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1860s bathrobe, hoop, etc
Aug. 5th, 2017 11:26 pmI guess it's going to be all 1860s, all the time around here from now on...at least til I get tired of it. ;) Today I:
- Ran out of matching thread for the short hoop, and managed to leave my card at home when I went to work tonight, so I couldn't pick up a new spool. Oops. Off tomorrow so I won't be able to get said spool til Monday night. Oops. Oh well, got plenty of other stuff to do! (Although the spool to match the rational dress is getting low too, so it probably won't be that either...)
- I think I've decided on a theme for my fancy dress outfit; I've been mulling over Gypsy vs Starry Night vs Titania for the past couple of days. Gypsy would definitely be the cheapest as I could use almost all stash stuff, but Robin pointed out that makes her think of the Ren Faire, and not in a good way, haha. Titania could be fun as I would wear my hair down with those extensions I bought for the pre-Raphaelite outfit a couple years ago, but I'm less excited about the actual outfit when compared with the hair, LOL. Starry Night would require buying fabric, but I still have a bunch of spangles in silver and gold hanging around somewhere, and that would be the main embellishment. And I think I have the clearest idea of what exactly I'd make for that! So I think it'll be Starry Night.
- In an attempt to clear off my workspace a bit (ha ha ha), I put the fastenings on the two rational dress skirts, and started sewing the frogs on my bathrobe, aka 1860s wrapper. The original intent was to trim the edges of the quilted panels with narrow cord, use wider cord and tassel for the belt, and put frogs on for closures, none of which happened for G'burg 2015!
(Plaid skirts on top of each other. Very exciting.)
I couldn't find the perfect combination of qualities in frogs that I wanted - the right color, not horribly polyester-y, and cheap because I needed around 15 of them - before Gettysburg last time, so I went without; this year I was determined to have some kind of fastening! So I compromised on the frogs: these were 4.50 for a lot of 10, so I bought 2 sets, they're not really the color I wanted but white is better than black and at this price point there isn't much selection, and they're pretty damn polyester-y but I'll live. When you only need two or three frogs, a couple bucks apiece is doable, but not when you need a dozen. :P
(I could have bought some rayon cord and made my own, but...come on, it's a bathrobe! I might consider it for a gown but not a bathrobe.)
I got them mostly sewn on before work; just the second half of six left to do. I still want to find some narrow cord for trim, but I'm not sure which color to do now, since the frogs are screamingly white, and the quilted silk is...not. But fastenings were most important, so (almost) check that off the list. Woo!
- Ran out of matching thread for the short hoop, and managed to leave my card at home when I went to work tonight, so I couldn't pick up a new spool. Oops. Off tomorrow so I won't be able to get said spool til Monday night. Oops. Oh well, got plenty of other stuff to do! (Although the spool to match the rational dress is getting low too, so it probably won't be that either...)
- I think I've decided on a theme for my fancy dress outfit; I've been mulling over Gypsy vs Starry Night vs Titania for the past couple of days. Gypsy would definitely be the cheapest as I could use almost all stash stuff, but Robin pointed out that makes her think of the Ren Faire, and not in a good way, haha. Titania could be fun as I would wear my hair down with those extensions I bought for the pre-Raphaelite outfit a couple years ago, but I'm less excited about the actual outfit when compared with the hair, LOL. Starry Night would require buying fabric, but I still have a bunch of spangles in silver and gold hanging around somewhere, and that would be the main embellishment. And I think I have the clearest idea of what exactly I'd make for that! So I think it'll be Starry Night.
- In an attempt to clear off my workspace a bit (ha ha ha), I put the fastenings on the two rational dress skirts, and started sewing the frogs on my bathrobe, aka 1860s wrapper. The original intent was to trim the edges of the quilted panels with narrow cord, use wider cord and tassel for the belt, and put frogs on for closures, none of which happened for G'burg 2015!
(Plaid skirts on top of each other. Very exciting.)
I couldn't find the perfect combination of qualities in frogs that I wanted - the right color, not horribly polyester-y, and cheap because I needed around 15 of them - before Gettysburg last time, so I went without; this year I was determined to have some kind of fastening! So I compromised on the frogs: these were 4.50 for a lot of 10, so I bought 2 sets, they're not really the color I wanted but white is better than black and at this price point there isn't much selection, and they're pretty damn polyester-y but I'll live. When you only need two or three frogs, a couple bucks apiece is doable, but not when you need a dozen. :P
(I could have bought some rayon cord and made my own, but...come on, it's a bathrobe! I might consider it for a gown but not a bathrobe.)
I got them mostly sewn on before work; just the second half of six left to do. I still want to find some narrow cord for trim, but I'm not sure which color to do now, since the frogs are screamingly white, and the quilted silk is...not. But fastenings were most important, so (almost) check that off the list. Woo!
