yellow petticoat
Aug. 4th, 2022 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwHey, let's update while there are sewing updates to be had, eh? I'm sure it'll all drop off again once I'm back in school!
Been a variety of busy the last couple days (unexcitingly busy, not "let's update DW busy"), but since I actually had some motivation to Sew Something, I did! Not the not-wedding dress, as mentioned last post, but alllll the way back to the Welsh traditional costume that I decided to make and last posted about, uh, back in February?
I do still want to make it, though! Despite the fact that the "feels-like" temp is 106 right now, I can't wait for it to be FALL with cold NIGHTS and the wearing of snuggly WOOLS. And the Welsh outfit will be pretty much 85% wool, so it feels inspiring right now.
It would definitely feel less inspiring if the air conditioner crapped out, I will say.
A petticoat felt pretty manageable, and then I got to feel all accomplished:
It's done except for the fastening, as I haven't dug out the stays that I'll wear with it yet - hopefully the 1840s stays, provided they still fit, ahem. It's made of a really delicious wool flannel, in a pretty golden-yellow color, in a shade that I really cannot wear next to my face! I bought it as a damaged piece from Farmhouse Fabrics a couple years ago for a very good price, and the "damage" turned out to be some few dirt marks on the selvedges and back. It was almost a two-yard piece, so I had vague plans of maybe an 1810s spencer if it showed up and turned out to be a good yellow for me. It did not, so into the stash it went. Perfect for this, though!
The top & waistband are bits of pink linen from the scrap bin that look really dire with the yellow, honestly - I adore historical clashing colors but this particular set just looks barfy. It's destined to be an under-petticoat though, so I really don't care...the pink was the first big piece I pulled out of the bin!
I bound the hem with some black twill tape, partly because it makes a nice contrast, and partly because the flannel's really too fat to make a nice hem.
Research note: Yellow definitely wasn't as common as the combinations of red, black, navy, and grey (link to my main helpful source here, with lots of petticoats!); there are no extants that I could find in yellow, but there are a few color illustrations from the 1830s-60s (like here and here) that involve some kind of yellow somewhere in the outfit, so yellow isn't completely unheard of!
Been a variety of busy the last couple days (unexcitingly busy, not "let's update DW busy"), but since I actually had some motivation to Sew Something, I did! Not the not-wedding dress, as mentioned last post, but alllll the way back to the Welsh traditional costume that I decided to make and last posted about, uh, back in February?
I do still want to make it, though! Despite the fact that the "feels-like" temp is 106 right now, I can't wait for it to be FALL with cold NIGHTS and the wearing of snuggly WOOLS. And the Welsh outfit will be pretty much 85% wool, so it feels inspiring right now.
It would definitely feel less inspiring if the air conditioner crapped out, I will say.
A petticoat felt pretty manageable, and then I got to feel all accomplished:
It's done except for the fastening, as I haven't dug out the stays that I'll wear with it yet - hopefully the 1840s stays, provided they still fit, ahem. It's made of a really delicious wool flannel, in a pretty golden-yellow color, in a shade that I really cannot wear next to my face! I bought it as a damaged piece from Farmhouse Fabrics a couple years ago for a very good price, and the "damage" turned out to be some few dirt marks on the selvedges and back. It was almost a two-yard piece, so I had vague plans of maybe an 1810s spencer if it showed up and turned out to be a good yellow for me. It did not, so into the stash it went. Perfect for this, though!
The top & waistband are bits of pink linen from the scrap bin that look really dire with the yellow, honestly - I adore historical clashing colors but this particular set just looks barfy. It's destined to be an under-petticoat though, so I really don't care...the pink was the first big piece I pulled out of the bin!
I bound the hem with some black twill tape, partly because it makes a nice contrast, and partly because the flannel's really too fat to make a nice hem.
Research note: Yellow definitely wasn't as common as the combinations of red, black, navy, and grey (link to my main helpful source here, with lots of petticoats!); there are no extants that I could find in yellow, but there are a few color illustrations from the 1830s-60s (like here and here) that involve some kind of yellow somewhere in the outfit, so yellow isn't completely unheard of!
