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
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
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
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
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
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
] 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
-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
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
for the turban workshop I'll be giving at the Gadsby's Tavern
costume symposium in Alexandria, VA, on Sept. 27.
Ann Wass
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Sent: Tue, Sep 10, 2013 1:01 pm
Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing
A stack of fabric and the adjusted pattern for an Edwardian outfit.
Margaret Decker
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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
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
still has them.
Ann Wass
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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
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
...@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
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
Leather. It has a more interesting life than I do!
-C.
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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
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
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
.) I'm trying to write instead of sew, but
that is slow going, too.
Ann Wass
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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
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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
... 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
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Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:51 PM
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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
punk outfit. I've lost 50 lbs in the last year leaving 100 to
go so I'm not being very ambitious.
Margaret Decker
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Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:51 PM
Subject: [h-cost] What's your
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
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
Of REBECCA BURCH
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 10:53 PM
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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
Cabot, Guilde of St. Lawrence, Bristol Renn Faire
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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
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Behalf Of REBECCA BURCH
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 10:53 PM
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Rebecca Burch
Center Valley Farm
Duncan Falls, Ohio, USA
The only twelve
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,
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
dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
GFDs
???
Ann Wass
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From: Beteena Paradise bete...@mostlymedieval.com
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Sent: Fri, May 18, 2012 6:29 pm
Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing
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,
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.
-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
I'm working on finishing two UFO GFDs. All that is left is hems and about a
zillion button holes.
Teena
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Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 5:25 PM
Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing
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,
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
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
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On 5/18/2012 4:06 PM, Vicki Betts wrote:
a modern white linen table runner with
drawn thread design that
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
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
GFDs
???
Ann Wass
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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
I can't decide on feathers or flowers.
You can do both!
Ann Wass
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Euphrosnia is wearing
your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
GFDs
???
Ann Wass
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Sent: Fri, May 18, 2012 6:29 pm
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I'm working
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GFDs
???
Ann Wass
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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,
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 -
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
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
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
--the making up
not so much, unless I'm trying something new.
Ann Wass
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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
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.
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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
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
An old Props Dept. tag I had laying around,
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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
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,
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
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
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
...@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
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
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
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
(Praise the holy name of the saint who invented safety pins!)
His name was Walter Hunt.
Ann Wass
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Sent: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 9:45 am
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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
: 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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
She is naked and tattered. :)
Franchesca
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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
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
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
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
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
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:=:=:=
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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
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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
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
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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
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 -
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
My dressform is wearing a half finished Lady Grey coat from Colette patterns.
Tania
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Ours is wearing a 1950's bodice, blue with white polka dots...
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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
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
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
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
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,
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
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:
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
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