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mlsdesignsSo, my ball gown for next week is going well, and hopefully won't take too much longer to finish. I've decide to simplify it for this wearing, not make the fichu or put the ribbon and fringe on the skirt but make a plain berthe with fringe and ribbon trimming somewhat like the original.
Mummy will be wearing her old ball gown, it's gold taffeta and I'm thinking of using the off cuts of chocolate brown silk velvet I have to make a sash to kind of look like molten chocolate running down over a mummy shaped caramel centre :p And she can wear the new ribbon hairnet I gave her for her Birthday too, so I think that's sorted. Clare will be a boy, and either wear her tails or if she gets round to it, a brown frock coat with cream satin knee britches, stockings and pumps for an early Victorian look. She has a cream evening waistcoat and we could make a cravat/tie out of the left over gold spotted silk I made my Gaulle from. So now I get to think of Summer plans!
We have all the stuff we need for the demos in June (one of which I can't go to because I will be in the US) and I can spend July and the start of August working on anything we need for Llandrindod. But the ball we're going to in Scotland is the weekend after UTR, so I need to get our sewing done for that done before I go really. It's a Playford ball, and we've decided to go in Regency, tartan Regency at that, as a nod to the location :) I have some blue and gold silk plaid on its way to us, and we're all going to have the same fabric, just in different guises. I'm planning to make a 'jumper dress' for me, with a lace or fine cotton short sleeved shirt, and a sleeveless spencer wit for Clare to be worn over her white muslin gown, and Mummy will have a turban made from the left overs, and probably wear her beige cotton gown, maybe with a sash of the plaid if it's not dressy enough.
And now to UTR plans! I have either my Gaulle or The Sunflower for posh, the Indian print I just made and my old printed cotton jacket and linen petticoat. I have a pink taffeta petticoat waiting for a silk lampas jacket (which might be too hot for day time, we'l see...) the fabric has a very wide stripe, so I'm having trouble with the design of the jacket, but I'l save that for another post! I'm also hoping to make a red wool round gown with a buttoned compere front and probably an en foureau back; and a brown linen gown and petticoat with a pieced back and centre front closing bodice.
Now, for Jenny Rose's party! I was wondering what to wear - not wanting to be too hot but still wanting to be a pretty pretty princess of course! I know that lots of people will be wearing chemise dresses, but I don't have one and really can't afford to buy any more fabric, and anyway didn't want to use white cotton voile, I want to be a bit different! So I was looking through my stash to see if I have anything I could use, and I googled to see what portraits, extant garments and fashion plates I could find for inspiration. I think I may have come up with something!
So, I have some white cotton dotted swiss I bought ages ago for a Regency gown, but when it came it wasn't quite as fine as I wanted, so it's been languishing in the drawer ever since. And I've found some reference pics:
A spotted dress, although it's not sheer, and a sheer figured apron:
http://18thcenturyblog.com/images/uploads/49_original.jpg?1228490855
The apron looks rather suspiciously like dotted swiss:
http://18thcenturyblog.com/images/uploads/44_medium.jpg
Stripes not spots, but it's sheer and it's a chemise dress: http://philomena.themortalmoon.com/diaries/18/chemisealareine/yellowmed.jpg
I really really like this one, it's a figured sheer, and it's a chemise dress! I love the sleeves on this one too:
http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/lmlowel/THE331/Rococo/1793ChemisealareineWeb.jpg
So a chemise dress is now definitely on the cards for Jenny-Rose's party! Probably with a yellow taffeta sash, and maybe a big straw hat with a poofy crown made of this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120560221645&_trksid=p2759.l1259#ht_9746wt_1082 (I blame you Katherine, this fabric now has to belong to me!!) and maybe a big cream ostrich feather or 2?!
So, lots to do, I better get cracking with my sewing hadn't I?
Mummy will be wearing her old ball gown, it's gold taffeta and I'm thinking of using the off cuts of chocolate brown silk velvet I have to make a sash to kind of look like molten chocolate running down over a mummy shaped caramel centre :p And she can wear the new ribbon hairnet I gave her for her Birthday too, so I think that's sorted. Clare will be a boy, and either wear her tails or if she gets round to it, a brown frock coat with cream satin knee britches, stockings and pumps for an early Victorian look. She has a cream evening waistcoat and we could make a cravat/tie out of the left over gold spotted silk I made my Gaulle from. So now I get to think of Summer plans!
We have all the stuff we need for the demos in June (one of which I can't go to because I will be in the US) and I can spend July and the start of August working on anything we need for Llandrindod. But the ball we're going to in Scotland is the weekend after UTR, so I need to get our sewing done for that done before I go really. It's a Playford ball, and we've decided to go in Regency, tartan Regency at that, as a nod to the location :) I have some blue and gold silk plaid on its way to us, and we're all going to have the same fabric, just in different guises. I'm planning to make a 'jumper dress' for me, with a lace or fine cotton short sleeved shirt, and a sleeveless spencer wit for Clare to be worn over her white muslin gown, and Mummy will have a turban made from the left overs, and probably wear her beige cotton gown, maybe with a sash of the plaid if it's not dressy enough.
And now to UTR plans! I have either my Gaulle or The Sunflower for posh, the Indian print I just made and my old printed cotton jacket and linen petticoat. I have a pink taffeta petticoat waiting for a silk lampas jacket (which might be too hot for day time, we'l see...) the fabric has a very wide stripe, so I'm having trouble with the design of the jacket, but I'l save that for another post! I'm also hoping to make a red wool round gown with a buttoned compere front and probably an en foureau back; and a brown linen gown and petticoat with a pieced back and centre front closing bodice.
Now, for Jenny Rose's party! I was wondering what to wear - not wanting to be too hot but still wanting to be a pretty pretty princess of course! I know that lots of people will be wearing chemise dresses, but I don't have one and really can't afford to buy any more fabric, and anyway didn't want to use white cotton voile, I want to be a bit different! So I was looking through my stash to see if I have anything I could use, and I googled to see what portraits, extant garments and fashion plates I could find for inspiration. I think I may have come up with something!
So, I have some white cotton dotted swiss I bought ages ago for a Regency gown, but when it came it wasn't quite as fine as I wanted, so it's been languishing in the drawer ever since. And I've found some reference pics:
A spotted dress, although it's not sheer, and a sheer figured apron:
http://18thcenturyblog.com/images/uploads/49_original.jpg?1228490855
The apron looks rather suspiciously like dotted swiss:
http://18thcenturyblog.com/images/uploads/44_medium.jpg
Stripes not spots, but it's sheer and it's a chemise dress: http://philomena.themortalmoon.com/diaries/18/chemisealareine/yellowmed.jpg
I really really like this one, it's a figured sheer, and it's a chemise dress! I love the sleeves on this one too:
http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/lmlowel/THE331/Rococo/1793ChemisealareineWeb.jpg
So a chemise dress is now definitely on the cards for Jenny-Rose's party! Probably with a yellow taffeta sash, and maybe a big straw hat with a poofy crown made of this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120560221645&_trksid=p2759.l1259#ht_9746wt_1082 (I blame you Katherine, this fabric now has to belong to me!!) and maybe a big cream ostrich feather or 2?!
So, lots to do, I better get cracking with my sewing hadn't I?
