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A well-timed break
Mar. 31st, 2010 07:32 amSometimes I think that Satan created my schedule to torment me into failing. Then I remember that 90% of the things on my schedule are things that I put there. Does that make me my own private Satan? Probably. Personal insights are so illuminating.
( a good read cures all )
Sewing: I'm sewing. Why don't I blog more about that? Everyone else on the planet does some variation on dress diaries, but the idea of writing about how I spent a few hours in my workshop just puts me to sleep. I do a lot of hand finishing which is slow and super not-fascinating ... zzzzzzzz! And seam ripping is riveting... not.
But here's a rough sketch: 1560-ish Venetian. Monotone brocade, purple with red tones. Under the gown is a kirtle which won't be visible when worn. It's made out of deep blue-green twill wool. The wool is a freaking pain in the ass because it loves to stretch. But I love the texture and the color, so I am soldiering on. I completed a band of embroidery for the neckline of chemise. The partlet will be made from a piece of lace.
Technical tid bits:
Kirtle: This is doing most of the support you'd expect from a corset, only it's not boned. It's twill wool lined in heavy linen and shaped in two pieces, front and back. The bodice has side lacing which is not meant to close all the way, which is not a problem since it's not meant to be seen. The front piece has 2 layers of linen lining for support. The skirt is unlined. No sleeves.
Gown: brocade reddish purple lined in heavy linen. Cut in two pieces, left side and right side. Open up the center front and closing with ladder lacing and trimmed in metalic braid. Super-lightly boned with plastic boning, which is mostly placed in the front to encourage the bodice to behave nicely. Sleeves are set in. Sleeves have three diagonal slashes with silk pulled through the slashes and lace at the cuff. The skirt is pleated to the bodice and the hem is padded.
I've been working on this since Mid-February. The embroidery sucked up quite a bit of time and then there was fabric hunting. But 6 weeks of sewing summed into 2 paragraphs... definitely not blog-material.
oh - here's a side story about the shed. There are 2 tracks of lights, one hard wired to a switch and one (for the vaulted roof) remote controlled. Someone nearby has a similar frequency to my remote control because it keeps randomly turning on and off. So there I am, puttering away and suddenly "click" and one of the tracks of lights turns off. That's okay until I'm watching "Hell Boy" out there after midnight the spook-factor is increased 100-fold. Or I look out the window before going to bed and the shed is all light up even though I shut everything off when I went to bed. I like to imagine fairies are cleaning up my mess at those times.
( a good read cures all )
Sewing: I'm sewing. Why don't I blog more about that? Everyone else on the planet does some variation on dress diaries, but the idea of writing about how I spent a few hours in my workshop just puts me to sleep. I do a lot of hand finishing which is slow and super not-fascinating ... zzzzzzzz! And seam ripping is riveting... not.
But here's a rough sketch: 1560-ish Venetian. Monotone brocade, purple with red tones. Under the gown is a kirtle which won't be visible when worn. It's made out of deep blue-green twill wool. The wool is a freaking pain in the ass because it loves to stretch. But I love the texture and the color, so I am soldiering on. I completed a band of embroidery for the neckline of chemise. The partlet will be made from a piece of lace.
Technical tid bits:
Kirtle: This is doing most of the support you'd expect from a corset, only it's not boned. It's twill wool lined in heavy linen and shaped in two pieces, front and back. The bodice has side lacing which is not meant to close all the way, which is not a problem since it's not meant to be seen. The front piece has 2 layers of linen lining for support. The skirt is unlined. No sleeves.
Gown: brocade reddish purple lined in heavy linen. Cut in two pieces, left side and right side. Open up the center front and closing with ladder lacing and trimmed in metalic braid. Super-lightly boned with plastic boning, which is mostly placed in the front to encourage the bodice to behave nicely. Sleeves are set in. Sleeves have three diagonal slashes with silk pulled through the slashes and lace at the cuff. The skirt is pleated to the bodice and the hem is padded.
I've been working on this since Mid-February. The embroidery sucked up quite a bit of time and then there was fabric hunting. But 6 weeks of sewing summed into 2 paragraphs... definitely not blog-material.
oh - here's a side story about the shed. There are 2 tracks of lights, one hard wired to a switch and one (for the vaulted roof) remote controlled. Someone nearby has a similar frequency to my remote control because it keeps randomly turning on and off. So there I am, puttering away and suddenly "click" and one of the tracks of lights turns off. That's okay until I'm watching "Hell Boy" out there after midnight the spook-factor is increased 100-fold. Or I look out the window before going to bed and the shed is all light up even though I shut everything off when I went to bed. I like to imagine fairies are cleaning up my mess at those times.
