This is more for the locals, but we will have a historic dance workshop on Saturday.
The weather promises to be incredibly hot, but the place is airconditioned.
Come, lets dance historic English Country dances, you know, the types
that you see in Jane Austen films :-)
HERE is the FB event, If you are in Budapest, but only speak English, don't worry, a lot of us speaks English, we will help you out.
Come and dance with us.
I absolutely hate the fact that it is so diffcult to find silver artificial hairpieces.
Because of reenactment, I often need to put some historical hairstyle on my head. Now I do not have much hair (anymore), and I need to use extra pieces. Though that is absolutely historically accurate, historical women often supplemented their on hair.
However, on all the places (Temu, AliExpres, Ebay, Etsy and whatnot), from where we can readily buy them, anytime I find a piece that would be okay, almost always is not available in gray/silver color.
Now, those women, who have silver hair are often not the youngest one, they are often over thyroid issues, menopausa, and a lot of other things that make their hair thin, but they are still women, quite often they like to look good just as much, thus they need extra hairpieces just as much - if not even more, than their younger counterparts.
Just sayin'.
Loosing weight, even if it is intentional and you are working hard for it, is not only sunshine and happyness... Like, as happy I am about being able to wear smaller clothes, and dress according to what I like (instead of what I am fitting into), things also have shadowy sides.
Like having to remake most of my historical clothes--- though I do not mind that so much, because now I can make stuff better, more thought trough than back, when I did not had the knowledge and/or the time for that.
On the other hand, having everything hanging on me, not only the clothes, but my thighs, my arms, my skin is much worst and I decided to do something about that. I started going to a dance-cardio class, but I needed clothes for that too. Yes, sports bras, and thank tops are fine, I was not about start sewing those, but I also needed pants/trousers.
I wanted wide legged, bubble/barrel shaped pants. So I decided to sew them.
I looked through some patterns on Etsy, I decided on one, made a useable mock up from a really old piece of leftover futter (I bought that fabric when my nephew was born 34 years ago, I made the some onesies to the newborn boy, who is an adult since), and then thought hard about what I want to change.
To emphasize the barrel shape, I took off some of the width at the waist, and added a couple of cm-s to the leg, also took off a few cm at the bottom. Furthermore, I changed the shape of the front pocket.
Then I as I was digging though my knit-fabric (futter) stash, I came across one, that once again was very old. It was bought in I Love Textil, though I cannot remember exactly when. Definetly, before Chris was small kid, but might be even earlier. I loved that fabric, no wonder I hung on to it for so many years. Even though it was for trainers, or hoodies, or something the like, it was not as elastic, and it had a gorgeous faded denim blue color. I remember, I did sew a pair of training trousers back then from it.
I did apply the same changes I used on the white one, and als used the single needle for the decorative stitching. This time I added the back pockets too.
Since I can categorize both pants as a succes, I will make other ones, probably trying other patterns as well.
Pattern: Kaashi Patterns
Fabric: I Love Textil
Phhotos: Bodeszphoto
Its pride month, and I am showing you a "pride" sweater.
So, while I wholeheartedly support the LMBTQ community, and their members, I really dislike the fact that rainbow colors are nowadays only assosiated with being gay.
Rainbow colors are not only a beautiful sequence of colors, but also have many meaning, including hope, tranformation and harmony, and we all can wish for all that and many more, without being part of the community.
I always loved rainbow colors, dyed many wool and yarn to that color, knitted a few pieces with those color myself, and have plans for more.
Mrs Ráth (born Gizella Melcsicky) was the wife of György Ráth, the first director of the Museum of Applied Arts in Hungary. She lived at the turn of the 19th/20 century.
As a reenactor I already played her caracter, when we did out "Spirits in the house" game in the willa, that is a museum today and houses part of her husband's collecton. Then I portrayed her in a bustle dress, citing that it was the fashion of her youth, and she "haunts" the in that because that was her favorite style.
This year we planned to reenact and actual event that happened, when, not long after her husband died, the emperor of the austrian empire and king of Hungary, Franz Joseph Habsburg visited the villa in 1906.
My first reaction was that I don't have, and not planning to make black mourning clothes, we have to figure out how to make work the late Victorian/Edwardian clothes I already have.
However, I already had a bee in my bonnet (or as we say in Hungarian, a bug in my ears). I stated a few times here too, that I do not like black clothes, and I am not wearing them, if I can avoid it. But then the black francaise gown I made a few years ago was a huge success, and I also grew to love the black witch clothes I wore in out little play last Xmas. Besides I felt it is a challenge, and when do I say no to a challenge?
My first attempt was making the black and white striped set (here/shirt, here/skirt and here/jacket), but that ended up way too steampunk-ish...
And, of course, the wheels in my head kelt turning at an alarming pace. The case was not helped by the fact that in the fabric store (I Love Textil, what else), I bumped into a roll of gorgeous, somewhat shiny black linen/viscose fabric.
I walked over to the haberdashery wholesaler -kind of- close to us, and got a few rolls of cotton lace, and set out trying the machine sewn lace insertion technique I found on youtube. I wanted a bit more than just vertical inserts at the seamlines, so I added 3 lines in V shape at the front of the skirt.
This time I used my "bigger" late victorian/edwardian skirt pattern, designed by Angela Clayton. I used it before (here, and here), and while I love it, especially, the big, almost semi-circle back, the problems I had with it the first time, still exist... Namely it is waay too long, and it has a train, and no sign where to cut off, if I want to use it without a train. It caused me a problem, as in trying to find the correct length, I incidentally cut it a bit too short, and had to add a piece to the back (but then, piecing is period).
I was considering adding pockets to the skirt, but because of the lace inserts, it would have been more complicated than I was about to do. But, though you cannot see it on the pictures, I added a small watch pocket, just below the waist, and I also inserted a small loop under the waistband. Since I do not have a chatelaine, I use that little loop to clip my watch too, while I put a kerchief and/or my regular digital wrist-watch in the small pocket.
I just had an idea for -yet another- more or less regular post.
I often say to people, that no, they really would NOT like to know what goes on in my head.
There are just rapid fire of thoughts, and plans, and combinations of plans, and distractions.
(Yes, most probably I have a bad case of adult, and female adhd - not diagnosed though, because its either a few hundred thousand HUF, or about 3-5 years worth of waiting list).
Anyhow, sometimes, these thoughts are strong, so strong that they do occupy my mind, especially at times, when I... walk, sew, knit, have a bath, cook, clean, whatnot. And I am speding time to research these ideas, because they just would not let me alone.
So,I thought, once in a while, I am telling you one or another of these persistent ideas.
Like that about the sweater my mom knitted and got lost in Miami.
Or it can be just a thought process, like how seeing a toe of a red shoe peeking out of along black skirt made me built an entire outfit, complete with a handknit sweater.
It can explain some of the things I do, might even make some order no, not make order, but show a tiny walkway in a thick forest.
What do you think? Could that be interesting?
One: yes, your telephone, internet, facebook, and such watches (and listens to) what you do. For weeks, my ads were full of gall-stone remedies, now they are full of hair-restoring things, things you put on your head - instead of minoxidil or rosemary oil, and such.
Two: Now, one thing is that I had really good experience with rosemary oil, but aside from that, even if I believe that in two weeks to one month your hair will get stronger, thicker, and whatnot... what I cannot believe that instead of having baby-hairs that grow (which in itself would be a miracle), the hair would grow a year worth in a month (as their pictures would suggest)...
