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Sewing!
Well, I did have plans to sew last night after I got home from work, but instead spent the night curled on the couch, watching Pan Am and trying not to die. Thank you, cramps.
Got home after Downton Abbey had already started, so I watched it today (YES, this important enough to post about EVERY WEEK), and can I just say this show will never cease to surprise me? First I wasn't absolutely thrilled about 1912-14 fashions, and it sucked me into that...and before today, I would have sworn up and down that later teens dresses do nothing for me, but seeing them on the women of Downton Abbey? Gimme!
Seriously, one of Mary's evening dresses from this past episode? I MUST HAVE IT.
Well, someday, anyway. After 1/ I get reasonably decent at fitting 19-teens, 2/ this season comes out on DVD so I can pause and zoom on Every. Single. Frame. of this dress, and 3/ when I have time for a long-term project of this scale! 2014, maybe, then?
Believe it or not, after spending a good part of my afternoon in 1916, I managed to get some 18thc sewing done! Probably because I got some playthings in the mail today, so it helped me focus...
First, le wig:
I've resolved to try my hand at a pouf wig to wear with my I Want Candy sack, as it's very decidedly 1770s! I've been re-reading Kendra's tutorial more carefully than I ever did any of my college texts and hoping the Costume Gods are in a good mood the day I attempt this! I still need to get a new can of hairspray, bobby pins, and hairnets before I start, plus figure out how the heck I'm going to store this thing! Which I should probably do before I make it.
Also, more funsies:
Figured if I'm making a big wig and sticking big feathers in it (they haven't arrived yet!), I may as well do my face too! I've read![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
isiswardrobe's blog posts on 18thc makeup (very very helpful!), and decided to start with Ageless Artifice - I'll still need to get some white face powder, as they don't carry that.
I didn't spend too much...the Hungary water (rosemary scented!), red lip salve that I'll use for both lip and cheek, and cologne water, which is 19thc but I wanted a 19thc scent too, so there! The lip salve looks dark here, but it's pretty subtle on. The Hungary water's nice, but seems to fade pretty quickly on me. I might be bad and order some of their lavender water (I had an awful time deciding between the two!) soon... I love the cologne water, though - it's bergamot, lavender, lemon and orange flower scented. Havn't tested it to see how long it lasts yet; didn't want to get it confused with the other!
So, yes...a wig and two bottles of scent were enough to get me motivated to sew something! Whatever floats your boat, right?
I figured the best thing to do would be get the lace flounces put together, before I lost the pieces or the cat barfed on them or something, so, lo and behold, they're actually finished! A note to self, though: if you ever make lace flounces again, PLEASE get lace that's quite as wide as you want them long, so you're not piecing together stupid little bits of net and lace together by hand!
To wit:
The longer flounce has a strip of net about an inch and a half wide sewn to it, because I really did not want to go to the work of making flounces and then have them not show under the pink sleeve flounces because they're too short! The ones for my sack jacket were almost too short, so I determined these would not be!
Apart form that, lace is way way easier to make flounces of - no hemming, and just cut into a very basic shape so one side's longer.
Then I sewed lines of gathering stitches along the edge (by hand, because I hate myself, apparently...UGH), and gathered the upper and lower flounce to a linen band, coaxed all the edges of lace to play nice and not sneak out, and sew the band together. Voila!
(Except not "voila", because this took all afternoon and evening! WAY too long, in my opinion.)
On an arm (mine), for some idea of length. And the band at the top is definitely wider than my arm, but I promise I did that on purpose. I can ease the band into the sleeve if the band's too big, but it's much harder to get the sleeve to play nice if the band's smaller than the sleeve!
Got home after Downton Abbey had already started, so I watched it today (YES, this important enough to post about EVERY WEEK), and can I just say this show will never cease to surprise me? First I wasn't absolutely thrilled about 1912-14 fashions, and it sucked me into that...and before today, I would have sworn up and down that later teens dresses do nothing for me, but seeing them on the women of Downton Abbey? Gimme!
Seriously, one of Mary's evening dresses from this past episode? I MUST HAVE IT.
Well, someday, anyway. After 1/ I get reasonably decent at fitting 19-teens, 2/ this season comes out on DVD so I can pause and zoom on Every. Single. Frame. of this dress, and 3/ when I have time for a long-term project of this scale! 2014, maybe, then?
Believe it or not, after spending a good part of my afternoon in 1916, I managed to get some 18thc sewing done! Probably because I got some playthings in the mail today, so it helped me focus...
First, le wig:
I've resolved to try my hand at a pouf wig to wear with my I Want Candy sack, as it's very decidedly 1770s! I've been re-reading Kendra's tutorial more carefully than I ever did any of my college texts and hoping the Costume Gods are in a good mood the day I attempt this! I still need to get a new can of hairspray, bobby pins, and hairnets before I start, plus figure out how the heck I'm going to store this thing! Which I should probably do before I make it.
Also, more funsies:
Figured if I'm making a big wig and sticking big feathers in it (they haven't arrived yet!), I may as well do my face too! I've read
isiswardrobe's blog posts on 18thc makeup (very very helpful!), and decided to start with Ageless Artifice - I'll still need to get some white face powder, as they don't carry that.I didn't spend too much...the Hungary water (rosemary scented!), red lip salve that I'll use for both lip and cheek, and cologne water, which is 19thc but I wanted a 19thc scent too, so there! The lip salve looks dark here, but it's pretty subtle on. The Hungary water's nice, but seems to fade pretty quickly on me. I might be bad and order some of their lavender water (I had an awful time deciding between the two!) soon... I love the cologne water, though - it's bergamot, lavender, lemon and orange flower scented. Havn't tested it to see how long it lasts yet; didn't want to get it confused with the other!
So, yes...a wig and two bottles of scent were enough to get me motivated to sew something! Whatever floats your boat, right?
I figured the best thing to do would be get the lace flounces put together, before I lost the pieces or the cat barfed on them or something, so, lo and behold, they're actually finished! A note to self, though: if you ever make lace flounces again, PLEASE get lace that's quite as wide as you want them long, so you're not piecing together stupid little bits of net and lace together by hand!
To wit:
The longer flounce has a strip of net about an inch and a half wide sewn to it, because I really did not want to go to the work of making flounces and then have them not show under the pink sleeve flounces because they're too short! The ones for my sack jacket were almost too short, so I determined these would not be!
Apart form that, lace is way way easier to make flounces of - no hemming, and just cut into a very basic shape so one side's longer.
Then I sewed lines of gathering stitches along the edge (by hand, because I hate myself, apparently...UGH), and gathered the upper and lower flounce to a linen band, coaxed all the edges of lace to play nice and not sneak out, and sew the band together. Voila!
(Except not "voila", because this took all afternoon and evening! WAY too long, in my opinion.)
On an arm (mine), for some idea of length. And the band at the top is definitely wider than my arm, but I promise I did that on purpose. I can ease the band into the sleeve if the band's too big, but it's much harder to get the sleeve to play nice if the band's smaller than the sleeve!
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