tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9226740802955728712024-03-25T07:49:45.551+01:00The Crafty Side of Lifepeonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.comBlogger779125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-86416191543305024052024-03-23T07:30:00.002+01:002024-03-24T10:10:46.371+01:00Winter Carnival<p> 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..</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw2NdJDNY1QDlqyuLhFtCg7zdlxbE4Vy0ACIqYBooPe2yzKsDX0L0yVtQRqlBqhz2E0Nwdf1ZO3GXz7jYh10mYxy4AWOh304oYMSX_vof5F2Lqkm52e7ZnDAcR0rtD1NDQRsNDXuf5Y8114vrP3c2_ekkXIqZUdZEnhc26YH2Uj-8y25n7NzsQub55BZA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="320" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw2NdJDNY1QDlqyuLhFtCg7zdlxbE4Vy0ACIqYBooPe2yzKsDX0L0yVtQRqlBqhz2E0Nwdf1ZO3GXz7jYh10mYxy4AWOh304oYMSX_vof5F2Lqkm52e7ZnDAcR0rtD1NDQRsNDXuf5Y8114vrP3c2_ekkXIqZUdZEnhc26YH2Uj-8y25n7NzsQub55BZA" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(I was not angry... we shoot the pictures in Gödöllő after a day long event... I was tired, not angry or anything)</span></div><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcK4jUdNDv1odIryZKUVD1ScUEo60FszMHF1SygqN3I1hHnomY_UeFDiG3upNGT-KvOuSW0ogFx3Y5Fxmg0viPhtdgJoHMPUBEMxqP1SjuC7B8IAU7HUUHnc3KvA2ScNz4YdtiLRTnp5rHs7M5BRY3oacNQa36YQpxRDtTZorE1edqnhKihDMygo44lp8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="320" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcK4jUdNDv1odIryZKUVD1ScUEo60FszMHF1SygqN3I1hHnomY_UeFDiG3upNGT-KvOuSW0ogFx3Y5Fxmg0viPhtdgJoHMPUBEMxqP1SjuC7B8IAU7HUUHnc3KvA2ScNz4YdtiLRTnp5rHs7M5BRY3oacNQa36YQpxRDtTZorE1edqnhKihDMygo44lp8" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlAZIDWdYx-2eQDd-7cg-rnIulVDebZYw_sqxH1tZx73ReZudmYX8ubETO6-3ouX6Wv_eoUXyalkmYr6VH8iDdsMVr6WYL9Ot8F3t0t_50OFmgh0JShzrEEBQIgSaPfbd0F-k4zJuS7hChVUza41QUQvQFd_AQ5EFLs2AcRBbCCyDAgXM_oUMoOVrkmnQ/s5472/IMG_8213.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlAZIDWdYx-2eQDd-7cg-rnIulVDebZYw_sqxH1tZx73ReZudmYX8ubETO6-3ouX6Wv_eoUXyalkmYr6VH8iDdsMVr6WYL9Ot8F3t0t_50OFmgh0JShzrEEBQIgSaPfbd0F-k4zJuS7hChVUza41QUQvQFd_AQ5EFLs2AcRBbCCyDAgXM_oUMoOVrkmnQ/s320/IMG_8213.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdmtnU1p-2ddU-jfMw1mJjMYUaOAa6Z7zBngQP-coatkrEIxjpXm42YI2IGUArCBq99B2eFGV8dA67H9VW7byURSW4U6WqaZYFr_9VSXsbmV0osRav5OFcoO9mB0rxHJfh5FJ8yYcgjticSBF1u79iCLDxI6rH437va4cV5iyEePrwY-9LG2i7STRhN2g/s5472/IMG_8215.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdmtnU1p-2ddU-jfMw1mJjMYUaOAa6Z7zBngQP-coatkrEIxjpXm42YI2IGUArCBq99B2eFGV8dA67H9VW7byURSW4U6WqaZYFr_9VSXsbmV0osRav5OFcoO9mB0rxHJfh5FJ8yYcgjticSBF1u79iCLDxI6rH437va4cV5iyEePrwY-9LG2i7STRhN2g/s320/IMG_8215.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqvq02qzNFL5ot9v3J7DJLeH0MN5WUSw-0j1w0CMYIHsJoaHMA6UJ5ERznlOLjuTjcgbbBMdpDPCzt1nfGDdNJrY8OkbvwDoZ_TS-mgt9-ilR32HS8e-eQn0raHxr56x2QgMSlCDu5swSwBvcnocVJh4MiHvImdIQMeljuzsRh7KYQq4gCHTuR-UrpqGU/s5472/IMG_8219.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqvq02qzNFL5ot9v3J7DJLeH0MN5WUSw-0j1w0CMYIHsJoaHMA6UJ5ERznlOLjuTjcgbbBMdpDPCzt1nfGDdNJrY8OkbvwDoZ_TS-mgt9-ilR32HS8e-eQn0raHxr56x2QgMSlCDu5swSwBvcnocVJh4MiHvImdIQMeljuzsRh7KYQq4gCHTuR-UrpqGU/s320/IMG_8219.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv6PmyEow_AfHsJQ1kY4rzcU_jj5nVNN8uDI4BZ1KnOoinSDEfDhv4LbLvy09m7v17ECDjaioq9cli6ebkMs89G0MqXlDw1znWAPk_XcEFJRobGeKKUojaDgyOD7PFgcxLMnVnIBioLXkCfdSOINvSgC_O5duqxDtOy-CGrrXwMe_VYPxC_AVDsc9QJKs/s5472/IMG_8220.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv6PmyEow_AfHsJQ1kY4rzcU_jj5nVNN8uDI4BZ1KnOoinSDEfDhv4LbLvy09m7v17ECDjaioq9cli6ebkMs89G0MqXlDw1znWAPk_XcEFJRobGeKKUojaDgyOD7PFgcxLMnVnIBioLXkCfdSOINvSgC_O5duqxDtOy-CGrrXwMe_VYPxC_AVDsc9QJKs/s320/IMG_8220.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Pattern: <a href="https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=8687&cid=19" target="_blank">DROPS Winter Carnival</a><div>Yarn: Mostly DROPS Fabel</div><div>Needles: Knit Pro 2,5 mm 3 mm and 3,25 mm</div><div><br /></div><div>Photos: Norbert Varga @<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Bodeszphoto" target="_blank">Bodeszphoto</a><a href="https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=8687&cid=19" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></a><p><br /></p></div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-64137412892656307822024-03-21T15:00:00.001+01:002024-03-21T15:00:00.189+01:00Fluffy, white underthingies...<p> Because that is what I've sewn in the last couple of weeks... and not even for myself. </p><p>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.</p><p>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). </p><p>This time I was asked to make a set to wear under an 1870-ies dress, so...</p><p>A chemise was made, from the combination of a plain cotton, and embroidered batist.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyo-QIW_Sbbq8TNI0FS2fV-ijc3WqjihbxNpQBQ_9mrSqXSNh_Wy8Do7qDtJKeFgFLWnZcb8nnVjO-p8SNaRqi0u6goV3fn7YBvZYiLzyzbuFRSzATJlQG_mp1U7UUPdQPXvRArQ_sqI3GOu3Y9mAlPWT3UrRjgjTXIPL8JnEcii3_DRhe0hLy2112QZ4/s4032/20240310_083947.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyo-QIW_Sbbq8TNI0FS2fV-ijc3WqjihbxNpQBQ_9mrSqXSNh_Wy8Do7qDtJKeFgFLWnZcb8nnVjO-p8SNaRqi0u6goV3fn7YBvZYiLzyzbuFRSzATJlQG_mp1U7UUPdQPXvRArQ_sqI3GOu3Y9mAlPWT3UrRjgjTXIPL8JnEcii3_DRhe0hLy2112QZ4/s320/20240310_083947.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Decorated with a bit of lace, a blue ribbon, and pintucks. (I absolutely adore pintucks, and totally do not mind doing them).<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzvKw50pPncCM3sucD8DKvrW9bY42KYXpqXLaYH3VtjBaJSXaTqvkArBKeAgz4nBpuloMuxKBLmqy69X2Exv7EhU0dQ0la5YXdO6hbnmEENsem9GyN5C-iqfYVME0GBChV8llCZ1CQB2TgCRjjz3j0Vzdmp4RgkC11cTgpDUedUOLKziGUHl3xIfATPS8/s4032/20240310_083957.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzvKw50pPncCM3sucD8DKvrW9bY42KYXpqXLaYH3VtjBaJSXaTqvkArBKeAgz4nBpuloMuxKBLmqy69X2Exv7EhU0dQ0la5YXdO6hbnmEENsem9GyN5C-iqfYVME0GBChV8llCZ1CQB2TgCRjjz3j0Vzdmp4RgkC11cTgpDUedUOLKziGUHl3xIfATPS8/s320/20240310_083957.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then open crotch drawers:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPssXIuYwhvqevOf1uuhWEBzz5c-xgMiErLCXyORnzKFINbH4qzj-C9oBiXheatgqobTbCl71aLvxfJk_BJWcVIyTG3gjKQ354EqeWqFIACFHzXvYpfiYZ8YW0JroOqfSw5d4cuebePQpifMlDEbpjX9UY6hS_cOzCcrlgMbg-BaQqsQh-zpNlJqtcJfw/s4032/20240310_083817.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPssXIuYwhvqevOf1uuhWEBzz5c-xgMiErLCXyORnzKFINbH4qzj-C9oBiXheatgqobTbCl71aLvxfJk_BJWcVIyTG3gjKQ354EqeWqFIACFHzXvYpfiYZ8YW0JroOqfSw5d4cuebePQpifMlDEbpjX9UY6hS_cOzCcrlgMbg-BaQqsQh-zpNlJqtcJfw/s320/20240310_083817.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Since it is a sett, the same fabric-combination, same lace and ribbon, and similar pintucks.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYVXVXnGx2ruYHzp-8qpfYOdwSxA9vMt6Mpmf3UTPEtySAv7-ur94lI9_yf9Ff9HlL2mf09PXsOYYZRuCy5o5ICTgMDVnCt_d02gPCr6FKE_80f7w4g9BfvlB78ody2zBhNAqQyFH7jsS99ZHL5AxKXBTF1OSJv4_L9yBDGbQHCB7KlwY7ZngvJl5l5Gk/s4032/20240310_083832.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYVXVXnGx2ruYHzp-8qpfYOdwSxA9vMt6Mpmf3UTPEtySAv7-ur94lI9_yf9Ff9HlL2mf09PXsOYYZRuCy5o5ICTgMDVnCt_d02gPCr6FKE_80f7w4g9BfvlB78ody2zBhNAqQyFH7jsS99ZHL5AxKXBTF1OSJv4_L9yBDGbQHCB7KlwY7ZngvJl5l5Gk/s320/20240310_083832.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyC9tKk4ZEskLgXwYYfHZgDl4qajB9G_rM3BO0O5ukM9UGwKsjOA4T_XTg33zMbCIH5_c773Bc4vClN-dZtLGQaJCdRdpxE4sM-JzCetnuX5tIqDqbU9lB4kWawsb-XWakrQ3YIjkS9mJN9baD3pQR8_H_KiyD5X90xu57QcpwV1Gb4co8GFYfpBSYwkU/s4032/20240310_083837.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyC9tKk4ZEskLgXwYYfHZgDl4qajB9G_rM3BO0O5ukM9UGwKsjOA4T_XTg33zMbCIH5_c773Bc4vClN-dZtLGQaJCdRdpxE4sM-JzCetnuX5tIqDqbU9lB4kWawsb-XWakrQ3YIjkS9mJN9baD3pQR8_H_KiyD5X90xu57QcpwV1Gb4co8GFYfpBSYwkU/s320/20240310_083837.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Then the bustle, a grand bustle very similar to mine:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkO7HJdzF9KQZ5nB-pMjHeBrxRzsVir_d3fv0GfnmM1dsXCc-E0_e7bYAU92MrTL54-TSWvAdgOPF39GeW0lJzihmrWUGfQ6C4wiMV7xKXZaKi2VCNjU5bA-d8JVOPNeOAlDsgS0hevDXWuE28gb-Ti9qipujvzxqqyQWdV1ed-UUHX0Nu0mGzOIMAeco/s4032/20240310_084223.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkO7HJdzF9KQZ5nB-pMjHeBrxRzsVir_d3fv0GfnmM1dsXCc-E0_e7bYAU92MrTL54-TSWvAdgOPF39GeW0lJzihmrWUGfQ6C4wiMV7xKXZaKi2VCNjU5bA-d8JVOPNeOAlDsgS0hevDXWuE28gb-Ti9qipujvzxqqyQWdV1ed-UUHX0Nu0mGzOIMAeco/s320/20240310_084223.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>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.<div>Finally, petticoat to cover the bustle:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguBOn1duBQIg5XPJqRYWAt153oQNrpbzR8QJ9c8TAXxYd2NfEeKQvWOSS7vMuwZTmvgpXw7xgKSy6XkwP-QbTrKmkx-d0vFAew-gtAA7NEL3XyDSPqLQP0s2DqXIaZ39EjNKWkCMgc_wdWd0Dpan_rZ37xnhJno7V9l4MT215aafm_Z4q-lk2N1dt6SWk/s4032/20240310_210612.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguBOn1duBQIg5XPJqRYWAt153oQNrpbzR8QJ9c8TAXxYd2NfEeKQvWOSS7vMuwZTmvgpXw7xgKSy6XkwP-QbTrKmkx-d0vFAew-gtAA7NEL3XyDSPqLQP0s2DqXIaZ39EjNKWkCMgc_wdWd0Dpan_rZ37xnhJno7V9l4MT215aafm_Z4q-lk2N1dt6SWk/s320/20240310_210612.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Pintucks galore:<br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXZjrHWNp1Qg5vkmQ330g0cvkd-H9YJHqickXlUu4bA_X9G_m3J3AUuIufg_O5dX0NVQrsHYjFIiCVONAH6HYAAyr2sBp7dC_qyIAlricSLKuZ3IsyXQvGhLhFbnjhmb3pE_QZvA7EBH7zK2XuVhTtz8gLenSAz40q9Z9vzfnIf9YiZbvkgGzc9z-BZI/s4032/20240310_210550.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoXZjrHWNp1Qg5vkmQ330g0cvkd-H9YJHqickXlUu4bA_X9G_m3J3AUuIufg_O5dX0NVQrsHYjFIiCVONAH6HYAAyr2sBp7dC_qyIAlricSLKuZ3IsyXQvGhLhFbnjhmb3pE_QZvA7EBH7zK2XuVhTtz8gLenSAz40q9Z9vzfnIf9YiZbvkgGzc9z-BZI/s320/20240310_210550.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>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.</div><div>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.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinoXKFM3z9puULBh-E3sr5NLf-_PlgCPVlcSZSFKyNzjfia9L6L9x5IoIsP2nvaUFf1igBbfAu5raXupugXjGF8J-_7VgGvrAPWVDzw_s1xp4sO-75wgg28tPUgANRZm_eJ-RwP0JWQxlNXsi8CrZkyzfyT-tNdwDZbjG8OFBp7ayPjUj3HHcXhYtt1yA/s4032/20240314_220448.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinoXKFM3z9puULBh-E3sr5NLf-_PlgCPVlcSZSFKyNzjfia9L6L9x5IoIsP2nvaUFf1igBbfAu5raXupugXjGF8J-_7VgGvrAPWVDzw_s1xp4sO-75wgg28tPUgANRZm_eJ-RwP0JWQxlNXsi8CrZkyzfyT-tNdwDZbjG8OFBp7ayPjUj3HHcXhYtt1yA/s320/20240314_220448.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Yippie, an actual photo of making the thing...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLaTT2yxtm96dZ_HbwRbfaR_F3KbWxd1Hp7yWcKP3LLg3E_Y803Kf3GoBnB7Wq9hDi8EyA9PK2Rmm3vHbrjVbGsJVjR5Zrf784jSaJfH3KDmxnftxEA4H8Zt90A3fg635B_6CZldCJfnEKril611v2Zmv-OUvQbAJLoGsRgaNT4VeA5674FgIW-lVGZdo/s4032/20240315_005418.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLaTT2yxtm96dZ_HbwRbfaR_F3KbWxd1Hp7yWcKP3LLg3E_Y803Kf3GoBnB7Wq9hDi8EyA9PK2Rmm3vHbrjVbGsJVjR5Zrf784jSaJfH3KDmxnftxEA4H8Zt90A3fg635B_6CZldCJfnEKril611v2Zmv-OUvQbAJLoGsRgaNT4VeA5674FgIW-lVGZdo/s320/20240315_005418.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>And on its new owner.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPItU8M2ohtlfm5Nzipsz6FV1ExFhRAFJY_CObQzoJ_ydYuKiZXzn1vFNg9Dgvf2zkh8TLZ7RdRp9m11PkwIeevz5eAjipJpDSOOU4QBqUXu3Jhj5hiuGYcvdWdFZ4F2Q7DhPv2Sf143Ioxb2nIlw4FpdukQCI4hZjMlvgNQpV1Pjn4mydvgFXpzEgyBw/s5472/IMG_1136.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPItU8M2ohtlfm5Nzipsz6FV1ExFhRAFJY_CObQzoJ_ydYuKiZXzn1vFNg9Dgvf2zkh8TLZ7RdRp9m11PkwIeevz5eAjipJpDSOOU4QBqUXu3Jhj5hiuGYcvdWdFZ4F2Q7DhPv2Sf143Ioxb2nIlw4FpdukQCI4hZjMlvgNQpV1Pjn4mydvgFXpzEgyBw/s320/IMG_1136.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div>Last, but not least, a really fluffy, ruffled petticoat to give even more volume to that dress.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQA09sNTjUaT7ZQAWk7j70f63hSVcu4XpGkplzaOMIC3Y6YuXxpJT6oz9XvVmtC7jds8PbvVqjvYKz5QMwuSu_JHJw5L7jYDdfoPCehBWxGYfSNV0YIafpB_ubHbDhXF36aGfzI04zyHW18r4IXlmi8K3yVy0KW_uPKGA3tV4NFc9ohTCOhG57lganhVc/s5472/IMG_1135.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQA09sNTjUaT7ZQAWk7j70f63hSVcu4XpGkplzaOMIC3Y6YuXxpJT6oz9XvVmtC7jds8PbvVqjvYKz5QMwuSu_JHJw5L7jYDdfoPCehBWxGYfSNV0YIafpB_ubHbDhXF36aGfzI04zyHW18r4IXlmi8K3yVy0KW_uPKGA3tV4NFc9ohTCOhG57lganhVc/s320/IMG_1135.JPG" width="213" /></a></div>And here is me, hemming all those miles and miles of ruffles...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxq0XohmHxG27fSFST1NEmEPeonr6tqLtriO6YBeNYnRgQ5oFgTyFZFQA4oXYDkcdLQyLPI9YmzT24dyTk12w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div>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? </div><div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div></div></div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-3337558277957920022024-02-16T08:30:00.009+01:002024-02-16T10:21:35.118+01:00Love at first sight - Love in a mist<p>Remember, when a few posts ago I showed you the pile of handknits I've done, and wanted to show you? The time has come, and here is the first one of those. </p><p>Whatever the title says, this was a long process... </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5uPX6oB4R7JijG17ntBb-J1xLGwVTymcV4Oz3xxKEvXpRVboAcu4PP48PwD4aQAy9S016w9AnBu5aKwGiuHThe-3nOqoOmPnsb_t1DEDpDGZrll-tzZxFxg21Hehu66LUoK2cqJ2K9szw9j3_afBXa9rv6BroTXRnFaXSR5aPW2f7cqzwvjbw35knSE/s5472/IMG_7398.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5uPX6oB4R7JijG17ntBb-J1xLGwVTymcV4Oz3xxKEvXpRVboAcu4PP48PwD4aQAy9S016w9AnBu5aKwGiuHThe-3nOqoOmPnsb_t1DEDpDGZrll-tzZxFxg21Hehu66LUoK2cqJ2K9szw9j3_afBXa9rv6BroTXRnFaXSR5aPW2f7cqzwvjbw35knSE/s320/IMG_7398.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">And as almost always, has a bit of a story. Years ago, I found a little more than three skeins of turqoise sock-yarn - some unknown brand- in a second hand store. Its color was a bit boring. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVA31giCq5kBDxT7X-AWLNA2Dnrn0sqpn3CMD2-BCvypBhzXquN6V8EqrgHsXA18ysakYdhbMdIY1CzRW_BqGuVCV8IdzCW6UzMM2AFXGjZA7ood14QKRptrX8VN1qPH79p4HrVCq5GwQnVvSwI1fSY_nq9v4xpa4bqNV-PIar6Uo4xEvos-gh62Yjf3Q/s4032/20201103_115948.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVA31giCq5kBDxT7X-AWLNA2Dnrn0sqpn3CMD2-BCvypBhzXquN6V8EqrgHsXA18ysakYdhbMdIY1CzRW_BqGuVCV8IdzCW6UzMM2AFXGjZA7ood14QKRptrX8VN1qPH79p4HrVCq5GwQnVvSwI1fSY_nq9v4xpa4bqNV-PIar6Uo4xEvos-gh62Yjf3Q/s320/20201103_115948.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZLDN0SIb93ALN_UZnpEYghU3lCGNiVyv73Eo9ys1IwPrRJmBCNiuo6CAHOBYr7EL2gOtsgYbkipp4lEAQnZtv9lbPt0afm5gBh6o3duGpSw96qt2rwkVoHaZgS2FFZ7K1EYCbMlEe5womlWnLZ7r9tyaVaePlZt8gKysLSAFFJ-bx_flAjFhvqLlYZDI/s4032/20201103_120027.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZLDN0SIb93ALN_UZnpEYghU3lCGNiVyv73Eo9ys1IwPrRJmBCNiuo6CAHOBYr7EL2gOtsgYbkipp4lEAQnZtv9lbPt0afm5gBh6o3duGpSw96qt2rwkVoHaZgS2FFZ7K1EYCbMlEe5womlWnLZ7r9tyaVaePlZt8gKysLSAFFJ-bx_flAjFhvqLlYZDI/s320/20201103_120027.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">No, I take that back, as we all know, there is no such a thing as a "boring turqoise", but I always felt it could be made a bit more interesting, so at one of my dyeing days, I dunked it into some dye. the plan was to make it semi-solid, but it became more contrasted than my original plan was, however, I absolutely LOVED it. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHqzk1jiKUCsrexZvN4VeibKOs2KRT17TWhWeEUsU1kGIgvACDRjWhaUi8tOq0sZWE35w7KX30_BKbQ7dBm4O76YooIHvQF0Jp1S3nWy-V830LDJ8IiFCgZOOxQ4dlPYtiiNwkR7EcbH1CqkBJVlgUsfiqBwoYzbdl4iwC9jWZBBDw5HwTk35YCmZyqcg/s4032/20211114_112716.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHqzk1jiKUCsrexZvN4VeibKOs2KRT17TWhWeEUsU1kGIgvACDRjWhaUi8tOq0sZWE35w7KX30_BKbQ7dBm4O76YooIHvQF0Jp1S3nWy-V830LDJ8IiFCgZOOxQ4dlPYtiiNwkR7EcbH1CqkBJVlgUsfiqBwoYzbdl4iwC9jWZBBDw5HwTk35YCmZyqcg/s320/20211114_112716.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfctJuXfW4B-T8VzvOw1r4cYCPxFPwoL9spmA5bAWc-XZv7o_YpRJlnZbvBK1v09FNZSR9r9O4hwt-EinYKwKjgGl59T4yweodryL1-s9eOzVUz2wz7WwH-5oI1sejZ77yf58LG4Jcv4TqG09GsFfnpEZcYdqy1YqMcT_Fyjsj5eU1u4Gsg_zatVYmZ5I/s4032/20211114_112721.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfctJuXfW4B-T8VzvOw1r4cYCPxFPwoL9spmA5bAWc-XZv7o_YpRJlnZbvBK1v09FNZSR9r9O4hwt-EinYKwKjgGl59T4yweodryL1-s9eOzVUz2wz7WwH-5oI1sejZ77yf58LG4Jcv4TqG09GsFfnpEZcYdqy1YqMcT_Fyjsj5eU1u4Gsg_zatVYmZ5I/s320/20211114_112721.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>So much that I was searching for the PERFECT pattern to use it. I knew that the 3 skein was too little to make a sweater on its own. At the same time, it was way to much to use as a contrast color for a sweater that has patterning on its yoke. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jTB_IS99F1i2dUp8qyhhsgtOmSNw9ZXNC9ByNGLOH84Z2XwZBoXfFwR9pbu6MqCwvosyj8sAjKreGB4vOHEyRz-LGMNrC4G4HBUZP44WPhyphenhyphenlc7Bhx6YJY_nybvFKITymLdZ8Qp6M8NdIYb2uxaFbLff8Kr2zqNyHkEThOLhnFvsSY_5_3jbK_TVK32o/s4032/20211121_132734.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1jTB_IS99F1i2dUp8qyhhsgtOmSNw9ZXNC9ByNGLOH84Z2XwZBoXfFwR9pbu6MqCwvosyj8sAjKreGB4vOHEyRz-LGMNrC4G4HBUZP44WPhyphenhyphenlc7Bhx6YJY_nybvFKITymLdZ8Qp6M8NdIYb2uxaFbLff8Kr2zqNyHkEThOLhnFvsSY_5_3jbK_TVK32o/s320/20211121_132734.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUn21dqUorMZgF8nh_sGsZuni1jnOqo_XQr7XMP_t5BEUr7eAC-A2E6d44Bq_sknJvF89DwFfgtsiUnKYcdAst7iu0H7J4lxmyk4m3BO-JqPnaulS4aMHRa-0KtjnH0gww2UlJ35o1JAirmZYOlqandnvJz3fgN5_nfDtgV9pNOoemywcQeJCLtIIG9A/s4032/20211121_132741.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkUn21dqUorMZgF8nh_sGsZuni1jnOqo_XQr7XMP_t5BEUr7eAC-A2E6d44Bq_sknJvF89DwFfgtsiUnKYcdAst7iu0H7J4lxmyk4m3BO-JqPnaulS4aMHRa-0KtjnH0gww2UlJ35o1JAirmZYOlqandnvJz3fgN5_nfDtgV9pNOoemywcQeJCLtIIG9A/s320/20211121_132741.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxrJtKfUUzR7O-IA9xEelB6VjfVOL8v4lCLkZrFCS5GwOqJjuCCCbPh_ohMTwayUZ1txW1LqRgiYS3FbJlo0ywLvdInixhkoI-YRkH9Zfu5Lz6Xzfvfd83Jsgk483ssxgTILaqgAhOTnlYsChrwF7ALJ4cLYiV_bAmLbedqa_AGcVxODLLoiJqAx4kb3E/s4032/20211121_132806.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxrJtKfUUzR7O-IA9xEelB6VjfVOL8v4lCLkZrFCS5GwOqJjuCCCbPh_ohMTwayUZ1txW1LqRgiYS3FbJlo0ywLvdInixhkoI-YRkH9Zfu5Lz6Xzfvfd83Jsgk483ssxgTILaqgAhOTnlYsChrwF7ALJ4cLYiV_bAmLbedqa_AGcVxODLLoiJqAx4kb3E/s320/20211121_132806.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">I did try to make it into a striped cardigan with some pearl-gray DROPS Flora. Though I loved how the two yarns worked together, still I thought I have knitted a number of striped cardigans in the last few years, for now I wanted something else. So the yarn was languising in a bag, along with the Flora. For years. I did came across a few really lovely fair isle yoke sweaters, but I wanted something that has more patterning. At the same time, I wanted a pattern which has fine, almost filigree lines.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Is it only me, that as I grew older, my taste grews more peculiar? I like less and less things, and I am more and more decisive -at least with certain things- about what I like and what I do not like. Sweaters with stranded patterns are a premium example of this. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, it was a surpise when I first saw Elenor Mortensen's Love in a Mist pattern, how it hit me. It had all the right things. The drawing was very fine, I loved the lines, I loved the filigree (and still not the christmas-y/starry) motif. The patten didn't only went on the shoulders, the yoke, but run way down on the body and the sleeves. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd76zYgw-dmnE2eMKfgm6scAV3T3qU_L0kt2GgA6BpQF496mFDfFjjId5T7T6mWuO9vee_mf8dnbNe62MCV2vuz8vMr1l_jqCDEaWEDdjARbOlhZ_XPozGSDwW8A3C_fYhwSNV8ndRkMM2v5xcunOfp77uYJ-E9yxd8GQX_Nsjdtbnqyh2VvMiJ8O77Fo/s5375/IMG_7401.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3583" data-original-width="5375" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd76zYgw-dmnE2eMKfgm6scAV3T3qU_L0kt2GgA6BpQF496mFDfFjjId5T7T6mWuO9vee_mf8dnbNe62MCV2vuz8vMr1l_jqCDEaWEDdjARbOlhZ_XPozGSDwW8A3C_fYhwSNV8ndRkMM2v5xcunOfp77uYJ-E9yxd8GQX_Nsjdtbnqyh2VvMiJ8O77Fo/s320/IMG_7401.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>So I threw away everything else I was working on (including those stockings that should have been finished weeks ago). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKuN5qYitJQ1jg0uqsF88MN9UWRxxCJVcsuDaYwi-KlRf99cJuJHwc1r51e6p8GF8jo3Lf20WgPaxFH6k1_uSUECDaODVBqzSaJvHima9K6FXpYD6U6C_muCcJXSth4hlpqKFiqvmZnplRHB0kWvnYPzaLEmEv6fMXxW9wFWZKDHq3NOeeMsRzjACXWlk/s5430/IMG_7400.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3620" data-original-width="5430" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKuN5qYitJQ1jg0uqsF88MN9UWRxxCJVcsuDaYwi-KlRf99cJuJHwc1r51e6p8GF8jo3Lf20WgPaxFH6k1_uSUECDaODVBqzSaJvHima9K6FXpYD6U6C_muCcJXSth4hlpqKFiqvmZnplRHB0kWvnYPzaLEmEv6fMXxW9wFWZKDHq3NOeeMsRzjACXWlk/s320/IMG_7400.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As usual, I could only follow the instructions until the sleeves and the body were separated. Which already was done at a slightly different place. Then, as I always do, added waist shaping, decreases and then at a bit more agressive increases for the hip area. I made the sweater longer, and while I was at it, I added one repeat of the main pattern. The sleeves got those long ribbed cuffs I love so much that they are kind of my trademarks. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3i6_zRXzXeO7_fYxOMgjZy4EM28lT0ZY41RZGK14ZErpqTeO_b8kqvkMkX3cfpiCK8j-vxcPkFx_FSQmoCRRFdv1K5G6cRBIQYQXwDn_I8tm3aj1LfIsEBSn8EhgTsop24WdxVrTdiGUKmIy0-SOgvZi8PiVVtblHf991WEcOdSR2WTQXSe32PMWPxCg/s4032/20231006_114125.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3i6_zRXzXeO7_fYxOMgjZy4EM28lT0ZY41RZGK14ZErpqTeO_b8kqvkMkX3cfpiCK8j-vxcPkFx_FSQmoCRRFdv1K5G6cRBIQYQXwDn_I8tm3aj1LfIsEBSn8EhgTsop24WdxVrTdiGUKmIy0-SOgvZi8PiVVtblHf991WEcOdSR2WTQXSe32PMWPxCg/s320/20231006_114125.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ3Dtrp89WVPNPlLI06j88KAieEK9Nm2MRW0YLppqoKj1-3VPgr48zCMhgY1DJ3v7ktcnOi812w-d39-ANOUnwlq4M2F6IxEhhNAdXD_IrMFptkCScUb55KqJcoFxPNp6u3ClpFyR-N4cNXPJH-QbxQXzx3CrzcgbjF10VkIPU-yq4c_KUGbwrlXgOWDo/s4032/20231109_160406.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ3Dtrp89WVPNPlLI06j88KAieEK9Nm2MRW0YLppqoKj1-3VPgr48zCMhgY1DJ3v7ktcnOi812w-d39-ANOUnwlq4M2F6IxEhhNAdXD_IrMFptkCScUb55KqJcoFxPNp6u3ClpFyR-N4cNXPJH-QbxQXzx3CrzcgbjF10VkIPU-yq4c_KUGbwrlXgOWDo/s320/20231109_160406.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">While I was knitting the pattern I was absolutely enchanted, how the variation of the handdyed yarn's color popped up and worked with the pattern's lines. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQlNP8_8IOg5477G-Jbl_Dk9PMq8LXfDtBD2ja1yYmq1FHnh0X28Mpi3rAbbibU7vuhbr_5CUNPiQHXz7yRxKGNdOFT3JjPO1QKn69z62joYxedAGMlrRkskHKROcRsofRfjps7yrB8YYaZEOtke-g3oqkjSTU9NgEEszlzPJHhRveM5JB7HnPbs5qxBE/s5243/IMG_7403.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3495" data-original-width="5243" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQlNP8_8IOg5477G-Jbl_Dk9PMq8LXfDtBD2ja1yYmq1FHnh0X28Mpi3rAbbibU7vuhbr_5CUNPiQHXz7yRxKGNdOFT3JjPO1QKn69z62joYxedAGMlrRkskHKROcRsofRfjps7yrB8YYaZEOtke-g3oqkjSTU9NgEEszlzPJHhRveM5JB7HnPbs5qxBE/s320/IMG_7403.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>And it goes perfectly with the petrol colored trousers, I made... now, you see, why I needed this particular color, don't you?</p><p>Modelled photos, of course by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Bodeszphoto" target="_blank">@Bodeszphoto</a></p><p>Pattern: <a href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/love-in-a-mist-sweater" target="_blank">Love in a Mist</a> by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/elenormortensen/" target="_blank">Eleneor Mortensen</a></p><p>Yarn: gray: <a href="https://www.garnstudio.com/yarn.php?show=drops-flora&cid=19" target="_blank">DROPS Flora</a> from Garnstudio, Petrol: handdyed sockyarn</p><p><br /></p>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-21448507341806018882024-02-14T07:30:00.001+01:002024-02-14T07:30:00.165+01:00Modern turqoise<p>Now, that I've kinda got over the adrenalin rush (umm, dare I say "succes"???) of the blue polka dot dress, and that Budapets 150th event, let's get back to... what? Some stuff that I've been meaning to post about for months now.</p><p>I wanted to sew modern, "civilian" stuff (that is not-historical) clothes for a while now. </p><p>I used to sew clothes for everyday use a lot, then I knitted a lot more than I sew, and I missed it. </p><p>I started to sew again seriously in 2016, but historical clothes this time, and those enchanted me so much, I did not really had time and energy for much else, but the thought of it would not leave me alone.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxqWNfeUgRhLWBCUh8AqmuPW61P5bDuOGoabVq2WWLpa9VaRM2LquFo85FhnfCdJLQtDw85LznGU9ZJuAxm6DM9erbbsFxZ1Mx2D0GK0_-9BZ8MSZe-lme53hUdbQTTin62l8oe5KwnYHlA7yEyBg9JkG73Dv0GHY5XFGe6ikiZYg1tWynSrcAhyphenhyphenaVO-o/s5444/IMG_7408.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5444" data-original-width="3629" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxqWNfeUgRhLWBCUh8AqmuPW61P5bDuOGoabVq2WWLpa9VaRM2LquFo85FhnfCdJLQtDw85LznGU9ZJuAxm6DM9erbbsFxZ1Mx2D0GK0_-9BZ8MSZe-lme53hUdbQTTin62l8oe5KwnYHlA7yEyBg9JkG73Dv0GHY5XFGe6ikiZYg1tWynSrcAhyphenhyphenaVO-o/s320/IMG_7408.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Back in the early 2010's, when I was going to the Uni. I had a couple pairs of soft, bubble legged baby-corduroy pants, their style was fun, they were very comfortable, I loved dearly. I used them, until they were threadbare, and I was sorry becase I could not find any replacement for them. That soft, baby corduroy fabric came back into fashion with a venegance last year. I bought some dresses, but though I did looked, no pants in those stores. So I thought, high time for me to try and make some. </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">I took out one old pair, that I kept, even though it was threadbare, and way to small these days. but I loved its styling, and started to try and copy and enlarge its the pattern. Then I added a few ideas, I had for a kind of boho, wide, or rather bubble legged pants, like having folds end up at the edge of the pocket, so the pants does not have much ease at the waist, but from the hip it gets agressively wider. Then I thought, I should make a mock up.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Mock ups are the alfas and omegas of historical dressmaking, those dresses of the past were fitted to the hell and back,but such a thing like "useable mock-ups do exist. They are trial pieces, that are made from fabrics that , would the piece turn out okay, could be used, but should it turn out bad, we don't mind the wasted material too much. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I happen to have quite a few meters of purple cordury (don't ask), and there was one piece that has dark rust colored wrong side.. the fabric -of course- came from I love Textil, it was cheap, but I still don't know what was I thinking. Anyhow, it was perfect for a trial piece. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZaKsliFOUWWK_y_UgCHcS2DNUK6sGgyDf0o2Hba8GIWMsxX664uuPkxRZIXuAJUzADcS93an1KI1WyGjdKwx1xyVFbwg5Mk8-uJohyphenhyphen_A75t-XD647FCyofQNA1eRAFCobxEmkWLbaHQdESuJqEy-HyVUH_EuHlkiP21Avi1BKJLWS51yacAyx_FvX5QY/s5472/IMG_4469.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZaKsliFOUWWK_y_UgCHcS2DNUK6sGgyDf0o2Hba8GIWMsxX664uuPkxRZIXuAJUzADcS93an1KI1WyGjdKwx1xyVFbwg5Mk8-uJohyphenhyphen_A75t-XD647FCyofQNA1eRAFCobxEmkWLbaHQdESuJqEy-HyVUH_EuHlkiP21Avi1BKJLWS51yacAyx_FvX5QY/s320/IMG_4469.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Which turned out not bad, but there was space for improvements. It was just a bit short (though that length is still okay for lober boots), and the back inseam's arch looked off. I mean a nice big crease, but if I use a longer sweater, like this Newleaf sweater, the trouble is hidden.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigoi3Lbrm8Q5i80zakZ2RSlqXPxhpP9XNWlSA82icRqtDcOMl4BpDem5z9GWCtDCP6AN7EAKTx-NPZoPYUP3KsbPzZspkmtie6n5lnl9LiX9ftjot4AJgBQMCYtWMnJVKXwiYly6QrqCbM1oA3I6hXRiUDfE0mM45AOr6Kn8MDFKuFXAaOlDC6Z0GqtkY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="320" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigoi3Lbrm8Q5i80zakZ2RSlqXPxhpP9XNWlSA82icRqtDcOMl4BpDem5z9GWCtDCP6AN7EAKTx-NPZoPYUP3KsbPzZspkmtie6n5lnl9LiX9ftjot4AJgBQMCYtWMnJVKXwiYly6QrqCbM1oA3I6hXRiUDfE0mM45AOr6Kn8MDFKuFXAaOlDC6Z0GqtkY" width="320" /></a></div>I did changed the length of the legs, and the arch of the inseam, and then looked around for the final fabric. As you know all well, I love colors, and I have a bit of petrol color phase (it started a couple of years ago, before it became real fashion, but I do not mind.).<div>I have a dress in a color I love, and I also had a piece of corduroy, that was in a bland, grayish blue color, rather boring.... now you know what is coming, right? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvYIp2HcNCu-euNNW36n8ab6vXZs4hzsyg_RB6rBVqXfXq3ODmcxYAA3TmgySR0tlj5xbLmgqGQ1V-7Pg_2236-YzmSNyr-q3RGMBhywfMGwcBxq8GW2kXi26zPPu0urfkuPLQ_Kv5SJqF7OtXtpQcCpro0iOTYML4Zo8xnHFX_xxL6YWf8NZE9F1qp48/s4032/20231017_121528.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvYIp2HcNCu-euNNW36n8ab6vXZs4hzsyg_RB6rBVqXfXq3ODmcxYAA3TmgySR0tlj5xbLmgqGQ1V-7Pg_2236-YzmSNyr-q3RGMBhywfMGwcBxq8GW2kXi26zPPu0urfkuPLQ_Kv5SJqF7OtXtpQcCpro0iOTYML4Zo8xnHFX_xxL6YWf8NZE9F1qp48/s320/20231017_121528.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>I knew exactly what color I wanted, because I have this piece of linen, I bought last year...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkHNDnsIwLJOGOJdPeryP1ZNgV1t7Zl5aLwQ4PFgvG7HUq89Y1apfsxJwlL3mX1xGWfpgBjhN2O-xnbCjzz_qcuTof4ShIJbForQT2bCtYYH0i0qpCzMa8JR7H91uHHA2JVuMvQCJnV-Ai5IPVFEYPUNwxoneAiy54jIjUjrDhyphenhyphenwFOvlp37nnC3AohIgw/s4032/20231017_121551.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkHNDnsIwLJOGOJdPeryP1ZNgV1t7Zl5aLwQ4PFgvG7HUq89Y1apfsxJwlL3mX1xGWfpgBjhN2O-xnbCjzz_qcuTof4ShIJbForQT2bCtYYH0i0qpCzMa8JR7H91uHHA2JVuMvQCJnV-Ai5IPVFEYPUNwxoneAiy54jIjUjrDhyphenhyphenwFOvlp37nnC3AohIgw/s320/20231017_121551.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>I also had this dress (above that linen), just about the same color.... And I was wondering if I can come up with a petrol that is similar, and seee... I think I was succesful matching. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Km93Ielefwg24vSmkOuyqv9urC8UxhkCs-w8nuUhqeE-rpjpZfuw-GIz3NdEE93F9lHAazxa27bkwKYaT99uTyIQ8b-soz_huidpuZGT8kd8y5fnIATNP0ZMRKKhiZ2oz1Cs6CpCpLnj3EvSKE6X5BKwYDWT6mwODQOA0LKfYykuhkyIU-u7zf7rNhE/s4032/20231017_121606.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Km93Ielefwg24vSmkOuyqv9urC8UxhkCs-w8nuUhqeE-rpjpZfuw-GIz3NdEE93F9lHAazxa27bkwKYaT99uTyIQ8b-soz_huidpuZGT8kd8y5fnIATNP0ZMRKKhiZ2oz1Cs6CpCpLnj3EvSKE6X5BKwYDWT6mwODQOA0LKfYykuhkyIU-u7zf7rNhE/s320/20231017_121606.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Unfortunately, once again, I do not have pictures of the sewing process, but here is the finished pair.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5V6CV-ZnqYLNjix8Npotn-lU2CVgwNkFDvw_J7IP0GDN5bNlg9LJgw4dybYavh141whXlUDKUG43EFz3rNF_S9PJmPqPHB4FrjpTcE5JTa0lmSNFjdvS69knOEyb1VcLTAqr7wF1ziuLgf5iZVkr0JYtnYhTHxjtK3gucWh0f-oxefOoj6YZ8qCDwRfU/s5472/IMG_7409.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5V6CV-ZnqYLNjix8Npotn-lU2CVgwNkFDvw_J7IP0GDN5bNlg9LJgw4dybYavh141whXlUDKUG43EFz3rNF_S9PJmPqPHB4FrjpTcE5JTa0lmSNFjdvS69knOEyb1VcLTAqr7wF1ziuLgf5iZVkr0JYtnYhTHxjtK3gucWh0f-oxefOoj6YZ8qCDwRfU/s320/IMG_7409.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>I never really liked zippers... Now, I can sew them in to a skirt, into the opening of a pair of trousers, I can even deal with invisible zippers, still I do not like them. It started with the feeling that they do not go with knitted stuff (handknit sweaters and zippers, just a big NO for me), then it went further with the fact that historical clothes do not use zippers, and they work just fine. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8sWw_OAXzIb96qGLlRBRbIngOCmtbpKOw23NuKVR2cS44hQcpWo7gIzL-q1w_U1Lkcfef2HxgS5jkWh3uONsc42wo4lrluQHRHbw0F7YERcFbVld5OR8e6UAMLEOfLK8oVb4-yWzgyJDvyT5r_Czv3X5UWTLnAmXkj3aSLuVbJ5cZOlgJKosnYOcuJrk/s5472/IMG_7411.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8sWw_OAXzIb96qGLlRBRbIngOCmtbpKOw23NuKVR2cS44hQcpWo7gIzL-q1w_U1Lkcfef2HxgS5jkWh3uONsc42wo4lrluQHRHbw0F7YERcFbVld5OR8e6UAMLEOfLK8oVb4-yWzgyJDvyT5r_Czv3X5UWTLnAmXkj3aSLuVbJ5cZOlgJKosnYOcuJrk/s320/IMG_7411.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>I always loved buttoned jeans, so I used colorful buttons on these. <div>Now I think this is a good base for an everyday boho/lagenlook mixed with handknits style, and I can tweak it if I want, putting different pockets on, more pockets (BUT definetly no less), hidden buttonbands, maybe put the folds giving its width somewhere else, maybe use light, soft jeans with contrasting yarn, so I have a ton of ideas, but in my next post I will show you, just why do I wanted exactly this color. </div><div>See you then. </div><div>Photos, of course, by Norbert Varga <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Bodeszphoto" target="_blank">@Bodeszphoto</a></div><div>The kolibri T shirt is from Virág Lovizer <a href="https://www.facebook.com/viragnakvilaga" target="_blank">@ Virágnak Világa</a>.</div><div><div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><p></p></div></div></div></div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-44200444214821190542024-02-07T14:40:00.002+01:002024-02-07T14:40:00.133+01:00Under and over<p style="text-align: justify;"> In my last post I promised to show, what I have under and over my blue and silver polka dot dress, so here we are. We all know that accessories, and understructure can make of break a historical outfit, so it is all worth to think them through.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihOksM6TTrSlmzSVFGHH-jBpvaZAFXs-pDpLHjDQ_dajHcNbHfsXJodFEB4qhTw6Itw__RR9LmW7UKLYPE8bOYMWt0SwlJkCF3qD5U7pzN2U0sw9UQshZg2unRW5p-pLrpAAwYcutdC5euH2cRNu87mXB_Fr9K7E4y3OId-jDV4F3_Dlu7E-DDqVoeWFw/s5175/IMG_8968.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5175" data-original-width="3450" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihOksM6TTrSlmzSVFGHH-jBpvaZAFXs-pDpLHjDQ_dajHcNbHfsXJodFEB4qhTw6Itw__RR9LmW7UKLYPE8bOYMWt0SwlJkCF3qD5U7pzN2U0sw9UQshZg2unRW5p-pLrpAAwYcutdC5euH2cRNu87mXB_Fr9K7E4y3OId-jDV4F3_Dlu7E-DDqVoeWFw/s320/IMG_8968.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I did mention in my procrastinating post that I made two different bustle... </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Actually I made three, as my friend, Anna wanted one, and I was like, making one would be just as difficult or easy as making two, so we started with hers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was a lobster tail, from the Truly Victorian pattern. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then, since my dress is an early 1870-ies dress, when bustles were still trnasitioning from the round hoop-skirts, and then the oval shaper crinolins, so they were still round-ish, though the emphasis were on the back. Besides, I am talking with someone about a comission for a set of underwear for the early bustle period, I was like, why not try the grand bustle, then I will have the pattern, the knowledge, the experience, and the choice, so I can decide what to wear under a certain dress. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJduZED2jMQxR0zsTwZO-1s8ylljHF_haUbnPKd42GJYI4piPEec0-F89sQdYNrjjCX8vvm-H-JhCeR27Hjoy_hHvfbFOMEFMPevRC4gdbReBpBi7XkEcSzmXaH5w-u2jUcJEBGvyyC-_WIys5NIxESh2cTL84NOLd360Z5NEOSKNKpfjaaXnfyQPPJA/s5472/IMG_8959.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoJduZED2jMQxR0zsTwZO-1s8ylljHF_haUbnPKd42GJYI4piPEec0-F89sQdYNrjjCX8vvm-H-JhCeR27Hjoy_hHvfbFOMEFMPevRC4gdbReBpBi7XkEcSzmXaH5w-u2jUcJEBGvyyC-_WIys5NIxESh2cTL84NOLd360Z5NEOSKNKpfjaaXnfyQPPJA/s320/IMG_8959.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The pattern also came from the Truly Victorian company, there is two things I might note: one that a smaller one might have been enough, not for the back, that is fine, but I had to gather the front of the skirt lightly. The other, that if I used the pattern as it was, the back was to rounded, or two flat, I am not sure which is the right expression. Anyhow, I took out some bits from the inner insert (that actually holds the shape of the back). Now, I might have taken ot too much, thus the back is more pronounced, more shelf, like, so next time I would probably go for some middle route. However, I love all those ruffles, even though they did took a ton of fabric (I used some embroidered white cotton, I Love Textile has in their shop these days. ).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then I became a bit unsure (besides I was on high levele procrastination mode, so I did a lobster tail for myself too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFsA584fbzrXmm_aFNSF-vG66P2MIIxyzZOpTS7Qu2jARr7DXAMKjPGyDQyeaSrF8rFrMUeMZLciSaApGd-NhPmVL-O0I2zu-VmVNy6eQsS7koJaApi6kP8lrxDN9vaMXyb70BJEVjE_9UL7EtlTdaVmhEKp-fizdDo4fRzlRg4ZnKRB1zCpEatB1aWM/s4032/20240109_184655.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFsA584fbzrXmm_aFNSF-vG66P2MIIxyzZOpTS7Qu2jARr7DXAMKjPGyDQyeaSrF8rFrMUeMZLciSaApGd-NhPmVL-O0I2zu-VmVNy6eQsS7koJaApi6kP8lrxDN9vaMXyb70BJEVjE_9UL7EtlTdaVmhEKp-fizdDo4fRzlRg4ZnKRB1zCpEatB1aWM/s320/20240109_184655.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Just for the fun of it... and because I could not decide which shape would fit my dress better, and I kinda thought that this dress would not be my last bustle dress, I do have fabric for others (inluding some 1880-ies stuff), and also, because I could procrastinate doing the actual dress, while working on it.</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then, the bustle shape also needed a new petticoat, and you know I love fun fabrics peeking out, an di had the choice either to make it from the white, embroidered fabric, or the blue stripy one... For this time, I chose the blue stripy one, because... just because I loved it and it went well with the blue dress anyway.</div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQEMFa8t7HiRz65sZUYFo-i6WVFctZS5AGKlZCpYryT-J3HM6_F9d6Uv0q2aDxiMFqsNwPFF_3CMSPEpoo6mlWayxCNoMEXGV6GD6CAYPjVj5_wB0c-xtqMjbOp9DenKewqIims8n6YMH9h8cZEAg6NSFGSYfJF9Lwm1kFezVksXkGS3w1kM2JmEQlf8/s4032/20240112_184357.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQEMFa8t7HiRz65sZUYFo-i6WVFctZS5AGKlZCpYryT-J3HM6_F9d6Uv0q2aDxiMFqsNwPFF_3CMSPEpoo6mlWayxCNoMEXGV6GD6CAYPjVj5_wB0c-xtqMjbOp9DenKewqIims8n6YMH9h8cZEAg6NSFGSYfJF9Lwm1kFezVksXkGS3w1kM2JmEQlf8/s320/20240112_184357.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the petticoat on my dressmaker dummie with the lobster tail bustle. Also used Truly Victorian pattern for it, but next time I will have to be more careful, as I started with more pintucks as the original said, and I still had to add two extra, because it was so long. </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At the end, I did decide to wear the grand bustle and the stripy petticoat, and even though I do have an <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2023/01/truly-victorian-corset-cover.html" target="_blank">1860-ies corset-cover</a>, the edwardian I just made fitted so much better with the neckline of the polka-dot bodice. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So basically what is underneath? A chemise, a split drawer, stockings, shoes, corset (yes, in that order!), bustle, petticoat, and a corsetcover. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And what is over the dress? Meaning, what accessories I used? </div><div style="text-align: justify;">First of all, I needed HAIR. My own hair is rather deceivingly dissapointing, as it looks okay, like fairly long, and rather white, but I have precious little of it. Using hairpieces are also a careful balancing act, as every <strike>gray</strike> umm, silver hair is totally unique, and not only most of the hair-piece makers largely ignore the fact that silver haired women might want to add to what is already on their head, the rare silver hairpieces that are out there, very difficult to match. I have a bunch of them, that are just a bit off, not quite right, or okay under a hairnet, etc. Also, since I have very little hair on my head, and what is there is very sensitive, even if I do find hairpieces in the proper color, they are very difficult to attach, as 1). I don't have enough to attach too, 2) I do not have enough to hide the place they are attached. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this case I had a lucky stroke, as in one of those asian type of stores, that have everything from underwear through food to showerheads, they also had a few hairpieces, and one, that you can click around an existing ponytale had just the right color. </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaITmTvEwaPZi-D4WXIOWoavXXgmTei8b8gp-h2ScbHlgaOqEonKCPYDE5lSa4vX_vOoj-z7z_CaC287_jO0qYCDGaP0CEc4sxsN3QfKoFQueZRATA9eFkYfX6Yo-_AkqWuVEvXZdcO4J8I-9NOCImMruffNznrGsCghkM-HAX5b-Fr96Chf69wEBEwD0/s4032/20240123_004148.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaITmTvEwaPZi-D4WXIOWoavXXgmTei8b8gp-h2ScbHlgaOqEonKCPYDE5lSa4vX_vOoj-z7z_CaC287_jO0qYCDGaP0CEc4sxsN3QfKoFQueZRATA9eFkYfX6Yo-_AkqWuVEvXZdcO4J8I-9NOCImMruffNznrGsCghkM-HAX5b-Fr96Chf69wEBEwD0/s320/20240123_004148.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And I could click it around to the ponytail I can make from my own hair, so attaching it was easier too.</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, I only needed to make ringlets from it. To do that I rolled up around some old foam hairrollers, that passed their prime, so I wanted to cull anyway. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO5R_NLx0FouVLSImKtmu7xcz5ZInTancBzhDsjCg1ScSavJIr5ktaarwsyPRCekoHzoWvyzVPUZB9QSH1Im-cSq5nGYNZVM6__K-o3_vNC7A_3DEkt7Em2soOmXV6ZO2aDx69lFf-lgcWr4zDpmHSd9g4xnrC17_78xmLxLypAnGxcVBW8rXr81RvJKc/s4032/20240123_123026.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO5R_NLx0FouVLSImKtmu7xcz5ZInTancBzhDsjCg1ScSavJIr5ktaarwsyPRCekoHzoWvyzVPUZB9QSH1Im-cSq5nGYNZVM6__K-o3_vNC7A_3DEkt7Em2soOmXV6ZO2aDx69lFf-lgcWr4zDpmHSd9g4xnrC17_78xmLxLypAnGxcVBW8rXr81RvJKc/s320/20240123_123026.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Dipped the whole thing in boiling hot water, leaving it long enough so the hot water truly penetrated it, and then left it until it was absolutely, totally bonedry. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisigxjq6hdKhpNioErzaoiKEELb5OP4bV7Rs0AB1LAAgH6gEA48fsEiDSBHhsaWY10Ufwh0OADJjiR4C7O1fywvoV-hel6etzr-jIcxbZfQnhmH8218n1LnRK1PLjyDrUZVD8vIFj5tjBNobxwOs6-DybYziE13Wg4BU2X9fzWHSwgvecNFNT8C0n4y3Y" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisigxjq6hdKhpNioErzaoiKEELb5OP4bV7Rs0AB1LAAgH6gEA48fsEiDSBHhsaWY10Ufwh0OADJjiR4C7O1fywvoV-hel6etzr-jIcxbZfQnhmH8218n1LnRK1PLjyDrUZVD8vIFj5tjBNobxwOs6-DybYziE13Wg4BU2X9fzWHSwgvecNFNT8C0n4y3Y" width="180" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then I only had to add a braid, I already had, and my 1870-ies hairstyle was done.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There was two things left, a hat and a handbag. I do have two antique handbag, but since tas pretty as they are, both of them are really old, they are starting to fall apart, and I wanted to keep them, and not abuse them any longer, so the last night before the event, as an attemp to win the who does the craziest thing the last night I decided to make one. I wanted to give ribbon embroidery a try, but I failed at the first stitch, I resorted to some soutache, I already knew I can make. This was the first bag (that is attached to a wire frame) I made and I know, there is room for improvement, but now, that I tried it, I know this is not the last one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhIzLmvj8ZTmOR_9kYH5lAFFnLbRlKoy2E-zTCe_hOu1uyF38qXpIFedg2CTk4Di1_8y2XUjNK-XgiFc0PkYVfJTW3uNCSAkbUgo5Jzqk3Yi_WuAvR7oUe8gkm5vk6ZmOcZ5nXyj_TxJNfL8Xo2GP7Azvuc9sP1HxxjCGTti2LvHX8RWLc_RfK0Zygork/s4032/20240126_175110.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhIzLmvj8ZTmOR_9kYH5lAFFnLbRlKoy2E-zTCe_hOu1uyF38qXpIFedg2CTk4Di1_8y2XUjNK-XgiFc0PkYVfJTW3uNCSAkbUgo5Jzqk3Yi_WuAvR7oUe8gkm5vk6ZmOcZ5nXyj_TxJNfL8Xo2GP7Azvuc9sP1HxxjCGTti2LvHX8RWLc_RfK0Zygork/s320/20240126_175110.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsXYQ97o5eNyHB3iwB4BdnGltWi2W_2VKh22lCz2dwHpJ-QSxtCEStWOCut05-WaG-RcFZVWh8ne7XubcLtJn24mMks1jLog3ycWnwL4SrZwJK_bU3k9-BRdmXxbUMynn4SmrliThWjCDX49AkQgkg3lsLR-oNfk75WI22z65Ifvj2wGlJuTBhnyOBEX8/s4032/20240126_233555.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsXYQ97o5eNyHB3iwB4BdnGltWi2W_2VKh22lCz2dwHpJ-QSxtCEStWOCut05-WaG-RcFZVWh8ne7XubcLtJn24mMks1jLog3ycWnwL4SrZwJK_bU3k9-BRdmXxbUMynn4SmrliThWjCDX49AkQgkg3lsLR-oNfk75WI22z65Ifvj2wGlJuTBhnyOBEX8/s320/20240126_233555.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As for the hat, I had tiny small hat I bought off E-bay a couple of years ago (after I looked it for years, thinking that once we are doing bustle period, they will be good.) I was thinking about doing a wire and buckram hat, but run out of time, and this small base hat was my safety net. </div></div><div> </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0QAG7iY7nR9kewf64-2t4GPezZHrrLVGMm5y9PqFe3btN4Ur9PE5FOx0UulcftlDnEpSE7NnkqFcShMv5EuLG8X0m47FimG77UC9jwzDfOcKevfaWfXjoQAoaHYVkMOcgnDA-XsFntaR09Z5irT5YDYn7aKA569zK8pyf47lJTnj8HFTRaQ3_yn0o-oI/s4032/20240126_233552.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0QAG7iY7nR9kewf64-2t4GPezZHrrLVGMm5y9PqFe3btN4Ur9PE5FOx0UulcftlDnEpSE7NnkqFcShMv5EuLG8X0m47FimG77UC9jwzDfOcKevfaWfXjoQAoaHYVkMOcgnDA-XsFntaR09Z5irT5YDYn7aKA569zK8pyf47lJTnj8HFTRaQ3_yn0o-oI/s320/20240126_233552.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>I added ribbon, some blue flowers, and a couple of blue feathers.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi9JFg1GuHE3SpvhvMhROPhSAMM61HRSjIJrw0w9itwOOV37vMDDmCEzQ3qPKukt-hVMWlnJeMjzvhRfijajEZPiGuIBwl75ys_li3sfMRAlYQCuKSEBlXbNHGIQ4sXZetGGnfvc5V2iWmU59FZG3aC8Y7sB3g3Di5rbTeGyIxV3YWyLtkLAvokw_sSjw/s4032/20240126_233549.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi9JFg1GuHE3SpvhvMhROPhSAMM61HRSjIJrw0w9itwOOV37vMDDmCEzQ3qPKukt-hVMWlnJeMjzvhRfijajEZPiGuIBwl75ys_li3sfMRAlYQCuKSEBlXbNHGIQ4sXZetGGnfvc5V2iWmU59FZG3aC8Y7sB3g3Di5rbTeGyIxV3YWyLtkLAvokw_sSjw/s320/20240126_233549.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>I wore it at the top of my head, and secured with hairpins.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfdUWnSj0nRiF613glgu4YstN_jxkS40G4aAN-ZBCqZCMA8Z7HHXCVbVr1gbxxmD9bBn7LA4YTDtQXA41Wt2w8ODSVo7bQA9yRoL6WGrxIUwBz83s7Lb3eNuOTeWOy0xx219h8D9R0qQazlb-VKDVO7UXIt9z6J5zBpG2Gv17oBhCRbcisr1HuiGnZdM/s5348/IMG_9612.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3565" data-original-width="5348" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfdUWnSj0nRiF613glgu4YstN_jxkS40G4aAN-ZBCqZCMA8Z7HHXCVbVr1gbxxmD9bBn7LA4YTDtQXA41Wt2w8ODSVo7bQA9yRoL6WGrxIUwBz83s7Lb3eNuOTeWOy0xx219h8D9R0qQazlb-VKDVO7UXIt9z6J5zBpG2Gv17oBhCRbcisr1HuiGnZdM/s320/IMG_9612.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>I used an old pair crocheted glove I had, and that is it. Depending on the event, a parasol and/or a fan could be added (and I had them with me at the event), but at the minute just before I went out, I decided, that they would be too much, and would not add to the caratcter, but would hiner my performance if I have to pay attentin to them too, so they were left in the dressing room. </div><div>(the first two and the last picture was shot by Norbert Varga @<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Bodeszphoto" target="_blank">Bodeszphoto</a>, </div><div>other pictures are from my phone.)</div></div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-1869983257405873492024-02-02T07:30:00.019+01:002024-02-06T08:08:32.370+01:00Blue and silver<p style="text-align: justify;"> Its all done, finished. It was a very intensive few weeks, and now that is over, and I also done catch up with work stuff that has been hanging over me, Maybe I can catch my breath and talk about it too. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qMMsskCeU4Ke55aI-TOPtQNJ61obzGk4Ub6c85tlwD34_t7tmIqfpxKzvcl-RN6ykFGZXQcNG67BOBLIrZTS_CHyl-ATK6M84o_mU_GMWCcL_qlfFFGExtrULC-Mb3NdezdEcPhWSXRN6KTV86TtpAEAuJthvumqnk2BwszILlZn62hJWtupBf4tmF4/s5401/IMG_9385.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3601" data-original-width="5401" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2qMMsskCeU4Ke55aI-TOPtQNJ61obzGk4Ub6c85tlwD34_t7tmIqfpxKzvcl-RN6ykFGZXQcNG67BOBLIrZTS_CHyl-ATK6M84o_mU_GMWCcL_qlfFFGExtrULC-Mb3NdezdEcPhWSXRN6KTV86TtpAEAuJthvumqnk2BwszILlZn62hJWtupBf4tmF4/s320/IMG_9385.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Its not just the sewing, though that is also very intense at times like these but developing a program, like we just did, also take time, energie, lots of reseach, studying and memorizing.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But for now, let's just stay with the dress. Once again, muse attacked from more than one different direction. One was obviously, that as women, and women who reenact 19th century we had our eyes on bustle dresses for many years... we thought that the 150th anniversary of uniting Pest and Buda to our beautiful capital ity will bring the opportunity to actually make them, but last year that opportunity didn't seem to come to us. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">On the other hand I had quite a few meters of blue taffeta with silver dots, which I got at the usual place, in that chain of stores, I Love Textile, that sells factory leftovers, rejects and whatnot. I got it because it was blue, and silver, and it was taffeta, but I did not know what I want to do with it for a long time...</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjd061sjpkr3xWoPzoD58jR1ylHqajoAHmUxUuKCmORhdPsaG9zmdC8ysL7ySGpbagtU_3GA05BRCVFy5dpX8Y8xDrsVPpmxQZPYIP6Y_tHpSHeK77_pHPlyI8Jj00r88jjanqaebC5aw2fDOmnIeWVpyGKoTeav-bJ_QqoqYvhii49KtXhKJQJRcGEsew" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjd061sjpkr3xWoPzoD58jR1ylHqajoAHmUxUuKCmORhdPsaG9zmdC8ysL7ySGpbagtU_3GA05BRCVFy5dpX8Y8xDrsVPpmxQZPYIP6Y_tHpSHeK77_pHPlyI8Jj00r88jjanqaebC5aw2fDOmnIeWVpyGKoTeav-bJ_QqoqYvhii49KtXhKJQJRcGEsew" width="180" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Until about two years ago, I came across with <a href="https://www.kerrytaylorauctions.com/auction/lot/240-a-gown-of-aniline-dyed-purple-silk-damask--early-1870s/?lot=29989&sd=1" target="_blank">this</a>. Yeah, It was not blue, but a very blueish purple, also only looked like polka dots from afar, but it was love at first sight, and it was an inspiration. I saved those pictures, and kept returning to them from time to time, even though I had it in my head, that if I am going to make a firts bustle period dress, it is gonna be a summery-stripy one... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But then, toward the end of last november the question was put up, would we be willing to do a program about the unification of Budapest in the second half of January, but if yes, that would mean, we should do those dresses we were talking about for years. The answer was a resounding yes, from all involved. But it was a winter-program, I couldn't make a summer-dress now, could I? So I was left to do the more difficult choice. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, you've heard me whine about a creative block, and my masterful avoidance programe, but there came a point, I could not procrastinate any longer, </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="text-align: justify;">I had underwear, I had bustle, I had a petticoat, all I needed the dress itself. Originally I planned to use a Black Snail pattern, as I thought, I could use that with minimal modification to do something similar than my inspiration dress. I printed it, taped it together, even made a mock up... </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnBuKxyjs5bFslT_lxqdqvFvaewSft3A2UVnMjo378p0gQQ-b_H_1_bPpWGNZcCPLUIZFYXPy5m2biKEVumXi9JqoTn6dIhmUxESUiI91-mD7zGgxbeBUcxlCi0dVlLMaNwntHBKXZ9oERcTYzMorNUCBG8bgYAXKm0Gv59j7I5kOhK_ngsZxlQJ6EXeE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnBuKxyjs5bFslT_lxqdqvFvaewSft3A2UVnMjo378p0gQQ-b_H_1_bPpWGNZcCPLUIZFYXPy5m2biKEVumXi9JqoTn6dIhmUxESUiI91-mD7zGgxbeBUcxlCi0dVlLMaNwntHBKXZ9oERcTYzMorNUCBG8bgYAXKm0Gv59j7I5kOhK_ngsZxlQJ6EXeE" width="180" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And though it fitted as well as I thought it would (I made <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2023/12/turn-of-century.html" target="_blank">their west</a> without needing any change in the pattern), but I didn't like it. I am not sure why, maybe the separately cut and sewn on peplum was not what I imagined. Also I really disliked the sleeves, as each was made from two identical piece, and a seam on the shoulder, at the top of the sleeve is just not the aestethic I was after. I asked the black snail group to show me pieces that were made from the pattern, and I did receive some pictures, and the dresses were pretty, but I was not convinced that I wanted that. So then I decided to look for some other solution. I looked the patterns Truly Victorian had, but did not want to spend more money on patterns just then. Then looked through Prior Attire's book on Victorian Dressmaker, and studied her diagrams. Also looked at some videos (yeah, I did stare at the stopped picture of one of Lady Rebecca's video, trying to figure out the hemline of her baby blue bodice), and Nora Vaughn's book. Then I used the part of the BS pattern, just between the waist and the shoulders as a basic body block, and drew around it. Made a mock up, and I liked it much better, then cut it apart, changed some stuff, made another one, and then another, and by then I said, okay, I do not hate this anymore. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I was trying to take photos of the sewing process, but I got caught up with the flow, and pictures are rather sporadic, but here they are, maybe they do say something after all. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuWSfefF5Yg0Yhrt5qcmdNyL9ngIpsgucS4-0RSu4I7jDrWOUlu0zr-Oh_7QEVeIr9I38opnp7aPwV91CUNZx5JEe5b_W5wPHyDaMu37bv2Piaki0CnpdtQHUvVKDwrNIFvy94H-nnH3RsY8P-_bVInMmUMBVT58OOv6mJO_o4j7Sbk_KK-LKgan2mDgY/s4032/20240118_144516.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuWSfefF5Yg0Yhrt5qcmdNyL9ngIpsgucS4-0RSu4I7jDrWOUlu0zr-Oh_7QEVeIr9I38opnp7aPwV91CUNZx5JEe5b_W5wPHyDaMu37bv2Piaki0CnpdtQHUvVKDwrNIFvy94H-nnH3RsY8P-_bVInMmUMBVT58OOv6mJO_o4j7Sbk_KK-LKgan2mDgY/s320/20240118_144516.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>I used the pieces of the mock up as pattern-pieces.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3uMV4w0phD3_TnHJYIOqF-YgHfJQGuqAaLekrk3yEx-7e50wuKKCGSarYyBTroQNfRR5FaJgg3uy9NQqaTcEvSVFPaLXqiDXXxdRYDrqAIZKgFIe3oDTdYZbmauglg2kFqJGSAdmXwWl0MzpfvRbyWot0tNJjyeAOpI1TfeimwY85OPMCYsqZ_RrEj30/s4032/20240118_221134.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3uMV4w0phD3_TnHJYIOqF-YgHfJQGuqAaLekrk3yEx-7e50wuKKCGSarYyBTroQNfRR5FaJgg3uy9NQqaTcEvSVFPaLXqiDXXxdRYDrqAIZKgFIe3oDTdYZbmauglg2kFqJGSAdmXwWl0MzpfvRbyWot0tNJjyeAOpI1TfeimwY85OPMCYsqZ_RrEj30/s320/20240118_221134.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bodice is flatlined, that means that the outer and the lining fabric is handled as one. To to so easily, I had to baste them together.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2kzkLortEo_RHF1FkvKKBXtzT3V0LnUIFPSUG6UsA_ghCBMakias4VE3llzegXbOS-dmXiDXEaLlyJNGp02dCsothPC038gtCZj_Ix43M7wGpvk0GUS_MzwVfFntk1aP0vvkndt0VjfB61_RMaywsVjPL0E8x2IS1ZuIPd8R7qfxkYXj2lGOWV0ZWHGk/s4032/20240118_234623.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2kzkLortEo_RHF1FkvKKBXtzT3V0LnUIFPSUG6UsA_ghCBMakias4VE3llzegXbOS-dmXiDXEaLlyJNGp02dCsothPC038gtCZj_Ix43M7wGpvk0GUS_MzwVfFntk1aP0vvkndt0VjfB61_RMaywsVjPL0E8x2IS1ZuIPd8R7qfxkYXj2lGOWV0ZWHGk/s320/20240118_234623.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The inner seams are turned under and stitched down, the open seam at the back folds is covered with a piece of ribbon. If you follow my sewing, by now you probably know that for me it is important that the inside of a piece should look good just as good, and should be just as nicely finished, as its outside. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMoBoY_MNpOrNkkSwdwzssGPx9H80Cdq7vT5aPMMMl_mXUqLkabkzxvLrkR-WcHYVsKkNtYAEN0593VFJeeS4YpR6oH8x8JGMOfbNiHM48VW0It4ZaLslONeRn-27fhf3J_xUAAbQjst20ldcPD3-ByZkWRxJ1hkRYJqC-qbe1BQ0wn3qWJJ5JP8gQlsE/s4032/20240119_015930.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMoBoY_MNpOrNkkSwdwzssGPx9H80Cdq7vT5aPMMMl_mXUqLkabkzxvLrkR-WcHYVsKkNtYAEN0593VFJeeS4YpR6oH8x8JGMOfbNiHM48VW0It4ZaLslONeRn-27fhf3J_xUAAbQjst20ldcPD3-ByZkWRxJ1hkRYJqC-qbe1BQ0wn3qWJJ5JP8gQlsE/s320/20240119_015930.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaqoO5PTIUeTCMe4_puIdLRiG3wrsZFX2H_xHbu27IK9oJVYQyebxERLFXb09i4Ob9nkHJt5D5tP-0Sy7RGb_-8x87H-H0FW9Yz5jn4zbPfwI0IytDqFJk6JQxDIBNnHJQ1xKLemHs8FVk652tWrU5KGvd_sexst4P2yeuwAq5p3VPmbxMAKd87HCs4Nc/s4032/20240119_193242.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaqoO5PTIUeTCMe4_puIdLRiG3wrsZFX2H_xHbu27IK9oJVYQyebxERLFXb09i4Ob9nkHJt5D5tP-0Sy7RGb_-8x87H-H0FW9Yz5jn4zbPfwI0IytDqFJk6JQxDIBNnHJQ1xKLemHs8FVk652tWrU5KGvd_sexst4P2yeuwAq5p3VPmbxMAKd87HCs4Nc/s320/20240119_193242.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUI1mYCFF2rKgqEarbSCCLqx6E-Imiuc_fY1okLXJ84_Vsv5S84qvNLOJbubfjrN51Dr9hKz1AJuZoANKHH_NhNyJ35EIc_qpbdXHZT2-3gsYM2hiSrgTlNQZK6hKscxIHLWfisku2WXU6UT07M7VPQH4Vmo2YjtTVkHT0I6B0QyH25p4ERw6KIoGctw/s4032/20240119_234950.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYUI1mYCFF2rKgqEarbSCCLqx6E-Imiuc_fY1okLXJ84_Vsv5S84qvNLOJbubfjrN51Dr9hKz1AJuZoANKHH_NhNyJ35EIc_qpbdXHZT2-3gsYM2hiSrgTlNQZK6hKscxIHLWfisku2WXU6UT07M7VPQH4Vmo2YjtTVkHT0I6B0QyH25p4ERw6KIoGctw/s320/20240119_234950.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I used cotton twill tape for boning channels, and they are sewn in by hand. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then I was in for a surprise...</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've tried it on, and it was....SMALL. </div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am not sure how that happened, but it did. Most probably the fact that the mock up was made a single layer fabric, and now this had not only the taffeta, but the lining of a cotton calico just as well. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPf8l68Dcwpf40bI_fw-VwDSOmD1UvOjkcSSrdB64FpYxYMCrcuF6B-fghZnNWielVeDX86Y9qTF9VAgw0FJZ1u9GuA6JrxSyNV5hQSs6brLSAIQLO3hgE3VDy85XRE-JLHcQzG0qboOSa91gJlnzLj5xylsnJ1R-OGP5OD_ZGxtr9d3Y52dCdrpN9cM/s4032/20240120_195921.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPf8l68Dcwpf40bI_fw-VwDSOmD1UvOjkcSSrdB64FpYxYMCrcuF6B-fghZnNWielVeDX86Y9qTF9VAgw0FJZ1u9GuA6JrxSyNV5hQSs6brLSAIQLO3hgE3VDy85XRE-JLHcQzG0qboOSa91gJlnzLj5xylsnJ1R-OGP5OD_ZGxtr9d3Y52dCdrpN9cM/s320/20240120_195921.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I thought of starting the whole thing again, but then I remembered that I wanted to do a decoration on the front anyway, and had the idea, what if I make a separate button band... and the seam would be covered with the trimming anyway. So that was what I did at the end. </div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKazX5ZQoqHLgL5LTSOEHb4W271i-qL52qKaS7DSZjIC26MXSSul4N4c0NVhDlHnlzFm0Q_91meDn8YmDDo5P_XkK2DH7-pZTg27KUA8j5fMgFRqgIjNYX9c_4a5U4s06Uk5DoOB00rIUgOe68Zc5Q_PWPrYvx4v96eKV2R18Pd9FdYVjkBycRmuyJrw/s4032/20240121_133326.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKazX5ZQoqHLgL5LTSOEHb4W271i-qL52qKaS7DSZjIC26MXSSul4N4c0NVhDlHnlzFm0Q_91meDn8YmDDo5P_XkK2DH7-pZTg27KUA8j5fMgFRqgIjNYX9c_4a5U4s06Uk5DoOB00rIUgOe68Zc5Q_PWPrYvx4v96eKV2R18Pd9FdYVjkBycRmuyJrw/s320/20240121_133326.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Made covered buttons too. The ruffled edge has a tini, machine sewn hem, but sewn on by hand. On both sides. I could have sewn it on by machine, but it would just not sit the same way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUboSJLfqRELgaVK8CiPqWgASsm0wQNXm0AjN0DTGK3Jz00Ou98GGmowbORvTtw61xqclSjKt3WN7mwkYWRCcANRgPHMSnBlb7IoyF3MIVK8z_xZEhyphenhyphenl9qN_E-eq6uOrMwZxm83aDaKP_tZr2YZu4ZPGYN79UGOYERtbFWPaTLJd0OYflMMau2AW8Mn7c/s4032/20240121_144114.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUboSJLfqRELgaVK8CiPqWgASsm0wQNXm0AjN0DTGK3Jz00Ou98GGmowbORvTtw61xqclSjKt3WN7mwkYWRCcANRgPHMSnBlb7IoyF3MIVK8z_xZEhyphenhyphenl9qN_E-eq6uOrMwZxm83aDaKP_tZr2YZu4ZPGYN79UGOYERtbFWPaTLJd0OYflMMau2AW8Mn7c/s320/20240121_144114.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For the skirt, I took the pattern for my petticoat (which was waaay to long, I had to put in a couple of extra tucks to make it shorter), and using that as a base, and looking at the schematics in the Victorian dressmaker books, and the schematics of the Black Snail pattern skirt, and drew up a mixture of the three. I flatlined lined the whole skirt (yes, that involved a TON of basting) with a curtain fabric. It was fairly thin, light enough, but still had a bit "hold", and I grew to love its pattern. Nobody ever will see it (unless I directly show), but I love secrets like this.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZ2r0v7S-ZwEH4mTZ2QxolitubVoxu17uF2Wr5OjW00mjKUEzBsdSY0w107Pp10_dACALF5BJhNET94da1daKlJm8EPcrAlDjHvZ8dSteX_sUghiMz9iuExFPCgBuu1x7cF3eJ0wIvAqvSIu-FWdoztex_w1BZt24PUZdYLJrpCT2rRNrcg_QcDz4DVk/s4032/20240121_212229.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZ2r0v7S-ZwEH4mTZ2QxolitubVoxu17uF2Wr5OjW00mjKUEzBsdSY0w107Pp10_dACALF5BJhNET94da1daKlJm8EPcrAlDjHvZ8dSteX_sUghiMz9iuExFPCgBuu1x7cF3eJ0wIvAqvSIu-FWdoztex_w1BZt24PUZdYLJrpCT2rRNrcg_QcDz4DVk/s320/20240121_212229.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Added pockets and used a 12 cm wide strip cut on the bias to hem it. added a few rings (actually they are washers from grommets... I buy grommets in small packages, and somehow always end up with a few extra washer.). Since I left the back of the skirt longer to have a bit of train, with the help of those rings I can bustle the skirt up. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZVInMvRdxQsrcowQeMZ3A63DPZS5OaLCeBh16U3XiLRihp_4FMFEbshCrc8WmkNZeIzimJuWEVyYwU8WrBcraBASj9JXBlj3jjUaLgGlXNY0P07gV54a4Q_6pc4D9q6CXEZ1XBbuduJW3o6asyZ5kxN5g5Q_4qP5gYNQ5Cqu7WgnRURVZdGczD-v1Yk/s4032/20240122_163547.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZVInMvRdxQsrcowQeMZ3A63DPZS5OaLCeBh16U3XiLRihp_4FMFEbshCrc8WmkNZeIzimJuWEVyYwU8WrBcraBASj9JXBlj3jjUaLgGlXNY0P07gV54a4Q_6pc4D9q6CXEZ1XBbuduJW3o6asyZ5kxN5g5Q_4qP5gYNQ5Cqu7WgnRURVZdGczD-v1Yk/s320/20240122_163547.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As for the overskirt.. First I was thinking whether to use the same dotted fabric, or would it be too much... maybe a velvet overskirt would tone down all that polka dots a bit, and give the dress some extra elegance... I had a piece of blue velvet (yeah, what a chance... it was one of those off bits I tend to pick up at I love Textile... have no idea, what would I use iit for, but it is VELVET, and it is BLUE!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBHq8sC4ujbvwaB2nyM67wwK6abAA7-bYmnRfKu-I4R49zdnIgLIFxL1ckhWXt72af3_Maj6RkmNrfemymmqFquDp5920uK5PROTbCVRiZQzBwJwbrpSbAMTmafBKbW9bjZ22Boecetha3RIVNWKY3EpYnO-Kbx3HIXr3U5oMz2M10u-WFsziZeBPLAw/s4032/20240122_163718.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBHq8sC4ujbvwaB2nyM67wwK6abAA7-bYmnRfKu-I4R49zdnIgLIFxL1ckhWXt72af3_Maj6RkmNrfemymmqFquDp5920uK5PROTbCVRiZQzBwJwbrpSbAMTmafBKbW9bjZ22Boecetha3RIVNWKY3EpYnO-Kbx3HIXr3U5oMz2M10u-WFsziZeBPLAw/s320/20240122_163718.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">I did looked through a bunch of overskirt pattern, but have not found anything that looked remotely like the original, so I literally draped and folded the velvet on the mannequin. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNg9JoS_OryxsIfDQinVlw6gSsE0NBdBigCpKpTus6F-bFwjl1g6f81ZIhUiC_2qPzRYLq1rcMheBz_1Gu14jYH_oSP3ztiY3ZBlgw8AIWiwRVhyphenhyphen0f2-d2JZgfswNHUCi0utEQDjG_1Y4NtJdLYu2kLHPiLKAT7LsHwt3xj7PxeEiy42o9HZ0awuY5N1U/s4032/20240126_163650.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNg9JoS_OryxsIfDQinVlw6gSsE0NBdBigCpKpTus6F-bFwjl1g6f81ZIhUiC_2qPzRYLq1rcMheBz_1Gu14jYH_oSP3ztiY3ZBlgw8AIWiwRVhyphenhyphen0f2-d2JZgfswNHUCi0utEQDjG_1Y4NtJdLYu2kLHPiLKAT7LsHwt3xj7PxeEiy42o9HZ0awuY5N1U/s320/20240126_163650.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As to finish the whole set, (and as seen on the original) I added fringes and a ribbon borderie for trimming, on the bodice as well as on the overskirt. And a bunch of ribbon bows at the places the original also had them.</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicUfvrrAXvN9wHYtt6b1QiJm7s-s09NrgAjtNVtMzf4JJ6tBr09lznKgY_4gCi04kNrkUFQlknNCT8ZUIsCpYLrFgv1xJXrWJCQHXN9Z-XBjzcsY8hD5QRWjnf1z1zcS8kHw4wJxUmnGU-fvqiQs2frEmFDjA2bdwOxDHeE8v8Lofxh44wv0ZY4U_9CX4/s4032/20240126_163637.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicUfvrrAXvN9wHYtt6b1QiJm7s-s09NrgAjtNVtMzf4JJ6tBr09lznKgY_4gCi04kNrkUFQlknNCT8ZUIsCpYLrFgv1xJXrWJCQHXN9Z-XBjzcsY8hD5QRWjnf1z1zcS8kHw4wJxUmnGU-fvqiQs2frEmFDjA2bdwOxDHeE8v8Lofxh44wv0ZY4U_9CX4/s320/20240126_163637.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>So here we go, the full set.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRTJdgR0cswW04KrScxcSHA7vmY7TDASHTYZvAi5QKLYVimiZtU1xn_AtdzYcPRlp8CF4RXiDmNhQ2z1EpKSlTxW_uL0uHHy46L0jv26SdV9kiArmV-bvZaTvGV_rPuebCRF5USk-ffmakoYOjShpnIdI-2W9mLLLgqpbz7sXbS8s949DVU-BWfcQRjhU/s4956/IMG_8984.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglrWs3g_mgQgOKFej7KZxMsppeYDdQLXXhh531C0mKzsMINjeKAwrB2IIuPJd_LFK8IaxPxvMArWLqIY-V2aZ4VDWXNU_Dc_qnASaQy0QHZGyZIvGR36LSbk-1yTtwpGDxr5y23Q3GW7YTDfRkqmn4JJd0LgNVwrompZ6ObE9SkptJZzqnM9lRGNA-P3s/s5346/IMG_9595.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3564" data-original-width="5346" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglrWs3g_mgQgOKFej7KZxMsppeYDdQLXXhh531C0mKzsMINjeKAwrB2IIuPJd_LFK8IaxPxvMArWLqIY-V2aZ4VDWXNU_Dc_qnASaQy0QHZGyZIvGR36LSbk-1yTtwpGDxr5y23Q3GW7YTDfRkqmn4JJd0LgNVwrompZ6ObE9SkptJZzqnM9lRGNA-P3s/s320/IMG_9595.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>And here is a few picture in use, at the event, while I am telling stories...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Wav0gjy2tX-wvtCdejVCed-jCkx3l7-i5wC2ayzLzihRGBsO3QyAEhGD-iF7byfqLkpQgGP7t_Sh6cZjSdDpjB4svfekH3dz48xxGqlbX2hbYKXVVO6mTxupXe5oEqrv1MwQD3BG9DdKXmFCt8jB43q4oz9PVa_YyUCAlTS13jKk8ALgjSSubCbpwzc/s5472/IMG_9158.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Wav0gjy2tX-wvtCdejVCed-jCkx3l7-i5wC2ayzLzihRGBsO3QyAEhGD-iF7byfqLkpQgGP7t_Sh6cZjSdDpjB4svfekH3dz48xxGqlbX2hbYKXVVO6mTxupXe5oEqrv1MwQD3BG9DdKXmFCt8jB43q4oz9PVa_YyUCAlTS13jKk8ALgjSSubCbpwzc/s320/IMG_9158.JPG" width="213" /></a></div>"Come with me, I will tell you about...."<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiualoiIf9xC_DibMIkO-MWQgU9vgh2TBGS_JlWoMf9OSs_Xfq1PKtX0vpxHeOBxhfqivTmTPi5ZWggdM_oLbOmSlRzUWx_XzCxOgyMPMqlj32-l3H_w4lOrmILXoEBaA-GklnfDK6wyrNkbpdtVEF8J4m4jnvx2RXtLzbzqbvfodaWEvGHCgESE18OrIE/s4785/IMG_9163.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4785" data-original-width="3190" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiualoiIf9xC_DibMIkO-MWQgU9vgh2TBGS_JlWoMf9OSs_Xfq1PKtX0vpxHeOBxhfqivTmTPi5ZWggdM_oLbOmSlRzUWx_XzCxOgyMPMqlj32-l3H_w4lOrmILXoEBaA-GklnfDK6wyrNkbpdtVEF8J4m4jnvx2RXtLzbzqbvfodaWEvGHCgESE18OrIE/s320/IMG_9163.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhys8iQcePmT0XXpXsgsvY7jY6JjoS3RalUodtTO9HaNdDCMkmfSm-hTaS2V4SLDpIwvTNLiNYzFxosulJRwMNKgH-nkkokmKEVKooq6PcC_h-oGcR1IVuaDCMGsBz7stM9sr-F-aHHLyQtgbXSlHpJpbrnQExr66515eLcxgRG6cG43YQMhnTMKV263L4/s5444/IMG_9172.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5444" data-original-width="3629" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhys8iQcePmT0XXpXsgsvY7jY6JjoS3RalUodtTO9HaNdDCMkmfSm-hTaS2V4SLDpIwvTNLiNYzFxosulJRwMNKgH-nkkokmKEVKooq6PcC_h-oGcR1IVuaDCMGsBz7stM9sr-F-aHHLyQtgbXSlHpJpbrnQExr66515eLcxgRG6cG43YQMhnTMKV263L4/s320/IMG_9172.JPG" width="213" /></a></div>"You see, that's how it was..."<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3l2FsT1Fw3QE3aBdwQQ_JqY4gJ-6N-7VAhchM5G__nDOR2XKGnMFtzV21rM5lsxXywkwe28Ut_Rqgx54xi2qYmRWRac1F6UQjluA1Q_VDiwTJcIUBYiW5G2CBpCsABztXuZdFpxG06u_pOwnY5POPAqGNvP1TwM51NW4PACTwxj3U9XHRDpQ4feZzrmY/s5472/IMG_9187.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3l2FsT1Fw3QE3aBdwQQ_JqY4gJ-6N-7VAhchM5G__nDOR2XKGnMFtzV21rM5lsxXywkwe28Ut_Rqgx54xi2qYmRWRac1F6UQjluA1Q_VDiwTJcIUBYiW5G2CBpCsABztXuZdFpxG06u_pOwnY5POPAqGNvP1TwM51NW4PACTwxj3U9XHRDpQ4feZzrmY/s320/IMG_9187.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Now, tell me, isn't that how it should have been???"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpoxjMHCCa7TV3wdsjSoNfPXoctygoilgeVPwRDaIFO1uRDh26AhObBZF_xwHzXpywEcp-eiew5IyQ80cpCo1H7I9gajbesQGgkCmd_2TU8nN3hGxgNmqezhzKBZKeOS4FFVyy4ntbmXVy1HAFOSZS03z8D3gqGAXeYdKMi_XU_vIG5F681hdpxrX660g/s5472/IMG_9418.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpoxjMHCCa7TV3wdsjSoNfPXoctygoilgeVPwRDaIFO1uRDh26AhObBZF_xwHzXpywEcp-eiew5IyQ80cpCo1H7I9gajbesQGgkCmd_2TU8nN3hGxgNmqezhzKBZKeOS4FFVyy4ntbmXVy1HAFOSZS03z8D3gqGAXeYdKMi_XU_vIG5F681hdpxrX660g/s320/IMG_9418.JPG" width="213" /></a></div>"If you looked out the window, back then, you would have seen..."<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLABZa7hB0STi4xv7RlZW12ghernKeTBRZpDjbzn-ljnxpJHZDEUQYwzNnYVQ0LBt7e4QrHUfna8nj-bCX64Uoq5N7WXZcw20wd0aaLbc5k2eLatIerMzbtFbqhQM0lS9ytFsfpCPTCXyZa-rq-fZnaPsCet7yok-3CVzpHWGp2IyIZ8FrJoMGhJkm1H8/s5348/IMG_9475.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3565" data-original-width="5348" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLABZa7hB0STi4xv7RlZW12ghernKeTBRZpDjbzn-ljnxpJHZDEUQYwzNnYVQ0LBt7e4QrHUfna8nj-bCX64Uoq5N7WXZcw20wd0aaLbc5k2eLatIerMzbtFbqhQM0lS9ytFsfpCPTCXyZa-rq-fZnaPsCet7yok-3CVzpHWGp2IyIZ8FrJoMGhJkm1H8/s320/IMG_9475.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>The ladies of the team, three of us in self made dresses...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7lKND3NSCTObgM5xqP7gRbJ9MMsnDrT5L3taU3TTkbbuTGGkcrh-P8qYQDBEYDbXJwjX3360R3TB9f2gQJa6INSUSAyhLi2PWUVbniq0mWv9CGSzDPPbqdvdHon99Bff_U6m1yiY5PZmlkrmCE8w5evPmr9q0vdRZZDhGFu011fee_VJMlq6HklQKt9Y/s5472/IMG_9481.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7lKND3NSCTObgM5xqP7gRbJ9MMsnDrT5L3taU3TTkbbuTGGkcrh-P8qYQDBEYDbXJwjX3360R3TB9f2gQJa6INSUSAyhLi2PWUVbniq0mWv9CGSzDPPbqdvdHon99Bff_U6m1yiY5PZmlkrmCE8w5evPmr9q0vdRZZDhGFu011fee_VJMlq6HklQKt9Y/s320/IMG_9481.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've learned a lot, and not only about the history of Budapest, but about sewing and myself as well. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like I should trust me more. I always say I don't like to draft patterns, but if something is not quite okay, it is possible to change things. Mock ups are important. They do lie, but still, they are important. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">All the while I am not saying the the Black Snail pattern is not good. It fitted me well enough, and probably, if I liked its style it would have made a great piece. The thing that I had something else in my head. And once again, happened, what happened so many times especially with historical clothes.I am sewing for about 40 years now. I know what I am doing and still, every time I finish something I am ever so surprised.... "Gosh, this is REALLY LOOKING like it SHOULD. And that can bring such a joy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCJK0YLVIAzoqbIJ20NoxpMEhV-tu2UQu6Xtl1De6u6ERCVDki8GJk9Dy3TG2cgncTde6QDKSRgyNK1ZHyJsBysvVxGg5Hh17c5FaPX7qp2e7XQiIy4HHcpDCBjwvvEwzsRON47_1lflSxCIVPbDV8Lv7Kq_Wd2yFhAmFVdWoyAseUb2Os0oxEma7ShIY/s5472/IMG_9505.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCJK0YLVIAzoqbIJ20NoxpMEhV-tu2UQu6Xtl1De6u6ERCVDki8GJk9Dy3TG2cgncTde6QDKSRgyNK1ZHyJsBysvVxGg5Hh17c5FaPX7qp2e7XQiIy4HHcpDCBjwvvEwzsRON47_1lflSxCIVPbDV8Lv7Kq_Wd2yFhAmFVdWoyAseUb2Os0oxEma7ShIY/s320/IMG_9505.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>And everyone in this event.<div>Work photos my phone, </div><div>Modell and event photos by Norbert Varga @Bodeszphoto</div><div><br /></div><div>P.s.: in the next post I will show you the accessories, and what is underneath.</div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-85156204546372056662024-01-19T13:10:00.001+01:002024-01-19T17:01:29.692+01:00Advanced level procrastination<p style="text-align: justify;">Now, that I should work on my (first) bustle ensemble, I am having a total executive block. I know I can do it, I know I should start work on it, but I just cannot, so to feel less ashamed, I am working on anything else, but...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Well, in all honesty, I did the basic two layers of the ensemble: the bustle (or turnure) itself - right away in two version, because I could not decide which one to do, but more on that later in another post, when I will write on that bustle ensemble)... Also done the petticoat for the bustle period, but I will write on that later as well.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And all three items I did after I made the understructure has a story, as they always do...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Edwardian underthings... well, at the end of last year, I made a "historybounding" ensemble to wear, when I need to look more presentable, where my usual, haphazard lagenlook mixed with handknits would not do (like in theatre or more serious - not pop/rock concerts), and for that I made a petticoat (umm, still only a phone-picture of that, you can see it in the summary of last year, but we really should do some proper photos). Since it was for historybounding (curious about that expression? I will write about it, when we manage to photo that set, I promise. Okay?) it didn't really needed to be fully historically accurate, so the lasercut "whitework" fine cotton I found in I love texile was ideal. I mean, with the cut out patterning it did resembled embroidered fabric, and had a nice romantic feeling. But then I needed less for the petticoat than I counted for, and I had about 1,5 meters of it left. So I thought I always wore my early Victorian underwear for the Edwardian period too, but always wanted to make something that is more in line with the period. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then while I was working on the turnure, and were looking for fabrics, and stuff that damn piece of leftover fabric fell on my head. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Like three times. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The third time I got angry, so I said, do not mess with me, or I am gonna cut you up. Then the thing fell the fourth time. YOU WANTED IT. Right? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I already had the pattern from Folkwear printed taped and cut out to my size. Patterns coming in many sizes, in envelopes -like from the big 4 McCalls, Simplicity, and such- I do not cut to size, but copy the appropriate size. Printable PDF's are a different animal, as I can print them out as many time as I want or need. Okay, it needs paper and ink, but if I would copy them, they would still need paper. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyhow, as I said I had the pattern, so I only needed to cut and sew. What I find enchanting about victorian and edwardian underwear, all this decorations, tucks, pintukcs, lace and lace insertions. Over here we do not have the selections of lace other countries west from us might have, so I tried those cotton laces I had in my stash. The technique still have space for improvement, but I am not unsatisfied. With the drawers I have one complaint, but that is my body, not the pattern... I have the crotch too low. I mean, I know, I have a short waist and a dislke for high waisted pants... Next tme I shall take off a few centimeters from the waistline. It is perfectly useable this way, but will be more comfortable. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtMoSXCAsO4dDCUTbVXlEaY34UWxGaHQRRzHzOaVZFT_Zfz8J_jxB9VDLDDPjIIl9S56YeEy_cWy-SZJOzL57MN0nH5s-_qIFMdtDDc9zvZ0mw_zl-ebO7mxrWIKlft8IBcq9-c2XY_DG1Q4z-_6ll_qKQ0ASMfPcw4Em_0-4E4hyphenhyphenCHxQxXI-1030MpXA/s4032/20240115_111351.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtMoSXCAsO4dDCUTbVXlEaY34UWxGaHQRRzHzOaVZFT_Zfz8J_jxB9VDLDDPjIIl9S56YeEy_cWy-SZJOzL57MN0nH5s-_qIFMdtDDc9zvZ0mw_zl-ebO7mxrWIKlft8IBcq9-c2XY_DG1Q4z-_6ll_qKQ0ASMfPcw4Em_0-4E4hyphenhyphenCHxQxXI-1030MpXA/s320/20240115_111351.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw5yAASE5I1_mNQTa22sjleT-urlmw3Lj4uhshF1aPzwr8_G0Xysm-wAb9A7yHMwpDNmUDkOi3G3xm_Z3ZOhBVFlPE5W8UFFOlMZvtp9-_VSVDhs2_t03IKoKQq8IcRd9KYK2pvKut0RjjmM-pZN3_Y4-VRJhHcufYAV2T4NniU695TJkCcugEc9p8-4/s4032/20240115_111400.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw5yAASE5I1_mNQTa22sjleT-urlmw3Lj4uhshF1aPzwr8_G0Xysm-wAb9A7yHMwpDNmUDkOi3G3xm_Z3ZOhBVFlPE5W8UFFOlMZvtp9-_VSVDhs2_t03IKoKQq8IcRd9KYK2pvKut0RjjmM-pZN3_Y4-VRJhHcufYAV2T4NniU695TJkCcugEc9p8-4/s320/20240115_111400.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgvms2Mdc-SzHkG2azMIG86EqzczF4KgXURAeFGA_eewUqnAeoJ_EHGcdgqzIBkoGYcoRPoBMds-LYX68hj8LCV9IbUU7VO4yRNcEPOa3-wCpq7G7iU0pIrxcfxK_WadP7VWn-U-g5KkzrM3uL90QxRDOSZ6wBeoWnU9VlPmVun4cYzgq9hidLLsjanh0/s4032/20240115_111423.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgvms2Mdc-SzHkG2azMIG86EqzczF4KgXURAeFGA_eewUqnAeoJ_EHGcdgqzIBkoGYcoRPoBMds-LYX68hj8LCV9IbUU7VO4yRNcEPOa3-wCpq7G7iU0pIrxcfxK_WadP7VWn-U-g5KkzrM3uL90QxRDOSZ6wBeoWnU9VlPmVun4cYzgq9hidLLsjanh0/s320/20240115_111423.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then, I made the petticoat for the bustle gown, from stripy fabric. Why not white? I do have fabric for a white one, but my dress will be blue (ahh, such a surprise, right?), so a blue striped petticoat would be fun, Anyhow, once again, I had a bit more than meter of that fabric left over, which I did not want to put away, besides, I can always use another edwardian blouse (even for modern dressing), so I went out, got another half meter, and thus it was enough. But I knew, if I put it back to the shelf, it would be a loooooong time, before I take it out again... besides, I still needed some distraction, something to work, while I am thinking about how to attack the bustle gown, so another edwardian shirtwaist was born. I used the same Angela Clayton pattern, that I used the last time for the white shirt, mainy, because its shoulder yoke gave me place to play with the stripes. And good I did, as I still remembered the changes I needed to do (shorten the shoulder yoke, narrowing the sleeves. etc), and I could try add some bits of laces I had left from the petticoat. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy5oDh-QjoF0NIWpjFIGgwm5tIrQSUQ_sH8QfQtdR-IY-AVGr1oFYMPnpvpUoqJHFoRPoUgPiGoXo3EWws_V-DTE9mn3PHkuctD7lIqvcdVuszacSRHG5EJip3p9NQrlHZ_GjbcPNKXWfCYCozPeXOVi7BHsdfXlw_M6keGYr85-lqEalCC4BvFu9iKnQ/s4032/20240115_121938.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy5oDh-QjoF0NIWpjFIGgwm5tIrQSUQ_sH8QfQtdR-IY-AVGr1oFYMPnpvpUoqJHFoRPoUgPiGoXo3EWws_V-DTE9mn3PHkuctD7lIqvcdVuszacSRHG5EJip3p9NQrlHZ_GjbcPNKXWfCYCozPeXOVi7BHsdfXlw_M6keGYr85-lqEalCC4BvFu9iKnQ/s320/20240115_121938.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjmZAdyBdwdT8FChJSzkXxSAxEzzRN8JnSaKXV5_bXZfug8RtuvQhJAwARhyphenhyphenvwHA2xZxrQFL5bFo1rigDuSPCLtOJZ9-m8iyl-ifHp9V5xVHgAmjlaMU312jvSexczWA0TVNXoSkIbBQqP3ji9c8Cm_b1OcMENyb7ME2oy6zrYTPvfetEPuTowXaLi1o0/s4032/20240115_121944.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjmZAdyBdwdT8FChJSzkXxSAxEzzRN8JnSaKXV5_bXZfug8RtuvQhJAwARhyphenhyphenvwHA2xZxrQFL5bFo1rigDuSPCLtOJZ9-m8iyl-ifHp9V5xVHgAmjlaMU312jvSexczWA0TVNXoSkIbBQqP3ji9c8Cm_b1OcMENyb7ME2oy6zrYTPvfetEPuTowXaLi1o0/s320/20240115_121944.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBrNg-2oC2zk_Muagj-muo557EVZBWSbyugp07-_W5-W5BxEj1CjTYPhyzw3soQNaRP-vhyphenhyphenJxg5xcBWFzLsiMSB4YNWBq6-AhxUpKi3SPszxgmMHMil30-8KG3xjuShBVjKBMGtRl0_ibFL99WjdWrGVoHS9fYt3tnoZ-UyStNC2mVtBGX1EDo99PzoNE/s4032/20240115_121948.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBrNg-2oC2zk_Muagj-muo557EVZBWSbyugp07-_W5-W5BxEj1CjTYPhyzw3soQNaRP-vhyphenhyphenJxg5xcBWFzLsiMSB4YNWBq6-AhxUpKi3SPszxgmMHMil30-8KG3xjuShBVjKBMGtRl0_ibFL99WjdWrGVoHS9fYt3tnoZ-UyStNC2mVtBGX1EDo99PzoNE/s320/20240115_121948.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then I could not procrastinate anymore, as the event I need the bustle gown is coming ever so fast... </div><div style="text-align: justify;">But wait!!! There is one more thing, that would help me put away doing the actual bustle gown, but I cannot really call it procrastination... I need a new Corset! Yes, I made one a year ago, but I lost a considerable weight, and while that corset still gives me good enough foundation, and it is a great example when I talk about corsets do not NEED to be so thightlaced you cannot breath in them. But then never hurts to practice, like making corsets, each I make is better than the previous one, and I could really use a smaller one. I would have preferred a fun fabric, but none of the I Love Textile stores had anything suitable. The best fabric for corsets would be coutil, a specially woven canvas, but we don't have it here. I could order, but that is expensive and takes time, and, in my experience a good, strong canvas is just as good. Like a denim fabric... I would love it to be printed, but as I said, there was nothing I liked, okay, there was one, but that had ELASTHAN which is a bit no-no for corsets, and generally for historical clothes, though I do cheat sometimes, but with corsets, cheating is a big no. So I dug into my stash, and I had a piece of lavander-blue fabric, I got for stays and corsets. So that is what I used. It was not as thick as I would have preferred, but it would do.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh43qJd_oULwXanU3OVuS4OVpntG7kEggJBLmoEO_5PXhnxtwrYpMQ15-1wt9IFujsR3FLx7MtzEVB3oNQ4hXVThLC_YYREmqncy1eHnm9kysAFgs3MThMw0-M-AN0_-VeNYQGEA0sEVBOQLgB_miFkZ53GyXBkaC2fQwEuavNkwNHUk-zllsJNa2qOyn0/s4032/20240115_205845.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh43qJd_oULwXanU3OVuS4OVpntG7kEggJBLmoEO_5PXhnxtwrYpMQ15-1wt9IFujsR3FLx7MtzEVB3oNQ4hXVThLC_YYREmqncy1eHnm9kysAFgs3MThMw0-M-AN0_-VeNYQGEA0sEVBOQLgB_miFkZ53GyXBkaC2fQwEuavNkwNHUk-zllsJNa2qOyn0/s320/20240115_205845.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4N1uJW5MBR723dyxjEj3ntXCI_SFm6fJGQfqoLM8Xf5EbOLXcSudz0Nyv5xAzPevMY2xgLy1YuYQd2TjxpNL13m2CfCX8n6-VBae_ATdNNpQH3uPt4892kq0NTEWdHFmh-qaflIxbsGRwrpHa2X_9IE_krdwBMuHgy0TxCRl9HJKQbeV2Yg0h8Vn9zw/s4032/20240116_220904.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4N1uJW5MBR723dyxjEj3ntXCI_SFm6fJGQfqoLM8Xf5EbOLXcSudz0Nyv5xAzPevMY2xgLy1YuYQd2TjxpNL13m2CfCX8n6-VBae_ATdNNpQH3uPt4892kq0NTEWdHFmh-qaflIxbsGRwrpHa2X_9IE_krdwBMuHgy0TxCRl9HJKQbeV2Yg0h8Vn9zw/s320/20240116_220904.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I used the same red-threaded pattern that I used earlier. Back, when I bought it, they only came in one size (I mean, if you buy one, they only sent the size you selected) and since they serialized it, and if you buy one, you get the whole seria, but I already spent enough money for patterns on this project, was not about to spend another 25 bucks, so I took the last version I used, and redraw it, took out a centimeter here, a half a centimeter there. Now, once again I have a lacing gap, I can have it laced looser or thighter if I want (with the <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2023/01/corset.html" target="_blank">earlier version</a> - there you have more pictures of the sewing too-I had to lace it totally shut and there was still a bit space).</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But now, I realy must concentrate on the bustle dress, or I am going to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/901990034768530/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22calendar_tab_event%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22bookmark_calendar%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D" target="_blank">Vigadó event</a> in my underwear,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br /><p><br /></p></div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-52975388905549105002024-01-03T11:20:00.000+01:002024-01-03T11:20:00.151+01:00What was? <p> I slept on it, and then decided to make a summary after all... so...</p><p>I was sewing.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj69qJ0T5isX1CnpNB-KMq45WKP4xngQoXM0jfBpMwbof1nC5LU-ZzOJKNoatibu0UDYV48IawWXI9gZsrlAE92dw-X5PK43OsVApypqcFvNI8PX444YzE7CzvNoZUQfkhRwklaBYLHM3NWBysi-IMRJ84I-kLXc5uMdWEu2ZeaPwPa7wKXJPXj7aPgkI/s640/416386093_1801117967027498_1508301286027822593_n.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="407" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj69qJ0T5isX1CnpNB-KMq45WKP4xngQoXM0jfBpMwbof1nC5LU-ZzOJKNoatibu0UDYV48IawWXI9gZsrlAE92dw-X5PK43OsVApypqcFvNI8PX444YzE7CzvNoZUQfkhRwklaBYLHM3NWBysi-IMRJ84I-kLXc5uMdWEu2ZeaPwPa7wKXJPXj7aPgkI/s320/416386093_1801117967027498_1508301286027822593_n.gif" width="204" /></a></div><p>I was knitting.</p><p>A few historical stockings, but I will make a separate post about them.</p><p>And socks...</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUdwbTCIfRBeVhngk8nzjyOftBuw1c-1VeiISBvIXsY0OqMfBeTgQAGqH45Zlq1jpphfKSDAIllHbODri4VpiFAJ78Y2y3nlaqM-yzVkGlOG6KozP_ncI3APjrEqtjrzTP2Cws8J897syya6q7ub6OshmdP5xeeHJR9ijuIlVt_Y5cplOIMB3CIRDNMMY/s4032/20240103_101722%5B1%5D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUdwbTCIfRBeVhngk8nzjyOftBuw1c-1VeiISBvIXsY0OqMfBeTgQAGqH45Zlq1jpphfKSDAIllHbODri4VpiFAJ78Y2y3nlaqM-yzVkGlOG6KozP_ncI3APjrEqtjrzTP2Cws8J897syya6q7ub6OshmdP5xeeHJR9ijuIlVt_Y5cplOIMB3CIRDNMMY/s320/20240103_101722%5B1%5D.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>And all this, in the last three months of the year. Three sweaters were started earlier, some even years ago, three sweaters and a hat and a pair of mittens were done in this time from start to finish.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB86ufB9sGvtwMUQ-AE6kSACOzlF4Ay6brCRsLKVtsLe_qX4bJOOmoEUSrP9PRHIo80ekvtKGXAsiyJgPBi_oMQIYlIvD5TYA4oakc3d_U0cSKnr-pFS-FAKnS-ESrMbTaOn0I3ndlRoxwKWa0ihls7EqmODrtmNK9icOTDJpQ93qoE8x1yJOelvCdLh0/s4032/20240103_100743%5B1%5D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB86ufB9sGvtwMUQ-AE6kSACOzlF4Ay6brCRsLKVtsLe_qX4bJOOmoEUSrP9PRHIo80ekvtKGXAsiyJgPBi_oMQIYlIvD5TYA4oakc3d_U0cSKnr-pFS-FAKnS-ESrMbTaOn0I3ndlRoxwKWa0ihls7EqmODrtmNK9icOTDJpQ93qoE8x1yJOelvCdLh0/s320/20240103_100743%5B1%5D.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div>So the year was not without resuts... Details from the stuff I have not shown (mostly the knits) will come later.</div><p><br /><br /></p>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-47927905160510894272024-01-02T22:30:00.000+01:002024-01-03T10:13:27.168+01:00New Year, now what? <p> For days I have been contemplating whether to write/ make my year-end montage, and / or summary... And at the end I have not made that montage, because I have not felt like I am up to it.</p><p>The truth is, as happy and optimistic I was in 2018 and 2019, and even though in 2020 The Plague plagued my existence too, we were not that bad off. I was working through, we even managed to travel, and what I have not expected, that once it will (mostly) go away, I will struggle.</p><p>There I said it, my year was not the best. Okay, it was not the worst, 2008, and the period between 2010-2014 would be really hard to beat, but things are... ambigouos to say the least. And though there are parts of my life that are okay, in more areas things are not, and I do not see, how could I turn things around. </p><p>Anyhow, having troubles on the work front meant, I could sew more than I usually do, and at the end of the year I had a good run with knitting. For the longest time I do not make New Year's resoltuions, because I just cannot keep them. I do have two must do project at hand, I already started the New Years Good Luck Sweater, and I have a full set of clothes to make a new-for-us period.</p><p>Blogging-wise the year was.. not that good either I think. Posted more than some years, but much less, than in the old times. And since there are hardly any responses, I never know if there is anybody around to read, even if I keep telling my Instagram friends, that we should do this (blogging, instagramming etc) for ourselves, not for counting likes and followers, still some response would be nice from time to time.</p><p>I do have a couple of projects from last year to post about it, we managed to do some photos over the holidays, and a couple more is waiting to be photographer, so I will have things to post about a while, then we'll see. </p><p>In other words its not all cake and roses over here either, and once in a while I do give in to self pity and whining. </p>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-70273867732456508142023-12-21T18:45:00.005+01:002024-01-03T23:19:35.476+01:00Turn of the Century<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgJjqHC8IdBnt1hnohlM2eR9iqEhy6sAdr3cCpNoIrzMJfBnAplmsuLV9-5svwTgjwUPkqXAcNvvl_hBoqgq11FLnuZV7Cab5_wpGIYjh5yog3BTSabHeLJe_9PsSk2qTZI7BwiVpsdr_eV56VlzgP79LHlu1Cy29YT_D-0MJOV7cSN2_VDd0lo4agr4/s5348/IMG_7368.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5348" data-original-width="3565" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgJjqHC8IdBnt1hnohlM2eR9iqEhy6sAdr3cCpNoIrzMJfBnAplmsuLV9-5svwTgjwUPkqXAcNvvl_hBoqgq11FLnuZV7Cab5_wpGIYjh5yog3BTSabHeLJe_9PsSk2qTZI7BwiVpsdr_eV56VlzgP79LHlu1Cy29YT_D-0MJOV7cSN2_VDd0lo4agr4/s320/IMG_7368.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I've never made secret out of the fact, that I don't really like "the" turn of the cenury, that is the time around the very late 1800 and the very early 1900, or, as the you'd call it in English, Edwardian period (with a few years of very late Victorian years). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I could never really put my fingers to the reason, just why is that... Maybe because it is already the same century I was born? Maybe, because it is too close to us, and I do not feel the "escape from our time" layer of costuming and reenactment? Maybe, because I see my grandmother in the mirror, when I am wearing those period clothes? Or maybe simply, because of the extra weight I carry around (thanks thyroid), I simply do not feel pretty in those cothes, and in this period one can play a lot less with silhuettes and proportions like in earlier times? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have tried, I really tried. My friend Roland made the first skirt of this period for me, and I wore it with a loaned shirt (the hat was already mine, there was a <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2019/05/edwardian-hat.html" target="_blank">post about in 2019</a>).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOVZRy3zA1jbisBDDYxJMrZFIteCEdYfodgVIJ_2EN6Xz4wfRPtxQIHqepWwRkHJRvoFUDrjgN1ECfUZlvkhb9ua2VG-flJQ2bynJViwDVEXpXRJA_md1W7HRJ85xg2lOENLCNhBWz5Hb7hels8yg1qbULoXi3_BRWyuVEbCMpOLpgw6o2qntj_F2iY8/s5472/IMG_9253.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOVZRy3zA1jbisBDDYxJMrZFIteCEdYfodgVIJ_2EN6Xz4wfRPtxQIHqepWwRkHJRvoFUDrjgN1ECfUZlvkhb9ua2VG-flJQ2bynJViwDVEXpXRJA_md1W7HRJ85xg2lOENLCNhBWz5Hb7hels8yg1qbULoXi3_BRWyuVEbCMpOLpgw6o2qntj_F2iY8/s320/IMG_9253.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Looking at the picture it was not bad, not bad at all, but it was not-made-by-me (do not ask me, why do I hold this one against it, LOL), and also it has a train. I had it on for an Old Car Show, and by the end of the day my wrist hurt like hell, trying to hold that train, and I swore that I will NEVER make anything else with a train... Right, I held that position until I made the black Maria Theresa dress, but that is another story.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later that year, I made another skirt, which was not thought through, I used "some" fabric, that seemed suitable (spoilers: it was not), drew up the skirt pattern.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio8qYRhw5DLF4YDlGjYrd0ISUWQ6bpgQvKvMZDTfezJaqh_mYlByOcsPNyBNYDYHoc9U3jP76PPLbNONAMAKriw7ETgbdGSOVwtb992MKPQ6_6OC1R4AQ8nzC4YZXYAeEz_1uSmWbSgU-d1MK2GmrZ7aBYW27msbjAeFLRXb1IhO1D_RPfnorxsWF8mwY/s960/70489667_494103027835489_940551611090993152_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio8qYRhw5DLF4YDlGjYrd0ISUWQ6bpgQvKvMZDTfezJaqh_mYlByOcsPNyBNYDYHoc9U3jP76PPLbNONAMAKriw7ETgbdGSOVwtb992MKPQ6_6OC1R4AQ8nzC4YZXYAeEz_1uSmWbSgU-d1MK2GmrZ7aBYW27msbjAeFLRXb1IhO1D_RPfnorxsWF8mwY/s320/70489667_494103027835489_940551611090993152_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(picture: Sári-Győr Gizella)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By then I had my own blouse, I found in a second hand shop, with the proper petticoat, it was not bad, and my hands were finally free, it was... meeehhh. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even though then I used it for years. I even made a self-sewn blouse to go with it when I found myself quarantained out of the old one. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEienxDxqq2tSR5s_IZ5MyvrJYvX3JhRpASjJLujB7seB8n3RwrrSBtwJEx-10Uk51rjq8iWoEAWUEx2akrv6qF3q8COLxp4Mtsk5014ycTZkbImjILAzEu4qmwn-ziTRKyhqv8HiU4CdMfuvn6u4p5SPwlAwJahzbM1wvkMRCcgg_8M309UyY37e6Zy7CQ/s5472/IMG_3821.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEienxDxqq2tSR5s_IZ5MyvrJYvX3JhRpASjJLujB7seB8n3RwrrSBtwJEx-10Uk51rjq8iWoEAWUEx2akrv6qF3q8COLxp4Mtsk5014ycTZkbImjILAzEu4qmwn-ziTRKyhqv8HiU4CdMfuvn6u4p5SPwlAwJahzbM1wvkMRCcgg_8M309UyY37e6Zy7CQ/s320/IMG_3821.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Still mehhh, but still could not put my fingers on why. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, earlier this year I did loose some weight (finally, though far from "enough"), and I was still thinking. Once again I watched The Nevers, and remembered, that I actually liked the costuming of the first six episodes. (On the other hand it is such a shame what they did with the second half, it would have worth so much more. I felt like someone was deliberately tryingto ruin what was built up in the first half.). Then I looked a lot of pictures and patterns again, because I was determined to solve the issue, especially, as we had an event coming up in the fall. Last year we did a guided tour in the Róth Miksa Museum (he was a well known glass artist of the time), and we were about to reprise that. What if I go just a coupe of years earlier, and do 1898 instead of 1903?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Forever long I wanted to try the bluse/waistcoat combo, so much that the waistcoat pattern of the Black Snail company was one of the first I bought from them years ago. I knew I had several fabrics to make it from, however, I could not find the dark red grow-grain woth polka dots that would have been my first choice, but I found a few meters of cotton velveteen with a color that was between aubergine and bordeaux. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When I cut out the skirt, I had enugh for the waistcoat, so I rushed out and got some lining, and then I went on sewing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I used the McCalls/Angela Clayton pattern (M8231) for the shirt and the skirt, and the Black Snails for the waistcoat (0220).</div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZrkleyPK3A6_DNZ2fXMROoVbOQbpQ7BPMpeEQlPvopUeylHn-U4-x58EBE-tQuww26Lq-K8p2mmzqOA_9CO5By6vSy3SPbGhLSGqxB9z2c1ZRPWrvJ_1SK3M5U3RPjsN3gldIzZmOdbtW_0dz76JAyJdmNd35NGGuV5M_gnjDL-IbAGqKbYggTjAiDI/s4032/20231020_022046.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZrkleyPK3A6_DNZ2fXMROoVbOQbpQ7BPMpeEQlPvopUeylHn-U4-x58EBE-tQuww26Lq-K8p2mmzqOA_9CO5By6vSy3SPbGhLSGqxB9z2c1ZRPWrvJ_1SK3M5U3RPjsN3gldIzZmOdbtW_0dz76JAyJdmNd35NGGuV5M_gnjDL-IbAGqKbYggTjAiDI/s320/20231020_022046.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>For the waistcoat, I made a mock up, but it was almost perfectly spot on, so I did not modified it at all. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh52buajt5KS-e5IkmKLikiWlQZWN8LrgVZEDhZ_TjfvloQN0aJ7zPDHObSdbqUIk2jsSUyGLp-qZpyoJ8EGty5AWU8LE6d5ld10hnDjqaw25TYa6kHGFsVnu-hsHP36eszLlNwIKjG8f4_BhAPJxOrC12rXVbH5V8nqytHFSOP3519rSacoGmArKPmLS8/s4032/20231020_041518.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh52buajt5KS-e5IkmKLikiWlQZWN8LrgVZEDhZ_TjfvloQN0aJ7zPDHObSdbqUIk2jsSUyGLp-qZpyoJ8EGty5AWU8LE6d5ld10hnDjqaw25TYa6kHGFsVnu-hsHP36eszLlNwIKjG8f4_BhAPJxOrC12rXVbH5V8nqytHFSOP3519rSacoGmArKPmLS8/s320/20231020_041518.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>It was lucky, that I made a men's waistcoat earlier this year for a museum, and there I already figured out how to sew it up, what to sew with where, what to turn whch was, and such.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQenGPeNV-F_PjgxVDWj6qlrIfH-wUV0YNLU5dla29mHUHTRUkQ33_ZsqougSze7MwN4wGKy9dmgOTighICodkBamLO4UEIghcAU5plEHzmqibSL2rRp9WTYadtlfs_1NhLH7bLXqT6YD0QXdNpb7-V9UFG65STkr1aTCoTrD4WOBjJn7aeUK3mDheEo/s320/20231020_232422.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The waistcoat turned out great, so much that I almost immediately made another one, for which I did photograph most of the steps, and I will write up a post as soon as we manage to make photos of the finished outfit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As for the skirt and the shirt... Before I started, I asked two costuming Facebook groups about these patterns, and how good that I did. Some other members pointed out problematic areas with them. I planned to add lace insertions to the shirt, but reading how many problems others had, I forgo the idea, and decided to treat the first iteration as a wearable mock up. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXCPiDHFztqM03EqWvg8I3CAQnzZnAKQIAk_HJ76lmVL3Gdarn2XllaJa-lvjjZj0ZEAHQ2Ca1_cyhK5mpzczodnHpcnJOgFjD9eVSK5YqS5amHBSrGqZ-kZTrsomdVzV3r4csObMnXfG23rFBJvkPoz25QnuNs6w7HrA672DQbAtdZHaKwQSwJE1tFmw/s5416/IMG_7370.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5416" data-original-width="3611" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXCPiDHFztqM03EqWvg8I3CAQnzZnAKQIAk_HJ76lmVL3Gdarn2XllaJa-lvjjZj0ZEAHQ2Ca1_cyhK5mpzczodnHpcnJOgFjD9eVSK5YqS5amHBSrGqZ-kZTrsomdVzV3r4csObMnXfG23rFBJvkPoz25QnuNs6w7HrA672DQbAtdZHaKwQSwJE1tFmw/s320/IMG_7370.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am not sure what is the reason, maybe Angela is much taller than the average woman, or the pattern company messed up the upsizing, but the yoke part of the shirt was way to long. Ideally, it should be just above the bust, so the gathers give space for the boobs. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7c3PzKDLdqUKoNax6UQkp1zgW7r5eY0KwOS74MtiQnmBmiVroa0W5nxt3gMnsCr9lkCZDaCry_38IdnDIdq616U4f0MpoGTEprGahyphenhyphenAQOuiFyjipCRMWh1LNCBpzR2EDWMzPIu4Rp8Fmr3WknCX0Sre_gh2S_hauzTDuRYTGQuGJ3f7ZHDnIRylEStyE/s5416/IMG_7394.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3611" data-original-width="5416" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7c3PzKDLdqUKoNax6UQkp1zgW7r5eY0KwOS74MtiQnmBmiVroa0W5nxt3gMnsCr9lkCZDaCry_38IdnDIdq616U4f0MpoGTEprGahyphenhyphenAQOuiFyjipCRMWh1LNCBpzR2EDWMzPIu4Rp8Fmr3WknCX0Sre_gh2S_hauzTDuRYTGQuGJ3f7ZHDnIRylEStyE/s320/IMG_7394.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, this reached down almost below to mine... and the armhole was waaay to long. I simply chopped off about 5 cm from the shoulders. I think it could be still a cm or two shorter, if I make it again. The sleeves were also way too loose and too long, at my lower arms, I took out a couple of cm-s and added a different cuff. The collar was a straight up rectangle, for the lower edge (that is sewn on) I cut the arched shape usual for my collars.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There was one problem with the skirt: it was way too long (Angela really must be very tall). I chopped off about 10 cm, turned up another 15, and it was still long, I had to redo the hem). The original had a train, it would have been REALLY helpful, if they draw a line (not more, just ONE LINE, where should be cut off for the straight, trainless version. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOwlmKoZY70oGEesz179h2TqRV-YCMUBihH04QJDzbXCMziIPVa4wv_rHdsJ-CqwTPh7Mmf6sWrE5sWv8jfPf1nuSxwgRiPeY4-c-qC5LymAV0cNtWHXBNQFWPABtxQ5rSbwzc0GvsGfiIaepaC7oYaxERKM1zMXt12pj_DU1jm9paRgBWU6YasGRGtyc/s5308/IMG_7375.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5308" data-original-width="3539" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOwlmKoZY70oGEesz179h2TqRV-YCMUBihH04QJDzbXCMziIPVa4wv_rHdsJ-CqwTPh7Mmf6sWrE5sWv8jfPf1nuSxwgRiPeY4-c-qC5LymAV0cNtWHXBNQFWPABtxQ5rSbwzc0GvsGfiIaepaC7oYaxERKM1zMXt12pj_DU1jm9paRgBWU6YasGRGtyc/s320/IMG_7375.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ggIH0BjzBWvpdN5-VwFRLhpW4g-g91QWUjWpKf9cWb_DYRZ2f7cZg5tc1RmpGt5G-IzQJu2kVLOPjVD40NFK9ahhzqOF8ZzrD4gpoXrE9KaJqBDtBli6RtprJzSpaDq5omop75JWvsJABRrBs0R09xcgeEUt9BIiYO2cw8ku9A_-6mpiBhUInyVL6Kc/s5360/IMG_7378.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5360" data-original-width="3573" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ggIH0BjzBWvpdN5-VwFRLhpW4g-g91QWUjWpKf9cWb_DYRZ2f7cZg5tc1RmpGt5G-IzQJu2kVLOPjVD40NFK9ahhzqOF8ZzrD4gpoXrE9KaJqBDtBli6RtprJzSpaDq5omop75JWvsJABRrBs0R09xcgeEUt9BIiYO2cw8ku9A_-6mpiBhUInyVL6Kc/s320/IMG_7378.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjupEGWH7_g0NyuTGAiF1B33hvbItFFhQwjMWK0p914K-9jXl1u_hQW1xujLtfJl3pgSs2pcaSZrYDOfiU87s69MAkrUNJjqR9cCqKgCnlE8-vjc-cGyDgo6Le4FsmyAZvJ-SDehKqsj29xhVjftoKcCtjahRnbZmPpBGIWhhNhZ0eH_Wz9T8_p2MgrGSU/s5415/IMG_7382.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5415" data-original-width="3610" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjupEGWH7_g0NyuTGAiF1B33hvbItFFhQwjMWK0p914K-9jXl1u_hQW1xujLtfJl3pgSs2pcaSZrYDOfiU87s69MAkrUNJjqR9cCqKgCnlE8-vjc-cGyDgo6Le4FsmyAZvJ-SDehKqsj29xhVjftoKcCtjahRnbZmPpBGIWhhNhZ0eH_Wz9T8_p2MgrGSU/s320/IMG_7382.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>The hat... From time to time I look through the FB Market and a local used stuff site, and if I find a hat that could be modified to use for historical costuming, and not too expensive I buy it. So I do have some hats waiting to be made into something. I did order some real girardi style hats, but they did not came in time, so I HAD to look for something else. My other Edwardian hat had blue and white flowers, and it is rather summery, I wanted different mood. I found this had to big, but I thought I could pin it to a bigger, edwardian hair, so I gave it a temporary decoration (Nothing was sewn on, the flowers were just tucked under the ribbon, but I ended up liking it enough to decide to properly finish it).</div><div>I feel much better in this set than any of the previous ones. Is it very different from the others? NOT. So why? I do not know. Will I make more turn of the century stuff now? Definetly. But they will be probably lean toward very late Victorian, than Edwardian though. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Modeled pictures: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Bodeszphoto" target="_blank">Norbert Varga @Bodeszphoto</a> (except where noted)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Work photoes from my phone.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-69026950139704006002023-11-24T10:00:00.001+01:002023-11-24T10:00:00.134+01:0067 buttons<p> I promise, I have some projects that I photographed almost every step of the way, while I was sewing them, I would only need the time to write up the posts on them, however, having a few jobs, and a few time-consuming hobbies gives me precious little time...</p><p>Until then, you will have to do with pictures of finished objects, one of which had me make 67 handsewn textile buttons for it.</p><p>It was for a girl, who recently joined the reanactment foundation, who is also working in one of the museums, we sometimes have events at.</p><p>She wanted a late medieval kirtle, and while we were looking at pictures, we decided (no, she decided :-) ) she likes those that have buttons on them. </p><p>For base I used the pattern we made years ago, when I made my late medieval/early renaissance worker's class kirtle, and transformed it down on size considerably, then made a mock up, asked the girl to free up a couple of hours so we could fit the heck out of it to her body. </p><p>As it was done in the period, we used two layers, the undershirt, and the kirtle.</p><p>The sewing itself is my usual mixture of sewing the long, inside seams with the machine, and doing everything else (mostly felling down the edges inside) by hand. So no machine stitches can be seen from the outside, only handstitching.</p><p>The front edges have a rather hard canvas inside, for the button-loops I used cotton embroidery threads.</p><p>The buttons were made from leftover fabric-pieces, and were filled leftover pieces that were kind of shreded to even smaller bits. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDChoyErC2HUgVGweS6ImKxSgcKysPA9dNfXWD8NJdWWnaCUBdE6PGvAFqgg2bVSDt6032UDQNF4PeJjYAogISw8Bok4ETAUb5e4VOUXzyliij-yqlsQsOpcO7eVjsai9kSq7dG-iHkhyk3mqO5zySLCgDZ-kKoBx5bt-ZdYsXj27itq_VDtHfNpvprrc/s5472/IMG_5126.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDChoyErC2HUgVGweS6ImKxSgcKysPA9dNfXWD8NJdWWnaCUBdE6PGvAFqgg2bVSDt6032UDQNF4PeJjYAogISw8Bok4ETAUb5e4VOUXzyliij-yqlsQsOpcO7eVjsai9kSq7dG-iHkhyk3mqO5zySLCgDZ-kKoBx5bt-ZdYsXj27itq_VDtHfNpvprrc/s320/IMG_5126.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOEnlDDxbAzTLFtpzr9TyPt13D1KUJjWAQPUMtzp-_RiGEta-gbLzv4CqeFMA0UmdSAtqjlz8fNcHQNvisPhkHZxsCHH_BRTdiU-6bjyE-I2RPhG8wnPjyQqUEyvf5luMF8pwa5xdkBF2fVb5V2bzR13BoCZuMeEl15ykbhW-SAO54Qu8EjQmCTRQmYH4" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the next few pictures, please see the smile, the utter joy on her face. This was the first historical piece that was made for her, and it is not loaned, or not the museum's, but hers. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfO47512aujPyOOgG9FeU-APvvrUlS8t_uWoWwJG105CIYLB5aDRFMGwUyecbY3W5kL0zVV3ZcedFvLUTwdTdiy6-x3kvBW8s7-heL3C0OUO42VU0kufk-aN6YJPTIqO2UH62IL1bhoSGYIY1FJeGsXvUCLEiIQ8mPOneZXN40oAq1mdR_NcbxSG4tlf4/s5444/IMG_5118.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5444" data-original-width="3629" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfO47512aujPyOOgG9FeU-APvvrUlS8t_uWoWwJG105CIYLB5aDRFMGwUyecbY3W5kL0zVV3ZcedFvLUTwdTdiy6-x3kvBW8s7-heL3C0OUO42VU0kufk-aN6YJPTIqO2UH62IL1bhoSGYIY1FJeGsXvUCLEiIQ8mPOneZXN40oAq1mdR_NcbxSG4tlf4/s320/IMG_5118.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>The pictures were taken, when she first put on the dress, and could not stop twirling and smiling. I was not there (I was in head-to-toe Maria Theresa mode at a different part of the museum), but so glad that Norbert was there to inmortalize the moment.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSx5V5IKf5DJ-AL5om6sWlhRgaK6nmG5UsNfEzcyjYBDv9fSfAs5Z8GMYKXrVTeaOSMAXHkeJ3fupLIJS63zlmHmkEuvZe0oFGZGL19K5jgljgzHmKrx0-Ce5FpDRvAv2Y-9WSYQgNZVQPkgW8EifMqT1GDrSRD3IoyiF2sZylzZ5cT34yMwT37szlIwM/s5472/IMG_5120.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSx5V5IKf5DJ-AL5om6sWlhRgaK6nmG5UsNfEzcyjYBDv9fSfAs5Z8GMYKXrVTeaOSMAXHkeJ3fupLIJS63zlmHmkEuvZe0oFGZGL19K5jgljgzHmKrx0-Ce5FpDRvAv2Y-9WSYQgNZVQPkgW8EifMqT1GDrSRD3IoyiF2sZylzZ5cT34yMwT37szlIwM/s320/IMG_5120.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It was a joy to work on this dress, and I am happy to see this smile.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKzMDcnNcnZj6xq7Oue3iMuY9ZTocog5xVP_eCrCaMcFgI4obSdg11Wu2UXbp04huXvLaYbdyadlehPnaeHU0uAKQGy2GobFFgbmzK1TFB-4jwHxu2Mvt4IEWjelD0ZeJ5SbbmG3VNLJeuIwLoCQHpheNBBxDJpV_yxp8rcBlLOlO85NT9BHLhVE-WPWc/s5472/IMG_5119.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKzMDcnNcnZj6xq7Oue3iMuY9ZTocog5xVP_eCrCaMcFgI4obSdg11Wu2UXbp04huXvLaYbdyadlehPnaeHU0uAKQGy2GobFFgbmzK1TFB-4jwHxu2Mvt4IEWjelD0ZeJ5SbbmG3VNLJeuIwLoCQHpheNBBxDJpV_yxp8rcBlLOlO85NT9BHLhVE-WPWc/s320/IMG_5119.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU6oqtg9UbVvHNXX1zoxKedNcV9a9LglTlo5qfOWa6PfJzOyDq8h5H-N9e9bJCzvxiYTtPf9HPSjg3vwNCl_fkxqyBFuK9A7guKa0f-iMvmKxbgPZiGenJiS4S58v00QgyTnmZIBJWi6cFejIQXCeXkYIQ4F6E6tPIDFGXFUIAAXCauqzcvcF40f-N1pk/s5388/IMG_5153.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5388" data-original-width="3592" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU6oqtg9UbVvHNXX1zoxKedNcV9a9LglTlo5qfOWa6PfJzOyDq8h5H-N9e9bJCzvxiYTtPf9HPSjg3vwNCl_fkxqyBFuK9A7guKa0f-iMvmKxbgPZiGenJiS4S58v00QgyTnmZIBJWi6cFejIQXCeXkYIQ4F6E6tPIDFGXFUIAAXCauqzcvcF40f-N1pk/s320/IMG_5153.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>Photoes: Norbert Varga (@<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Bodeszphoto" target="_blank">bodeszphoto</a>)peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-23290510464366121402023-10-25T14:40:00.012+02:002023-10-25T15:02:59.540+02:00Circus Princess<p style="text-align: justify;"> I already mentioned Laura and her circus clothing, in the post about the black dress... Then someone was asking about her stuff... so there you go.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnXiBqceaNHGeF5LwKVuT_mCjaqDLK62oyfz0YRErH1iW7TpVFuVbYQftbp6J-QX4d3AbG3O5lc1WI7Lb_N-YrrGVDYFGwRof6aM66C-CJBa5oxtJTxcZcW-Wqjb60W2PyXOijyDRJRGNOHOBu_v_0K6K8uAzbypjFeNEO2kIL69LcnR982MyPXU4opQk/s5472/IMG_5751-512.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnXiBqceaNHGeF5LwKVuT_mCjaqDLK62oyfz0YRErH1iW7TpVFuVbYQftbp6J-QX4d3AbG3O5lc1WI7Lb_N-YrrGVDYFGwRof6aM66C-CJBa5oxtJTxcZcW-Wqjb60W2PyXOijyDRJRGNOHOBu_v_0K6K8uAzbypjFeNEO2kIL69LcnR982MyPXU4opQk/s320/IMG_5751-512.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixVWR6hRC9ZPNJyMhdMzd-o2WHDTtWHmmVO8m-RyQkoL5n4Rl4QDQhQBT_zAChc6bIFcxTgM6iS3YVJtpxcIr-lE3z394tPA-bHN8TraRALiRWNxZ7cfZMJsl79udIMLIrf9R6dNtfDhBNOFGvVaLFcuD8i6ranf04nW9sKPLJxhxhRLXs_b-ubiKxoa8/s5472/IMG_5756-515.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixVWR6hRC9ZPNJyMhdMzd-o2WHDTtWHmmVO8m-RyQkoL5n4Rl4QDQhQBT_zAChc6bIFcxTgM6iS3YVJtpxcIr-lE3z394tPA-bHN8TraRALiRWNxZ7cfZMJsl79udIMLIrf9R6dNtfDhBNOFGvVaLFcuD8i6ranf04nW9sKPLJxhxhRLXs_b-ubiKxoa8/s320/IMG_5756-515.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">So, our "little" reenactment group (which actually works as a foundation) has a firejuggler/stunt/acrobatic subdivision, they have amazing performances, especially, when it comes to firejuggling. However, some time ago (it must have been at least a year ago, or even further before), they desided to come up with an Edwardian circus themed performance. I heard them talking about clothes, saw some finished clothes, but I was in my own world (working on my stuff, and such), Then one of the guys asked me to fix up / finish the shirt he started for himself... I ended up fully taking it apart and redoing, the decoration was just icing on the cake.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8a1MAxbNoMdSFrX9kp9BR48W1OX3AqyfsaepAIEjlRssXTwIk4Msxa-sDlo84FO5hMUBZ39ff8Dk3DHGY4RJdY4Iz4S2r92NIWIYSqsq-gWwbBUIL5wpl_M7K1hr_hz3q0RJprtUMZc7-H0Tt3oAVv-FDW68qKwT72AnfIHSqg6TASuGbjSRHT_KZeZE/s5472/IMG_1656.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8a1MAxbNoMdSFrX9kp9BR48W1OX3AqyfsaepAIEjlRssXTwIk4Msxa-sDlo84FO5hMUBZ39ff8Dk3DHGY4RJdY4Iz4S2r92NIWIYSqsq-gWwbBUIL5wpl_M7K1hr_hz3q0RJprtUMZc7-H0Tt3oAVv-FDW68qKwT72AnfIHSqg6TASuGbjSRHT_KZeZE/s320/IMG_1656.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>and when Laura approached me if I could, or would make her clothes. Oh well, why not. </p><p>She sent me one picture as an inspiration, </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrRpl1OCvNVK3m8AR1R1-h7wHCSWxh8XEB8kWPUq90cIMaReB_E0pJ3raUZutsJcLADr43E_WTrkt9AWcBx_m9KNrR6mCzIVItB4rOWjJ_ygJWZ0amDRk9D7KdKLAjLCcTcO3Au68RsZanyvELayx37lxo6KiKFhbuyck-RdGMrgQ_24lmSrNmne5aQds/s664/350239545_581142300825316_1556550548034345405_n.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="425" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrRpl1OCvNVK3m8AR1R1-h7wHCSWxh8XEB8kWPUq90cIMaReB_E0pJ3raUZutsJcLADr43E_WTrkt9AWcBx_m9KNrR6mCzIVItB4rOWjJ_ygJWZ0amDRk9D7KdKLAjLCcTcO3Au68RsZanyvELayx37lxo6KiKFhbuyck-RdGMrgQ_24lmSrNmne5aQds/s320/350239545_581142300825316_1556550548034345405_n.png" width="205" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">and then we agreed that we use the picture as an inspiration, mostly, because 1) of the time-frame an exact copy wasn't really doable, 2), I much prefer clothes "inspired by" to exact replicas, I like to work with existing, documentable elements, but adding my own twists and turns. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Laura said, she would like to have her ensemle in the blue/green/yellow colors, so I kept that in mind, while I was hunting for other fabrics at I Love Textil, and sent her pictures, when I saw things that looked like something she described.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZw4A5XYOyt1dS7GvZzxhQCGlzo2tFuOq1BmxuhVomEJrsWzPUCYxpfy8nZeDofNVCC2qlSTrFmW87EzYL3Fl8wpCm8uefif6FO96erzFKfGalbnXq6VEFxM-2WMbY6PeBdX2bDNTIapB9tZ3u7_xiRp2LZ0Jjm5fPWT4M8TtKRKY3D36yy2HaSdrfcr8/s4032/20230615_132726.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZw4A5XYOyt1dS7GvZzxhQCGlzo2tFuOq1BmxuhVomEJrsWzPUCYxpfy8nZeDofNVCC2qlSTrFmW87EzYL3Fl8wpCm8uefif6FO96erzFKfGalbnXq6VEFxM-2WMbY6PeBdX2bDNTIapB9tZ3u7_xiRp2LZ0Jjm5fPWT4M8TtKRKY3D36yy2HaSdrfcr8/s320/20230615_132726.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1TgfakrQh8RMKlbEbjiIhlbJjxjGCNxlnaJ0Bu9P641GQKrah07cpJnuHyF1qLKNzUCsbtwqsfNDI0nd_oWNYQdHSMiupOzwgyeZXe95VYnyJMGN-tUsGaGDMcym2yCWN63Kfgrjp8N53RFzqlMkkiXzS064nbCI9ckOchI_NdSE7j7cqmmG-2qp2r60/s4032/20230615_140616.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1TgfakrQh8RMKlbEbjiIhlbJjxjGCNxlnaJ0Bu9P641GQKrah07cpJnuHyF1qLKNzUCsbtwqsfNDI0nd_oWNYQdHSMiupOzwgyeZXe95VYnyJMGN-tUsGaGDMcym2yCWN63Kfgrjp8N53RFzqlMkkiXzS064nbCI9ckOchI_NdSE7j7cqmmG-2qp2r60/s320/20230615_140616.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkQiFCxcAbJm-TRnJ2DVFB3_H2ibhwZ0hqvWmqufdfPpOjbYDhevIt8jZWSq7uM6hq0u4pdtykypmADeCdyKj7HbsZQMnkPlnhj1Mk2GVZX0BzwKnn8OLJbh2SRDTt6k2gKFzTn5Nlc702k2n-h1S49rL3cCJOMZe3OACBu0D3Yesp0k1_k6Pkcwn-48s/s4032/20230615_140619.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkQiFCxcAbJm-TRnJ2DVFB3_H2ibhwZ0hqvWmqufdfPpOjbYDhevIt8jZWSq7uM6hq0u4pdtykypmADeCdyKj7HbsZQMnkPlnhj1Mk2GVZX0BzwKnn8OLJbh2SRDTt6k2gKFzTn5Nlc702k2n-h1S49rL3cCJOMZe3OACBu0D3Yesp0k1_k6Pkcwn-48s/s320/20230615_140619.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSg2Qq0HgXBwFmE8IjgqfDY0s06_rKgxgb15uxAUT8XRlsLmiQB2zMFfD9brRmZ_cpHmtTEgDr_NpmNmj7Sq52I-fRkBGvOOP5l4Bnb11I08_KiPpq0CD7MJeo00j29N_6KDI-rVt0UZskyPEFbSDHQdOUojYG3qr9wkIytorYhoAxO1MJ58WfXNf-z04/s4032/20230615_143223.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSg2Qq0HgXBwFmE8IjgqfDY0s06_rKgxgb15uxAUT8XRlsLmiQB2zMFfD9brRmZ_cpHmtTEgDr_NpmNmj7Sq52I-fRkBGvOOP5l4Bnb11I08_KiPpq0CD7MJeo00j29N_6KDI-rVt0UZskyPEFbSDHQdOUojYG3qr9wkIytorYhoAxO1MJ58WfXNf-z04/s320/20230615_143223.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">We've met up, went to a cople of their stores, and then bought some stuff,</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then I looked through pinterest and my old Burda magazines for patterns, but ended up drawing up my own. The patterns/ pieces in themselves were not to complicated, a short sleeved peasant blouse with a ruffle around the neck, and a tennis short, with overlapping, rounded edges at the hem. I did make a mock ups, and when Laura asked whether she could keep it for summer pijamas (of course), I knew I am on he right track.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6mO9XQgtHGRNAjglDgL2NF1NPARAB9eK3YjaeoYF2Bo-P13r6bCi9Mh4-iBj0DDM-ba9oUEoytRcMYzFMsgI36TefHa0epmYVd-WQROlxx3QR4bohnN_x4aoIawGyUYEcrihzXzJQY7X9zJudc720mBxvUrm3lkC2K_poiJMOexPBiKvHiAQzZeKc-A/s4032/20230805_005907.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6mO9XQgtHGRNAjglDgL2NF1NPARAB9eK3YjaeoYF2Bo-P13r6bCi9Mh4-iBj0DDM-ba9oUEoytRcMYzFMsgI36TefHa0epmYVd-WQROlxx3QR4bohnN_x4aoIawGyUYEcrihzXzJQY7X9zJudc720mBxvUrm3lkC2K_poiJMOexPBiKvHiAQzZeKc-A/s320/20230805_005907.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"> The secret lied in the decoration. I went to the haberdashery, picked up a bunch of trimms, and dug trough my laces/trimms box, and gout out the gold lace that was left over from Ádám's shirt.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFSCxxyW2ZLgTGxvGfeeF0ChzEV45HZiFS3PfXBbvkMKK1DE-HIu_pbhe8Uv9JOh2Uf-6t-S8H8IkJIHC05_QqzBmEKTLm8UNFcbpHmFLFd3ixRM3RcJMZOVvWuqWomUU581c10MY5hlcWU0WcWTr4gVrW8k3njk7emCFACV7Oeq3_ZR8d6p3l1LXtWuo/s4032/20230805_150854.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFSCxxyW2ZLgTGxvGfeeF0ChzEV45HZiFS3PfXBbvkMKK1DE-HIu_pbhe8Uv9JOh2Uf-6t-S8H8IkJIHC05_QqzBmEKTLm8UNFcbpHmFLFd3ixRM3RcJMZOVvWuqWomUU581c10MY5hlcWU0WcWTr4gVrW8k3njk7emCFACV7Oeq3_ZR8d6p3l1LXtWuo/s320/20230805_150854.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-yhEi5jeVkmK7LgeT4W31JqhI983PTPbaf_rdznaHYDR-zIZOMPqZO1mp88gpgPC01aNDQ2carvUrh69uRIa1MUdpVOgIZHEuS1qkEKZ_wsz5jvERHCFovuReMk2KYf8fzMpvibyItmj4T6Fh5hdIte1Pl1aebobabIIf8E_booZ5TQAM1PdS9f2rwYc/s4032/20230805_150904.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-yhEi5jeVkmK7LgeT4W31JqhI983PTPbaf_rdznaHYDR-zIZOMPqZO1mp88gpgPC01aNDQ2carvUrh69uRIa1MUdpVOgIZHEuS1qkEKZ_wsz5jvERHCFovuReMk2KYf8fzMpvibyItmj4T6Fh5hdIte1Pl1aebobabIIf8E_booZ5TQAM1PdS9f2rwYc/s320/20230805_150904.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">I will not go into the sewing, as it was really simple and straighforward, however, let me point out the decoration: The blue satin shorts have lime-green edges and lace, and gold decoration. The green shirt has blue and gold decoration (all sewn up by hand, because machine-sewing it would have made it way to rigid.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ZKPtGTDajSgV6hk3Ii3Cxgg0ZPf7JWRgR8fn7YN3KYGH44uRVE-C1RCeopmEyVJ1J4KmVHknawbDtQep5fWK1hRXh6uCA3uOhPzKXA_xMuFWOEbnkZR28wLu4W7Cj3HCH5LFWyD1082DKmpPnEyiv0-yu2yI_BUlSwm3ZQrQrFl4bgf0ZLVsRkjPIVs/s4032/20230807_171309.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ZKPtGTDajSgV6hk3Ii3Cxgg0ZPf7JWRgR8fn7YN3KYGH44uRVE-C1RCeopmEyVJ1J4KmVHknawbDtQep5fWK1hRXh6uCA3uOhPzKXA_xMuFWOEbnkZR28wLu4W7Cj3HCH5LFWyD1082DKmpPnEyiv0-yu2yI_BUlSwm3ZQrQrFl4bgf0ZLVsRkjPIVs/s320/20230807_171309.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMmoXjy48MPjSYUi5dQ6-bGgDomB5UwuzeFPK4L5OcV1iwSEMXbhiYyOTutDBWJJiqysZ-uGfDNEYA59sObFstJ9Qfpm9oyls2xLmlxiO9HCILOXuYLtWGaQMLt0yAVTYf6fWVylckZy0CiKmhih8wvdOzcIqOk7A3TDzVnBG-sZr4CgsePX2ErKWL-LY/s4032/20230807_171316.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMmoXjy48MPjSYUi5dQ6-bGgDomB5UwuzeFPK4L5OcV1iwSEMXbhiYyOTutDBWJJiqysZ-uGfDNEYA59sObFstJ9Qfpm9oyls2xLmlxiO9HCILOXuYLtWGaQMLt0yAVTYf6fWVylckZy0CiKmhih8wvdOzcIqOk7A3TDzVnBG-sZr4CgsePX2ErKWL-LY/s320/20230807_171316.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">For the underbust corset we chose a fabric that has two colors, blue warp and green weft in the textile itself, and, since it looks more green than blue, the deco was blue and gold. was made from <a href="https://oralinpatterns.com/collections/all-patterns" target="_blank">Ora Lin's</a> <a href="https://ko-fi.com/s/325530224c" target="_blank">Waspie Waist pattern</a>, which is free on her site. Great pattern, and when I approched her on Instagram about sizing, she was really helpful and fast with her answers. (Later I bought her trumpet-skirt pattern, since sewed it, but that is for another post). Two things that I should point out: since it is a form fitting garment you cannot leave out making a mock up. It is pretty much like the knitting of a gauge swatch of sewing... you can take your chances and leaving it out, but it is not adviseable. I would not even take the chance with the shirt, much less with the short, and definetly would not with the corset. The other thing: The original pattern has 6 eyelet for the lacing I used 5- and that was a mistake. MY mistake, don't take me wrong, and not something that could not be lived with, but still, I need to remember this for the next time. With the six eyelet, one could lace it as we do with regular corsets, leaving a little ear at the middle, then pull and tie the lace there. I laced it from the upper edge to the lower, and it opens up at the waist after a while. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsFcfdPImz37vQjwMnFdljaCN4tfw4h7-vyiXPXt6GfZgitP4DTjavplmw0lK_01pUTG9Clr4VWs2QGYlWCGYARie9PunAgK2Iq0D_WgokloO7JeXmjAd3vJlEHj-4PXkPLWYcG6Xzp1TVpk-iLYFGfFfbgmKcRI9M0skHTe15biGgQgbXobMLCmkrvpo/s5472/IMG_5747-511.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsFcfdPImz37vQjwMnFdljaCN4tfw4h7-vyiXPXt6GfZgitP4DTjavplmw0lK_01pUTG9Clr4VWs2QGYlWCGYARie9PunAgK2Iq0D_WgokloO7JeXmjAd3vJlEHj-4PXkPLWYcG6Xzp1TVpk-iLYFGfFfbgmKcRI9M0skHTe15biGgQgbXobMLCmkrvpo/s320/IMG_5747-511.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I think, pulling the lace from the middle can help a lot with that. Even with the 5 eyelet it CAN be laced with the bunny ear- method, only it will not fall to the middle, and you will have to try wich suits you better. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As you can see from this picture (and also , if you roll down to the Edwardian bathing suit post - I have not mentioned there, but), I made a similar corset/belt form myself, from black. For that, I had to cut off from its width, as I was planning to use it more as a belt and less as a corset, and I have a pretty short waist, but the pattern is still great.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWhWhJU4XWw7oz2l2aeFPd1CBKHQ8yht6WvPa0gcL48FZ3zRj2FJ3XNM_8RI9bVsMCqXc1D4xwgvOjbA5pkv6jzCnxTUiIE6N4sAb4mpWJ15SuMzKiy3LeIOCx1nYEAtH8eaIBFGtrPrK-Abqr5V83dTx2DteCmjRIUSsa80N_l-mqx9xxRl9ll5TdGEs/s5472/IMG_5745-509.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWhWhJU4XWw7oz2l2aeFPd1CBKHQ8yht6WvPa0gcL48FZ3zRj2FJ3XNM_8RI9bVsMCqXc1D4xwgvOjbA5pkv6jzCnxTUiIE6N4sAb4mpWJ15SuMzKiy3LeIOCx1nYEAtH8eaIBFGtrPrK-Abqr5V83dTx2DteCmjRIUSsa80N_l-mqx9xxRl9ll5TdGEs/s320/IMG_5745-509.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Then Laura went and was happy with the circus clothes, she performed a couple of times in that, but she still needed some wings for the "angel-dance" (I thing they called Isis wings in English, but don't quote me on that). She wanted the wings to be detachable relatively fast, so there was a little west made (I draped a piece of paper, mocked it up and corrected the fit there), and inserted the wings to the shoulder seams. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj71nxzL0WptTxsVLqZtUs851zcL8pfro4-EYVQc-QcaZ21wEFGqkohah6rHOjx1j-Tk5uJHs_rMfQzsipFIevP1it5GI0Y7BSINAtS1LCIWYPjZHEHdvXUX-v5RnT4YPF_6hvO73k1TdT948C6GRz22oIiHyd3GLSgRbKMz8iCdFc0QjoJmGit4r6ZJ_Q/s4032/20230822_170301.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj71nxzL0WptTxsVLqZtUs851zcL8pfro4-EYVQc-QcaZ21wEFGqkohah6rHOjx1j-Tk5uJHs_rMfQzsipFIevP1it5GI0Y7BSINAtS1LCIWYPjZHEHdvXUX-v5RnT4YPF_6hvO73k1TdT948C6GRz22oIiHyd3GLSgRbKMz8iCdFc0QjoJmGit4r6ZJ_Q/s320/20230822_170301.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOX-2XqgW63S6oSz3qQTcxzppPUC9IpcjelVCTUYuIVg64jKyZK5piVKixxCWJVmsvz2FMcZN5t6avWU9Zi9VLDVeZ4u6PEIO31mU31T27M9FWmI2-yy8Ovh3CMyW_JvWjysuCv2aOmEAfJiQhfCDc0F0MmG6z3poplwdcWFJ-Sc6SA7GzNpA2yyPhZ3Y/s320/20230822_170357.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">I still love, how the colors are cross-referenced though the piece, those little ideas do make me happy even in my own clothing. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggMcjjAR4scILF9Caz4S0DyU6Bz_uWgCtfBfvSO47_VvN8bqwkCUX8gOdlMC7Mnf2Kq9H54D3DmHnO_LQg150FtdmbQXcOmMDbGBRaBWN8KCNKH1yW3R5U10l0g7nmFugBG-gawnJWHbbUNA-Yok9INgiSM0X7L1GusNZPxog2qG5xsP6x9d6rDulrBSA/s5428/IMG_5769-519.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQVmwupvCoHuXiH8h1hDXzvvdPUbkYUZ-eED3qycqlRk6uV9El3JiMn0G82gNU7Ii9mDzkjjMZ9IGXZl1127scfoT1n2a5LjgEJdO_avWo7HhgudGMshE-xHk5jMsDwHeLKuiAqBu-eRYt_Pny9DbK_Rg5ATe4gS40574Vky7eIV_ASJV6dEuy9o2R_4g/s320/IMG_5819-531.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Photos: Varga Norbert <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Bodeszphoto" target="_blank">@Bodeszphoto</a></div></div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-64292184593028896942023-09-24T12:10:00.003+02:002023-10-18T00:27:42.394+02:00Shut up it is still summer...<p style="text-align: justify;">No, it is actually not. Looking out of the window, there is that relentless rain, that means, fall is inevitably here. Now, until I come to terms with it, I will show you some stuff from the summer, that have not appeared here. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Like the Edwardian Bathing suit. Which - of course- has its own story. Since the last time I asked some of you told me, that you like better if I talk more about what and why I did, the thoughts going through my head, so here you go. A ton of talk.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Last year, at the Savaria Historical Carnival, at the evening procession, we have been in head-to-toe, in early Victorian clothes, stuck between two mostly steampunky firejuggler groups, and not only were we bored out of out heads, we must have been looked like that too. We've started discussing what else could we do, that could be more lively, more interesting, I had some ideas, others had some ideas, and when the team finally settled on the edwardian bathing theme, I was NOT amused. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are some reasons, that the "turn of the century", the Edwardian period is not one of my favorites, I might talk about that in more detail in another post. But I was like "No, please, not AGAIN, those bathing suits are dark, they would not look like much at an evening procession, I do not want to look like my grandmother AGAIN, etc. But as a good reenactor, and a good teamplayer, I did started to research those bathing suits, and I do have a full Pinterest table on them. I guess that is no suprise that I also had a couple of different fabrics to make them, if I do decide to do so.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Still, the summer was fairly busy, so I could have had the perfect excuse, at least to myself, to trying to get out of it, and it came that at the last week, I had a choice to either prepare the material I wanted on the turn-of-the-century sporting in my country, or make the dress, and then, Dóri, the leader of our group said, she rather have me pretty, than smart, in other words, she would prefer me to make that dress, than prepare the smart material, and I bowed. Okay, I will make the thing. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I knew that those summery bathing suits would not have to be handsewn, and they could have made with modern methods. So once I have the pattern, I can sew mine in relatively short time. Looking through the pictures I collected on that Pinterest board, I also realised that it does not have to be black, or even dark colored, so I selected the red polkadot fabric I had in my stash, which turned out just barely enough, I had to use some other materials for backing the collar, and the edging of the sleeves, and still not had left enough for even a tie or a bow, but that is fine. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">However, since I really had to sew them fast, no pictures were made of the making, but I have a few of the final result. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I started to use the Folkware pattern as a base, but... It had an overall and a skirt, and I wanted some bloomers and a dress, so stuff, like dressing up and/or going to the bathroom would be easier, so I ended up only using the front and the back of the bodice, then completely redraw it to a dress, and took my old bloomers pattern... You know, the one, I drew up, when I first started to make historical clothes, and did the victorian underwear for the ballgowns... I used that pattern many times since, and it was time for it again. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">For buttons I dug through many boxes and I found some I brought home from Miami... Now, we moved back from there in the late nineties, and those buttons were old, when I bought them in the flea market in Ft Lauderdale. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As for the dress itself, if I would had the time to make a mock up, I would've adjust the fitting, and if I would have to make it again, I would get the polka dot linen I have my eyes on Etsy instead of the cotton popeline, but it was okay for as it was. At the early morning of the day, when we left for the event, sometimes between 4:20 AM, when I got to bed (after I finished the stuff and finished packing up, and put up my hair on curlerls), and 5:30 AM, when I got up, because we had to leave early, to get there in time, I rememebered Dóri mentioning that she got some badminton "balls" with real feathers... and remembered, that my mother's ols badminton racquets (she was a badminton player, when she was young) are hung up in my living rooms... So I grabbed them, and threw them in the car. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have to admit, that, at the end, the whole thing turned out much better, much more fun than I anticipated. Here are pictures to pove it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-P3TjWDzmgTwE1ibKqvK7pumxDRN3-RQqbD90PfyH4OgTplI0su8JK3aZkkx1eCWipQA3e1y-RyQIT132m6xWU2pOMC_ecY7ibsrSnTSvZ5JsvPzcHSwYoHGYTwqksJJSf5NJ3TjfPsipn9jIZd1JFSTKafwTNGmkD3KxmpUWQvMOhkvx31ulnCnBwg/s5428/IMG_3654-192.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5428" data-original-width="3619" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-P3TjWDzmgTwE1ibKqvK7pumxDRN3-RQqbD90PfyH4OgTplI0su8JK3aZkkx1eCWipQA3e1y-RyQIT132m6xWU2pOMC_ecY7ibsrSnTSvZ5JsvPzcHSwYoHGYTwqksJJSf5NJ3TjfPsipn9jIZd1JFSTKafwTNGmkD3KxmpUWQvMOhkvx31ulnCnBwg/s320/IMG_3654-192.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0jbl5CFO4GrkAT_qopw32NMLtbEgYF8PlQkY8AxToPHxuV97RHYIjeCGB8lbe7M33AfeEQc0GiRJt4OeJ3xmkEjCAIQxxYwG3XMfyqum3Sa1n9sFOH-qG2sXOgUS2DVNLwrCE0SY2hzTGalKa1bIQoHao_OWH0ko5j0u1-w-qQ_LNgG-8lB46oUFkMB8/s5430/IMG_3659-196.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">THIS is a Florentine lily, a Lily of Florance, aka, medici lily.</div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpEPA_kk12pfZLI2vDMS5PAz-SVbiR_8kJPMC14aq-FfktP1CDt3Un7X479nkNYbqDvNwSTbCcsr-xhReVsnGtJx8qgjUMZijJA_vgnQPrQ_ZQ68v5Zw4173o80cle_Ksl88tL20EMwTFdOUB6GFhqllcWwKbYyap5hzu8Su1QysbYP8409gz-QhSgrro/s640/Flag_of_Florence.svg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpEPA_kk12pfZLI2vDMS5PAz-SVbiR_8kJPMC14aq-FfktP1CDt3Un7X479nkNYbqDvNwSTbCcsr-xhReVsnGtJx8qgjUMZijJA_vgnQPrQ_ZQ68v5Zw4173o80cle_Ksl88tL20EMwTFdOUB6GFhqllcWwKbYyap5hzu8Su1QysbYP8409gz-QhSgrro/s320/Flag_of_Florence.svg.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">THIS is a bourbon lily, or Fleur de Lis.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRvRBx59iAzVxsnBU8LXdXcPTNxFxkBgm0PPj3hEOcXKY0n6zJLsopsmnym694vwpfVL3AZrQ1WrA6JU21I6KYYBCMMVvASvmZnNzzALadYSMz4erfBdndACVLcKs1bTJqitwvG45oE7BRApSRT4kUTfnCTicXkD2XAbiTGwzJm0yY8k-KVAQSegBmhg/s1600/s-l1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRvRBx59iAzVxsnBU8LXdXcPTNxFxkBgm0PPj3hEOcXKY0n6zJLsopsmnym694vwpfVL3AZrQ1WrA6JU21I6KYYBCMMVvASvmZnNzzALadYSMz4erfBdndACVLcKs1bTJqitwvG45oE7BRApSRT4kUTfnCTicXkD2XAbiTGwzJm0yY8k-KVAQSegBmhg/s320/s-l1600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">... and THIS is my shawl, I bought in Florance.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVBeE8wUjz4Ciec8s4LaHQpWyp-rgNwuKmSBJb9nHEQpbDisx4IP1Hy01x6vG8-3vzmfY7sT29vF465oUHXd5wVtDoo5DIpk4kT9w_foM1l1lWPkObnyo99tcQeFjfen9N1jsuIpcyS09FbPDTVB20gSc4ntJ0oJpMArQlf6O4pHADBKzG3RhwWP4fyxQ/s1536/367551574_310873928130806_6618382136594996944_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVBeE8wUjz4Ciec8s4LaHQpWyp-rgNwuKmSBJb9nHEQpbDisx4IP1Hy01x6vG8-3vzmfY7sT29vF465oUHXd5wVtDoo5DIpk4kT9w_foM1l1lWPkObnyo99tcQeFjfen9N1jsuIpcyS09FbPDTVB20gSc4ntJ0oJpMArQlf6O4pHADBKzG3RhwWP4fyxQ/s320/367551574_310873928130806_6618382136594996944_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">With Florentine/Medici lilies. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3aQqGDEItcgRkpEppkMJ3ikOTqocXcOGDBb7IGRJ5EyOhdrKwmciURgswvMpFZioLuAD2CkfTcH2J6jsHGXwRRz1JasS4jW0hA9OWpuRwGmqdIe0M2DiEeHhzlgxFRW9V8Z-WO7h95KKxCO-3zmaB2xy9zzLgbHWlcBtQ4fsD69_32whXTOtujqjBCU/s1536/367512001_120190714503744_4217460904210093008_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3aQqGDEItcgRkpEppkMJ3ikOTqocXcOGDBb7IGRJ5EyOhdrKwmciURgswvMpFZioLuAD2CkfTcH2J6jsHGXwRRz1JasS4jW0hA9OWpuRwGmqdIe0M2DiEeHhzlgxFRW9V8Z-WO7h95KKxCO-3zmaB2xy9zzLgbHWlcBtQ4fsD69_32whXTOtujqjBCU/s320/367512001_120190714503744_4217460904210093008_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just Sayin'. That is all for today. Thank you. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(For those, who wanted to convince me, that my italian renaissance dress and this shawl are inherently incompatible...)</div><p></p>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-38175249773622280552023-08-21T15:40:00.012+02:002023-08-22T23:49:30.276+02:00Maria Theresa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJCRN5nOEAxffmOrmQYMagJNcUBe7_BGKYOfDPkHXNuU8s1F2unao84DNhV9TAItIA9StYO24fgh4ZbbEN6Ztkiwst2NsvbgdjpzYc02L7LqsItZEYI3T0q0tIIzPdJZ8U75BWviqRL1oueN-f6mRCP5mI7CzJadlBPrDvWK7LbN_gx-ZdlmECn9MkqPE/s5401/IMG_09669.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3601" data-original-width="5401" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJCRN5nOEAxffmOrmQYMagJNcUBe7_BGKYOfDPkHXNuU8s1F2unao84DNhV9TAItIA9StYO24fgh4ZbbEN6Ztkiwst2NsvbgdjpzYc02L7LqsItZEYI3T0q0tIIzPdJZ8U75BWviqRL1oueN-f6mRCP5mI7CzJadlBPrDvWK7LbN_gx-ZdlmECn9MkqPE/s320/IMG_09669.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"> A note of warning... this is really long winded. If you are here for the pictures, just scroll down to the bottom of the page.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The 18th century caught up with me... It always fascinated me (in fact, it is my favorite period, right after the renaissance), and when two years ago there was that wedding where "come in some/any historical dress", I made my red dress with the notion "if I have the dress, the event(s) will come too". Sure enough, last year there was two for Mare Temporis, and I wore the red dress for a couple of other times too (like for the historical market, and such). Also we could see, that there is interest, from our teammates to do 18th century stuff, and from venues to have us do living history in 18th century, so at the yearly assembly for the foundation the decision to make an 18th century subdivision was made, and this year we had even more invitations.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the meanwhile I did develope my 18th century wardrobe, added an Outlander set, did the petrol-colored dress, and I added the green jacket to use with its petticoat.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">However, about a year ago I had an idea... I was thinking, that we ARE in Hungary, and who is an important and recogniseable personality in 18th century Hungary? who, incidently has white hair, and wears a lot of blue dresses? Maria Theresa, that's who. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I went to highshcool in the eighties, when the socialist regime was still in power, and I do not remember learning much about her in our history classes... except she is a Habsburg, and the Habsurgs are the opressors of Hungary, thus we do not like them, and her either. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Duh, as usual, the truth is so much more complicated, and the more I read about her, the more complicated person she seems. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyhow, here I was happy with my idea, thinking of blue rococo dresses... and then, when we had to narrow our target period down, I suggested the 1770-ies, because MT still lived then, but the dresses were - in my opinion- not only the best, but the widest possible selections... I mean, the older style francaise and court gowns were still in, but the newer style closed front English and italian gowns were already coming in, there were polonaise-es, there were caracos, jackets, a lot of things to choose from. I was also thinking, okay, her husband died in 1765, but mourning rules were more lenient in the 18th century than in the Victorian age, so she probably wore black for a year, and then she changed into dark purple, dark blues and dark silvers.... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And then I've read some books about her. And more books. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">NOOOOPE. After her husband died, she wore black to the rest of her life. Ughhh. Black is so not my color. You rarely see me in black, even in civilian clothes, unless it is a base for something really colorful, I do not wear black, and never wear all black. But here I am in the trap I cornered myself into. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I really have nobody else to blame, but myself. I said we should do the 1770-ies (okay, the others agreed, but still), I wanted to be Maria Theresa. But then, I would not be me, if I would not confront something like this head on. I consulted Lívi, one of the leaders of the reenactment group... Would it be better to make a light blue/silver dress and make Maria Theresa recogniseable to everyone... or make a historically appropriate black dress, and giving us opportunity to talk about her as a wife, as a mourning woman, about the mourning customes of the 18th century? We agreed in the latter choice would be better for the first round. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So black it is. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I was also going back and forth about the style of the dress. As much as I like the style, I knew it would not be - probably- a closed front italian gown. They came into fashion later in the 1770-ies, and the queen was not exactly fashion forward. However, all the paintings I found about her mourning days, show her from the front, which is an open front, with a stomacher, that has bows, but they do not show the back. That left two style, an open front english gown with a stomacher, and a francaise. I was leaning toward the english gown, that en-furrow back is enticing, and I didn't felt I am ready for a francaise. But, but... It is THE queen. In fact, she is the empress. she needs something regal, and I learned from making stays, that (at least, for me), they are not *that* big of a deals, and those who made them (you-tubers, I am looking at you) making them look a lot fussier, than they really are. But still, it is a francaise. They look so complicated. I think this is the place to tell you to lighten the mood, that we (between me and N. and my son) call those dresses that have panniers underneath "TV stealer-dresses" in reference to that meme circulating on facebook. Francaise dresses are the "TV stealers with the flapping back".</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the meanwhile, I encountered some private egsistential crisis, kept questioning myself, and, partly as a result, ended up taking on a lot more work than I should have. Or not, it depends from which viewpoint are we looking at it. I like fighting deadlines, I like being able to do things nobody would think possible. A many page translation overnight? Yeah, bring on. Two concert one day, at the opposite end of the country? Hello, I am coming, Two different event, in two different period, many hours drive away? I am in. An 18th century jacket at half a day? yeah. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And then, Laura, one of our firejugglers, for whom I promised some stuff turn of the century circus stuff, asks, if it is possible to make her clothes two weeks before we agreed, because an event appeared for them, and it would be cool, if she has the thing she could wear... Oh, right. Okay, I might not have the new dress I wanted for the Győr event, but everything for our team, right? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So I gave up on introducing the empress in the Baroque wedding, but then someone cancelled a two - maybe three days worth of sewing work. Now, that felt bad, and I don't even know why. When I originally accepted, there was no deadline, except "sometimes in the fall", but now they wanted a conrete date within a couple of weeks, and, I could not promise, with full honesty, that the stuff would be ready by then. I knew, most probably (knowing myself) it would be done, but anything can happen. Anyhow, there was a couple of extra days... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">You know, I am not the one to shy away from a challenge, so at a crazy moment, I said, darn it, I am going to make that black dress. And I am making it a francaise.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Over the years, I watched so many videos on making that style (and other 18th century stuff), and I had a few thoughts... </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">I am sure that even though, they are not simple, they are a lot less fuss, than most of these videos making them look like. </li><li style="text-align: justify;">I am sure, there is a healthy mixture of machine and handsewing to make it viable to do in a few days.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">I am sure that even though there were general styles of making things, each and every mantua maker had her own style of putting clothes together. </li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As a base, I used the simplicity pattern by the American Duchess, and looked a lot at the instructions of the book. Also, I did had in my mind the ton of videos I watched (Inlcuding the one made by the Encahnted Rose, Minji Le, The Petticoated Swashbuckler, A Janeite sews, among others (whew, glad that Youtbe keeps a history of what you watched...), and then did, what felt right for me. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sorry, I am bad at photodocumenting my sewing, especially, when I only have limited time... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Started with the mock-up of the bodice lining. When that fit as I liked, I redraw my pattern. One of the difference from the Simplicity AD pattern and the book, that the Simplicity version had the shoulder strap added to the front, while the book had a separate strap. I kept the added version, but redraw the line. Then, I had a desision to make... I had a relatively stable linen, I use to line stuff, and I had a nice, heathery one, that looked great with the black taffeta. By now, who read my blog (or know me), one of my pet peeves is how the inside of clothes look like. I know historically they don't always cared. I know, historically they did not had things like zig-zag and/or overlock machines. But still. It makes me feel so much better, if something I made, looks good from the inside too. I decided to combine the two fabric, and made the lining double layer, and baglined, I also used lacing (as I saw in Minji Lee's video), instead of ties.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC-bOaftbL255BbUR2SFC3Rvxb0xXW9k99mdhvSxLerkvdoryNumxTAg5bYLL0wbct16YujEt05w6WxfKc_3WqcwbM7XXpRr_vvA8iQSInE2LYh6Sulo1ggNTuXZ5etL-QLna-TnScOPrhesYk9PUnpwBgcB3mskYSTCo9aHNMvEtEjYLwvgCq7Qv6AX4/s4032/20230806_120826.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC-bOaftbL255BbUR2SFC3Rvxb0xXW9k99mdhvSxLerkvdoryNumxTAg5bYLL0wbct16YujEt05w6WxfKc_3WqcwbM7XXpRr_vvA8iQSInE2LYh6Sulo1ggNTuXZ5etL-QLna-TnScOPrhesYk9PUnpwBgcB3mskYSTCo9aHNMvEtEjYLwvgCq7Qv6AX4/s320/20230806_120826.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgniOOIdjC6ZoHaWJVttV8mYcd9zs_ddlTJ19mbVTGy9YhmQ7YV8-xgiSeNWhmyknPgPn4eAPQqitSqeJk5VT0MQypnfVk65w_ICpGqUp9_5GMKrESE8BR30FM-K00ZpmdjiPKSkITD205exsPRstLg4JmAmVNFvSh-W6vWo9SRGbWN-J1OIbLLd8q4g8M/s4032/20230806_085946.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgniOOIdjC6ZoHaWJVttV8mYcd9zs_ddlTJ19mbVTGy9YhmQ7YV8-xgiSeNWhmyknPgPn4eAPQqitSqeJk5VT0MQypnfVk65w_ICpGqUp9_5GMKrESE8BR30FM-K00ZpmdjiPKSkITD205exsPRstLg4JmAmVNFvSh-W6vWo9SRGbWN-J1OIbLLd8q4g8M/s320/20230806_085946.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA_uRhDaXNPH-nISVszKpbqt5fiIjLmpHIhYKFOClabbEVSkI2tSrsrm9zTbwvqcEU74KpGJNYeeculwke61MFTMpqFLPpxrMym5_wL077yVXllHUQOQTGssxeZV70p-INJqJkbRgBq_EpVU9ksdozNNklUS8KBjxT3K9hTf0ikH_Is5Mse_-qoiVlAEk/s4032/20230806_085918.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA_uRhDaXNPH-nISVszKpbqt5fiIjLmpHIhYKFOClabbEVSkI2tSrsrm9zTbwvqcEU74KpGJNYeeculwke61MFTMpqFLPpxrMym5_wL077yVXllHUQOQTGssxeZV70p-INJqJkbRgBq_EpVU9ksdozNNklUS8KBjxT3K9hTf0ikH_Is5Mse_-qoiVlAEk/s320/20230806_085918.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>This is probably is not the most historically accurate solution, but gives a nice, stable base for the dress.<p></p><p>Then I cut out the main fabric, and started the most important, most visible, most anything part of the francaise style dress. Those back pleats. The long lengthwise seams were sewn with the machine, but the pleats were stitched down by hand.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgisrSRVHaCtzcfuLFRAKEkVBm4hNS5LZcJWrgBWMrQTbU9MPfzCBJuIFwMKoHzt9UGKHG122OWRGKtYWOMl17ZAxWSo3BfoRwfgO529XA1GIFwO0KoLQQCx0zcKYp1iWbnbMApb9iS5g9lXFUvafVdpl2yy7lSqfHMbC6IAB3kzhhSkItMRKo8FKa1ZlE/s4032/20230808_011652.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgisrSRVHaCtzcfuLFRAKEkVBm4hNS5LZcJWrgBWMrQTbU9MPfzCBJuIFwMKoHzt9UGKHG122OWRGKtYWOMl17ZAxWSo3BfoRwfgO529XA1GIFwO0KoLQQCx0zcKYp1iWbnbMApb9iS5g9lXFUvafVdpl2yy7lSqfHMbC6IAB3kzhhSkItMRKo8FKa1ZlE/s320/20230808_011652.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7UVpo2nIIZ6E0B5RNY67IaSjymRpQgpvawyZivicH8viuaCTjrdZnzm6hD9ikkB2mdUa4vO1vggEN9-nqjoLPi-1nNCtHPVT1v2o9D4iJwssfpwuHNvSV2kyD5lkb1NNGDMlbfw-5djOpHl4QVUzS9YHkx9x5thsVB6eXycQRNo4L3DvboFKch3tBkk/s4032/20230808_033623.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf7UVpo2nIIZ6E0B5RNY67IaSjymRpQgpvawyZivicH8viuaCTjrdZnzm6hD9ikkB2mdUa4vO1vggEN9-nqjoLPi-1nNCtHPVT1v2o9D4iJwssfpwuHNvSV2kyD5lkb1NNGDMlbfw-5djOpHl4QVUzS9YHkx9x5thsVB6eXycQRNo4L3DvboFKch3tBkk/s320/20230808_033623.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGNEpeeb7Ht3sWfZT7sjH6XvIP0f9nB7J1wyEMs9nBZwf5HE5PQuzJJLILUYJSn1Q0wgbo1Apt4TZ-BTs-p6yPzuhuPJImLzhgjKsFeLcN75_gFb6bUtRROOEyNY-iEy52VPucRL5fRZ5qE-EmxGNF92porpvkMGAcjsxbIHpMTOf3WyNiyF2tYYGBgeQ/s4032/20230808_033633.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGNEpeeb7Ht3sWfZT7sjH6XvIP0f9nB7J1wyEMs9nBZwf5HE5PQuzJJLILUYJSn1Q0wgbo1Apt4TZ-BTs-p6yPzuhuPJImLzhgjKsFeLcN75_gFb6bUtRROOEyNY-iEy52VPucRL5fRZ5qE-EmxGNF92porpvkMGAcjsxbIHpMTOf3WyNiyF2tYYGBgeQ/s320/20230808_033633.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then, added the front skirt, and the front of the bodice. The skirt was sewn by machine, but then the edges turned under and tacked down by hand. The bodice was sewn on by hand. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_D5-Q4g_geiFEHtPPKwpgBCAsJxLbNnFeeHxwSvV0alh-Oj4TFbpmnIBmpXW8tjrvzkm3vubJuQ30O_7RFZdC91mYUiUFrNLCm0y15H2ZG8UEtR8ZeM0D7Lt0r_x_nzH7xx6vqAxCzmcYgRlncGXv15dU8SXlObbxqfHr1oEtLI6PGqwF5dxiwijWr5U/s4032/20230808_033616.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_D5-Q4g_geiFEHtPPKwpgBCAsJxLbNnFeeHxwSvV0alh-Oj4TFbpmnIBmpXW8tjrvzkm3vubJuQ30O_7RFZdC91mYUiUFrNLCm0y15H2ZG8UEtR8ZeM0D7Lt0r_x_nzH7xx6vqAxCzmcYgRlncGXv15dU8SXlObbxqfHr1oEtLI6PGqwF5dxiwijWr5U/s320/20230808_033616.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiogpjYlLe531qV_wrD7aIqBbo9P9FmtlP0PWmngUlWB7N2jZm4xRf38t8cDUHiGBre4XV-EIkLeKJVgFSYYNJ5IFKbESRlK-efcXMOpPRY_xWZB5yzrmrBI_Fru3cC4A7wGNgQ8wlN9N51I9NzT50WzziVYJCpsvc1Cq1EKbM2Jan8iRNnqqCeTA8og20/s4032/20230809_002145.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiogpjYlLe531qV_wrD7aIqBbo9P9FmtlP0PWmngUlWB7N2jZm4xRf38t8cDUHiGBre4XV-EIkLeKJVgFSYYNJ5IFKbESRlK-efcXMOpPRY_xWZB5yzrmrBI_Fru3cC4A7wGNgQ8wlN9N51I9NzT50WzziVYJCpsvc1Cq1EKbM2Jan8iRNnqqCeTA8og20/s320/20230809_002145.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>I fiddled the most with the pleats of the skirt parts, if I put them where the pattern said, there was a big crease at the waist, but I finally found where they sit fairly nicely. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXpIX4WXITHyb_UBAh1pHn-ZlNvZQ2_feLzFhnId0mRuN7_dDKFf74-PpvpJvmrMFP96VBZt4VQ8PmFmMj_kcCbtJ82F_8Ez3mhJozGl98sgzb2BJBRE3_Kwx8m5UWsg84got3bt0x90NIT30iW2XdEwU8N3xe9xKG9_EUpK6p7fQxGXKYi95VjMPqQQ/s4032/20230809_002108.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXpIX4WXITHyb_UBAh1pHn-ZlNvZQ2_feLzFhnId0mRuN7_dDKFf74-PpvpJvmrMFP96VBZt4VQ8PmFmMj_kcCbtJ82F_8Ez3mhJozGl98sgzb2BJBRE3_Kwx8m5UWsg84got3bt0x90NIT30iW2XdEwU8N3xe9xKG9_EUpK6p7fQxGXKYi95VjMPqQQ/s320/20230809_002108.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Once I figured out how to work the upper neck edge (where there are a LOT of layers. because of the pleats), adding the sleeves should have been easy-peasy... however... and this is again, all my fault. I found the sleeves way to wide. so I took some of that width out, but not with a straight line, but an arched one. Mistake. It looked, like I've ut in the sleeves to the wrong armhole... No matter how many times I changed the right and the left sleeves, they turned toward the back... It took me several try to figure out what I messed up, but then, the sleeves were sewn in, and the next step were the decorations. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I knew, I did not want to overdecorate, as I will have an embroidered petticoat and stomacher anyhow. but that simplified ruffle still meant that I have to cut to a scalloped edge (with a special pinking shears AND scallops) pull about 9 meters long stip into about 3 meters long decoration... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_YghCR2cW8ie4VP2gc5nIHZvzPqxVsPMTmQqF1MYvTvHmaYaCtVGQX6TDd0Lm3GiMraDp3944N_6bWn9FbccFzWWKh5lLA57sYeC_e7bezDakQrhiHoRJGyuSmiWLXVPn5oXQWrfYYv4XYB3sKXJ9RnlYUilaNnQApgejv3CtgZamULUHbFzP1Q_sPsk/s4032/20230810_134235.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_YghCR2cW8ie4VP2gc5nIHZvzPqxVsPMTmQqF1MYvTvHmaYaCtVGQX6TDd0Lm3GiMraDp3944N_6bWn9FbccFzWWKh5lLA57sYeC_e7bezDakQrhiHoRJGyuSmiWLXVPn5oXQWrfYYv4XYB3sKXJ9RnlYUilaNnQApgejv3CtgZamULUHbFzP1Q_sPsk/s320/20230810_134235.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEZecfaoWpVNeEV949qDBqRKoUO-64kJ7unPR1W0vMrrlYTWLGMaYP2S2WMgD0WXwbNHsLjrBiGn4chmNL47uovBJASqY_v645vPZ1ziDgjbpY-HMizIc1VgADQNlzBaRmFHm-OFAq34ok3jQ9cosT37QWfmCjnx9NXR-rTRUOzEAd7z3HC7Kag_bj6Ig/s4032/20230810_134229.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEZecfaoWpVNeEV949qDBqRKoUO-64kJ7unPR1W0vMrrlYTWLGMaYP2S2WMgD0WXwbNHsLjrBiGn4chmNL47uovBJASqY_v645vPZ1ziDgjbpY-HMizIc1VgADQNlzBaRmFHm-OFAq34ok3jQ9cosT37QWfmCjnx9NXR-rTRUOzEAd7z3HC7Kag_bj6Ig/s320/20230810_134229.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>I bought some tulle-roses on a tulle ribbon from e-bay, which needed to cut apart, and applied to this ruffle, by hand, and adding the whole thing to the dress.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9e3JXQG4N6Tok1Z7IDAHoQn33LCYqUcpmlYCaIN07j9TB4wPnqRoC0COX_Kmf2bWKzdhl9YM4Yb4fXCoPcJwvuCbX2FEl5TJgJ-BKvPoolVbuL2jc3ZXcmnCN6Jw-rLgo-hqgT3Llgbg8DlHsgYapLFtzewSxTa9ESiUNiTv91xumOQN_UpAHBqB2pc/s4032/20230810_163611.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The dress, and the caracter Maria Theresa debuted in the Baroque Wedding of Győr. with a great succes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuFl7DiEBe8K061uKM9_uvVSZb-nQADP5GFuZ4AOTv-TxJQj8LoFTTATLCUqElJHexdOME-B4pkX0be9aYQTkZYS4iLHzysP20wAaytLG0dmHU5MN-Gd4jDVpXmeKsHTkp5z-OuvsTdwyG1Lho507RPPr5bpzG17H8-q_KzH_plMLp-hke_u6J7E_3FrU/s5388/IMG_09673.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3592" data-original-width="5388" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuFl7DiEBe8K061uKM9_uvVSZb-nQADP5GFuZ4AOTv-TxJQj8LoFTTATLCUqElJHexdOME-B4pkX0be9aYQTkZYS4iLHzysP20wAaytLG0dmHU5MN-Gd4jDVpXmeKsHTkp5z-OuvsTdwyG1Lho507RPPr5bpzG17H8-q_KzH_plMLp-hke_u6J7E_3FrU/s320/IMG_09673.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEc8JNWpMmBi3xA2NMh3laFwYWKH0_MXYKYklPeYKEHpbbLrusUIUXLWxhUs9T8V02ETdHXSxg6oaKS3V2p0Mht3mZFKrUBefptJCga7Zqft5RNvti7wuYvF87-tS763sOgCVxA2l-i-3sqno_pPDbcOuwArhe7rTDmJtml4VfKydW2ywIYSmcG7Jk1o/s5458/IMG_09662.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3639" data-original-width="5458" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEc8JNWpMmBi3xA2NMh3laFwYWKH0_MXYKYklPeYKEHpbbLrusUIUXLWxhUs9T8V02ETdHXSxg6oaKS3V2p0Mht3mZFKrUBefptJCga7Zqft5RNvti7wuYvF87-tS763sOgCVxA2l-i-3sqno_pPDbcOuwArhe7rTDmJtml4VfKydW2ywIYSmcG7Jk1o/s320/IMG_09662.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg82_Nm5EMb_PHB_BxijpXJEycae9zlH3XDdkFIOuT3dmt0vRDeHyk0V1FTUp9bTB_jdDZrIuxCG2BC_nXvCYp_vxkgd_6tE_TcGtKzP9g4ZUHAbWgaa4JJgXWdrGSVa0p3kJmOJ0ZIizd4wA4NnuDq1nWMM2UUjfFYWjpbN7Ft9LZklyUtpCUN6v76F84/s5472/IMG_10469.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg82_Nm5EMb_PHB_BxijpXJEycae9zlH3XDdkFIOuT3dmt0vRDeHyk0V1FTUp9bTB_jdDZrIuxCG2BC_nXvCYp_vxkgd_6tE_TcGtKzP9g4ZUHAbWgaa4JJgXWdrGSVa0p3kJmOJ0ZIizd4wA4NnuDq1nWMM2UUjfFYWjpbN7Ft9LZklyUtpCUN6v76F84/s320/IMG_10469.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpbeDINC1qbXMN043tRIX_iYRnJRxuPCGEyi5d7vXTU2RO2vWgrOR5mPyi8mkOPHrowXsVFj9JbUwBVfT_gH3GfBlse7kBYZkoJJeWtqvlTGcHxDMXm1EpREoyZzlBcx6xWlJjtsQOw-S4-39ArvqZ_jf4kzJiR_KXu53KjOkRHXemuFFR7mlSnxbhHbk/s5347/IMG_09619.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5347" data-original-width="3565" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpbeDINC1qbXMN043tRIX_iYRnJRxuPCGEyi5d7vXTU2RO2vWgrOR5mPyi8mkOPHrowXsVFj9JbUwBVfT_gH3GfBlse7kBYZkoJJeWtqvlTGcHxDMXm1EpREoyZzlBcx6xWlJjtsQOw-S4-39ArvqZ_jf4kzJiR_KXu53KjOkRHXemuFFR7mlSnxbhHbk/s320/IMG_09619.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLNVtQ6RsQlhdYoBmw2_S0GUPwYt3R47UJ1Vyv7FQf9f0JQNkhoS_20GKt-ilGg1iwA9hDqyPwlNqYPhu_KMZnTsBZ97UtywOu5_blNjPLSwmZEEdkc0HyJZ-7aB12rS2nOfQCS7gG-HL_TW2-2NnNQ7sWhQmd08pK3lLhvFyi6_OS1lLjPe5NNrAqC-E/s5444/IMG_09615.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3629" data-original-width="5444" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLNVtQ6RsQlhdYoBmw2_S0GUPwYt3R47UJ1Vyv7FQf9f0JQNkhoS_20GKt-ilGg1iwA9hDqyPwlNqYPhu_KMZnTsBZ97UtywOu5_blNjPLSwmZEEdkc0HyJZ-7aB12rS2nOfQCS7gG-HL_TW2-2NnNQ7sWhQmd08pK3lLhvFyi6_OS1lLjPe5NNrAqC-E/s320/IMG_09615.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">P.s: When I first dressed up fully, Anna did my hair, and we were walking in a narrow street from our dressing room to the main square of the city, we passed a little girl with her mother. The girl exclaimed:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Mom! It is the EMPRESS!!!" Then I felt, it was all worth it. All the sleepless nights, all the needle pricks inmy fingers. Now, we can go home. Of course, we did not, but you understand...</div><div><br /><div>Hair: Anna Erdei</div><div>Modeled photos: Norbert Varga @<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Bodeszphoto">Bodeszphoto</a><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p></div></div></div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-89044922396797663522023-08-17T06:30:00.001+02:002023-08-17T06:30:00.128+02:00Rococo<p style="text-align: justify;"> Right, I am pretty much caught up with the rococo.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I've been sewing a lot of 18th century stuff this year, not only for myself, but for some of my teammates too...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There is a huge project I want to show you, I am only waiting for the pictures to come back,</p><p style="text-align: justify;">but until then, I am wondering... I started to write up the post, but it become a looong and winded proze about a bunch of hows, and whys, and I am curious, if you would want to read it, if you want to know some of the thought process, how do I come to a decision to sew something, what to sew, what from to sew it and how, or you want the pictures and I should shut up? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, how shall it be? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Until then, here are some more pictures of our small, but growing 18th century group within Mare Temporis, photographed in Vác, at their event, in July. And just wait until our pictures shot last weekend in Győr will come back... </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIIhYFRMMkY3TOoCwsoDsTldZyG7nlvuhOr3EAiGapqQSUkBymJQpS0oOVvnJXPs9OYVjYuZYvx0e16j0RVp-KLaSoIBeMyaKPPCDmHqpFcb1VMGhxztgVUuq-pkJuXXkBTmZxXggNrxGg7KQn456MF_te_iwBlVT-8nUhzVylouKNDhCGdtcv0xD3zQ/s5472/IMG_7469.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIIhYFRMMkY3TOoCwsoDsTldZyG7nlvuhOr3EAiGapqQSUkBymJQpS0oOVvnJXPs9OYVjYuZYvx0e16j0RVp-KLaSoIBeMyaKPPCDmHqpFcb1VMGhxztgVUuq-pkJuXXkBTmZxXggNrxGg7KQn456MF_te_iwBlVT-8nUhzVylouKNDhCGdtcv0xD3zQ/s320/IMG_7469.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOjwipQbeWyxbGyLDoMSOG7Rrda3hqmppzfXVKcSXTqzoFzmmyESGsfakTYytkCUOuT7Q7H7Ex-y45laqS_nqF_MZCYhvgxKBw4QfT-mDkqVAiIn-704SdD6zyY5Bneu48GOV4oP3ulggvqBtS7sNleMuZVvYkKJWwxnAipQAp23PkZkZRbJ87NDN-NRg/s5472/IMG_7547.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOjwipQbeWyxbGyLDoMSOG7Rrda3hqmppzfXVKcSXTqzoFzmmyESGsfakTYytkCUOuT7Q7H7Ex-y45laqS_nqF_MZCYhvgxKBw4QfT-mDkqVAiIn-704SdD6zyY5Bneu48GOV4oP3ulggvqBtS7sNleMuZVvYkKJWwxnAipQAp23PkZkZRbJ87NDN-NRg/s320/IMG_7547.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RhrGECYtjqBZcRFufO4LDp4ldEQc464LDBld9DCBNb93JMPboO5T-KmygU7IGF7vqNfYpcaBTl8VgKjl5KnW9466CnDJsKx-tktRLQBg2fYUeLJxUdrJRQvC34s_6h1hLgbres8IogUqj3pqZeYAN-qlt8Axm6vvmoBxGY6a0MP37PCdard508o7_10/s5472/IMG_7552.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RhrGECYtjqBZcRFufO4LDp4ldEQc464LDBld9DCBNb93JMPboO5T-KmygU7IGF7vqNfYpcaBTl8VgKjl5KnW9466CnDJsKx-tktRLQBg2fYUeLJxUdrJRQvC34s_6h1hLgbres8IogUqj3pqZeYAN-qlt8Axm6vvmoBxGY6a0MP37PCdard508o7_10/s320/IMG_7552.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-15029599394838736462023-07-27T21:15:00.002+02:002023-07-27T21:17:29.959+02:00Emergency sewing<p style="text-align: justify;"> In other words, what do you do, when a day before the event, you realize that you lost enough weight to have the dress you just made a few months ago, hang on you.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I have dealt with weight changes over the last few years, I have quarantined out of my edwardian blouses, and realized that a day before the event as well (yeah, I should check my clothes sooner, I know), I had to turn in the boning and the hooks and eyes on my red dress because last years spring rush of Intermittent fasting was succesful, even if it was not long lasting.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And so it happened that I made my <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2023/02/and-its-done-aidah-gown.html">lovely Aidah gown</a> early this year. However, I managed to find a much better doctor (GP) and I did got some help (if not a full diagnose yet) to some of my problems, and some medicine (for my blood-sugar and/ or insulin) problems, and finally loosing some weight. It is still difficult as hell, and I still have issues, but for the first time a long time things look more hopeful. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyhow, the topic for today is not my health issues, but the state of my wardrobe, and my quickie solution.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I made a full petticoat to go with my Aidah skirt, made the ruffle and the decoration all around, thinking, I can use it separately too if there will be a need. I also had a piece of green taffeta in my stash. I meantioned that store chain often enough before, called I love Textile. The manager of one of the shop's wrote to me sometime in february I believe, that she got a small piece of taffeta, do I want it? Of course. By small piece she meant that smaller than the usual minimum six meters I buy from these stuff, only about two meters. And it was GREEN. Green is so much NOT my color. I hardy ever had any green clothing... It is not entirely missing from my wardrobe like yellow, but there are ony a piece or two here and there. It was a big step away from my usual safe corner of blue, but it went well with the fabric I made my Aidah gown from. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I also had a piece of cotton, I got it from a friend, thinking, the print would be fine for 18th century, but then it is way too thin for anything than lining, or an underpetticoat. The coloring though went well with the green taffeta, so I had put them away together, to make something of. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then last week, a day before we went to a baroque/rococo event, I was trying to decide what to wear (my "outlander" stuff... nahh, too hot. My red dress? Naahh, as much as I love it, it looks... with its primary colored printed red cotton, it clashes Nóri's aristocratic mint green dress, and I would loved if the group appears more... more in one style, not all over the place. That is partly I went for the more aristocratic taffeta with the Aidah gown. So I've tried that one, and ... oops, it is waaay to big, and you can see that at the boobs and the neckline...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">However, my friday night was more-or less free. I already had the pattern, I made my outlander jacket from it, though I wanted the "other" version the pattern offers, and I needed to make a new mock up to fix the fitting issues caused by my weight loss. (No, I was not going to buy another, smaller pattern. As much as I like the JP RYAN patterns, I resent the fact that they only come in one size). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, it was late, and as usual, I was concentrating on sewing (and doing it fast), so no pictures of the process itself. But here is the finished result</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ2yK4jbvpGUkNgC28UfUfwI2it8U9XEUU7Bl1nw7ZgTzR9YPCof38Dqg21GKu452qhqLqVRchH1hQRdhfW-vpi-WbFVairxjb8cJp2HIeZ6mhxeNZAw4xYoQ3BLtIPPdv_x0UNvKor-8L5nBIZXvJotVBY5mS0s2RQ2zjzl0auMaaLokfwNckelliuO4/s5472/IMG_7486.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ2yK4jbvpGUkNgC28UfUfwI2it8U9XEUU7Bl1nw7ZgTzR9YPCof38Dqg21GKu452qhqLqVRchH1hQRdhfW-vpi-WbFVairxjb8cJp2HIeZ6mhxeNZAw4xYoQ3BLtIPPdv_x0UNvKor-8L5nBIZXvJotVBY5mS0s2RQ2zjzl0auMaaLokfwNckelliuO4/s320/IMG_7486.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJCuF1TrOwU0F-gMmFRRsRMTHMj8ye8SfSPA7Xx0Tam6sJK2OGANG32uGq3blIgb3ZSpwwAcojlcZdFgzGXhziaC6GPin-2l-GK9C1JI2Xdjsdg77b9ZHMHkKiKNsqW1nXNxe3ZVbdQAprfjIAqYcz-nl0f7SPb9BfmKgdxU1WffFEhgQJP7ff9gdEba0/s5472/IMG_7489.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJCuF1TrOwU0F-gMmFRRsRMTHMj8ye8SfSPA7Xx0Tam6sJK2OGANG32uGq3blIgb3ZSpwwAcojlcZdFgzGXhziaC6GPin-2l-GK9C1JI2Xdjsdg77b9ZHMHkKiKNsqW1nXNxe3ZVbdQAprfjIAqYcz-nl0f7SPb9BfmKgdxU1WffFEhgQJP7ff9gdEba0/s320/IMG_7489.JPG" width="213" /></a></div>I do love the print of the lining, which is sewn in by hand.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2VUdn716sHCPf9rz1rRTezfnEOOnHyut59HneKYJsQIRZC_Y_YNxFSqXMZP6-QEFvMKzMpPQdCDaKgskjqEbr86K4Rl5FnwTt3Z38FyCApKA38W9p7XHFjJjyLdoe5-3l61A5YWVxIVODxkn-ayq7BJqyftkv55Cihjfeh6szR4zlpDcuh7bwxlx4OAI/s4032/20230727_120713.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2VUdn716sHCPf9rz1rRTezfnEOOnHyut59HneKYJsQIRZC_Y_YNxFSqXMZP6-QEFvMKzMpPQdCDaKgskjqEbr86K4Rl5FnwTt3Z38FyCApKA38W9p7XHFjJjyLdoe5-3l61A5YWVxIVODxkn-ayq7BJqyftkv55Cihjfeh6szR4zlpDcuh7bwxlx4OAI/s320/20230727_120713.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the rush (I was sewing the hooks and eyes on around 4 AM) I even forget to irion out the marks for the hooks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I try to balance, life, love, work, reenactment, clothes, music, concerts and whatnot... </p><p>And sometimes I do fall off the vagon. </p><p>But I do make things... even if I blog about later. Much later... even years later. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVTwJrTllNSMm1MBxH0YUXKMxE3BSzYK6WRwudstHYDDLjfsbn2n6dBs_4tlh0D2ieKhKBHl-SWQAGCEMKGh90CtKOMqZc3w1-CP7pn-ayrnLtqFf3GD29-mGx69wIBYE0ywa3c5kbE7n9_FqLfqi_neH53iHbStJ7sdlbWzi_VDIu5h7281Sv7cxmoOs/s5402/IMG_3521.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3601" data-original-width="5402" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVTwJrTllNSMm1MBxH0YUXKMxE3BSzYK6WRwudstHYDDLjfsbn2n6dBs_4tlh0D2ieKhKBHl-SWQAGCEMKGh90CtKOMqZc3w1-CP7pn-ayrnLtqFf3GD29-mGx69wIBYE0ywa3c5kbE7n9_FqLfqi_neH53iHbStJ7sdlbWzi_VDIu5h7281Sv7cxmoOs/s320/IMG_3521.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>This bonnet is not the latter case, it is actually it is... lets call it medium term. </p><p>I've made it in march, as preparation for the annual round of 1848 events around the annyversary of the revolution. </p><p>I ordered the base straw hat over the internet, bought some light blue ribbon, raided my stash of artificial flowers for some blue and a few white ones, and handdyed a bit of pure silk fabric for lining. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghp-9GzmuSNtalVEKgglya_3nbGwWiEER4tir4chzhARfVYkDspklZsZSBArswcOy95ZZrsCovozVnSO-0KWbUAhMqyJG3bo8tGHW_EczfTTSrKGc793Iq8tspIS6IIqZTVPNw1pRnJm_YStJHYsx4K0ZgfglELaxdwi7qLm8Nn0zGOIke47lWqy4DJQk/s4032/20230317_175502.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghp-9GzmuSNtalVEKgglya_3nbGwWiEER4tir4chzhARfVYkDspklZsZSBArswcOy95ZZrsCovozVnSO-0KWbUAhMqyJG3bo8tGHW_EczfTTSrKGc793Iq8tspIS6IIqZTVPNw1pRnJm_YStJHYsx4K0ZgfglELaxdwi7qLm8Nn0zGOIke47lWqy4DJQk/s320/20230317_175502.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8F4fjTeJ50F7ANntJhI7DBQOzuLvlWY83j2smgPh0R4UGs9HZB2koTo0cK_QrnsDcJWWcRHp1a-pr6IWxOPXwUW9xIwu7f9MDnH76xrCFh-qqFDjt4aTI508cdof9SuyFz5fR9ICNIcVqp3bLCwYOGtDihqRlbZyU-UTy1qI0fY-wgwDA7WJnCIL92bk/s4032/20230317_175514F.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8F4fjTeJ50F7ANntJhI7DBQOzuLvlWY83j2smgPh0R4UGs9HZB2koTo0cK_QrnsDcJWWcRHp1a-pr6IWxOPXwUW9xIwu7f9MDnH76xrCFh-qqFDjt4aTI508cdof9SuyFz5fR9ICNIcVqp3bLCwYOGtDihqRlbZyU-UTy1qI0fY-wgwDA7WJnCIL92bk/s320/20230317_175514F.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Since I bought the hat that mostly correct in shape, I didn't had to start with cutting and reshaping it, my "only" job was to decorate it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I lined it with my handdyed silk, added some blue lace.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirz9FfhIusgoxhJE90oU4hMgUhUzEndVCHGH44LOs-7h3CQEfxsywl0izLjOWFSZG592p7g91PMGFXOCKpMDtLZTpLfetfPYsMfKmhGW0yRpTNUVgI98f3GGEFcksoP68kd2LLenYVYu1eyOhyxvuvibXj00ySVtoG-2O9rZXinIRFgC0b3rbUjpsilkI/s5472/IMG_3759.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirz9FfhIusgoxhJE90oU4hMgUhUzEndVCHGH44LOs-7h3CQEfxsywl0izLjOWFSZG592p7g91PMGFXOCKpMDtLZTpLfetfPYsMfKmhGW0yRpTNUVgI98f3GGEFcksoP68kd2LLenYVYu1eyOhyxvuvibXj00ySVtoG-2O9rZXinIRFgC0b3rbUjpsilkI/s320/IMG_3759.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The ribbon decoration is folded with the help of a fork, you can easily find tutorials for that in Pinterest. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1CSYrpzEYfHk33istCLUjeN3WuoTxrYuywvxsdtWsYWC0AnOYFkKLDZDKbGe5vZwAJM4wBGqxgchIImgWolxmVrmIqTAJqhZKeWBfmPC6jJQ-wYRw1OvlXnXgQZWRpkAvJvxyu8HtIiKKzPzrWUZl3WxbegRf18OlcrW-kwRVXRWD6i3C5J4C2QMBdtg/s5472/IMG_3761.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1CSYrpzEYfHk33istCLUjeN3WuoTxrYuywvxsdtWsYWC0AnOYFkKLDZDKbGe5vZwAJM4wBGqxgchIImgWolxmVrmIqTAJqhZKeWBfmPC6jJQ-wYRw1OvlXnXgQZWRpkAvJvxyu8HtIiKKzPzrWUZl3WxbegRf18OlcrW-kwRVXRWD6i3C5J4C2QMBdtg/s320/IMG_3761.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When I asked about historical clothes, I say two things that can define whether what you wear looks like some costume, or something out of the period. No, it is not if you sew it by hand or not, neither is you only use natural dyes, or things in that line. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For me, it is the right underwear/ understructure, and the accessories. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">While I am pretty good about the underwear, I have a tendency to neglect the accesories, and with this piece (and some others that are planned for the near future, I aim to remedie that. </div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-5750216717492428722023-06-26T08:40:00.009+02:002023-07-05T00:15:55.956+02:00Men's 18th century breeches and waistcoat<p> I made new clothes for N. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiO-c5DSx6agrSAfbDqh5UFPNhSA8FSpOkNOElEvF34UwfEXGy4UMi4EsDvfIh8ZwQBSzeYpy8w_rLsOMcFZ_u5X2tTXtoP-abJKImjF-mipPYtaHVECPxEd46PPyKI26ZyzrqhKqe80ywhq_KT95-5aZUbEK4uOQIwE9XzvN_7m33Y4JpJPt8duOVnAY/s4032/20230604_130532.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiO-c5DSx6agrSAfbDqh5UFPNhSA8FSpOkNOElEvF34UwfEXGy4UMi4EsDvfIh8ZwQBSzeYpy8w_rLsOMcFZ_u5X2tTXtoP-abJKImjF-mipPYtaHVECPxEd46PPyKI26ZyzrqhKqe80ywhq_KT95-5aZUbEK4uOQIwE9XzvN_7m33Y4JpJPt8duOVnAY/s320/20230604_130532.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9Nt81toPOM6ezDbp0K5mCquc2Ln-TwOtLGiqhWREuvZDjpIGpZc66nT0FyfyfDxVGGReXnLGNDyGSa7T-96Ag3GuyJIbGNjAqJ4A1RLf3LGUpxr0yDa_KWdkOAMCvCna6PASYSabyDGPQXHEOawJ34mAgHv644-fg1DZHNdZOyejraKJqQTizkLp36I/s4032/20230604_130538.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9Nt81toPOM6ezDbp0K5mCquc2Ln-TwOtLGiqhWREuvZDjpIGpZc66nT0FyfyfDxVGGReXnLGNDyGSa7T-96Ag3GuyJIbGNjAqJ4A1RLf3LGUpxr0yDa_KWdkOAMCvCna6PASYSabyDGPQXHEOawJ34mAgHv644-fg1DZHNdZOyejraKJqQTizkLp36I/s320/20230604_130538.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvNxL_6HB6YR__KL3CcglZJcT5Fo3jvgmdsiF88xpgADzBD7i9qyB_1pZ16smYe7yLxhAhXcnFwwyinGcZOMzacV37rBDv7txMtdOEfbpaRQhKBocxeiU9axJbq60_Mzs3Hp2dfEjZqGnEDWCQ9_ohycXP35ntAbAVxdFoABvdfb-YTx2Blsu9skMZz4/s4032/20230604_130610.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvNxL_6HB6YR__KL3CcglZJcT5Fo3jvgmdsiF88xpgADzBD7i9qyB_1pZ16smYe7yLxhAhXcnFwwyinGcZOMzacV37rBDv7txMtdOEfbpaRQhKBocxeiU9axJbq60_Mzs3Hp2dfEjZqGnEDWCQ9_ohycXP35ntAbAVxdFoABvdfb-YTx2Blsu9skMZz4/s320/20230604_130610.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>After last year's succes with the early 17th century... and under "success" I meant that he wore the stuff, he did not feel "strange" or off in them, he did not "stick out like a sore thumb" from the rest of us... Anyhow, after that success, I went a step further. We were supposed to have at least two event in the Napoleonic era, and two in the late 18th century, and I wanted to include him in those I did some careful considerations and decided to make him a set. </p><p>What I had to consider, when choosing the pieces? </p><p>One that in reenactment you "can" dress in clothes from a somewhat earlier period, but not later. Meaning that, like in 1860, you could still wear 1840-ies stuff and be old fashioned, but not 1870-ies stuff. </p><p>In all his life N. only wore jeans and T shirts. In our five years together I only saw him in a suit twice (at a wedding and at a funeral, and I made him change back to his jeans and shirt at the wedding after the service at the wedding). Also his figure is not average. I mean, he is the sweetest man on earth, but fitting him is a nightmare. At the moment it is important for him, that his clothes cover his belly. So the much shorter regency waistcoats and tailcoats -for the moment- they are out. </p><p>Also I have to consider that he is running around with a modern camera and a gigantic objective, so full-out historical accuracy is out of the window to beginn with. On the other hand, I want him WITH us, with our group, I want to walk around with him and look okay. </p><p>So putting all that into a pot and cook up something is no easy feat. I wanted to put him something that is nonedescript, general, comfortable enough for him, but still have the late 18th century wibe. (and it has pockets. It must have pockets.)</p><p>So I've decided on the breeches and waistcoat from about 1770-1780, with the intention of adding a coat later on.</p><p>My inspirations were pictures like these: </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinqYhL82v1JsZntt-Mti6O77aQ92vmjwsK-QwNV-AHnlXVlToPG91p3xFmUYkYzAmapO_rA5Qvvw2c0nMXxXfdc5UinUSfGg68c6SNTY503boKK1XK8Rd6cLgRJZoRX_gljweMaSoRuY-93U3UY1B8eBJJF9L3xov-uNQGIqsAKX8Oo3mPlNxFRS31NyY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="499" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinqYhL82v1JsZntt-Mti6O77aQ92vmjwsK-QwNV-AHnlXVlToPG91p3xFmUYkYzAmapO_rA5Qvvw2c0nMXxXfdc5UinUSfGg68c6SNTY503boKK1XK8Rd6cLgRJZoRX_gljweMaSoRuY-93U3UY1B8eBJJF9L3xov-uNQGIqsAKX8Oo3mPlNxFRS31NyY" width="209" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQhJEbK9etUUdJ3T7MN7IkerHHkA3jbqGJHN2RxumHIEsfENGa1qbibP6vEqKvx-URDDxwWwp8RE44phye_MFR_5obDIi4jbjRoVVHzs-epCazwp58nvuX2NQ_0lPvRLnQ6WVMggsWBmCd_HUFlfr_VUjUUBl1SDA3ff7yFV7ZlRe9iFd7b9qidpcQuuc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="382" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQhJEbK9etUUdJ3T7MN7IkerHHkA3jbqGJHN2RxumHIEsfENGa1qbibP6vEqKvx-URDDxwWwp8RE44phye_MFR_5obDIi4jbjRoVVHzs-epCazwp58nvuX2NQ_0lPvRLnQ6WVMggsWBmCd_HUFlfr_VUjUUBl1SDA3ff7yFV7ZlRe9iFd7b9qidpcQuuc" width="191" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTuDfo2lXozerywAlKNzhjw8_PwuQjhgiikmioe_B3eYfy3HaHem-iWOS3Owv2NZBDyLSL7uclQwN1chzqAMO9te9Dy_UB1olHo80_znWZq3arxWMNmFk5cN9608AC0am2ewsmzPnQD_1cHZeuAT6coKTQsuiv2rVoXaoC-yZZ0kIANttvyWW6vKKUC1o" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="225" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTuDfo2lXozerywAlKNzhjw8_PwuQjhgiikmioe_B3eYfy3HaHem-iWOS3Owv2NZBDyLSL7uclQwN1chzqAMO9te9Dy_UB1olHo80_znWZq3arxWMNmFk5cN9608AC0am2ewsmzPnQD_1cHZeuAT6coKTQsuiv2rVoXaoC-yZZ0kIANttvyWW6vKKUC1o" width="135" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now, while I like to think myself as a fairly adequate dressmaker, seamstress, I must admit, I am mediocre at fittings and by no means a tailor, much less a man's tailor. I do know how to draw up patterns, I even know some about how to modify them, but I really do not like to do them, I try to avoid that step if I can, so whenever it is possible I use already existing patterns and modify them, when / where needed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I choose the Blacksnails pattern for the breeches, and the JP Ryan for the waistcoat. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the second half of the 18th century, men's waistcoats got shorter, therefore first only part, then more and more of the crotches of their pants were exposed, however they thought it is indecent to show the front opening, thus they used a flap construction that is a bit strange to the modern eyes. Discussing the question with N. we decided on the Blacksnail's pattern (0719) - from here I will refer to it as the BS pattern-, because its flap is wide, goes across the full belly, thus seems to hold it more, N. liked it better.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First I needed to modify the pattern pieces, because even the biggest sizes were pretty far away from N's measurements. It was easier to enlarge the BS pattern, because it came in many sizes, and I only needed to put a line to the key points and go out from there. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For the waistcoat pattern I needed to add a considerable curve to the front edge to accomondate N.'s belly. Of course I made mock ups, and I took apart the breeches so many times I lost count. The waistcoat was somewhat easier (or I managed to get grips how to modify that pattern better). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Unfortunately, we were getting alarmingly close to the time we needed to leave for the Netherlands, for the Bourtnage events, so I don't really have pictures of the process, only of a few details. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is more like a useable trial piece (if it fits, if he likes to use it, etc. I have plans to make something from better material), for late spring / summer events, so I used a nice herringbone linen I had in my stash.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sewing is my usual combination of machine sewn seams, and hand finishing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvYEneb-mhQpHwJCri2P1bv4VNhZm1jE5aY_g6Gy8IV1obFQPxa1sILFpKNBZIyIVDcpXm91TnkIZq_ffSIDnHhEq5Yvo6DikxGycil-eqBymwpY0TdtQi5Jj6ZH8R-4nPdL1fgQLpqZsAfLbau1SpBrJAl8t6j5N9OEOUdTB9X5smAj95WdIvr5NEuR8/s4032/20230521_192811.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvYEneb-mhQpHwJCri2P1bv4VNhZm1jE5aY_g6Gy8IV1obFQPxa1sILFpKNBZIyIVDcpXm91TnkIZq_ffSIDnHhEq5Yvo6DikxGycil-eqBymwpY0TdtQi5Jj6ZH8R-4nPdL1fgQLpqZsAfLbau1SpBrJAl8t6j5N9OEOUdTB9X5smAj95WdIvr5NEuR8/s320/20230521_192811.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of course, I've started with the P. logo. It is an ongoing joke between us, see my earlier posts about his clothes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip0Qb_vOaqGF0PhYiRwa9xnfersxoUpNYtd9fy5SNRAn7XHQOjUxy5S4Kl24VmyDY9GnVdlMPybYxHyGFD96jT_BnuJFxYOfz3QTXm9mt1PC6q0Lzp9kyUOdjvY1jiYoIFOSgTxA_9GKkos-s5P4rw_sIOONSBaLeLgbGPlwsc9In1G007hs7bvh0-YAg/s4032/20230521_180730.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip0Qb_vOaqGF0PhYiRwa9xnfersxoUpNYtd9fy5SNRAn7XHQOjUxy5S4Kl24VmyDY9GnVdlMPybYxHyGFD96jT_BnuJFxYOfz3QTXm9mt1PC6q0Lzp9kyUOdjvY1jiYoIFOSgTxA_9GKkos-s5P4rw_sIOONSBaLeLgbGPlwsc9In1G007hs7bvh0-YAg/s320/20230521_180730.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxA2R8MuTW823rJZo25xyCplm-U32K9U6RfNdgwz4C8B9PqPE5TGZiW9X7Mu02QdEzvtEFpcklU0v3sbgyeoIviJyzkqrWMH9Uzncc_4XsJRIMHnYUdaeMADJQumNqbZHxP52YvwP5_-_ZWmmIxVDRrikiP0aB8vIQJ0HYi3gZU1J9uIViA2EB-W5H0EI/s4032/20230521_180746.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxA2R8MuTW823rJZo25xyCplm-U32K9U6RfNdgwz4C8B9PqPE5TGZiW9X7Mu02QdEzvtEFpcklU0v3sbgyeoIviJyzkqrWMH9Uzncc_4XsJRIMHnYUdaeMADJQumNqbZHxP52YvwP5_-_ZWmmIxVDRrikiP0aB8vIQJ0HYi3gZU1J9uIViA2EB-W5H0EI/s320/20230521_180746.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The small watchpocket in the waistband.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNUPo-a4tdXw_7ij5BOF7w983_wTCCI9DQRXwZcZveV1Kd5Vp1Lt9yEXYXD1fUMRhUO4W62KwHjhmS9DMjL3jwpziTSWn1YRUu9yhJrvxmf5Jmur7wtPNgkX0VZPK-1s33HT02AiFHTIaErx8SyiX0ZdvfDmnPitt1TSxRx0-TtjdyB7pi0opKrVCjCPo/s4032/20230521_235522.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNUPo-a4tdXw_7ij5BOF7w983_wTCCI9DQRXwZcZveV1Kd5Vp1Lt9yEXYXD1fUMRhUO4W62KwHjhmS9DMjL3jwpziTSWn1YRUu9yhJrvxmf5Jmur7wtPNgkX0VZPK-1s33HT02AiFHTIaErx8SyiX0ZdvfDmnPitt1TSxRx0-TtjdyB7pi0opKrVCjCPo/s320/20230521_235522.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Even after making a mock-up and redoing it countless time, the waist / flap ended up being to big, later I took out the part that is pinched in the middle on the pic.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59ICmUGrqgade8QFxAZBTeaVGfIdDxsNF1NKXwtT05qHOylPRgqJWLSpGjv99-g9-dJpl0lnfBNBn-3F5QqNgPW3ANOgM42XeZhbNZXlHRJlbuzHVHEGOhQdgACuP2A7ne1M91hzMSY8NtNVcm-edvnKddX4bNYVALFZb86wDtzc7nd_KVjckomSBREY/s2229/20230521_235515_CUT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2229" data-original-width="1925" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi59ICmUGrqgade8QFxAZBTeaVGfIdDxsNF1NKXwtT05qHOylPRgqJWLSpGjv99-g9-dJpl0lnfBNBn-3F5QqNgPW3ANOgM42XeZhbNZXlHRJlbuzHVHEGOhQdgACuP2A7ne1M91hzMSY8NtNVcm-edvnKddX4bNYVALFZb86wDtzc7nd_KVjckomSBREY/s320/20230521_235515_CUT.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">18th century breeches were pretty thight at the leg and the knees, added width at the butt allows enough room to sit down,crouch and such, hence the famous "diaper butt".</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9U41DeHPKKXM_J15PQ9isbBd_wkSZblWR6ffkyV9qH03Vrt4psmzYkhLGLjJ7BB9lLK2tJp6oUbNzjseyw5SpWM2tdCyO6KBuXXPckAVAMqPtOuLuoGhqaxkGCmMsbEYNz7BjIxubZBBynbw9XhPQSChWfmJqDVfFjf0OnWxnXXl7CVuLbR2bWZI5tuk/s4032/20230525_095422.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9U41DeHPKKXM_J15PQ9isbBd_wkSZblWR6ffkyV9qH03Vrt4psmzYkhLGLjJ7BB9lLK2tJp6oUbNzjseyw5SpWM2tdCyO6KBuXXPckAVAMqPtOuLuoGhqaxkGCmMsbEYNz7BjIxubZBBynbw9XhPQSChWfmJqDVfFjf0OnWxnXXl7CVuLbR2bWZI5tuk/s320/20230525_095422.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Eyelets and a tie allows adjustment at the back.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaVVRcUrFKPBny9aeJqsZW-Ko17qSkqwmhApWVZ0KKZToxGjn27eLHuCssk59_mfhfIJ8MVjaRVNe8Hba9m1SpPViz_tT975dL5KCeddAyQG9hbdfaNs__jewX5f79-3hihnf0n9yqDYv2x1oPra_lnF2ZgdLpB1PAggBDin6YbbhClPO8g5OF6r26F8w/s4032/20230521_213849.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaVVRcUrFKPBny9aeJqsZW-Ko17qSkqwmhApWVZ0KKZToxGjn27eLHuCssk59_mfhfIJ8MVjaRVNe8Hba9m1SpPViz_tT975dL5KCeddAyQG9hbdfaNs__jewX5f79-3hihnf0n9yqDYv2x1oPra_lnF2ZgdLpB1PAggBDin6YbbhClPO8g5OF6r26F8w/s320/20230521_213849.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">The tiny thread badat the bottom of the slit to stop it from breaking apart fully, if there is some undue stress.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRwHxGk1bKRkds8k7DR5amdyXAy_vvWQ1_eFUQOHpZ29WOmUnyCGx4X6DRertT-TXwlN8U9ka-TEJMi7PHHT_L-Nn_WDJCt3CxMhzeqpy5wmlwejcNdPyqpCwDiY68ueh4HIcnhdYhD_oI-NlubRxwA-XH5BzTSJzN9p-LNh4xEmmWWoPLLxKUe_6yEds/s4032/20230525_103025.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRwHxGk1bKRkds8k7DR5amdyXAy_vvWQ1_eFUQOHpZ29WOmUnyCGx4X6DRertT-TXwlN8U9ka-TEJMi7PHHT_L-Nn_WDJCt3CxMhzeqpy5wmlwejcNdPyqpCwDiY68ueh4HIcnhdYhD_oI-NlubRxwA-XH5BzTSJzN9p-LNh4xEmmWWoPLLxKUe_6yEds/s320/20230525_103025.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">The button holding up the flap.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLBRJ5m_pNvxt_jPtJ8M08Bb33ODbKxTE6DUFRQzQ0csK8W4jnzBrNU6bx-ZC7Row2SIwcvW46EzhSOg_x5npGGd94XId_LVeYgwpTHiFSXjG2N8vXwopXbRjh6usx6FlZcB6xl85OF33SV9dtupQrOej8rUkn4OaUYhI0s3EYriZtT1dilwRr_aNQ2jA/s4032/20230525_102116.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLBRJ5m_pNvxt_jPtJ8M08Bb33ODbKxTE6DUFRQzQ0csK8W4jnzBrNU6bx-ZC7Row2SIwcvW46EzhSOg_x5npGGd94XId_LVeYgwpTHiFSXjG2N8vXwopXbRjh6usx6FlZcB6xl85OF33SV9dtupQrOej8rUkn4OaUYhI0s3EYriZtT1dilwRr_aNQ2jA/s320/20230525_102116.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Finishing the buttonband on the legs.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYjij8H1p_dld_odv2U3v0jeXu7zRFRSX_G7yxewAK6DGGGJZCxB2mANot4XKQ0WXGKb9LbEM4a-hjRSE0a-FOvyQ3OvKulJF3NTZOCNuPlK9gsAPN9d9YzJq-yivEQ44Yz99CpVrwoO15cytAiB71zgkYMmIssLARFq_D20fTgE51ooMvQOzDzFk0Aa4/s4032/20230525_095848.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYjij8H1p_dld_odv2U3v0jeXu7zRFRSX_G7yxewAK6DGGGJZCxB2mANot4XKQ0WXGKb9LbEM4a-hjRSE0a-FOvyQ3OvKulJF3NTZOCNuPlK9gsAPN9d9YzJq-yivEQ44Yz99CpVrwoO15cytAiB71zgkYMmIssLARFq_D20fTgE51ooMvQOzDzFk0Aa4/s320/20230525_095848.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">And the buttonholes</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYr0nxeLtYFrf673PVsvbIfDYYuvelRwTBwD-J4rDTaIYo4NDUmX3U7yvApB9JHn7V3bzNKUCIwGz5TKEjX9Qa2aVrh9_hAaj2HMsVr-DOZshIqNwc2ByEqUdp4zd12hbmgtwuT_i0Q-NUFD5EBeNyr4SIXxH1hgPNVA3hpAS8ieakX6wSR7fMWJKrsC8/s4032/20230529_163035.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYr0nxeLtYFrf673PVsvbIfDYYuvelRwTBwD-J4rDTaIYo4NDUmX3U7yvApB9JHn7V3bzNKUCIwGz5TKEjX9Qa2aVrh9_hAaj2HMsVr-DOZshIqNwc2ByEqUdp4zd12hbmgtwuT_i0Q-NUFD5EBeNyr4SIXxH1hgPNVA3hpAS8ieakX6wSR7fMWJKrsC8/s320/20230529_163035.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>And the finished breeches...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For the waistcoat, there is also the starting point, the Logo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg6xoazL2f9R3y5_AuQmOS2c5I86xvBA5DDDdZkx-lEJRnaDSXn7akSpD_ptALeY2AWCPiK6gk-Ibx1Iv-X8L8XxRXOGkl7mXD7DAUnQjLmIfRf4d2lYz0OMSUa8GPOyAu9J22s1zF0B607r7rwIVmvD4AJTMYjKWvR1T73xlYR3GZqaF6n9tcHKZ5XR8/s4032/20230525_103303.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg6xoazL2f9R3y5_AuQmOS2c5I86xvBA5DDDdZkx-lEJRnaDSXn7akSpD_ptALeY2AWCPiK6gk-Ibx1Iv-X8L8XxRXOGkl7mXD7DAUnQjLmIfRf4d2lYz0OMSUa8GPOyAu9J22s1zF0B607r7rwIVmvD4AJTMYjKWvR1T73xlYR3GZqaF6n9tcHKZ5XR8/s320/20230525_103303.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For the outside I used the same herringbone linen, but for the waistcoat I also needed lining, and something to stiffen certain parts. There is a lucky story, as after one of my rounds in the store-chain, that sells factory rejects, leftovers and whatnot, N. asked me if I found something. "of there was some sandy-beige-y linen, but I did not buy it, as you know, I love white, and colorful linens, but wouldn't know what to do with that color..." and he looks at me, with his blue eyes wide open and sayin... "You act like you've never dyed a piece of fabric before..." and then the pin dropped, I got my phone right away, asking the girl in the shop to save it for me. When I got it home, I prewashed it, even ironed it, but then it was on the shelf for months and months... but now it was perfect... and I didn't even had to dye it. The other lucky find were, that another store of the same chain had a roll of horsehair canvas, which was great to stiffen the edges, and the pocked flaps. Yayy,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9n5iwJWJkDt6n-6rQBDVXuN5lJ1u13GAm8p-o0iAISAHufOcy7h_J6Nb53aHrE_QWAIA1JljgtKyT5exPu18_jwB53Q8jy7HqvTlGtmkr5U894lFf8kDusnnfDLjUulLtWntkwTzfCdcMm4BWL-6clCe_G-MVMu_3EprjJ6r_SdbmAgaABxbQjaJePdg/s4032/20230525_103258.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9n5iwJWJkDt6n-6rQBDVXuN5lJ1u13GAm8p-o0iAISAHufOcy7h_J6Nb53aHrE_QWAIA1JljgtKyT5exPu18_jwB53Q8jy7HqvTlGtmkr5U894lFf8kDusnnfDLjUulLtWntkwTzfCdcMm4BWL-6clCe_G-MVMu_3EprjJ6r_SdbmAgaABxbQjaJePdg/s320/20230525_103258.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Unfortunately, there was a bit of paint and a tear (for the price I paid for the linen it was nothing), I only saw after cutting out the back, but hey, as we say, piecing is period, so I did not recut the whole back, only the damaged part, so there is an extra seam inside. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Now, looking at the pictures on my phone I see that there are even less of them from making the waistcoat than of the breeches, none of the pockets, (even though there are pockets not only at the breeches, but at the waistcoat too, only the handsewn stitches I used putting in the linen lining. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQt0QrjxE3Ji8ffkPKl3QpZxzQaZivoZjNWqpI_BiDGv84ItY2QesGbe2veP7Xw3IRnpoZM4dtTnMXWL8DdP_-To2jNmyX4_gPdEsLO6y0k6fNHuAGtKN7_vMJ5mFbSNjgAq0xjW59FyyBfFAcdV16jsH1Mt9JFMevUO07Aewi3nXwmQ_ETYAOVOH2qkk/s4032/20230525_103337.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQt0QrjxE3Ji8ffkPKl3QpZxzQaZivoZjNWqpI_BiDGv84ItY2QesGbe2veP7Xw3IRnpoZM4dtTnMXWL8DdP_-To2jNmyX4_gPdEsLO6y0k6fNHuAGtKN7_vMJ5mFbSNjgAq0xjW59FyyBfFAcdV16jsH1Mt9JFMevUO07Aewi3nXwmQ_ETYAOVOH2qkk/s320/20230525_103337.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_cy0MJ4gxxpPjcq7AIQQRcFeORkfhCCxkTbN_Upd5BNKH3Ik47kKSvATyJfiKg4hqnroWexDNuR9CyAs0QY6LWDctiKEvBch0_am42nzFdjZIaFekF7aTtfh_rjpgRrU7ux2-rBVSYNap2Pqv4guSovRMk2llESE3S8yxuhQN3nNaSbXLewGnwJcYD08/s4032/20230525_103331.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_cy0MJ4gxxpPjcq7AIQQRcFeORkfhCCxkTbN_Upd5BNKH3Ik47kKSvATyJfiKg4hqnroWexDNuR9CyAs0QY6LWDctiKEvBch0_am42nzFdjZIaFekF7aTtfh_rjpgRrU7ux2-rBVSYNap2Pqv4guSovRMk2llESE3S8yxuhQN3nNaSbXLewGnwJcYD08/s320/20230525_103331.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And the one, showing, how I cheated with the buttonholes. I do not have anything against handsewing buttonholes, even though I am far from being really good at them. One of my problems is, that wherever buttonholes are put, there are usually many layer of fabrics. The outer one, the lining, some stiffening layer, and for me , it is so hard to hold the needle in a way so it would catch all the layers. I am always afraid that I miss the bottom fabric, and it would fray, keep turning the fabric, to look under it, which takes time, and it stresses the fabric. and makes my stitches even more uneven... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So I thought what if I make the buttonholes with the machine, that would hold all the layers together, and act as a guide, and then go over thode stitches by hand. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY8tfSQq3hQJ5BfccuOU3s-JncCMPvqG7Uz9FUVPthFFVcURBFlNOAFn-urZGh5RyNZCIBQTbEukBMgcYXIZzwKC9vV3rVnoCg0JGlaJkwpDkv7xlW9BUZ8-sLxNuIDqEgozeJ7hYK4p-8ILXI_HVJdOjCRDzQ7tEiOvjuoMOnEpgZOVmJ7HUJE2rq40E/s4032/20230523_180421.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY8tfSQq3hQJ5BfccuOU3s-JncCMPvqG7Uz9FUVPthFFVcURBFlNOAFn-urZGh5RyNZCIBQTbEukBMgcYXIZzwKC9vV3rVnoCg0JGlaJkwpDkv7xlW9BUZ8-sLxNuIDqEgozeJ7hYK4p-8ILXI_HVJdOjCRDzQ7tEiOvjuoMOnEpgZOVmJ7HUJE2rq40E/s320/20230523_180421.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Yayy, it worked. Next time I wil probably lay 2 or 3 strand of thread over the machine stitches, before I sew them over, but hey. Good enough. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJpVOL1sdu-p75AGGEV75bnu2SQXF0YV-8dYH4wTyhovw7uzvCGHiuU8xyzEQWYX0lL9sXVSPhzwV42BPZa_sr5UgLufb4xxv4YVBvJUUqDZK0J9aMVoBnt55eo9hH5c0U_6Nk-deD8XwASTllZBTS0XltOjaKi7ApI1EDNadF685zS_00xMetm68zKyM/s4032/20230525_095720.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJpVOL1sdu-p75AGGEV75bnu2SQXF0YV-8dYH4wTyhovw7uzvCGHiuU8xyzEQWYX0lL9sXVSPhzwV42BPZa_sr5UgLufb4xxv4YVBvJUUqDZK0J9aMVoBnt55eo9hH5c0U_6Nk-deD8XwASTllZBTS0XltOjaKi7ApI1EDNadF685zS_00xMetm68zKyM/s320/20230525_095720.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>And finally, the finished breeches and the waistcoat photographed in Bourtange:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZaV1Y4G4S4IbQyfI-vTcbK8uFzizGUhKLx2YytxP2abb-Pfc9152NECf_eDzhqEoGJOZH5rs-mt1_B5O0rDBrQNMaX_L1ZSprLUQRwwI1bjhs3s3tOgljj4nAveXRlAlAanhMadsCzURB10GwD-Ik5ebECMcffuyJZAevHwRjIPPnqCj4wK5a8ZufO4I/s5472/IMG_5275.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZaV1Y4G4S4IbQyfI-vTcbK8uFzizGUhKLx2YytxP2abb-Pfc9152NECf_eDzhqEoGJOZH5rs-mt1_B5O0rDBrQNMaX_L1ZSprLUQRwwI1bjhs3s3tOgljj4nAveXRlAlAanhMadsCzURB10GwD-Ik5ebECMcffuyJZAevHwRjIPPnqCj4wK5a8ZufO4I/s320/IMG_5275.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijsBuXnAqCsofRq_yuOk5heRDRuCryLbGcLdTwNvr4xBuXaZmL04tESQhdNxdF90bk6E4ZznLCZcKa5bxCoA8rhhrRMOaYgXAakePyY4j-EQnUjHNPbR1SX6XrC9lugsYDF8S9d2LB8hEKv9jhJqOqFWooDSULv_dqyXxOSistJlnq974a-x8jTw20fO4/s5472/IMG_5282.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijsBuXnAqCsofRq_yuOk5heRDRuCryLbGcLdTwNvr4xBuXaZmL04tESQhdNxdF90bk6E4ZznLCZcKa5bxCoA8rhhrRMOaYgXAakePyY4j-EQnUjHNPbR1SX6XrC9lugsYDF8S9d2LB8hEKv9jhJqOqFWooDSULv_dqyXxOSistJlnq974a-x8jTw20fO4/s320/IMG_5282.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrkmX_SfC-rYEtrSXhGiKlOe_a4pT_yHz4-xdvS1AdGnojQYqlL_8KAvnaPdz60ByJJqUEkefsHvgpPSGRx3wd2pNRMVS0YUk3ibs_G0wOPrV2rYiKbefYghGB5XMo6UmQ4wSWjQ_Oa1H7LRR8UBuF9nMgUKSbF_zVlttA5Pf7VXrtG49ZWunY8BpHWUk/s5472/IMG_5285.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrkmX_SfC-rYEtrSXhGiKlOe_a4pT_yHz4-xdvS1AdGnojQYqlL_8KAvnaPdz60ByJJqUEkefsHvgpPSGRx3wd2pNRMVS0YUk3ibs_G0wOPrV2rYiKbefYghGB5XMo6UmQ4wSWjQ_Oa1H7LRR8UBuF9nMgUKSbF_zVlttA5Pf7VXrtG49ZWunY8BpHWUk/s320/IMG_5285.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JZJXo9vYbJQfr4XcYQcjCC83hsr16y7EesmQpNS0_SzWXjPRWMqKN-YpYrcqbkKSYuoCH8k4YyRp_lPtC4jxmmmcoZaawKGapSjG7-MeJtZs1dBITo7HFnNL4UXblODB-uo8Vkv4GthjI0p3uJphfkUcxOPgpQVrayTlMDn68M7naEYW1wS5BqYR83s/s5472/IMG_5549.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JZJXo9vYbJQfr4XcYQcjCC83hsr16y7EesmQpNS0_SzWXjPRWMqKN-YpYrcqbkKSYuoCH8k4YyRp_lPtC4jxmmmcoZaawKGapSjG7-MeJtZs1dBITo7HFnNL4UXblODB-uo8Vkv4GthjI0p3uJphfkUcxOPgpQVrayTlMDn68M7naEYW1wS5BqYR83s/s320/IMG_5549.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMwX2e1_cU0w5Qvmc-zy06dHicXP1PpcHzpJneDN7HxhiXKaHxX9zxxgxcjnVYV7BD1wslWUXKqTpQRAaji6Ei2yM3OynvQ6CNe_0odxFw27A0CTGxa9-iKY5vRMAB-AzmNMDtBlJhfiKWyzjraZGqrSe0pCg4yAMM2QDvS9L3RK6O42PoTBmnFkHmyts/s5472/IMG_8105.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMwX2e1_cU0w5Qvmc-zy06dHicXP1PpcHzpJneDN7HxhiXKaHxX9zxxgxcjnVYV7BD1wslWUXKqTpQRAaji6Ei2yM3OynvQ6CNe_0odxFw27A0CTGxa9-iKY5vRMAB-AzmNMDtBlJhfiKWyzjraZGqrSe0pCg4yAMM2QDvS9L3RK6O42PoTBmnFkHmyts/s320/IMG_8105.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">P.s.: the tricorn umm, cocked hat: a cheap hat off the internet, soaked in warm water, and sprayed with starch. I pinned the edges up and let it dry throughly. I sewed on the ribbon, a few stitches fixed the sides, and then made a small cockade from the leftover pieces of ribbon</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1msaFFrfRM6S9OckoCCN1FQ0VN3Y4Fb601YJepAH3xTsnvTtalnQ3vN2yb0fbMFM3cXF2rOd-rS86e0T6qlKL9WAZfXWt9Kgjqo3V-iCyhT7_Nd_ONdfBupKGIxL_xnvlKGfpMZWLESfspb1C_RVH9D74izDYrWUkU4ea71OEcK-JQLn-dt9ajrhq7UE/s4032/20230604_130636.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1msaFFrfRM6S9OckoCCN1FQ0VN3Y4Fb601YJepAH3xTsnvTtalnQ3vN2yb0fbMFM3cXF2rOd-rS86e0T6qlKL9WAZfXWt9Kgjqo3V-iCyhT7_Nd_ONdfBupKGIxL_xnvlKGfpMZWLESfspb1C_RVH9D74izDYrWUkU4ea71OEcK-JQLn-dt9ajrhq7UE/s320/20230604_130636.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb8o3KYehLQEkmuuBwm7ZHuaUWOcTKLUvSnbrKFs6j7DEk_fHM_nMeKZ-pY7wy4WNaXaYpJ_ENxyX7jvcER42yQmHzgXyzMaqskWUsBNxEedid-VSAyFQlq3pVG-zq90QK46RVUqv_cSXFz9Yhs6b7lHTBtu_VhGGSd2E7f3JOpclvesn8beWH_6C08-I/s4032/20230604_164004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb8o3KYehLQEkmuuBwm7ZHuaUWOcTKLUvSnbrKFs6j7DEk_fHM_nMeKZ-pY7wy4WNaXaYpJ_ENxyX7jvcER42yQmHzgXyzMaqskWUsBNxEedid-VSAyFQlq3pVG-zq90QK46RVUqv_cSXFz9Yhs6b7lHTBtu_VhGGSd2E7f3JOpclvesn8beWH_6C08-I/s320/20230604_164004.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlzhwwXR-iHu7ej6i4ImqScgHi2_EKaLHPuw8Bd6NdWRUtqjWSAw6AmHi1__bwl3d-NsxQpj1LrPDSLgqLmPSZ1XjB65bGDzpeiLzb4TfPRYvT-8nm6Q5oRq5l1ToHNDu8LrJsQj0n-ooSIEBYDPaBoDwDva9_TBRnL7zXYu0NJfjM6W6oCFg50LaniSU/s4032/20230604_130625.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlzhwwXR-iHu7ej6i4ImqScgHi2_EKaLHPuw8Bd6NdWRUtqjWSAw6AmHi1__bwl3d-NsxQpj1LrPDSLgqLmPSZ1XjB65bGDzpeiLzb4TfPRYvT-8nm6Q5oRq5l1ToHNDu8LrJsQj0n-ooSIEBYDPaBoDwDva9_TBRnL7zXYu0NJfjM6W6oCFg50LaniSU/s320/20230604_130625.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-57388249288127635422023-03-02T07:30:00.011+01:002023-03-02T07:58:50.558+01:00Outlander -finally<p style="text-align: justify;"> I am on a roll with 18th century... or so it seems. I just cannot get enough of it. As we say, I want to do every 18th century dress/clothes too. Every one of them. I want to do the pink striped MET museum gown, I originally wanted to make with the Aidah pattern, I want to do caraco/skirt combo at least in six version, I want striped gowns, flowery gowns, taffeta gowns, linen gowns, Italian gowns, English gowns, Frances, polonaise, chemise gowns in at least three colors,, redingot style, I want to do some fantasy version as well... even if our 18th century events are... how shall I put it... severly limited. Still one set of clothes were the back in my mind, even before I started reenacting.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The first time I heard the word "outlander" uttered, it actually came from a knitter. "A costumed film, with lots of knitted pieces", and yes, my attention was captured. However, it was a while, when I actually managed to see some of it (I am still behind with a couple of seasons), but the clothing in it got stuck in my mind ever since. Even if it is not fully historically accurate, especially, the knitting in it. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyhow, when I started to make historical clothes, one of the first patterns I bough was Outlander patterns, and pretty early on I started to colllect fabrics for "Outlander inspired" stuff.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I knew that a fully screen-accurate copy is totally out of reach ( I will never have many tens of pounds for just a meter of tartan, from which I would need about 6 meters) , and besides, I knew that even with my historically accurate stuff I much rather do things, that are <i><b>inspired by</b></i> certain examples, than full out copies. So I had the fabric, and I had the patterns, but in the midst of making historical clothes for reenactment, and actual events, Outlander kept being pushed to the end of the list.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Meeting <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2022/02/skating.html" target="_blank">Anna about a year ago</a> gave me a new momentum. For god sake, the girl came to our "reenactors skating" even, as a totally unkown person, a newbie, dressed up in a fully accurate Outlander style ensemble. My mouth fell open, I, kinda grabbed her, and didn't let go, until she joined us at <a href="https://www.maretemporis.hu/" target="_blank">Mare Temporis</a> (NOT that she needed much nudging. She came willingly. One crazy girl that one. Love her.)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, now I had someone to go crazy with, <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2023/02/decisions-decisions.html" target="_blank">I had fabrics</a>, I had patterns, and, thanks to the flue, I mentioned in my previous post, I had a bit of time too. Besides, making the <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2023/02/and-its-done-aidah-gown.html" target="_blank">Aidah gown</a> gave me such a high, I needed something to wind down a bit. And there was an event, a reenactor's piknik, that had a dress code of "come in whatever historical or modern garb, you wish". That is my favorite dress code. "Come in whatever historical garb, you wish."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47MasxzELahRHKpamJ85eFccfkSYAOuxJXfnL-smYdLS7YhnLsEDlwIf9kV4reWIhLy39Q-lMceCUi7-1MYROGTvYaYtKpaoUg4Q6onLbWqiK1dKcoWONrXKVR0_1jMOSJp4ttUOe2mUHIfOuyj8fDpqHCjBFLA0VAWDGr2Ma-huiMf1ucI-IuWqG/s5472/IMG_8436.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47MasxzELahRHKpamJ85eFccfkSYAOuxJXfnL-smYdLS7YhnLsEDlwIf9kV4reWIhLy39Q-lMceCUi7-1MYROGTvYaYtKpaoUg4Q6onLbWqiK1dKcoWONrXKVR0_1jMOSJp4ttUOe2mUHIfOuyj8fDpqHCjBFLA0VAWDGr2Ma-huiMf1ucI-IuWqG/s320/IMG_8436.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Though I had a bit of times on my hands, there wasn't much of it, and I fell into such a flow with this, I forgot to make many photos of making the skirt and the jacket, you will have to do with the finished pictures. But worry not, this is NOT the last time I made either of these, so there is always hope for the next time. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWidyKR_9qV2-8v116T2gTht-v39FlyAf33FhLwKYTav0zqf_oQYRWs-0RIZ3nH6gsvH_Al4q2TAQUztCkQ4igWK2_BG6kEvO1oKlNMFTacmna91Dpq8vqqMYbNR8qcPWxhXvAS7ZVOC1HaE09fv-iC4uMKrzTnc7t1pOLICaF5FaYVaWoNPzThpf9/s5472/IMG_8458.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWidyKR_9qV2-8v116T2gTht-v39FlyAf33FhLwKYTav0zqf_oQYRWs-0RIZ3nH6gsvH_Al4q2TAQUztCkQ4igWK2_BG6kEvO1oKlNMFTacmna91Dpq8vqqMYbNR8qcPWxhXvAS7ZVOC1HaE09fv-iC4uMKrzTnc7t1pOLICaF5FaYVaWoNPzThpf9/s320/IMG_8458.JPG" width="213" /></a></div>As you can see, I ended up using the <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2023/02/decisions-decisions.html" target="_blank">fabrics I originally got</a> for this project.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqz3AynvPPe9U5mT89FV_FRSytiaQ7W2nr4UsoTDseCsVcIzqkkCDLtuw2xep9zsujGMQp4v0j-ZWWm0asHr2QlYcOjTjO978x6gz6fuqHqtavi8u4CcMTrNVADnLwvSgOhgz-6OEXDuU6G43-Ms5xvKOzahkk7Ymrm_LhUrPGBlca3PfWYyyYt3jP/s5472/IMG_8462.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqz3AynvPPe9U5mT89FV_FRSytiaQ7W2nr4UsoTDseCsVcIzqkkCDLtuw2xep9zsujGMQp4v0j-ZWWm0asHr2QlYcOjTjO978x6gz6fuqHqtavi8u4CcMTrNVADnLwvSgOhgz-6OEXDuU6G43-Ms5xvKOzahkk7Ymrm_LhUrPGBlca3PfWYyyYt3jP/s320/IMG_8462.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The skirt is three length of the fabric, sewn as most 18th century petticoats, that are closing in the front and the back, leaving a nice long slit on the two sides to be able to reach into your pockets. The length (allowing for bumpads) is adjusted at the top. One small change, it is not closing with ties, but flat hooks and eyes, as there are already anought ties around my waist.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCnJHWFy28ytGfx1fE2s0Fw56pHyaVzc7VEk-6ff8Ud4Xqz_7Q2XWLdRRAZzh2hhZ4-JM67xS-bLtxYmiyP-EfWh-HdKvh0WJHx2Ru1qeWs3dp0T_I8kra_SJ0UcMFejfID7IK9d7tMCpRbWyAvhb0tz7oKzK4DShUpbsH8X7EEYgzllGbIrZcAD65/s5472/IMG_8475.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCnJHWFy28ytGfx1fE2s0Fw56pHyaVzc7VEk-6ff8Ud4Xqz_7Q2XWLdRRAZzh2hhZ4-JM67xS-bLtxYmiyP-EfWh-HdKvh0WJHx2Ru1qeWs3dp0T_I8kra_SJ0UcMFejfID7IK9d7tMCpRbWyAvhb0tz7oKzK4DShUpbsH8X7EEYgzllGbIrZcAD65/s320/IMG_8475.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am actually wearing my<a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2023/02/shift-chemise-undershirt-or-what-you.html" target="_blank"> linen shift,</a> I made, <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2021/07/hello-18th-century-part-2-18h-century.html" target="_blank">the stays</a> I made back, when I did the red dress, <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2021/07/hello-18th-century-part-3-questions.html" target="_blank">my double bumpad, an underpetticoat </a>and pockets from the same time. I know in the film they use a moon shaped bumpad, and I did make one, but I've tried on the skirts with it and did not like it. I much prefer the shape the double bumpad gives me. </div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWPqNfeFais0kHZU38xqH4nWeyhMZBxl5GNBgx3xR3nI9C07y6WpUmuHUOmnEbS1L0PIwmKcsZa3qFCwUOTKMdT9jF8wNC81HTX15-kabhCKSFEOAsrmNJqwWjMooxWp4MZZlV0TQdBuqjQWaZZBKqdFvaLuv9DbZtgWN7E7ZkRSPA0yU4EQWDfCgY/s5472/IMG_8473.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWPqNfeFais0kHZU38xqH4nWeyhMZBxl5GNBgx3xR3nI9C07y6WpUmuHUOmnEbS1L0PIwmKcsZa3qFCwUOTKMdT9jF8wNC81HTX15-kabhCKSFEOAsrmNJqwWjMooxWp4MZZlV0TQdBuqjQWaZZBKqdFvaLuv9DbZtgWN7E7ZkRSPA0yU4EQWDfCgY/s320/IMG_8473.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The jacket, and the stomacher is made from the JP Ryan jacket pattern, its length is between its long and short version. </div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">You have already seen the <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2021/04/outlander-neckwarmer.html" target="_blank">neckwarmer</a>, and <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2022/01/italian-memories-hanknitted-18th.html" target="_blank">the mittens</a>, though I think, I might knit a pair of blue ones for this ensemble. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-PSxks36P9poE3EDtXK3HIH0-CjpUAKOmcncpE6NOp2jHzL0L_c5WzZTmvyCUo2buJSwTa3RB-XH9OIXagpypf_FHjCRt2ir7jLhyzM-dEDLWYNLvYKu3VVD2BrLIRj4F-F7tYwbTVAXtpCkeWG2jYMPgbPoEyI8hcqiyjJY4wR0hH9HbJiRzAa8v/s5472/IMG_8481.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-PSxks36P9poE3EDtXK3HIH0-CjpUAKOmcncpE6NOp2jHzL0L_c5WzZTmvyCUo2buJSwTa3RB-XH9OIXagpypf_FHjCRt2ir7jLhyzM-dEDLWYNLvYKu3VVD2BrLIRj4F-F7tYwbTVAXtpCkeWG2jYMPgbPoEyI8hcqiyjJY4wR0hH9HbJiRzAa8v/s320/IMG_8481.JPG" width="213" /></a></div>Fabrics are all from I Love Textil, the place that sells factory rejects, leftovers, and such. </div><div>Photos were shot by the incredible Norbert Varga @Bodeszphoto. </div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-7758131897974978432023-02-28T11:15:00.000+01:002023-02-28T11:15:00.222+01:00...and repeat. Turning a cheap straw hat to an 18th century bergere hat - the second time<div class="separator" style="text-align: justify;"> And a little bit of whining. I mean besides basking in the glow and success of my Aidah gown I've fully meant to do one more post on it, with a video me twirling in that dress, so you can see how it moves, adding a link to Leimomi's blog, so you can see what other testers made from the same pattern, but admittedly (though, let me know, if you would be interested in such a follow-up post), I have been run down with the virus my son brought home as an (unintentional) Valentine's day present. (No, it is not "the plague", we've tested that). By now I am more-or less okay, except for the cough that goes on for the second week now, and it is still so intense and painful, as it was at the beginning. So much so, that when I cough, all the muscles on my head (and my body) are straining, and making it hurt in places I had no idea I have muscles, that are capable of pain. Like my temples... or at the top of my head (not to meantion my diaphgram, and/or my lower abs, but I got muscles in my back hurting as well). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_8JvjzFhekl3M9jAy19v4b__tHn-u8dmPaKRH6Q7EPle7O0POfK139uQLvdqjZ_DDZFcj4e5TJZiNu03cVXVLKzPw-4rpCDojqeBQUN6lO915pgLpTMHD3J63cNOMMhyLzCoq6lFDDNNwsBTspGLp7XV31RdAhfdIq2BJqlQD2KLJFqqhglbVJzBL/s5472/IMG_6893.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_8JvjzFhekl3M9jAy19v4b__tHn-u8dmPaKRH6Q7EPle7O0POfK139uQLvdqjZ_DDZFcj4e5TJZiNu03cVXVLKzPw-4rpCDojqeBQUN6lO915pgLpTMHD3J63cNOMMhyLzCoq6lFDDNNwsBTspGLp7XV31RdAhfdIq2BJqlQD2KLJFqqhglbVJzBL/s320/IMG_6893.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>Anyhow, right after making the Aidah, I've made a hat to go with it, and other summery, 18th century stuff, as let's admit it, <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-poppy-hat-turning-cheap-strawhat.html" target="_blank">my poppy hat</a>, as lovely it is, very limited, being red as a <strike>monkey's arse</strike>... I mean a poppy. The method was similar than the one I used for the <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-poppy-hat-turning-cheap-strawhat.html" target="_blank">poppy hat</a>, I raided all the used-stuff-sites (Vatera, FacebookMarketplace, and the likes) for straw-hats that have at least vaguely okay shape, and went from there. I think the pictures are self-explanatory, but if not, just ask!</p><p>Started out with a hat that were made from straw-ribbons.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWYJEvuWbog2_SANwQr-UWjuo8x6UDV-Lmy0-mKzrbFEbvmrsT8R7cc2aQdQNYdmU0C1T9e39mIPkx2gubmQoAC3lGhsTWhvpUnxwtP2cQdte1zgr8EXFAmRGRXhO84w3f2mW9lPyHKy5bad_KDP5SfJH5zJdQZL0gKVrvWj42g6kO9TN8nHmxxF5z/s4032/20230216_115021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWYJEvuWbog2_SANwQr-UWjuo8x6UDV-Lmy0-mKzrbFEbvmrsT8R7cc2aQdQNYdmU0C1T9e39mIPkx2gubmQoAC3lGhsTWhvpUnxwtP2cQdte1zgr8EXFAmRGRXhO84w3f2mW9lPyHKy5bad_KDP5SfJH5zJdQZL0gKVrvWj42g6kO9TN8nHmxxF5z/s320/20230216_115021.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>If you pull on the appropriate thread, it is easy to take the stitches out. I wanted a somewhat flatter hat than my poppy-hat was, so I left even less from the top part.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgtq9ywtDAqT8AHlckmPG7wefLdD6osyApgmg9eRH_xamyG4cLEvyeOVdEmXhR0PdBYYCoh8VMB1534-I4mTdalco1CY5kQTSdIYsI6gCWk98wFxHRNDWFMIjeYHn1jlmgIdds0dpCMPi7bwq2njd-sMWM6moU0Mj-mITK2SdZ5uhxdrssdsRQhE5M/s4032/20230216_120208.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgtq9ywtDAqT8AHlckmPG7wefLdD6osyApgmg9eRH_xamyG4cLEvyeOVdEmXhR0PdBYYCoh8VMB1534-I4mTdalco1CY5kQTSdIYsI6gCWk98wFxHRNDWFMIjeYHn1jlmgIdds0dpCMPi7bwq2njd-sMWM6moU0Mj-mITK2SdZ5uhxdrssdsRQhE5M/s320/20230216_120208.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>I moistened the top part and steamed it flat with my iron.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ECY7npXqEE8voXPLkdgrJV772cuoWmRuJTQheSzWH1okHKMeFk59bKfj6CjfWDo6C_YV5VPhk0C_BJE0Q45lMo1ugZLZnB2h7O75H6PjdreReh1i3-o8UfW-0vqQDcThIljhi2JmDBwZmzgtCSBwIl8Yfk6QNKqhz1rfIlPKpmnxdZaY0r-Dj6zs/s4032/20230216_121629.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ECY7npXqEE8voXPLkdgrJV772cuoWmRuJTQheSzWH1okHKMeFk59bKfj6CjfWDo6C_YV5VPhk0C_BJE0Q45lMo1ugZLZnB2h7O75H6PjdreReh1i3-o8UfW-0vqQDcThIljhi2JmDBwZmzgtCSBwIl8Yfk6QNKqhz1rfIlPKpmnxdZaY0r-Dj6zs/s320/20230216_121629.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Sewed it back on, hoping that the decoration will hide the seam.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-fFmktS9589eF8iylIjxRk6MxnA0YMav5x64iwGQSF703UavtIOCoa1Hg6OSCGzcbc4_6jwV1mHLT4KCM1VYvoBmngqG21cS0oVa0GJBXAjhQnZqssHl1-sIVlnykkxH5Rcl7DPXri2Yn5980KVq10JVXGILZ53aHgz8WeVGwNtS-8ukUGJIGgIL/s4032/20230216_121636.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB-fFmktS9589eF8iylIjxRk6MxnA0YMav5x64iwGQSF703UavtIOCoa1Hg6OSCGzcbc4_6jwV1mHLT4KCM1VYvoBmngqG21cS0oVa0GJBXAjhQnZqssHl1-sIVlnykkxH5Rcl7DPXri2Yn5980KVq10JVXGILZ53aHgz8WeVGwNtS-8ukUGJIGgIL/s320/20230216_121636.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I've tried. It did not work. Don't ask. I will use hatpins. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJUxDmKZ5IrSZk6YAd0Azr_m6BHJlQV9cW2JalLydvw26HWPiGPmKWtupO_Ew4qSVKWMh5r0JqCzUKDokVWxZIDk1vxjTjKBkxARIldudsXBF8HOWTEe1dO9apfXa_zaESEIeyJHEhJ8-xI_y1OvpUbHR8a9zr8qoU_X68cecI1da43WGYHrJPT-Pv/s4032/20230216_144857.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJUxDmKZ5IrSZk6YAd0Azr_m6BHJlQV9cW2JalLydvw26HWPiGPmKWtupO_Ew4qSVKWMh5r0JqCzUKDokVWxZIDk1vxjTjKBkxARIldudsXBF8HOWTEe1dO9apfXa_zaESEIeyJHEhJ8-xI_y1OvpUbHR8a9zr8qoU_X68cecI1da43WGYHrJPT-Pv/s320/20230216_144857.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>The deco from outside is a silk ribbon with box-pleats.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT34t8_0vIVkBspWvownah9QmhQo2OiTgiefCARG5-n-dyK1bLycQWaoxCRDSNfZYPG2BmV5B3PL3bpKMGrzNIL2DMEJX-ss0S6r8fz25RlKLkE8U0nt5z5mQhFVg9zW9QEpZkkBJmYBv_Q7pzjXYM30mgEhemIdtUuH7rijuH-XAhXn9SzP9Ge-0M/s4032/20230216_150810.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguipydbStFNNMoc-aLr3k43w1bkTQjrL8FX7KHwgCn37W4DQw9En6lz2ZkrZ98GZICRuDtHmhc8uCj-1js5qZoz_zl6tkVZP45OdZvjb2L8QHvOeiyOrfgjZAUrK5P_iwytzrfK38SPcsYrcd1IiDItSkHnLd9z9kyYeIXAFsiHsixtZAzvIt_o7hI/s320/20230216_153718.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From outside, the flowery decorations were either stucked under the ribbon deco -between stitches, and sewn down, stitches hidden under the ribbon, others were stuck between, or under the already sewn down parts - no glue gun were used, only needle and thread. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_aeSGoGUaqCPT0y6zQ6fa2BvkNxkxLDuUenSfvYAH_VxW31zY8hNCfzt-mwSYntRFJKh-FpgCMJUllJfgReIKcOjPWv1rlcHhxwjMTt-6MsV7tDSjG7grqdyZHWVEFhz9eiTCQcDquZybOvek5pNJ-r2mMRWV8XODrG6yfUFFVYVEuTcdTxeosBc/s4032/20230216_183121.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The Aidah gown.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLO_yssbWBM6D-uN-WHDyQVKGap2-xbAEb3FXzYh0VCWD-wgqNNiqwO4eY5j2agCrzvYtWQnvVNfTK0B6RjGksrPqDfojZB0rOiXwlc7EztOzj5y5t_ly6r3UNi5DSGIgsfemLoG-jspfKFdb_DAkpW0Uqk1bWzjU-aFWgAjk93NYiXwKhnAPZT1ES/s5472/IMG_7096.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLO_yssbWBM6D-uN-WHDyQVKGap2-xbAEb3FXzYh0VCWD-wgqNNiqwO4eY5j2agCrzvYtWQnvVNfTK0B6RjGksrPqDfojZB0rOiXwlc7EztOzj5y5t_ly6r3UNi5DSGIgsfemLoG-jspfKFdb_DAkpW0Uqk1bWzjU-aFWgAjk93NYiXwKhnAPZT1ES/s320/IMG_7096.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">It is done.
Finished. The test of the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/922674080295572871/8067911812803296682" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Aidah Gown by Scroop patterns and
Virgil Fine goods</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">Since this was a
test, I was concentrating on sewing, and did not take many pictures. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">Let me just talk
about the points that caused me concern, trouble, or needed extra
concentrations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">First of all, it
is a great pattern, I've seen the testing on many different shapes, bodies,
fabrics, and all worked out great. My concerns/troubles/extra attention needed
was caused either my body not being a standard one, and/or by being stupid
blind (more about on that later). The bodice itself was pretty straightforward, though
I did the full mock up on straight grain, and then realizing that I did the red
dress's front on the bias. (looking at the existing pieces, we can find both versions).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYZu2aGGRdufreAhADWPWHqPWkr9djeAo8nbWCVBYssusgiqTafPUoapLJzKnTGd92Op7v2enuGHkzE33rbtVgbN6phv9imJ3A2CwP3Ik6IniUiqt2TtNHSrWD3nkvGMB0DGUwJmuKe8N95r4FMyo2szsrfe8GRXtIMjBntoqMJK2bXYg8WODbCkwl/s4032/20230207_104241.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYZu2aGGRdufreAhADWPWHqPWkr9djeAo8nbWCVBYssusgiqTafPUoapLJzKnTGd92Op7v2enuGHkzE33rbtVgbN6phv9imJ3A2CwP3Ik6IniUiqt2TtNHSrWD3nkvGMB0DGUwJmuKe8N95r4FMyo2szsrfe8GRXtIMjBntoqMJK2bXYg8WODbCkwl/s320/20230207_104241.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Discussing it with Leimomi, I decided on a somewhat
off grain, but that still threw of the fit, I had to change back the front
curve. Then I did the sleeves. Oh the sleeves.</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtLBRzTwlY8euBDfZhtFfGlJdOC2QEYiCJ44ITTkUm--_8nzjOL84Sttlv8Rji1jZHlg6OfgzJ8d_9YV97Jl9UZaUHTtHPTCUK8M5jZAkBHSok4XOuFLyyyKfNOBFYuJI8Qfl9ufcDxVCgn2cwkj8195INjljMkDX9cDSMJd-OEbyoohhYds8ZkI7v/s4032/20230210_104418.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtLBRzTwlY8euBDfZhtFfGlJdOC2QEYiCJ44ITTkUm--_8nzjOL84Sttlv8Rji1jZHlg6OfgzJ8d_9YV97Jl9UZaUHTtHPTCUK8M5jZAkBHSok4XOuFLyyyKfNOBFYuJI8Qfl9ufcDxVCgn2cwkj8195INjljMkDX9cDSMJd-OEbyoohhYds8ZkI7v/s320/20230210_104418.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spent <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>three day in sleeve hell. The truth is, I like
to think about myself that while I am not that good at drawing patterns, and I
am mediocre at fittings, I am pretty good at techniques (taking a chance of
sounding full of myself, unless it is really technically tricky, the drawn up
pattern is enough for me, I don't really need to read the instructions -I did
for this pattern, the problem is not that.) I don't remember ever having
problems with sleeves. Sleeve-hell, sleevils were words without any meaning for
me. So, I think the sewing gods decided to teach me a lesson... Anyhow, I cut
the sleeves as per pattern, tried it, as <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/728112615204906/user/770263705/?__cft__%5b0%5d=AZXGoBWBytKgocMjGFWZjiWmbnuWcb0KeXxxEtG5ww50_xO94dBsPI1S0NstKjrz_DKk4j4XWTqCmOEe38uwtrhoADvw4uxl28tgq9SH7A6ekHlKZwuX4PGzi7f4YijQQTV9O2WrACXhwQLcsPjSmfL-jHdZwkyabAYBOgxU8rF36GrNgbgYzawnQgnf-y1TYnU&__tn__=-%5dK-R"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: blue; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Leimomi</span></a> pointed out it was a tiny bit too wide at the
cuffs, so I took them in a bit, tried again - almost perfect. So I cut out the
actual fabric, but following our discussion about grainlines, since I wanted my
dress to have a bit earlier "feel" (reflecting more the beginning of the given time-period, than the end), I decided to cut the sleeves
instead of parallel to the warp, cut it with crossgrain. And the sleeves DID
NOT FIT. They were too tight. I really did not understand, I checked, I did cut
exactly the same size as the mock up (took apart the mock up, and I used its
pieces for pattern). Only after banging my head for a while, I thought of the
fact that warp is usually a lot less flexible than weft. I shoud have known. I
spin yarn and weave, I know how the texture of a fabric works (ask me one about
the shirt of Father Ralph in Thornbirds LOL), I learned about textile structure
in my technical school. DUH. And that was the only thing that changed,
grainline, the warp across the sleeve (and not along the length) was enough
that the sleeve did not snuggled up to my arm, but resisted it... I took one of
the sleeves apart, added a cm, cut it out and sewn it up again, now had three
sleeves. Then I spent two more days, because I mixed them up and tried to fit a
left sleeve into a right armhole (yeah, I am a blind idiot). Took me many
tries, (yes, there was some crying, I cantdothis, and threwing into a corner as well), finally realizing what is wrong, and pinning the right sleeve to the
right armhole. Then, so the sewing gods could make sure to make fun of me, after struggling for days -emntirely my fault- Anna brought her jacket to rehersal, because hse could not fit her sleeve into her armhole... and I pinned it in for her in like two minutes. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">The next hurdle
was the pleating. My red dress had cartridge pleating, because… just because I
like it, and because the Belgian original one I based my dress off, had one,
but I know all too well, that knife pleating is much more common in the 18<sup>th</sup>
century than cartridge. So I tried to figure out how many, and how deep pleats
I needed to have to fit the skirt into the allotted place. Yeah, I know, there
are tutorials and lessons<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on calculating
pleats, but hell, I am a philologist. I avoid calculus if I can get away with
it, even if it means pleating 4,5 meters of fabric into a 60 cm wide space.
Five times. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgypL1CnahMq9ory1hy7VtHIOzlWdJaPnLT2_uqFiO3EuqliTD-L6wNQO-as64uNAGt3LWGx3LwIxXQMVME8dSlg8StcesbyTRAjYH0MWVY2Ls2MKCklZEBX5K1efyEGRvMcLlN5_mOVPzF_YN2-f8XrG6-eme6jJcmohdonKn1o0W1W4rEh-xPiLC6/s4032/20230210_235424.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgypL1CnahMq9ory1hy7VtHIOzlWdJaPnLT2_uqFiO3EuqliTD-L6wNQO-as64uNAGt3LWGx3LwIxXQMVME8dSlg8StcesbyTRAjYH0MWVY2Ls2MKCklZEBX5K1efyEGRvMcLlN5_mOVPzF_YN2-f8XrG6-eme6jJcmohdonKn1o0W1W4rEh-xPiLC6/s320/20230210_235424.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmVgddwtodkeKIE4OSSpG1O28sSXjndd76zel2moB24jGDBXvdeQ1y2kUqukonQjA4yF2ygNHGmV0ZM3fVygsqxJNkvFrtD_4KJXBW_kOHcfTTzF1gdCzQzDt61CDngDZPJYgy6w5Nsf1Gtgq24JHKYLiJPjflhD37eEGRas9lamF55O7i3T19E4XF/s4032/20230211_002539.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmVgddwtodkeKIE4OSSpG1O28sSXjndd76zel2moB24jGDBXvdeQ1y2kUqukonQjA4yF2ygNHGmV0ZM3fVygsqxJNkvFrtD_4KJXBW_kOHcfTTzF1gdCzQzDt61CDngDZPJYgy6w5Nsf1Gtgq24JHKYLiJPjflhD37eEGRas9lamF55O7i3T19E4XF/s320/20230211_002539.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWwtkMBIcTt3T0gkHfiX-4tlGWlNmWV5JyTp69QHKj3LXwh-8HASIe1Y4uCgtGYxHyLe5XgORRs1xqFD6JiIelwLld36xkMj9BLx7azb4QE32xsDGP7d1qKXeCzT6oJbdv8jz6nBtFUpcPIJabzVudMV0fPjMFkx9x1sTUYK3jg3mwEKlEJ1n9-1jS/s4032/20230211_035358.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWwtkMBIcTt3T0gkHfiX-4tlGWlNmWV5JyTp69QHKj3LXwh-8HASIe1Y4uCgtGYxHyLe5XgORRs1xqFD6JiIelwLld36xkMj9BLx7azb4QE32xsDGP7d1qKXeCzT6oJbdv8jz6nBtFUpcPIJabzVudMV0fPjMFkx9x1sTUYK3jg3mwEKlEJ1n9-1jS/s320/20230211_035358.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTYcJvetWdk2HpRQhW-ctmYmylHsfTDvBm9rboLy7uCcXUCAJAWwIg3GXsEWeFomMeDrwgdbcaiCr7CMUyvAqUUjfygScEsxmmX5KGrCmUd6TsI10-CrQ67KJdWyllTn_rAXD-OHhoCZu_BraTew2IhD-JiGCIG3WPeenATPPAJ9Nger3iRp6IcR0S/s4032/20230211_003437.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTYcJvetWdk2HpRQhW-ctmYmylHsfTDvBm9rboLy7uCcXUCAJAWwIg3GXsEWeFomMeDrwgdbcaiCr7CMUyvAqUUjfygScEsxmmX5KGrCmUd6TsI10-CrQ67KJdWyllTn_rAXD-OHhoCZu_BraTew2IhD-JiGCIG3WPeenATPPAJ9Nger3iRp6IcR0S/s320/20230211_003437.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">Sewing the skirt
to the bodice was also different, than my red dress, there I cut out the space
for the V shape of the waist and the top of the cartridge pleats were sewn to
the bottom edge of the bodice… </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfXhHbP3xfpfJjbn08oJUXeNdssJzg0XaWDBN2dPuiD6A8b81E28X9N-NUs4Ag7AgUIiu0b9TvJ8jJXFVIKmqKWaHe99lVgJjXcW1NxDobFnweLke4jPodi-N3GrdSMjBgAazRuSt6ommo6kIIvhDCbkoRhyxm9NxtJtSIph_1E1_jv9T8Ic4ZSB0/s4032/20230211_135610.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfXhHbP3xfpfJjbn08oJUXeNdssJzg0XaWDBN2dPuiD6A8b81E28X9N-NUs4Ag7AgUIiu0b9TvJ8jJXFVIKmqKWaHe99lVgJjXcW1NxDobFnweLke4jPodi-N3GrdSMjBgAazRuSt6ommo6kIIvhDCbkoRhyxm9NxtJtSIph_1E1_jv9T8Ic4ZSB0/s320/20230211_135610.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">here I fitted the top of the skirt to a straight
waistline, cut it open in the middle –which was not scary at all… not, not as
scary as hell. Right. It was. but it looks like this on the inside.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiHSQWLVjtfSUHaoFP4m0RQiqmc_hnEREV82YYoCLizrCCTN5X5KogTytWZoSHL8dUF_Q3HodCwe53rlJ-pNaoOtH0xHedjQzZcvhAbNawqyad5VP2mW7HiWuNUTBCu-n-quHskGIZ8-J0eKckEm6LRbGONhkdqVhHpB8qPEb83UW02h-NTcXZW2Cz/s4032/20230212_004021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiHSQWLVjtfSUHaoFP4m0RQiqmc_hnEREV82YYoCLizrCCTN5X5KogTytWZoSHL8dUF_Q3HodCwe53rlJ-pNaoOtH0xHedjQzZcvhAbNawqyad5VP2mW7HiWuNUTBCu-n-quHskGIZ8-J0eKckEm6LRbGONhkdqVhHpB8qPEb83UW02h-NTcXZW2Cz/s320/20230212_004021.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Finally it was
done, it fitted, and all I needed a petticoat and some decorations. It really
seemed a good idea to have a ruffled petticoat for the dress… until I realized
that it would mean hand-sewing 9 meters of hem instead of 4.5. But I did it literally
in one sitting.</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A long sitting
consisting the second half of the first season of Carnival row, but one
sitting, nevertheless. How did I stand up afterwards, you don't want to know.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgxe-eBZw_bptsIh-_OugnPUYOtOGlu1E6L0TfTUrHuopLGYuNGU2JgYAOa1z3PLn-Gyn84zrsFUwWunxjsfyxdY16EhzhmJWGKRDfez48_yp2CHq6VPsH2v4xd-XoF2S3ec6ZOuIBts66ho-kTm5ZDbqRuYHQtoFP6ZBUUSrYta__9qoyWFvi4DY/s4032/20230215_101524.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgxe-eBZw_bptsIh-_OugnPUYOtOGlu1E6L0TfTUrHuopLGYuNGU2JgYAOa1z3PLn-Gyn84zrsFUwWunxjsfyxdY16EhzhmJWGKRDfez48_yp2CHq6VPsH2v4xd-XoF2S3ec6ZOuIBts66ho-kTm5ZDbqRuYHQtoFP6ZBUUSrYta__9qoyWFvi4DY/s320/20230215_101524.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 16px;">Then I only needed to make like 6 meters of ruffles for decorating, easy-peasy. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNVAv0ruRyJuhYZAsz7GO1UUFvFVLEUjXHDEs_n414H7uWI_vXyPbhVgQF04-xY7d-AhPoWGgEjo9qLkLl88s_XtGT8qB07NDmyIyYE7yHEehuCIaaxCOqzHNAl5PuLA-gOA4t5JZQAcy9TPj95cH10smvfbsYYTWTabYafMgjfTMIHxrzfXZPn4c/s4032/20230214_184101.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNVAv0ruRyJuhYZAsz7GO1UUFvFVLEUjXHDEs_n414H7uWI_vXyPbhVgQF04-xY7d-AhPoWGgEjo9qLkLl88s_XtGT8qB07NDmyIyYE7yHEehuCIaaxCOqzHNAl5PuLA-gOA4t5JZQAcy9TPj95cH10smvfbsYYTWTabYafMgjfTMIHxrzfXZPn4c/s320/20230214_184101.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Even sewing the line of gathering stitches with the machine, it took me hours to pull the thread and arranging the ruffles more or less evenly. Added a line of silk ribbon to the ruffles, just to emphasize the greenness of the fashion fabric.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_lnlpg88Lc--3S5mUG_wgb4H3VoLQgXjlAdxxwZo_YbPwLDZ-aZ2QfVNqbYQ9N4NTfFDTmy0aZxX_26lIgFBBy4IptPpyr8ijJuz0YXp7rjYo5LktuSlar2-99UJUhmgv6TtsoBvnWds5_UeTsNBJ8A2kebL2JcpOLqs1KDmo5cEjCAaP2RFqVwB_/s4032/20230214_155314.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_lnlpg88Lc--3S5mUG_wgb4H3VoLQgXjlAdxxwZo_YbPwLDZ-aZ2QfVNqbYQ9N4NTfFDTmy0aZxX_26lIgFBBy4IptPpyr8ijJuz0YXp7rjYo5LktuSlar2-99UJUhmgv6TtsoBvnWds5_UeTsNBJ8A2kebL2JcpOLqs1KDmo5cEjCAaP2RFqVwB_/s320/20230214_155314.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">When all it was done, I still whipped up another petticoat, as though I have a white one I made for the red dress, according to the consensus of the 18</span><sup style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; text-align: left;">th</sup><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> century sewing group of Facebook, the more, the better, and with this different kind of green striped one, I can still pull another look, if I want to.</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlu3lXcKd3LJBmPSatlx9g-ynguXaBmsLBSTsKeUraqPXQm5F3AsUU_wSyCjxvwLm6HbFp4jc7Lg_ZHg5nSIEZZhIvOXPn1uchKZ1iYC_NpS0fBXqn0nLqRHOtksZxLnUZ57Hk8aJDwMEueQx0FFki7QOhVyRsK4Knev0OfsR8FVBwwLY49RPUF6SD/s5472/IMG_6926.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlu3lXcKd3LJBmPSatlx9g-ynguXaBmsLBSTsKeUraqPXQm5F3AsUU_wSyCjxvwLm6HbFp4jc7Lg_ZHg5nSIEZZhIvOXPn1uchKZ1iYC_NpS0fBXqn0nLqRHOtksZxLnUZ57Hk8aJDwMEueQx0FFki7QOhVyRsK4Knev0OfsR8FVBwwLY49RPUF6SD/s320/IMG_6926.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">So, what do I
think of the pattern? I already said it is really great. I love the back with
its narrow panels (though it works with wider ones too, if the pattern of the fabric would require that). I love that it has a front that is the same style as the
dress I want to recreate (a bit later). I love that practically all of its
component can be exchanged with the Angelica gown’s components. There is
actually a </span><a href="https://thedreamstress.com/2023/02/the-aidah-vs-the-angelica-whats-different/" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">lengthy blogpost about the similarities and differences</a><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> of the two,
so go and read if you cannot decide.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">I also know that
my dress has its faults, but that is most probably originates with my stupid
struggles of the sleeves, and getting tired of taking them out yet another time.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhalpwDuq-C2__pVRT5LvbSkwQx32kisNsD2_QXzGvv1YM71lHwRBKx4HPiFiLHdvLpcu_5hr9v8DYP0H-6ZmPoUDm8M-burhVyCYsfW75RVExDlaTKy4fk-NCiXajLKl-mQmInolFIf8QRPmbrnvSA1iS9sRpFjjkT0qdWaJ81S7V2fmrYhL_eR3b2/s5472/IMG_6890.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhalpwDuq-C2__pVRT5LvbSkwQx32kisNsD2_QXzGvv1YM71lHwRBKx4HPiFiLHdvLpcu_5hr9v8DYP0H-6ZmPoUDm8M-burhVyCYsfW75RVExDlaTKy4fk-NCiXajLKl-mQmInolFIf8QRPmbrnvSA1iS9sRpFjjkT0qdWaJ81S7V2fmrYhL_eR3b2/s320/IMG_6890.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">In addition of
adding a cm to the seams (because of the cross-grain), I ended up taking off
about a cm from the sleevehead (as the sleeves were way to puffy). I also
should have only added that centimeter to the lower half of the sleeve and not
to the back of my biceps. I also should have taken the shoulder straps off one
more time, and change its angle a bit more. (As a child, I was a swimmer first,
then a rover, and I have a slight sway-back. Great combo, until you try to fit
something on me. Especially, when yo live with two man who are terrified of sewing pins -so no help with fitting.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2q_T7I81EgeWuOJAJTVN5235Iznspsr4olRX1eDVolRrgJW0aCs94YrdHIMH7G8KakJA-srRt1pqW0aO4lhQo_uaiFC9Gr26aiDOR6vofH8HSmW0755JT7bio5ir-4cgHpZhIupWMq30-q1CmvKOdIu1ph-h1lksxTc2vCCG-7Gr7RJ4zh285HkyC/s5472/IMG_6931.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2q_T7I81EgeWuOJAJTVN5235Iznspsr4olRX1eDVolRrgJW0aCs94YrdHIMH7G8KakJA-srRt1pqW0aO4lhQo_uaiFC9Gr26aiDOR6vofH8HSmW0755JT7bio5ir-4cgHpZhIupWMq30-q1CmvKOdIu1ph-h1lksxTc2vCCG-7Gr7RJ4zh285HkyC/s320/IMG_6931.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">As for sewing, I
would use lining fabric with even more hold, than the cute little polka dot
linen had. The flaps would certainly benefit from them.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BUEXbDdwMji9759b_JnQ7_MkvMGu-ztSIyyfwU9kyhOhi55Iz6U6axMaIqMZEjQJWNiVdzvQg8yj-MP4Qo-7gWPc0EbU_i2YTg6qvBsyJTFyAFPppvpYehL-iDmci7DvC5mZ8Zx9GG1UIGfML8y-Tj8dXCKT6WkL9QPD4u1tIRibiIv-xeRQSUoY/s5472/IMG_6906.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7BUEXbDdwMji9759b_JnQ7_MkvMGu-ztSIyyfwU9kyhOhi55Iz6U6axMaIqMZEjQJWNiVdzvQg8yj-MP4Qo-7gWPc0EbU_i2YTg6qvBsyJTFyAFPppvpYehL-iDmci7DvC5mZ8Zx9GG1UIGfML8y-Tj8dXCKT6WkL9QPD4u1tIRibiIv-xeRQSUoY/s320/IMG_6906.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">The instructions
for sewing the pattern –in fully authentic historic manner- are plentiful in
the patterns. I’ve seen the revised final ones too since, they are even better.
For me one of the difficulties was to adhere to the instructions as much as I
could, because it was a test, after all. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcISxC7DkT5k6ch1e9lwBfhr614djrIxt0w10oDADTQIrFz4F39wzraHbi9YqMSwM0x1vLWOvM3gz6rM5OdemrmRODD6YRUsCEIPn3LsiOEfeb2gKNXctiwoKYj--RySDfnwso64DqhUqdFzkw7qBMXY0RSlLJYL4-6lsZFkpSJKFpPQkyspLLo0g/s5472/IMG_6873.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcISxC7DkT5k6ch1e9lwBfhr614djrIxt0w10oDADTQIrFz4F39wzraHbi9YqMSwM0x1vLWOvM3gz6rM5OdemrmRODD6YRUsCEIPn3LsiOEfeb2gKNXctiwoKYj--RySDfnwso64DqhUqdFzkw7qBMXY0RSlLJYL4-6lsZFkpSJKFpPQkyspLLo0g/s320/IMG_6873.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">The other thing I would change, I would include either instructions for either (mostly) machine sewing, or at least ideas, where could one cut at least some corners with machine sewing, but I understand that being such a complex pattern with as many sizes as it comes in, it would be difficult (even longer process) to include that too. However, if you want to save time, and would want to use machine sewing at least at some places, ask away, I will gladly give ideas. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpAkJZw6GSFLOH9R6Vr-2WcmDPhFE6SUp2WQLwbEAR-IzF0139_6_N0o0zk1yhbbO959k1zBH2oaCwqSChzMtKPILJqOtdgbaYJRduIxdJ-84aSEqvWx1KmiAeHjV-KsApbq_NxxpCsPoExIRpr-dj1vvODA1A2OYnk56Ooyqv-lazDyqiwaIGSxED/s5472/IMG_7094.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpAkJZw6GSFLOH9R6Vr-2WcmDPhFE6SUp2WQLwbEAR-IzF0139_6_N0o0zk1yhbbO959k1zBH2oaCwqSChzMtKPILJqOtdgbaYJRduIxdJ-84aSEqvWx1KmiAeHjV-KsApbq_NxxpCsPoExIRpr-dj1vvODA1A2OYnk56Ooyqv-lazDyqiwaIGSxED/s320/IMG_7094.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Was it worth
doing the test? YESSS! It was a challenge to do it on time. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLcql0hMybOAlGnF3vxOyZqSr527RUQZYxKtFt0wPHkTEfo9V1WCju6cVauYqFKstJHw4cjc_zlIMD33T1QFzXCViNW2eim9O0VCDeNcWktobIgJr2-djUyVjXS6o3CfbdaRzEvP4hhK5fk59YuMTXkZut2kqmmQDUQzADP9-U_kLbJ9osfPuYqclG/s5472/IMG_7057.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLcql0hMybOAlGnF3vxOyZqSr527RUQZYxKtFt0wPHkTEfo9V1WCju6cVauYqFKstJHw4cjc_zlIMD33T1QFzXCViNW2eim9O0VCDeNcWktobIgJr2-djUyVjXS6o3CfbdaRzEvP4hhK5fk59YuMTXkZut2kqmmQDUQzADP9-U_kLbJ9osfPuYqclG/s320/IMG_7057.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Would I buy the
pattern (even though I do have the Angelica)? YESSS! (in fact I am actually
glad I did the test, because I did not have to wait for the pattern to be
published, ny fingers were itching to do it.)</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhitU4h_ZXBGB9_wY8U40pGY8WE_rJw1w7UN9UABPiOU0SItQ6Di4DC2svp8FT-eSUGUY-3nWg9fXC1jePDIB4NGWSRUnjhLSJ1Z204VE8u1BQbI8geK5s7drj30YPwW4_Rtsnh8pd4lQvbZ9T0vW-M65rg4VSviZ8nK00n7_r4SDylHtOfs2GjOTkl/s5472/IMG_6973.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhitU4h_ZXBGB9_wY8U40pGY8WE_rJw1w7UN9UABPiOU0SItQ6Di4DC2svp8FT-eSUGUY-3nWg9fXC1jePDIB4NGWSRUnjhLSJ1Z204VE8u1BQbI8geK5s7drj30YPwW4_Rtsnh8pd4lQvbZ9T0vW-M65rg4VSviZ8nK00n7_r4SDylHtOfs2GjOTkl/s320/IMG_6973.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 16px;">Would I do another test? Well, that depends. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtEbDtVqUuXWZwxulhgq3hG8cwgYZmJpv_6Gxw1ncXlulqbyz4J2snwF7Bpy253j8bY4qsTU1I5lDKKHmwqMJVMZpMmCJTZe7Es5b1dl0gELjfK7_-6NqDRewMTJ28PfjRGT_M_kgt75F84pRlw50gqUp7XX0M2Na923a92ONkOH-ShH7e9qxBNR4G/s5472/IMG_7050.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtEbDtVqUuXWZwxulhgq3hG8cwgYZmJpv_6Gxw1ncXlulqbyz4J2snwF7Bpy253j8bY4qsTU1I5lDKKHmwqMJVMZpMmCJTZe7Es5b1dl0gELjfK7_-6NqDRewMTJ28PfjRGT_M_kgt75F84pRlw50gqUp7XX0M2Na923a92ONkOH-ShH7e9qxBNR4G/s320/IMG_7050.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="text-align: left;">It should be something I really, really want to make, to make it worth for me to do something on time, adhere to instruction, etc, though admittedly I loved being part of the group, sewing people doing it on Instagram, and go “yess, I do that too, what do you thing about this or that?” and kind of sorry to have it end.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaXJCbONfJOLCrdOhZZ_Suc39WHCHGEZ1O0TUvmDAycFh2gzNWwTgiQ9IwO4Geq73RWPelQPwGj99bD0ST_Sp0ZO2roCKF8b9QRgW4JycvouXB_TZsutwKy9IRoVnnXkYWGcOnxHlhvPE9AQ_r6NoLHIuWnhgIYS-87zYcfOE0PY9uf8LBcX1gGsKx/s5472/IMG_6871.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaXJCbONfJOLCrdOhZZ_Suc39WHCHGEZ1O0TUvmDAycFh2gzNWwTgiQ9IwO4Geq73RWPelQPwGj99bD0ST_Sp0ZO2roCKF8b9QRgW4JycvouXB_TZsutwKy9IRoVnnXkYWGcOnxHlhvPE9AQ_r6NoLHIuWnhgIYS-87zYcfOE0PY9uf8LBcX1gGsKx/s320/IMG_6871.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8V0OpPmhnzg-J1Jv__S0N4EOEb28WEECE3FnzCp1rXkNAx_lQzbIjb4qEj4cNmoXvHcQyI8UeH837U2VVodCMzvzzIUU6hHS9lFcbDdIZN6d9TeeWiNd-xzUAohSiKVxUU6eakNJBYhRaoyOPJXuiTX-Gm60q8CeH9W08qyd-Ot0zJpFgoceae_Fn/s320/IMG_7017.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Minta: Aidah Gown <a href="https://www.scrooppatterns.com/products/aidahgown-1775-1790?fbclid=IwAR3SHE_2-R2R_AyhQNmFb4m-vuY0LOpDnWKGA6t5yAxoyfGYOAKjugLrK68" target="_blank">by Scroop Patterns and Virgil Fine Goods.</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">A varrós képek a telefonomról.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Modell fotók: Norbert Varga @<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Bodeszphoto" target="_blank">Bodeszphoto</a></div><p></p><br /><p></p>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-56353534682542081742023-02-18T18:30:00.001+01:002023-02-18T18:30:00.204+01:00Shift, chemise, undershirt, or what you will<p> What do you do, when realize like two days before the pallned photosession, that the linen summerdress you use in place for a shift has a neckline that is way too high? </p><p>Yeah, sew one. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvns-_8Pp1HzBBI5mVVcjveyJFnGs3-CGiZF6978FsWPGex4UK9d7MIgLcJppDkdyWMeJ6QktBLzW-FTvS9FL_zZUE5TUth8YBv-aGahOrE1XZRJce9LT1A9DacreoL0iQ6EgdT80OtPXNAZ38SeGMp-zemZWkfA11oHOqEGerwisVtWa2EeYaGUl/s4032/20230217_115721.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKvns-_8Pp1HzBBI5mVVcjveyJFnGs3-CGiZF6978FsWPGex4UK9d7MIgLcJppDkdyWMeJ6QktBLzW-FTvS9FL_zZUE5TUth8YBv-aGahOrE1XZRJce9LT1A9DacreoL0iQ6EgdT80OtPXNAZ38SeGMp-zemZWkfA11oHOqEGerwisVtWa2EeYaGUl/s320/20230217_115721.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>I tried to read back, but I only found a fleeting mention of the summerdress I used as a shift. I bought it off from facebook, as you know, it was white and linen, which two reason would be enough for me to by something, ut it also looked deceptively like an 18th century shift. So much so, that when I got it, and it was hanging on the door of my sewing room, Norbert asked "What is that?" "What does it looks like? A linen summerdress" I replied. "But doesn1t it look like a historical undershirt?" "Right, sweetheart, that is exactly why I bought it!". And I used that happily under the red dress, but now, sewing the aidah gown I knew the neckline is too high, besides, I did wanted to sew a "proper" shift for a while. </p><p>I had the light linen fabric, I mentioned <a href="https://peony67.blogspot.com/2023/01/truly-victorian-corset-cover.html" target="_blank">here</a>, the one I bought as a factory (even store) reject, as it was dirty, crumpled, etc, but I washed it. The smaller piece was used for that victorian corsetcover, and I used the bigger piece for this shift.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I did check the Simplicity 8579 pattern by American Duchess, only to realize that the package I have is for the smaller sizes. However, it is basically rectangles, triangles, so I took my existing dress/shift, compared to the pattern, and drew up a new one for more or less my size. <div>As I started it like 10 PM, and wanted to finish it as soon as possible, I don't have many pictures of the construction. And as straighforwards as it is not much to tell about it either, but in the name of regular blogging here you go. </div><div>As usual, I sewn the major lines with the machine, but tacked down by hand.<br /><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQrR0Ehhdj7k4XPChsn3jrtItSS3iY61kU8zSLa6NxRFfpQKY9ND73sYks6OBY0GOrs-ChBSy9xT6QedsN0CivT7AHffBkt5zZBve9hCYTlmWWALlzrk1_t2smawe1nfDeHNfK7peda9xUMeSIwEJb6e6yJbO7xfsvcvdF16HdlZm5tRIwYQYOoGN/s4032/20230217_115818.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAQrR0Ehhdj7k4XPChsn3jrtItSS3iY61kU8zSLa6NxRFfpQKY9ND73sYks6OBY0GOrs-ChBSy9xT6QedsN0CivT7AHffBkt5zZBve9hCYTlmWWALlzrk1_t2smawe1nfDeHNfK7peda9xUMeSIwEJb6e6yJbO7xfsvcvdF16HdlZm5tRIwYQYOoGN/s320/20230217_115818.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div>I know, proper french seams, and felling stitches would be more historically accurate, but I did not wanted any machine seams show, even on the inside of the shift.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEQka3l_H81fFQYwUMEO6QaCJLDulaWCatkxLww5_5WKUxJ2oTs6Keu9Gl946b6N1QdiVbxcqTqD68dzkDnoFJgtZJvEWMFZ1e15AM414wv1dJo3cnDz-oT-90yBOdoLxL1ij3LyncUr_vAj4jMpgOZdkxbxHxUBOZNQjWmXZRmPw7C2nQa4mK9Nve/s4032/20230217_115739.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEQka3l_H81fFQYwUMEO6QaCJLDulaWCatkxLww5_5WKUxJ2oTs6Keu9Gl946b6N1QdiVbxcqTqD68dzkDnoFJgtZJvEWMFZ1e15AM414wv1dJo3cnDz-oT-90yBOdoLxL1ij3LyncUr_vAj4jMpgOZdkxbxHxUBOZNQjWmXZRmPw7C2nQa4mK9Nve/s320/20230217_115739.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Perfect points of the underarm gusset.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyp8RadZrMDA74-Wu5a1PID_Ui7gYsNxFnF50vWuar4jDtcPUuQaoRohM8JlDY8_s54qIBHyMG9_wRETzg2rQATBd1bJBypv-ZpyIY3_iR3d3wG2jAk6gTFBhibdNpAyS8_huYe6gLmW6h5RnnmR_rE-l1n1VSZvbNYLxK6bQwpVRTTjrfcI3NtK8Z/s4032/20230217_115807.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyp8RadZrMDA74-Wu5a1PID_Ui7gYsNxFnF50vWuar4jDtcPUuQaoRohM8JlDY8_s54qIBHyMG9_wRETzg2rQATBd1bJBypv-ZpyIY3_iR3d3wG2jAk6gTFBhibdNpAyS8_huYe6gLmW6h5RnnmR_rE-l1n1VSZvbNYLxK6bQwpVRTTjrfcI3NtK8Z/s320/20230217_115807.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hem is sewn down by a... whatever the stitch is called (is it ladder, prick or hemstitch or something else?) Anyhow, back many, many years ago, my mother used it to repair a jacket for me, and I love it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEuRUtAe9hs3Y6lZMUIGxbxVASgcGoGMhUifjPSj5xEbTlwhkImlA342MlqDflce2ET8zcdzLvCbTljqFwPiA4_cURkvyCfwW-7XDRDngBUfZs2xfOU_8eFa1Mkda2RBYxpaviHsYQhaCF1H0gHq0n44-W1tC7ovk-al89HcYl2gLv3D25DDbjTjLE/s4032/20230217_115821.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEuRUtAe9hs3Y6lZMUIGxbxVASgcGoGMhUifjPSj5xEbTlwhkImlA342MlqDflce2ET8zcdzLvCbTljqFwPiA4_cURkvyCfwW-7XDRDngBUfZs2xfOU_8eFa1Mkda2RBYxpaviHsYQhaCF1H0gHq0n44-W1tC7ovk-al89HcYl2gLv3D25DDbjTjLE/s320/20230217_115821.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>The neckline is finished with a bias strip, once again, I know that turning down the edge is perfectly HA, I love how nicely it lies down. <br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3rPNZuxbmNQ84LZjIVtcqRkXHL1DFsKypN-mylJv7kus7az6cAsZRxNnkljTM3HtH4jHRAXqckxwH5SstMXHUICUf0zwx9PTcC773y4AUMvxrRprr41UUDG9ktM-G6uq9cId1c6naIxMjLNITo4nRG9UIkFs2mP8x6Qwc-g5e5F-qK_2ZT8rfOSy/s4032/20230217_115728.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3rPNZuxbmNQ84LZjIVtcqRkXHL1DFsKypN-mylJv7kus7az6cAsZRxNnkljTM3HtH4jHRAXqckxwH5SstMXHUICUf0zwx9PTcC773y4AUMvxrRprr41UUDG9ktM-G6uq9cId1c6naIxMjLNITo4nRG9UIkFs2mP8x6Qwc-g5e5F-qK_2ZT8rfOSy/s320/20230217_115728.jpg" width="240" /></a></p><p>Thats it. A one day affair, even with all that handstitching, who know, maybe sometimes I will sew a whole shift by hand, just for the heck of it.</p><p><br /></p></div></div></div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-25568024370974916262023-02-13T23:00:00.007+01:002023-02-13T23:25:31.138+01:00Bombed<p> My sewing room, that is. </p><p>Back in a while , when I asked what should I write about, you said anything... so here you go.</p><p>I had enough of having stuff, but not being able to use it, because it is piled up in boxes. Those moving boxes Kika (the furniture store almost across the street) selles, worked well, but the ones bought later (after Kika was sold, and became the "Sex-store" -well, actually, it is a part of another furniture store chain, that goes by the name of XXXL Lutz... which completely sounds like a name of a sex-toy-store, and we call it just that in between us. Imagine when I ask my son, "Hey, sweetie, do you want to have a lunch at the sex store?" LOL) (They do make a fair enough wiener Schnitzel).... anyhow, the boxes XXL Lutz sells, though the same sice and style, does not hold up to use like the old Kika one. Packed on each other (full of fabric) they started to crumple, and every time I went close I was afraid of the whole pile falling on me. Besides, no use to storing fabric stash, if I cannot get to it easily, right?</p><p>So in the midst of testing the Aidah gown, I decided to buy a shelf, that came a week earlier than expected. Norbert being Norbert wanted to put it together at once (the man does not know the meaning of future tense). So when do I drag half a fabric store worth of stuff across the flat? About 4-5 times? When I would need to sew. Right. </p><p>However, to fit the shelf in, I would have had to taken out a small cabinet kind a piece, that used to be part of my father's writing desk. I grew up with my dad working on it. When we moved from one flat to another (being a military kid, we moved surprisingly few times)he bought a big, colonial style desk, and I inherited his. I loved it and had it in my room ever since. The writing desk/board part itself is gone by now, at one round of flat rearranging PJ managed to get rid of it somehow (well, he knew I loved that old dask, and he hated- I guess still hates- my dad), but I still have the pieces that held those board. </p><p>Anyhow, as much as I loved that desk, I had to resign to take it out of my room, in order to make space for the shelves (and get rid of the danger of those boxes falling on me). I told N, we could take it down to his father, who lives in a house in the country, and probably could use it in his workshop, so it would not be literally threwn out, but still used. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikXcj-5u0BbkzJYVDqpnGevvDlInJwwKY1nNUtzRCmdmD0u5lb-9xrHRgXmxmF_173SJ231gqPAHjqZrFZ3ybqFiZEa8YlYlZq9_CT1GAyeXCYUTQg3QD8BBM2DIJZ_w4cZPMYZcfEi0EAwEjhkp3_WLIxcra0FTERrqNASlPrqQ6SQjAOroXMePF6/s4032/20230202_154842.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikXcj-5u0BbkzJYVDqpnGevvDlInJwwKY1nNUtzRCmdmD0u5lb-9xrHRgXmxmF_173SJ231gqPAHjqZrFZ3ybqFiZEa8YlYlZq9_CT1GAyeXCYUTQg3QD8BBM2DIJZ_w4cZPMYZcfEi0EAwEjhkp3_WLIxcra0FTERrqNASlPrqQ6SQjAOroXMePF6/s320/20230202_154842.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>Spent a couple of days taking all the fabrics out, Getting the shelf in, going through those boxes and decide what should stay, what should be taken down to the cellar, what should be threwn out (NOT farbric, mind you), and starting to full the shelves, including those fabrics, lying around in bags, and piles. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigeXKcojezuuUQ8FNhv-A579CspahkwB140R3w2BgjO7C2ItEeyFoRLfhq8bPsSpvbmOP3cdrD7jHpw-lTE0XuLrjDjqiojz2eA-PN4eg5KtKE23ibw9dKNaj_BPkfaXRtfkDgvuGSuxAdTxP9DzrzOlwBiK-ekNEIM-Kz8JsBmTsZanQ7TBl-i2TY/s4032/20230131_132004.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigeXKcojezuuUQ8FNhv-A579CspahkwB140R3w2BgjO7C2ItEeyFoRLfhq8bPsSpvbmOP3cdrD7jHpw-lTE0XuLrjDjqiojz2eA-PN4eg5KtKE23ibw9dKNaj_BPkfaXRtfkDgvuGSuxAdTxP9DzrzOlwBiK-ekNEIM-Kz8JsBmTsZanQ7TBl-i2TY/s320/20230131_132004.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p>At the end, with leaving out what I am planning to use in the near future, what was left was just enough to fill that small cabinet. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu186_tgV5jftQ3Y4QlS94HNyr9Cgk9f8yTKP76L79tJrF0ugGQpTudgYNSrUx3vce1wu9jERLectEyrKAqDbpqULeyGOOp86zgDkDD547AgjWEiMHiZXEkmkJBvZFZ2ebl0_ZiaKWpq5HEIdI4R9cJoD6Z8FKjBqkrZDerHue0SrGqkQW_DiYNvjJ/s4032/20230202_151334.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu186_tgV5jftQ3Y4QlS94HNyr9Cgk9f8yTKP76L79tJrF0ugGQpTudgYNSrUx3vce1wu9jERLectEyrKAqDbpqULeyGOOp86zgDkDD547AgjWEiMHiZXEkmkJBvZFZ2ebl0_ZiaKWpq5HEIdI4R9cJoD6Z8FKjBqkrZDerHue0SrGqkQW_DiYNvjJ/s320/20230202_151334.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />That was when I hauled out those fabrics yet again, and we started desparately to measure and calculate. The thing is that the only reason it did not fit was that I changed my old serger (interlock), and the new one had a bigger table. What if we turn this that way, and slide that one there, can we gain a few centimeters if we... <p></p><p>Until it all fit. Okay, Now, I have less space at my interlock, but I rarely use it anyway. I still has a small space besides of the regular sewing machine (sewing big dresses, it is not a disadvantage), and my old household Neumann I use for buttonholes got dug out from under the pile of fabrics and other stuff too. Yesss! I cannot tell you how glad my heart was to be able o hold on to that small piece of my childhood. And have a space to put the steam producing part of my iron, and have it NOT to take up third of my ironing board. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqxaVX7iqEXS-c9t5PO8iLIhCs4iYNw7O0UZEtDmxwv7tl12oVfQyssCz001y-xc_O5Xes6JW78BibNfwjTmwYl0smvbCsMCAl4xgboW1UY_q4xRjnRmJL3itKATlz2vkYxXB0iXDv2NoD5-1CD8TewW8s5TVMQ8wIBkn48jOUYNTKrqCV9w8BtJQb/s4032/20230203_185944.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqxaVX7iqEXS-c9t5PO8iLIhCs4iYNw7O0UZEtDmxwv7tl12oVfQyssCz001y-xc_O5Xes6JW78BibNfwjTmwYl0smvbCsMCAl4xgboW1UY_q4xRjnRmJL3itKATlz2vkYxXB0iXDv2NoD5-1CD8TewW8s5TVMQ8wIBkn48jOUYNTKrqCV9w8BtJQb/s320/20230203_185944.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>You would think that was enough, right? By then my back was hurting like hell, I was limping, my arm-musle with the misterious pain flared up. But I still took the ladder, and took down everything from the shelves above the machines. It was put up by PJ, let's not talk about the quality of the shelves themselves, I wish I could take it down and change it to a more stable one, but at the moment I cannot. It still works though and those bits of stuff I store there (boxes with buttons, zipps, ribbons, and such) is not that heavy. However, it was not rearranged / cleaned properly in ages... You really don't want to know the stuff I found there. Like tags to a brand I sewd for before Chris was born. Stuff that came home wih me from the US (in the nineties). Shall I go on? Now I took down and went through everything, purged what was there made order in the rest of the stuff, and got them back up. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm8R_Et2o89zdFmPavC-LBpv5dYvq4lovrKxdvmkqswMrJ-w59gNqLSxKL9kXx_40yPnMCs64Iu_H0cK0wxHDIqC5IomvzGMKV1g4KspDUm5WbSxp-HVjJoF8rcI-THycfd27UKHAiMI-EKuTkzcpyLTI4HWgNTnB3OCmL2Uxa4BWIgZkPx6GeThbN/s4032/20230206_124651.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm8R_Et2o89zdFmPavC-LBpv5dYvq4lovrKxdvmkqswMrJ-w59gNqLSxKL9kXx_40yPnMCs64Iu_H0cK0wxHDIqC5IomvzGMKV1g4KspDUm5WbSxp-HVjJoF8rcI-THycfd27UKHAiMI-EKuTkzcpyLTI4HWgNTnB3OCmL2Uxa4BWIgZkPx6GeThbN/s320/20230206_124651.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><p>Now, things are back on track, the sewing room is much better organized now. So much better feeling to go in. Of course, there are still things that could be improved, and it is nowhere near to the sewing rooms you can see online, but that is for now. </p><p>Back to regular programming (is there such a thing?) with the next post. </p><p><br /></p>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922674080295572871.post-86401993506257517202023-02-04T15:10:00.002+01:002023-02-05T23:20:00.256+01:00I made SHOES!I made SHOES!!!<div>Actually I made them more than a year ago, but never got around to tell you all about it. Which is strange, as I did made a ton of pictures with fully intending to do so. Now, when I would need to finish the Aidah gown on a deadline, I bombed my sewing room and the time while I am putting things back in order, is just as good as any to make up for that.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtvIQiDVNnBvIQoGOAWfd-BxmAEwLT_N_FZu5FqoL4zNu20JxT5Vuz_fBlXXabymMtQrWf9P6cLzXLCFyJVWVwbU7XzjLaSdR0-hS7vmVpmsi88VjPYK_EikVf2hDLkr7bKbT8ycHx8d2ewPDnDAX2_r7hNhlWp1pCOu6HYQAtShJRlAvJ6PgOpa6q/s5472/IMG_6156.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtvIQiDVNnBvIQoGOAWfd-BxmAEwLT_N_FZu5FqoL4zNu20JxT5Vuz_fBlXXabymMtQrWf9P6cLzXLCFyJVWVwbU7XzjLaSdR0-hS7vmVpmsi88VjPYK_EikVf2hDLkr7bKbT8ycHx8d2ewPDnDAX2_r7hNhlWp1pCOu6HYQAtShJRlAvJ6PgOpa6q/s320/IMG_6156.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div>So shoemaking (as well as knitting and sewing, and flying) is in my blod. I already mentioned my maternal grandparents, who made shoetops, tops for gorgeously decorated clogs and wooden soled slippers in the seventies. I wanted to make shoes since... I think since highshcool or so, when I first fell in love with the ballerina, and maryjane type of shoes, but they were not available here.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsgUpTNJvebI1_mVF04V7Lv0mx64vUf4kk9FYDNddGSkTmDaGhbV8nkEoem69OcbiAUVsqVZ_m8nQj3uYcXpvYRngNKEaFl1_XVHXTeDAy7sLOa5BnoiA8njwcwF-HaXKonz_4zYX0VWyNyPmdxCOTdM1x5vlZt_0Ex9M46UrT12fR4O36mMGgh7eY/s5472/IMG_6170.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsgUpTNJvebI1_mVF04V7Lv0mx64vUf4kk9FYDNddGSkTmDaGhbV8nkEoem69OcbiAUVsqVZ_m8nQj3uYcXpvYRngNKEaFl1_XVHXTeDAy7sLOa5BnoiA8njwcwF-HaXKonz_4zYX0VWyNyPmdxCOTdM1x5vlZt_0Ex9M46UrT12fR4O36mMGgh7eY/s320/IMG_6170.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div> On the top of that, shoes are very sensitive points of reenactment, because good historical, or historical looking shoes are either not available and / or expensive, they can make or break an outfit. Now, I am not a "shoenaczi", I think often there are modern shoes that can give you an illusion, not breaking the style, and believable, and I also wear those too. </div><div>However, shoemaking was something I was (and still am) itching to do, and the flat regency shoes are perfect to try out the first time. </div><div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_KobWvRsJ3z56Rfc1F-AqPuWyxwXhq_6GjbQNeCwogzMUYNEwojccIyH6HURQ0nD9_gJh7bY3s8SjbLQwWAlrKZFGExDp_66DtFUUDnQSBuHH_WtRrt1SOtR2RYClshMMBMRN-ilpIFH8JeOM6v3i5VT__svI_VKNBHGkQZramBSluQxj2jNzxkL/s4032/20211127_101302.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_KobWvRsJ3z56Rfc1F-AqPuWyxwXhq_6GjbQNeCwogzMUYNEwojccIyH6HURQ0nD9_gJh7bY3s8SjbLQwWAlrKZFGExDp_66DtFUUDnQSBuHH_WtRrt1SOtR2RYClshMMBMRN-ilpIFH8JeOM6v3i5VT__svI_VKNBHGkQZramBSluQxj2jNzxkL/s320/20211127_101302.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>I have been following <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063531728249" target="_blank">Franka Műhelye</a> (the Workshop of Franka) for years on Facebook, with the intention of going there, but by the time I collected myself enough to do it, she left for maternity leave, and then the Plague came, and everything closed.</div><div>So when she opened her workshop again I was jumping on the opportunity real fast. </div><div>I had some ideas, looked up regency (the age of napoleon) shoes online...</div><div>I had a few favorites, like these:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Thankfully, the workshop had poitny toe lasts. Since I have one of those that tie around the ankle, I selected something less typical, these with ties on the instep.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSodOqPTnpdnLz_-UMyVqgn8RhjFK_ZPr7ZtqmiCNw8DmTxEm3TOXMEll1rhb1c_Ofn64l9zhcJhXuIcIQMZqF7Yiyc2FHrrSniw9Wz4mYFDSDvYTsqnnxhIQfpiSoA_tYd2qJPtAL96L8_LAutE_iWoVQ7IJyg_fRDdK1KkfyNob0HXc-k2m6VqEC/s563/261562783_224434563022075_4597721145436610931_n.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="563" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSodOqPTnpdnLz_-UMyVqgn8RhjFK_ZPr7ZtqmiCNw8DmTxEm3TOXMEll1rhb1c_Ofn64l9zhcJhXuIcIQMZqF7Yiyc2FHrrSniw9Wz4mYFDSDvYTsqnnxhIQfpiSoA_tYd2qJPtAL96L8_LAutE_iWoVQ7IJyg_fRDdK1KkfyNob0HXc-k2m6VqEC/s320/261562783_224434563022075_4597721145436610931_n.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>After selecting the leather (blue, what else?) we started. The techniques we used are modern cemented techniques, for now, I will be satisfied to have shoes look the part, and use the technology that is readily available, and easier. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid8ydXWR7QCWn0J93AkT_xYwRke_mQhL0vwWk3jeUukMU09RBMAHEg1l9R6NEnTRo_YroezSZatX1d-_yAchr-2yyxwWGy2CDM2QQzBQDBSjf0Z8qoUX7unSV58NDgoH1sgiyhDUkrcJt6dk8x8yFeTUYKhCs7qvkId0Jq7dRuMq4RbDgqTT58l9A8/s4032/20211127_101306.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid8ydXWR7QCWn0J93AkT_xYwRke_mQhL0vwWk3jeUukMU09RBMAHEg1l9R6NEnTRo_YroezSZatX1d-_yAchr-2yyxwWGy2CDM2QQzBQDBSjf0Z8qoUX7unSV58NDgoH1sgiyhDUkrcJt6dk8x8yFeTUYKhCs7qvkId0Jq7dRuMq4RbDgqTT58l9A8/s320/20211127_101306.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>We made the pattern. For that first we taped the last, and then I drew the lines, I wanted my shoes to have. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdNSNm4o5q-zTW5iHhm5YAkxkepMNyU2j7CTGKt0XuEfeNC1Em-S5u6FZ1TEDIdAncyiBSjG9STynAtL0kQVG0auHvtzJFxqnoXao--musO6FaWa_kuwssZ2U-az4mWI16FKoyWBC9lIFVM0WFcnRnFtqYCF2emdw0E5DNuT8wpcsQ3EDsMfBKgqdT/s4032/20211127_103222.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdNSNm4o5q-zTW5iHhm5YAkxkepMNyU2j7CTGKt0XuEfeNC1Em-S5u6FZ1TEDIdAncyiBSjG9STynAtL0kQVG0auHvtzJFxqnoXao--musO6FaWa_kuwssZ2U-az4mWI16FKoyWBC9lIFVM0WFcnRnFtqYCF2emdw0E5DNuT8wpcsQ3EDsMfBKgqdT/s320/20211127_103222.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFa4oeMEYf7oz9RL4IPlQiBxI7lNq-j6dwJIKXhdDoh3s3YO864yXfsUqmeldNvJVd7a5fZRjjCWRpgX5H0jCaYzDLe7qFCDoUPS1aBt4L8HVZLtZk4MzdLYN0sfQCNWA6E3buMBWJ28UemrkBWD-W9zzprx-UZFq6axiqXtTT2iI6xFUxzbafXzEc/s4032/20211127_105906.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFa4oeMEYf7oz9RL4IPlQiBxI7lNq-j6dwJIKXhdDoh3s3YO864yXfsUqmeldNvJVd7a5fZRjjCWRpgX5H0jCaYzDLe7qFCDoUPS1aBt4L8HVZLtZk4MzdLYN0sfQCNWA6E3buMBWJ28UemrkBWD-W9zzprx-UZFq6axiqXtTT2iI6xFUxzbafXzEc/s320/20211127_105906.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Peeled off the shapes, stuck it on a paper and drew the final pattern, adding seam allowances.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_OPYuRHQsnMESY-R6iskBiaeeUeKG8AJ7lhCMirPY9gx2M1eT11sAg8eTEdMqA5L56Xubqk7ms_9WcdQ1jnrETmzz9ryApG5Df_nMKDzF298EYShyDk-Vu3dErbNvohe3iytaR9y_Yh5nb4F1zfiTcgIVsWVt-2rVJAqS_nP1e-VTcMWxgL37aGNI/s4032/20211127_111052.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_OPYuRHQsnMESY-R6iskBiaeeUeKG8AJ7lhCMirPY9gx2M1eT11sAg8eTEdMqA5L56Xubqk7ms_9WcdQ1jnrETmzz9ryApG5Df_nMKDzF298EYShyDk-Vu3dErbNvohe3iytaR9y_Yh5nb4F1zfiTcgIVsWVt-2rVJAqS_nP1e-VTcMWxgL37aGNI/s320/20211127_111052.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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And then I was like "WHHHHAT? I can NOT SEW my shoes? What the hell am I doing here then?" It turned out that many are afraid of the leather sewing machine (or the sewing machine all together), and prefer doing everything else with their shoes, but the sewing... Oh well, that is not me, definetly NOT ME. I am NOT afraid of the sewing machine. I nagged Franka enough to tell me, "Okay, you can try the machine, and see, how well can you handle it, and we will see. "<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvwhpwqgZxPqGGdT-H3CJZMzIOOWOsGJcxaxPbnPl9oQwrnD_Y2JeCSMNrxL1RSyDzvHQhNGq-5ibmI-XHk5iPlN3ghnARGnIJ4dn6scEqR5p-c7v7rvEdi0BU5arblIzUKQYrNmOcxVyteRfmAyyqaTt4Mj5ONf1OCj_nVyzKwdE3l7V01RNsGwP3/s4032/20211127_124309.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvwhpwqgZxPqGGdT-H3CJZMzIOOWOsGJcxaxPbnPl9oQwrnD_Y2JeCSMNrxL1RSyDzvHQhNGq-5ibmI-XHk5iPlN3ghnARGnIJ4dn6scEqR5p-c7v7rvEdi0BU5arblIzUKQYrNmOcxVyteRfmAyyqaTt4Mj5ONf1OCj_nVyzKwdE3l7V01RNsGwP3/s320/20211127_124309.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>I sewed that little trial piece, and turns out, yeah, I can handle an industrial sewing machine pretty well, thank you very much, and I was allowed to sew up my shoetops. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOpOshF5F3YaBtjXYgU1XEyCGrGWSP3qy5oPxi76I4hVbQVj5dql9mHHMETeYY924Ghql9x0RWYot1j93nIRB1QqWnAlJ6XsF4lm00Zxq7K2u-75I2F7Q32PABTh6rPnpSLX2WYltb9WvSjtvT_ZTBEt0jlroLRoyHdy5_oZUvfd4EOGb7MUc0PsZz/s4032/20211127_132950.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOpOshF5F3YaBtjXYgU1XEyCGrGWSP3qy5oPxi76I4hVbQVj5dql9mHHMETeYY924Ghql9x0RWYot1j93nIRB1QqWnAlJ6XsF4lm00Zxq7K2u-75I2F7Q32PABTh6rPnpSLX2WYltb9WvSjtvT_ZTBEt0jlroLRoyHdy5_oZUvfd4EOGb7MUc0PsZz/s320/20211127_132950.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div>I cannot tell you the feeling, when I hammered down the seam and turned the thing to the right side.</div><div>I think I already mentioned this also a few times, that by now, I should not be surprised, and I still am. Its like "WOW? these are REALY looking like..." and this time there was also the memory, the smell of the leather and the cement (the glue), the movement of the hammer, I saw my grandmother and grandfather movements in my hand. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibjbiseSVoBpRp1t3yJEQQYJblPOGbeyAW7MHdGaM_q78sqjmxL18TS4GGipz69WUFwZDSlwZk59z1_03H_XoqP7-2RjcvLIv7otEjaaOY5bus-74T04breDOSW0g0f64FP8fk3f-gvZMdAgB3sJr7GUwbVH32NNWn1TKmJveXIYty4mNOmcc9bONl/s4032/20211127_132952.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibjbiseSVoBpRp1t3yJEQQYJblPOGbeyAW7MHdGaM_q78sqjmxL18TS4GGipz69WUFwZDSlwZk59z1_03H_XoqP7-2RjcvLIv7otEjaaOY5bus-74T04breDOSW0g0f64FP8fk3f-gvZMdAgB3sJr7GUwbVH32NNWn1TKmJveXIYty4mNOmcc9bONl/s320/20211127_132952.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Put together the lining and the outer layer<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAWIe8gUK3Au0AIRf1XS1xiW6eX57lzzhrFfFSetqa6pcn2CEJ55cLdY07r1N9n03xjbLxCxHZopOf186pHljPWmdpoJmLFOdirdFKDNB0EHfrlbVLFauA6XWu4aE-FIy3lrFvKK0x1KZ6fb3xkkldQgLnjA-rd7chxyGwSxY0wCEC-B7S-nGGWZso/s5472/IMG_6173.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAWIe8gUK3Au0AIRf1XS1xiW6eX57lzzhrFfFSetqa6pcn2CEJ55cLdY07r1N9n03xjbLxCxHZopOf186pHljPWmdpoJmLFOdirdFKDNB0EHfrlbVLFauA6XWu4aE-FIy3lrFvKK0x1KZ6fb3xkkldQgLnjA-rd7chxyGwSxY0wCEC-B7S-nGGWZso/s320/IMG_6173.JPG" width="213" /></a></div>I love these shoes. I did wear them once to dancing, and they are lovely. I was sure that it was not my last adventure of shoemaking (and you can see, already have the next pair - which we photograhed the same day, but I will write up a bit later).</div><div>Model photoes: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Bodeszphoto" target="_blank">Norbert Varga @ Bodeszphoto</a></div><div>Workshop pictures: my phone.<br /><p></p></div></div>peonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293424100260447076noreply@blogger.com2