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mandie_rwCleaned up (as much as I want, which is not all that much) for sewing day tomorrow, and got some more odds and ends put away.
I tacked the chiffon scarf onto the 1790s hat so I could put it away without losing the scarf (the feathers would have had to be detatched for storage anyway, so no point in putting them on now) and took some rather shoddily-considered-background pics of it:
The 'tail' of the scarf is in fact intended to hang off like that...you see it in a fair number of 1790s hats-with-scarves, and it looks fairly dorky but I like it. :D
I also put three more rows of cording in the 1830s petticoat, so it may be 2/3 done. I say "may" because I'm not entirely certain 6 more rows will make it as short as I want it to be, but we'll see!
The last section will be spaced further apart - twice as wide as the space between the middle section. Why? I dunno, seems aesthetically pleasing! And it stands out quite nicely.
And last night, instead of going to bed in a timely manner, I finished mocking up the 1830s bonnet. It's a very attractive sort of blue paper...
This particular shape is really more appropriate to the second half of the 1830s than the floral print dress I had planned for the Allaire wedding (which was about 1830), but as I still am bitter about the weather and am convinced it's going to rain for that too, I don't know that I want to bother with said floral print dress. So this is currently intended to be worn with my late 1830s cream poplin (yes, the one that has offensive sleeves and a wrinkly bodice. Whatevs), but if I decide I don't hate everything in time to actually make the floral print dress, this isn't too horribly out of date to wear with that.
...But right now I still hate everything. So.
I tacked the chiffon scarf onto the 1790s hat so I could put it away without losing the scarf (the feathers would have had to be detatched for storage anyway, so no point in putting them on now) and took some rather shoddily-considered-background pics of it:
The 'tail' of the scarf is in fact intended to hang off like that...you see it in a fair number of 1790s hats-with-scarves, and it looks fairly dorky but I like it. :D
I also put three more rows of cording in the 1830s petticoat, so it may be 2/3 done. I say "may" because I'm not entirely certain 6 more rows will make it as short as I want it to be, but we'll see!
The last section will be spaced further apart - twice as wide as the space between the middle section. Why? I dunno, seems aesthetically pleasing! And it stands out quite nicely.
And last night, instead of going to bed in a timely manner, I finished mocking up the 1830s bonnet. It's a very attractive sort of blue paper...
This particular shape is really more appropriate to the second half of the 1830s than the floral print dress I had planned for the Allaire wedding (which was about 1830), but as I still am bitter about the weather and am convinced it's going to rain for that too, I don't know that I want to bother with said floral print dress. So this is currently intended to be worn with my late 1830s cream poplin (yes, the one that has offensive sleeves and a wrinkly bodice. Whatevs), but if I decide I don't hate everything in time to actually make the floral print dress, this isn't too horribly out of date to wear with that.
...But right now I still hate everything. So.
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Date: 2016-05-22 02:06 am (UTC)Adorable bonnet!
And good luck getting the petticoat short enough with a reasonable number of cords :)
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Date: 2016-05-23 03:05 am (UTC)And it totally didn't happen, but I did get within a couple inches of not having to shorten it, heh.