Mourning Brooches
I had the pleasure of working with Breanna Bayba and Lynn McMasters on another photoshoot this summer. My favorite accessory from the entire shoot, which nominally focused on new fan papers from Lynn, were...
Tagged: embroidery
Silver & Gold
This outfit was put together as two separate pieces for an event with the intention of finishing it off as a complete full length gown. It was fun to play around with having the...
Ice & Fire Ball
For this event I was cast as Cersei and needed an outfit stat! I took the red surcoat and found the scraps of fabric to make a set of sleeves & belt. The belt...
New coif: embroidery detail
Another linen coif in the same machine embroidery pattern but different orientation:
Starry Nite corset: emb. sample w/ piping
I’m working through some of the sample embroideries by testing them in different threads. The one satin stitch star will be nixed because the design ended up too heavy. The one star pattern doesn’t...
Red Silk Wedding dress: fabrics
This gown was completed and delivered last week. I hope she enjoyed wearing it on her big day: 10/31/2008. Here follows the beginning of the dress diary: Starting out my client knew she wanted...
Spider corset: added to gallery
I never got around to a photo-shoot of this corset until tonight. Hope you enjoy seeing it again. Click photo to see more photos
Popcorn Army
One of my friends made a set of popcorn creatures and secretly placed and photographed them when I was working on a corset at his house. I thought it was too cute not to...
Rene’s bodice progress
Now this bodice has been a bodice of DOOM! It has a extreme like for oily substances and will find any oil in a room and suck it up. I’ve watched Rene very carefully...
Embroidery continued…
Rene sent me a progress photo of the hand-sewn embroidery :) The front will take longer as some mystery spots appeared on the front portion of the bodice. She has re-done the front and...
Embroidery Design
Rene asked me to adapt an embroidery design for her bodice by making a continuous design that would be curved around the top edge. The inspiration source was only a small section so I...
18th century suit: stripe waistcoat inprogress
I’ve started going through all the photos I took of the wedding garments in progress and decided some might be nice to share. Here is one showing how I cut out the shape of...
Testing an embroidery design
It is always worth doing a mock-up of any design plan so you can catch potential problems. In this case, I planned some embroidery to match a design on the trim chosen by a...
Gift Wrap corset: wrapping done!
My present corset is complete. It has been added to the gallery: – Click on image to go to the gallery – *The hat and pin-tucked burgundy & white striped petticoat were also made...
Gift Wrap corset: update
Hand sewing the binding and adding the lacing is all that is left! Sometimes it feels lovely to procrastinate on projects by working on a project. What a lovely present it is becoming.
Gift wrap corset: embroidered binding
Here is a sneak peek at how the binding is looking for my most recent underbust corset:
