns, but never again--I wait for sales and special coupons at the local dept. store and figure I can get them for just a little more than the price of the materials. But if you are also helping someone produce income, that is great. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Janet Davis bear_ja...@msn.com To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 7:40 pm Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? And yes, for me, too, the ideas and shopping are the fun part--the making up ot so much, unless I'm trying something new. never really liked to sew but when I got involved in the SCA, I kind of had to o it. Several years ago, though, I decided I would just pay people to do that art. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't... Right now, I'm working ith a pagan lady (used to weird costumes) who needs to supplement her isability payment and we are doing well together. Right now, she's working on couple flannel nightgowns in preparation for the upcoming winter. anet __ -costume mailing list -cost...@mail.indra.com ttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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The Wicker Lady is wearing antique 1880's bustle and corset, Yasmine is wearing the Haida blanket-inspired coat that was part of my final project for my sculpture class last spring, the borrowed form that belongs to my daughter is wearing an Elizabethan coat that I'm hemming for a customer, and the wire form is on the front porch waiting to be transformed into something scary for Halloween. The 3 others are stored away waiting for the sewing room to finish its remodel. Carmen On 10/4/2011 1:44 PM, Cin wrote: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I no longer have a dressmaker dummy, but I have wig hat stands and mannequin heads everywhere in my office. All their hats change every couple of months. Three have modern wideband hats...LOL, one of these hats I just spotted in the film Secretariat. Another hat is a late 1920s suede cloche hat (my prize!). One more is an adorable late 1950s/early 1960s white straw hat with a rolled brim and pleated black tulle sitting on the brim. My grand-daughter loves it to death! Behind my desk, are three hats residing on top of a shelving unit. 1. A 1930s cloche hat covered with olive green feathers and a peach band. 2. Wide brimmed Briton hat with a foundation of red felt on top, the lower brim is black curly wool. 3. Another Briton hat of the same style of black velvet. I am not sure of the dates of #2 or #3. Tuesday, on eBay I won a 1930s vintage mannequin head with wonderful features. I am so excited to go into my VERY large vintage hat collection and pick out the perfect 1930s hat for her! Penny Ladnier, owner The Costume Gallery Websites www.costumegallery.com 15 websites of fashion, costume, and textile history FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Costume-Gallery-Websites/107498415961579 ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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chuckle Well, if its an archaeological dig that you're wanting... hmmm...on top... my green resist dye dashiki whose fraying seam allowances need work new black pants for shortening old black tans striped pants for waist elastic deep red shirt with loads of braid from a friend's trip to Greece to be disasembled cut down 2 sizes - without disturbing the braid! a VERY odd black leatherette cropped jacket which Dear Hubby spotted in a second hand shop INSISTED I must buy if it fit, that's part of some costume, I know it, and you'll never find anything like it when you need it despite my policy of NO NEW PROJECTS! Tanjd@mmit! and his policy of No conventions, I want to do other vacations for a while!. So, why do I need a costume piece I have NO glimmer of an inspiration for? To go to the bottom of an at least 15 outfit list, for destinations that we won't be going to for at least 5 years? sigh and finally, Dear Hubby's pirate costume shirt from last Halloween, whose cuff buttons never got done when my buttonhole feature revolted. (Praise the holy name of the saint who invented safety pins!) Do the dozen knitted scarves in the basket in the laundry room count? They are the almost completed summer stash reduction project. How about the basket full of clothes awaiting their dyebath? I gotta find a grocery store with NONiodized salt for the dyebath. Pounds and Pounds of it.! And I have cleared at least 1 square meter of sewing room floor this last week!!! Back to my mending! Mary Piero Carey ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Nothing historical. Just a Red Riding Hood cape-like thing--not quite a cape because it's basically a very full sleeveless body with a pair of quarter-circle wings draped over the places where the sleeves would normally be. With a hood. OK, maybe not really nothing historical, since I've just noticed my old T-tunic underneath. It's not particularly historical either, being made of a rather obvious synthetic blend and with rather uneven stitches (hey, what can I say? It was my _first_ tunic). But at least I _pretended_ it was historical when I made it ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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If you have any Amish or Mennonite communities nearby you are in luck. I get 10 pound sacks of canning (non-iodized) salt from the local Mennonite bulk store. This is also where I get pounds of cloves, alspice and stick cinnamon for the holiday pommanders that I make every Christmas. Much cheaper than all those little bottles from the grocery. Rebecca Burch Center Valley Farm Duncan Falls, Ohio, USA The only twelve steps I'm interested in are the ones between the flat folds and the brocades. --Anonymous Costumer-- --- On Wed, 10/5/11, Mary + Doug Piero Carey mary.d...@pierocarey.info wrote: From: Mary + Doug Piero Carey mary.d...@pierocarey.info Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? To: h-cost...@indra.com Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 9:43 AM chuckle Well, if its an archaeological dig that you're wanting... hmmm...on top... my green resist dye dashiki whose fraying seam allowances need work new black pants for shortening old black tans striped pants for waist elastic deep red shirt with loads of braid from a friend's trip to Greece to be disasembled cut down 2 sizes - without disturbing the braid! a VERY odd black leatherette cropped jacket which Dear Hubby spotted in a second hand shop INSISTED I must buy if it fit, that's part of some costume, I know it, and you'll never find anything like it when you need it despite my policy of NO NEW PROJECTS! Tanjd@mmit! and his policy of No conventions, I want to do other vacations for a while!. So, why do I need a costume piece I have NO glimmer of an inspiration for? To go to the bottom of an at least 15 outfit list, for destinations that we won't be going to for at least 5 years? sigh and finally, Dear Hubby's pirate costume shirt from last Halloween, whose cuff buttons never got done when my buttonhole feature revolted. (Praise the holy name of the saint who invented safety pins!) Do the dozen knitted scarves in the basket in the laundry room count? They are the almost completed summer stash reduction project. How about the basket full of clothes awaiting their dyebath? I gotta find a grocery store with NONiodized salt for the dyebath. Pounds and Pounds of it.! And I have cleared at least 1 square meter of sewing room floor this last week!!! Back to my mending! Mary Piero Carey ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Thanks all! I relaunch this thread whenever I need just a bit of a push for the next project or for the restart on a less inspired project, like a repair. Adonis, while waiting for the last bit of varnish to go on the baseboards floors in the sewing room, is shoved into a corner of the LR. He's languishing among some boxes with 3 hats on his neck-stub. Also in the LR, Euphrosnia is tragically mismatched wearing an black silk taffeta Elizabethan skirt (needs a hem) and the bodice to a burgundy Victorian gown, being repaired. Meanwhile at the sewing machine is a replacement waistband for a Dickens Faire dress. The 3 heads are in a box. Repairs remodelling happens! The year of no new projects, only finishing fixing continues. This was my costume New Years Resolution this year. The only new projects I've allowed myself are those made from scraps that are already in the house. (Really, it has to be a scrap, not just something in the stash.) It's been hard, but I've been very successful in getting some projects, including a few that languished 3 years, 4 years or more. In the spirit of true confessions, I did have one bit of backsliding... the black silk taffeta listed above. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Paula Praxis praxis_...@hotmail.com wrote: Everytime this thread comes up you guys blow me away with your talent, creativity and diversity. My girls are neked right now but I am working on Regency style frock coats shirts for Pride Predujice Paula S. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Mine is wearing my wedding dress from '91. I've been losing so much weight recently that I need to make a whole new wardrobe of costumes - nothing fits any more. So for our upcoming Russian Ark Ball I may just wear the wedding dress! Cheers, Aylwen Sent from my iPhone On 05/10/2011, at 7:44 AM, Cin cinbar...@gmail.com wrote: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Today, my dummy was wearing a finished SCA tunic for a client. It is now in the wash to remove the marks I made all over it. Who knew that simple rectangles could be so annoying at the seams. I've recently finished my middle class Elizabethans (almost all from stash fabrics), although there are accessories that need to be made up by 12th Night. I'm pondering working on part of those tonight, like redoing my Italianate smock to shorten the sleeves. So right now, poor Bessie Blunt is rather naked. Next projects will be the kids Halloween outfits. Relle wants to be Twilight Princess, her brother wants to be Link - not sure which version of Link, but he's got a week to figure it out as I start those after I get back from a local War. Kimiko Kimiko Small http://www.kimiko1.com Your focus determines your reality ~ Master Qui-Gon Jinn On Oct 4, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Cin wrote: So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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(Praise the holy name of the saint who invented safety pins!) His name was Walter Hunt. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Mary + Doug Piero Carey mary.d...@pierocarey.info To: h-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 9:45 am Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? chuckle Well, if its an archaeological dig that you're wanting... mmm...on top... my green resist dye dashiki whose fraying seam allowances need work new black pants for shortening old black tans striped pants for waist elastic deep red shirt with loads of braid from a friend's trip to Greece to be isasembled cut down 2 sizes - without disturbing the braid! a VERY odd black leatherette cropped jacket which Dear Hubby spotted in second hand shop INSISTED I must buy if it fit, that's part of some ostume, I know it, and you'll never find anything like it when you need t despite my policy of NO NEW PROJECTS! Tanjd@mmit! and his policy f No conventions, I want to do other vacations for a while!. So, why o I need a costume piece I have NO glimmer of an inspiration for? To o to the bottom of an at least 15 outfit list, for destinations that we on't be going to for at least 5 years? sigh and finally, Dear Hubby's pirate costume shirt from last Halloween, hose cuff buttons never got done when my buttonhole feature evolted. (Praise the holy name of the saint who invented safety pins!) Do the dozen knitted scarves in the basket in the laundry room count? hey are the almost completed summer stash reduction project. How about he basket full of clothes awaiting their dyebath? I gotta find a rocery store with NONiodized salt for the dyebath. Pounds and Pounds f it.! And I have cleared at least 1 square meter of sewing room floor this ast week!!! Back to my mending! Mary Piero Carey __ -costume mailing list -cost...@mail.indra.com ttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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My dummy is wearing my husband's just finished brown wool tail coat with velvet collar, cuffs, and pocket flaps. Tomorrow we, and it, will be off the Mississinewa for the 1812 reenactment. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: h-cost h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tue, Oct 4, 2011 4:45 pm Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, inter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, heater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You ight even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever he reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's our dressmaker's dummy wearing today? -cin ynthia Barnes inbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on he dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in our design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the ewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. -cin ynthia Barnes inbar...@gmail.com __ -costume mailing list -cost...@mail.indra.com ttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I just finished a white/silver brocade horse show shirt for my daughter. Then I mended a pile of odds/ends. Last winter I cut out a spring coat for myself, so it was next. I'm about an hour or so from finishing it. It's a blue and pastel plaid home-spun looking fabric. I have a whole bolt of flannel sitting here to make my 6'5 son 2 or 3 flannel shirts that have sleeves that are actually long enough. Then it's back to my daughter who wants another show shirt in black, tan, red and gold. That is going to be a humdinger of a project. If you want to see some examples here is a link with a good selection: http://www.showtimeshowclothing.com/store/20091014220056_20091130105022.html then it will be my turn again. I want to make a skirt and two pair of dress pants to coordinate with some jackets I found at a thrift store. Except for the show shirts, none of it is costume like and there is nothing historical about them now. Maybe in 50-100 years... Denise Iowa ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Hey! I'm headed there as well! I'll be with the river pirates.erI mean pre-emptive salvage experts over by the river. Come on by for a visit! KarenSeamstrix -- Original Message -- From: annbw...@aol.com To: h-cost...@indra.com Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:08:15 -0400 (EDT) My dummy is wearing my husband's just finished brown wool tail coat with velvet collar, cuffs, and pocket flaps. Tomorrow we, and it, will be off the Mississinewa for the 1812 reenactment. Ann Wass -Original Message- From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: h-cost h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tue, Oct 4, 2011 4:45 pm Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, inter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, heater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You ight even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever he reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's our dressmaker's dummy wearing today? -cin ynthia Barnes inbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on he dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in our design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the ewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. -cin ynthia Barnes inbar...@gmail.com __ -costume mailing list -cost...@mail.indra.com ttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume Penny Stock Jumping 3000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4e8b780addd3ca45d8ast04duc ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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A green wool 13th c. gown for this Saturday (the trim is red wool with oval blue agates surrounded by pearls, there will eventually be garnets also surrounded by pearls), and then I have to clean the sewing room so I can see the floor. :-) After that I have a new winter coat for me, which is going to be out of this luscious reddish plum coating wool, in a coachman's coat pattern, the steampunk stuff for the Spouse that did not get done this summer, and some fancy dalmatics also for the Spouse. Jen On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Cin wrote: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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At 02:10 PM 10/4/2011, you wrote: I just finished a white/silver brocade horse show shirt for my daughter. Then I mended a pile of odds/ends. Last winter I cut out a spring coat for myself, so it was next. I'm about an hour or so from finishing it. It's a blue and pastel plaid home-spun looking fabric. I have a whole bolt of flannel sitting here to make my 6'5 son 2 or 3 flannel shirts that have sleeves that are actually long enough. Then it's back to my daughter who wants another show shirt in black, tan, red and gold. That is going to be a humdinger of a project. If you want to see some examples here is a link with a good selection: http://www.showtimeshowclothing.com/store/20091014220056_20091130105022.html then it will be my turn again. I want to make a skirt and two pair of dress pants to coordinate with some jackets I found at a thrift store. Except for the show shirts, none of it is costume like and there is nothing historical about them now. Maybe in 50-100 years... Denise Iowa My goodness! With those prices, I can see why you make your daughter's horse show outfits. Joan Jurancich joa...@surewest.net ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Nothing but air and the whiff of possibility…. Astrida It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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My goodness! With those prices, I can see why you make your daughter's horse show outfits. no kidding! I haven't even started laying out the pattern yet and I'm already up to almost $200 worth of materials - and I had a 50% off coupon for the fabric! The hotfix crystals alone were $100 and I bought them deeply discounted from someone clearing out their sewing box. Denise Iowa ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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She is naked and tattered. :) Franchesca ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Three straw hats: two of which are Mennonite men's hats, and one wide-brimmed straw hat I use when gardening (sniff, that time is nearly passed for this year...) Marjorie -- Marjorie Gilbert author of THE RETURN, a historical novel set in Georgian England www.marjoriegilbert.net http://yearofeatingnaturally.blogspot.com/ http://marjoriegilbert.blogspot.com/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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No dummy, but a couple of interview suits, lots of polarfleece for the upcoming winter, and a new winter coat. Anything historical will have to wait until the practical sewing is done. If I get to it, it will be a couple of new gowns to go with the rest of the Viking age kit. -Helen/Aidan ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Mine's wearing nothing but a vintage hat at the moment. Ooh la la! :-) October will be mostly a cooking month for me. I'm in charge of the tea and supper at the Friends of the English Regency's Autumn Ball in Pasadena, CA on October 22. blatant shameless plug http://www.regencyfriends.org/ab2011.html /blatant shameless plug ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I'm almost finished with the first of two quasi-Victorian skirts for the local historic house, which doesn't do much costumed stuff at the moment but would like to. I offered my sewing skills, and they gave me the patterns and fabric and said Go to it! The skirt I'm on now is a heavy burgundy fabric, slightly upholstery-looking. The other one will be taupe with black braid. Emily On 10/4/2011 3:44 PM, Cin wrote: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Does the roughly quarter-sized dress form I made count? That currently has my trial mock up of the contouche and appropriate undergarments that next week will become the life-sized version for my mother. Add to that list, my sister's crinolines day dress I need to finish with trim, and if I'm lucky, whipping up a matching gentleman's suit for my father to match my mother's ensemble! Michael Deibert OAS AAS LLS Sent from my iPhone On Oct 4, 2011, at 16:44, Cin cinbar...@gmail.com wrote: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Mundane (totally!) jeans. *Somebody* had to do it. With all my weird fitting problems, custom fitted jeans is the height of luxury for me. Up next: garb for SCA. Because I can. Did I ever post the Pirate eye patch in tatting crochet? == Marjorie Wilser =:=:=:Three Toad Press:=:=:= Learn to laugh at yourself and you will never lack for amusement. --MW http://3toad.blogspot.com/ On Oct 4, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Cin wrote: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Will you be wearing a rose in your lapel? (In other words, how will I know you? Hadn't planned on wearing my red H--I just put it away and I don't remember where.) -Original Message- From: penhalion penhal...@juno.com To: h-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tue, Oct 4, 2011 5:19 pm Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? Hey! I'm headed there as well! I'll be with the river pirates.erI mean re-emptive salvage experts ver by the river. Come on by for a visit! KarenSeamstrix - Original Message -- rom: annbw...@aol.com o: h-cost...@indra.com ubject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? ate: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:08:15 -0400 (EDT) My dummy is wearing my husband's just finished brown wool tail coat with velvet ollar, cuffs, and pocket flaps. Tomorrow we, and it, will be off the ississinewa for the 1812 reenactment. Ann Wass -Original Message- rom: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com o: h-cost h-cost...@indra.com ent: Tue, Oct 4, 2011 4:45 pm ubject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? t's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, nter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, eater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You ght even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever e reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's ur dressmaker's dummy wearing today? cin nthia Barnes nbar...@gmail.com S. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on e dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in ur design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the wing machine or in the embroidery hoop. cin nthia Barnes nbar...@gmail.com _ costume mailing list cost...@mail.indra.com tp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ -costume mailing list -cost...@mail.indra.com ttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ enny Stock Jumping 3000% ign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! ttp://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4e8b780addd3ca45d8ast04duc __ -costume mailing list -cost...@mail.indra.com ttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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She's wearing the 1915 traveling suit, pattern by Folkwear, in pine green wool gabardine. Her Metropolitan Hat is in matching wool, with two matching silk taffeta rosettes. She's got a new pair of black lace up boots at her feet with black stockings and garters stuffed in them, and a bright Kansas sunflower gold satin sash across her chest that says Votes for Women. I'm giving a presentation next Tuesday on the suffragettes of Smith County, Texas. Vicki Betts ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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A white linen Viking shift and one of my linen, wrap-around apron dresses, in anticipation of a photo session for my blog that has yet to materialize. -- Cathy Raymond ca...@thyrsus.com Beware how you take away hope from another human being. --Oliver Wendell Holmes ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Everytime this thread comes up you guys blow me away with your talent, creativity and diversity. My girls are neked right now but I am working on Regency style frock coats shirts for Pride Predujice Paula S. Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:44:09 -0700 From: cinbar...@gmail.com To: h-cost...@indra.com Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Mine's wearing a deep red silk loba that desperately needs the hem finished. I have the complete outfit as worn by Countess Mencia de Mendoza around 1500 but there are a few finishing touches. The colour pic of the original portrait is here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/92578357@N00/sets/72157626571572851/ The yellow dress (as made by a friend who sews far better than I do) proved to be a bit too yellow so I attempted to dye it with a royal navy blue. It came out a lovely deep green but alas, with a few tiedyed patches. It's off to the professionals for a recovery job whilst I finish the hemming on the loba and the tranzado which just needs wrapping (the hair tube). If only I could find time to make the bling to go with it before November Spring Crown (Spring starts in September and finishes in November here). Cheers, ~ Tig ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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It's a 10 year old Italian (1560's) made from dark blue silk satin covered with gold machine embrodery that needs repair. I picked up the fabric when in Buluxie a couple of weeks after Mardi Gras and when the shop owner took it down from the shelf she accidently hit me with the roll so sold it to me for 1/3 the price. Margaret It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. --cin Cynthia Barnes ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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My dressform is wearing a half finished Lady Grey coat from Colette patterns. Tania ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Ours is wearing a 1950's bodice, blue with white polka dots... ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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OHHH, what a fun way to travel! You'd be in that little TSA room so fast your corset would melt. . . (ROFL) == Marjorie Wilser (trying to imagine how boning xrays. . . and hatpins. . . and getting the giggles) I had a corsetlet in my bag, but they were more intereested in all the computer stuff. I did wonder if they'd search under a crinoline, (if I wore it) - yeah you can hide a lot under there, but it would be pretty transluscent to the xray I think. just be odd.. They poked at my bun (the hair kind) but didn't seem interested in the hair stick. The plane had a narrow section I had to walk through (if it didn't fit through it couldn't go) I'm not I'd have fit with the whole petticoat/crinoline skirt. So yeah, I did think about it. Susan =:=:=:Three Toad Press:=:=:= Learn to laugh at yourself and you will never lack for amusement. --MW http://3toad.blogspot.com/ On Dec 3, 2010, at 4:13 PM, annbw...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 12/3/2010 2:34:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, scour...@nwlink.com writes: if I had gotten it done and if I had figured out a way to put an entire victorian outfit into my carry on luggage For future reference, things like this can be shipped ahead--might even be cheaper than checking a bag, except that it has to be shipped back. Or you can wear it to travel in! Ann Wass ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night... The sewing room is a mess being prepped for painting fancy new baseboards to restore this part of the house back to it's 1918 glory days. All the furniture is huddled for protection in the middle of the room. Wreck the halls! Out in the dining room is Euphrosnia wearing the 1920s Spectator Coat (Folkwear http://folkwear.com/262.html) with really-o truly-o vintage 1920s silk brocade Nefertiti head fabric and red satin lining. This coat needs interior pockets set in before it's ready for final assembly. I have to go find some black silk velvet for the cuffs, collar and Nefertiti shaped hat and some fabu buttons. I already have a vintage 1920s scarab brooch that will embellish the hat along with some ridiculously long pheasant feathers. The disembodied heads, Anne, Katherine Charles, are wearing, variously, a Regency bonnet in pleated wool challis, a crown of Evil with a raven perched on top and a spoon bonnet. Adonis, my male dummy is naked in the living room overlooking the rest of the contents of my sewing room. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? One is wearing a skirt and petticoat for the outfit I was thinking of wearing to visit Dickens faire tomorrow - if I had gotten it done and if I had figured out a way to put an entire victorian outfit into my carry on luggage. Theother is wearing a drape of an idea for a burningman costume. Susan (usually in seattle, but visiting SF) ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Not much in the way of historic costume, but I did have a recent project of making hemmed squares of novelty prints around Halloween and after. :-) The frightening thing is, I discovered that wearing one as a kerchief adds a few degrees of extra warmth, so yes, that's me wearing a skull print when I go out to get the mail. And around the house. I've been looking at and enjoying the designs people have done on Spoonflower. Some are quite wonderful, but the fact is if I can get a particular motif at the quilt store for $9 or less per yard, I'm not going to pay $18. But it's definitely worth looking at to see some really fun designs. My most recent take me home inspiration — I was at my local yarn store a few days ago for their first anniversary in business. I spun up some Jacob fleece (part of the 18thC stocking research project) and socialized. I spotted a beautiful yarn: Three Irish Girls' Curaçao, a soft variegation of medium and light aqua. It wants to be a mermaid. I guess I'll start with my squid pattern and go from there. :-) Speaking of knitting (and back to historic costume) — Ok, I think of mitts as having a partial thumb and a single opening for all four fingers. What is the item called when the fingers are also differentiated? Usually I see them ending just before the knuckle, but I'm thinking about making some that would only have an open fingertip. I'm sure I could just adapt a glove pattern for that, but I'm just curious if there is a name for it. -Carol ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Carol, Re: knitting (also costume!), I'd call mitts with extended fingers fingerless gloves instead of mitts-- but you could call them anything you like, especially if they're not intended for historical use. If they're historical, then I think they'd still be mitts. Sort of, best guess, YMMV, etc :) == Marjorie Wilser =:=:=:Three Toad Press:=:=:= Learn to laugh at yourself and you will never lack for amusement. --MW http://3toad.blogspot.com/ On Dec 3, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Carol Kocian wrote: Not much in the way of historic costume, but I did have a recent project of making hemmed squares of novelty prints around Halloween and after. :-) The frightening thing is, I discovered that wearing one as a kerchief adds a few degrees of extra warmth, so yes, that's me wearing a skull print when I go out to get the mail. And around the house. I've been looking at and enjoying the designs people have done on Spoonflower. Some are quite wonderful, but the fact is if I can get a particular motif at the quilt store for $9 or less per yard, I'm not going to pay $18. But it's definitely worth looking at to see some really fun designs. My most recent take me home inspiration — I was at my local yarn store a few days ago for their first anniversary in business. I spun up some Jacob fleece (part of the 18thC stocking research project) and socialized. I spotted a beautiful yarn: Three Irish Girls' Curaçao, a soft variegation of medium and light aqua. It wants to be a mermaid. I guess I'll start with my squid pattern and go from there. :-) Speaking of knitting (and back to historic costume) — Ok, I think of mitts as having a partial thumb and a single opening for all four fingers. What is the item called when the fingers are also differentiated? Usually I see them ending just before the knuckle, but I'm thinking about making some that would only have an open fingertip. I'm sure I could just adapt a glove pattern for that, but I'm just curious if there is a name for it. -Carol ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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In a message dated 12/3/2010 12:19:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, cinbar...@gmail.com writes: on the worktable, Not there yet, but my husband is begging for a new pair of black knit pantaloons for our Regency 12th Night Ball. He had a perfectly good pair, but we can't find them anywhere--I suspect they never came back from the cleaners. I kept hoping we would discover them hiding under something, or in the back of a closet, but no such luck. I HATE making pantaloons, but he is such a good husband! I bought the fabric a while ago, but there is a slight complication--it is locked in my foot locker, and I've lost the key, so have to get that to the locksmith first. Ann Wass ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Right now, the wicker lady is stark naked and Yasmine is wearing an antique 1880's corset and bustle left over from my last class on Victorian undies. I'm hoping to get her stripped down over the holiday break and get started on the Octopus corset. Melusine On 12/3/2010 9:17 AM, Cin wrote: It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason, h-costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com PS. It's ok to run into the sewing room, toss something marvelous on the dummy and *then* tell us about it. It's also ok to tell what's in your design sketchbook, on the worktable, in the quilt frame, at the sewing machine or in the embroidery hoop. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Guess I should have reported that I have finished the Christmas presents I planned over Thanksgiving. I'm giving my DSD and DGDs a tea set (a real one) and made them all aprons with teacups and pots on them. And for a young friend's American Girl doll, I made a painter's smock, beret, and Beaux Arts ball gown--green silk with a floral ribbon sash and mask. Ann Wass In a message dated 12/3/2010 5:24:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, annbw...@aol.com writes: In a message dated 12/3/2010 12:19:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, cinbar...@gmail.com writes: on the worktable, Not there yet, but my husband is begging for a new pair of black knit pantaloons for our Regency 12th Night Ball. He had a perfectly good pair, but we can't find them anywhere--I suspect they never came back from the cleaners. I kept hoping we would discover them hiding under something, or in the back of a closet, but no such luck. I HATE making pantaloons, but he is such a good husband! I bought the fabric a while ago, but there is a slight complication--it is locked in my foot locker, and I've lost the key, so have to get that to the locksmith first. Ann Wass ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
