Hooray for tassels!!!
Sep. 11th, 2012 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mlsdesignsYesterday I finished all of mummy's sewing. The spencer needed fastenings and wrist bands, and the dress needed the waist seam dewing, fastenings and hems. Once I'd finished I thought about making her some stays (she only has a structured petticoat at the moment) but remembered, if I make her some stays I'd also need to make shifts and a petticoat! Umm, don't think so somehow! so instead I moved right on to my own sewing!
My military inspired spencer is well on the way because I decided I'd rather machine sew it and have something else new to wear, than hand sew it, and not ;) I have some progress shots even!
Where I'm at so far (and a sneaky look at mummy's new spencer):
It's pinned together at the neck and waist, and doesn't have it's lining yet, because I want to attach all the trimming first. I'm trimming it like this pelise from the V&A: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O117406/dress-unknown/
I only have 10 tassels, so I can't have any at the waist at the back, so I've done my usual little peplum thing, and I might put a couple of black buttons there instead. The collar is black silk taffeta piped with very dark purple silk satin (I used 'chunky' knitting wool for the piping, because I wanted a nice fat line) lined with scraps of black wool melton left over from Mummy's first doublet:
The taffeta is cut out with seam allowances all round, then piped and the seam allowances all turned in and pressed. Then the tassels are sewn to the seam allowances. The wool is a nice thick melton, so no other stiffening is needed, and it doesn't fray, so it has no seam allowances to turn it, it's just slip stitched down to the back of the piping, hiding the raw edges and loops of the tassels.
The bands of trim on the chest will be made from the same black taffeta pipped with dark purple satin, with the remaining 8 tassels at the ends. Hopefully they'll bobble about quite amusingly ;)
I'm off on a trip to London with school on Thursday, from 7:30am till 9pm ish, so I'm planning to take my silly neck ruffle thingy to sew on the coach. Then I have one last project, my Aunty Jac is now coming with us, mostly because she needs a holiday, but if we can it would be nice for her to dress up with us, so she doesn't feel left out. Unfortunately she's an awkward shape for me to clothe, she's short like Clare, but plumper than mummy... I'm hoping, because lots of Regency stuff is adjustable, I should be able to come up with something for her to wear. Unfortunately she has very short hair, and although a cap is the obvious answer, mummy's are both very sheer, so wouldn't do a very good job of covering it up. I found a part of a frill from an antique (I think) petticoat in my lace box, it's a nice non-see-through cotton, with a teeny frill at the hem that will be perfect for making into a quick and dirty all covering cap :)
Okey dokey, back to the sweat shop!
My military inspired spencer is well on the way because I decided I'd rather machine sew it and have something else new to wear, than hand sew it, and not ;) I have some progress shots even!
Where I'm at so far (and a sneaky look at mummy's new spencer):
It's pinned together at the neck and waist, and doesn't have it's lining yet, because I want to attach all the trimming first. I'm trimming it like this pelise from the V&A: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O117406/dress-unknown/
I only have 10 tassels, so I can't have any at the waist at the back, so I've done my usual little peplum thing, and I might put a couple of black buttons there instead. The collar is black silk taffeta piped with very dark purple silk satin (I used 'chunky' knitting wool for the piping, because I wanted a nice fat line) lined with scraps of black wool melton left over from Mummy's first doublet:
The taffeta is cut out with seam allowances all round, then piped and the seam allowances all turned in and pressed. Then the tassels are sewn to the seam allowances. The wool is a nice thick melton, so no other stiffening is needed, and it doesn't fray, so it has no seam allowances to turn it, it's just slip stitched down to the back of the piping, hiding the raw edges and loops of the tassels.
The bands of trim on the chest will be made from the same black taffeta pipped with dark purple satin, with the remaining 8 tassels at the ends. Hopefully they'll bobble about quite amusingly ;)
I'm off on a trip to London with school on Thursday, from 7:30am till 9pm ish, so I'm planning to take my silly neck ruffle thingy to sew on the coach. Then I have one last project, my Aunty Jac is now coming with us, mostly because she needs a holiday, but if we can it would be nice for her to dress up with us, so she doesn't feel left out. Unfortunately she's an awkward shape for me to clothe, she's short like Clare, but plumper than mummy... I'm hoping, because lots of Regency stuff is adjustable, I should be able to come up with something for her to wear. Unfortunately she has very short hair, and although a cap is the obvious answer, mummy's are both very sheer, so wouldn't do a very good job of covering it up. I found a part of a frill from an antique (I think) petticoat in my lace box, it's a nice non-see-through cotton, with a teeny frill at the hem that will be perfect for making into a quick and dirty all covering cap :)
Okey dokey, back to the sweat shop!
