Winter Carnival

 This has been on the making... for about two years. At least, according Facebook and Instagram, I've started to knit this in november 2021, and got as far as most of the body (after divinding the body and sleeves), then who knows why, most probably because of the New Year's Good Luck Sweater I've put it aside, and didn't pick it up... until last fall..

(I was not angry... we shoot the pictures in Gödöllő after a day long event... I was tired, not angry or anything)

Originally, I started it as a stash-busting project, to make use at least some small part of my gigantic sock-yarn collection. I remember, starting out according to the pattern (DROPS, what else?), and then (especially after dividing the sleeves) kind of going after my own head, picking up colors and patterns as I felt right. 

When I picked it up again, last fall, I needed to figure out where I was (which was no small feat), then finish the bodice. Picking up and knitting the sleeves were easier, as I only had to follow what I was doing on the body (at least color- and pattern-wise), and add my usual wide cuffs. 

As usual, I can only say good things about the DROPS pattern, it is pretty straightforward, and my changes are for my own preferences, like adding some decrease for a more pronounced waistline, and adding more increases (evenly around the round) for giving space for my hips. 

Pattern: DROPS Winter Carnival

Yarn: Mostly DROPS Fabel

Needles: Knit Pro 2,5 mm 3 mm and 3,25 mm

Photos: Norbert Varga @Bodeszphoto

Fluffy, white underthingies...

 Because that is what I've sewn in the last couple of weeks... and not even for myself. 

Since they were made more like work, I was trying to keep track of time, thus didn't really made photoes while making them (except for one short video-clip, but you will see that, somewhere below.

If you ever talked to me about historical clothes, you already know that I am a firm believer of the underwear matters principle. And while I do make concessions sometimes. Even though I have knitted quite a number of historical stockings, I do wear modern cotton knee high sockings for most events, sometimes I wear a modern tank top under my corsets, but from the very first time I paid attention to underwear (too). 

This time I was asked to make a set to wear under an 1870-ies dress, so...

A chemise was made, from the combination of a plain cotton, and embroidered batist.

Decorated with a bit of lace, a blue ribbon, and pintucks. (I absolutely adore pintucks, and totally do not mind doing them).

Then open crotch drawers:

Since it is a sett, the same fabric-combination, same lace and ribbon, and similar pintucks.

Then the bustle, a grand bustle very similar to mine:

This is the same fabric-combo, plain cotton, somewhat stonger and thicker than the one I used for the chemise and the drawers, but the same embroidered batist for the ruffles.

Finally, petticoat to cover the bustle:

Pintucks galore:

Then I turned about to a period of 20-25 years earlier, as I was asked to do a corded petticoat and a ruffled petticoat to wear under an existing early victorian dress.

When was it, when I said, that ever since I do historical clothes I do at least one (sometimes more) corded petticoat? This year was no different either.

Yippie, an actual photo of making the thing...

And on its new owner.

Last, but not least, a really fluffy, ruffled petticoat to give even more volume to that dress.

And here is me, hemming all those miles and miles of ruffles...

As much as I love white as a color (even though it is not actually a color, but let's not get into that theory), also love it in clothes, by the timeI finished with everything, I was really, really wishing for something else. Black, maybe?