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May. 10th, 2011 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mlsdesignsSorry for the radio silence of the last few weeks! I've been a busy little bee and not had much to post in the way of sewing news. School is it's usual manic self, the GCSE exam performance is tomorrow, but then it should be a little bit calmer before the hell that is the yr7 play in June!
The thing that's kept me busiest the last week or so was Clare moving house to her new flat in Wales. This weekend was crazy! We collected the van at 5pm on Friday, and stopped loading at 9pm when we couldn't see anymore, then started again at 9am on Saturday! We got it all in however, and were on the road by half past one. By 7pm everything was unloaded again! On Sunday we took Clare to collect a washing machine and lots more boxes and bags! We were on our way home again though after lunch, and just got home in time for a cup of tea before heading out to dance practice!
Because of the move, we missed the Shakespeare musical evening, which I was actually glad about, because it meant the naughty Elizabethan stuff could stay in the corner thinking about what it's done!
I've been getting on instead with my new bustle stuff for next weekend's ball.
I've made a bustle that is perfectly described as a lobster tail, being both pink and frilly ;)
I wanted mine to be bigger than Clare's, so added 6" or so to the stay pieces and the boned peices. I think my but is big enough now ;)
I took off 2 of the frills on my old crinoline petticoat and took off the waist band, then removed one of the pannels, re-levelled it over the bustle and put it on a new waistband.
I perhaps should have un-picked the tuck, it was just above the top frill, and now just floats about at crotch level! Oh well, no one will see it!
I took all three frills off the hem of the big pink skirt, and took off the waistband so I could take out one of the three pannels.
Obviously it wasn't long enough in back to go over the bustle, and I wanted some puffs as well, but luckily I'd made it with a really deep cotton hem facing, so I've used the facing as the bottom 10" or so of skirt, putting two of the frills back at the hem to cover the cotton.
My old day bodice is a very late crinoline style, so it's perfect for early butle!
But the evening bodice was not so good, it doesn't fit very well anymore, and I'm very bored with it! So I've tken off the sleeves and bertha, and I was going to re-cut it into a swiss waist and do something like the dress on the left:
But when I tried it on again, (not lacing my corset so tight because I remembered I'll be wearing it at a ball!) it wasn't so much too big after all. I've cut apart the bertha and used the lace and frills to make sort of cap sleeves, which I don't have a photo of yet. I'm planning to decorate the bodice neckline with flowers as well.
All that's left for the ball dress is some kind of ... thing for the back waist - either a peplum or swags or something. Because I needed as much length as possible in the back pannel I had to let down the 3" fold-over at the waist, so there's a noticable crease and line of stitch holes right on the top of the puffs! I don't know what I'm going to do yet, but I really need to come up with something!
I'm hoping I'll have enough pink silk left for another bodice. We're doing Scotish Victorian dance demos this summer, and I'm hoping I can use the left over cross bared silk to make something to wear :)
Also, I'm spending my Birthday shopping, and then my best friend is taking me out for a meal and we're going to come home and watch last night's Glee :D
The thing that's kept me busiest the last week or so was Clare moving house to her new flat in Wales. This weekend was crazy! We collected the van at 5pm on Friday, and stopped loading at 9pm when we couldn't see anymore, then started again at 9am on Saturday! We got it all in however, and were on the road by half past one. By 7pm everything was unloaded again! On Sunday we took Clare to collect a washing machine and lots more boxes and bags! We were on our way home again though after lunch, and just got home in time for a cup of tea before heading out to dance practice!
Because of the move, we missed the Shakespeare musical evening, which I was actually glad about, because it meant the naughty Elizabethan stuff could stay in the corner thinking about what it's done!
I've been getting on instead with my new bustle stuff for next weekend's ball.
I've made a bustle that is perfectly described as a lobster tail, being both pink and frilly ;)
I wanted mine to be bigger than Clare's, so added 6" or so to the stay pieces and the boned peices. I think my but is big enough now ;)
I took off 2 of the frills on my old crinoline petticoat and took off the waist band, then removed one of the pannels, re-levelled it over the bustle and put it on a new waistband.
I perhaps should have un-picked the tuck, it was just above the top frill, and now just floats about at crotch level! Oh well, no one will see it!
I took all three frills off the hem of the big pink skirt, and took off the waistband so I could take out one of the three pannels.
Obviously it wasn't long enough in back to go over the bustle, and I wanted some puffs as well, but luckily I'd made it with a really deep cotton hem facing, so I've used the facing as the bottom 10" or so of skirt, putting two of the frills back at the hem to cover the cotton.
My old day bodice is a very late crinoline style, so it's perfect for early butle!
But the evening bodice was not so good, it doesn't fit very well anymore, and I'm very bored with it! So I've tken off the sleeves and bertha, and I was going to re-cut it into a swiss waist and do something like the dress on the left:
But when I tried it on again, (not lacing my corset so tight because I remembered I'll be wearing it at a ball!) it wasn't so much too big after all. I've cut apart the bertha and used the lace and frills to make sort of cap sleeves, which I don't have a photo of yet. I'm planning to decorate the bodice neckline with flowers as well.
All that's left for the ball dress is some kind of ... thing for the back waist - either a peplum or swags or something. Because I needed as much length as possible in the back pannel I had to let down the 3" fold-over at the waist, so there's a noticable crease and line of stitch holes right on the top of the puffs! I don't know what I'm going to do yet, but I really need to come up with something!
I'm hoping I'll have enough pink silk left for another bodice. We're doing Scotish Victorian dance demos this summer, and I'm hoping I can use the left over cross bared silk to make something to wear :)
Also, I'm spending my Birthday shopping, and then my best friend is taking me out for a meal and we're going to come home and watch last night's Glee :D
