Zouave jacket: underlining, flatlining, & construction
This jacket is styled after the military zouave jackets that became a popular bolero jacket style in mid to late Victorian era for women. We are doing it in a very fashionable red, but...
Category: gowns
Red & Gold Trained gown: making the bodice
I promised to eventually come back & create more diary entries for this project. So here I go: I machine basted the shoulders on this entirely hand sewn bodice, *facepalm*. Those machine basting stitches...
Red Wedding ensemble: collar & bustle details
I’m using french linen collar canvas to build up the shaping on the standing, pleated collar for the jacket:
Red Wedding ensemble: corset details
Only a few more pieces left to stitch: Adding the waist tape & lining:
Wedding ensemble: fitting & alterations
This fitting was very fun. The skirt bottom edge was temporarily set with safely pins and the bride was paraded up and down my stairs and outside to check the length. While a floor...
Wedding ensemble: pleating w/ the perfect pleater
I have made fabric pleater tools out of cardboard in the past but never 22″ wide and with a small return. I knew the total circumference I wanted at the hemline and a full...
Proposed Project: all that pink is contagious
I’ve had this 1560s Venetian project planned for a long time but hadn’t really gotten bitten by the bug to make another Renaissance gown for a while. But now I’m bitten again. Fasolo Family...
Red & Gold trained gown: added to gallery & featured at Realm of Venus
I finally got the Florentine gown up on the webpage. I sent it in to Bella from Realm of Venus. She did a great job putting together the content featurning it in her Italian...
Hybrid corset: constructing the mock-up
This is the beginning of a corset incorporating elements from 18th century stays but without tabbing at the hip section. The bottom will be solid panels more like a Victorian corset. However, we decided...
Italian gown: photoshoot & Valhalla Renaissance faire
Tonight I’ll be heading off to the Valhalla Renaissance faire, for the weekend, after a long day of sewing and errands. I’m excited, as it is one of my favorite events of the year....
Rose & Red Surcoat: details & interior shots
Grainy photos are irritating me but it is what I have to work with today. The lighting situation isn’t the best in the new workroom. White I do have individual task lights the overhead...
Italian gown: skirt construction
Piecing the skirt: The lining was pieced together from portions of linen left over from other projects. To get the length for the train I had to piece together 4 sections to make up...
