a new year, a new project!
Jan. 1st, 2010 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mlsdesignsSo looking back over last year made me think. Mummy asked me why there was nothing before April, and I realised I did practically no sewing in the winter/early spring. I hate that time of year, it's so cold and dark, I have no motivation. Unfortunately this year I don't have the option to do so little, we have the Baroque Ball in Bath in March, and a Regency ball for Vallentines, and a Victorian ball in May, all of which need working on. So I'm going to get some better lighting in the dining room (my new sewing room, we've had a bit of a reshuffle) and really try to crack on.
For the Regency ball I want to make a new ballgown for Clare, nothing else, so should be not too bad. For the ball in May I want to make myself a new ballgown, I've had the fabric since CosCol, what, 3 years ago?! I've made a new dress for May the last 2 years, usually it's a quite time sewing wise!
The Baroque ball is the one that's worrying me :( I want a new dress, and need new panniers, Mummy wants to be a chap, I have a coat at school that I wanted to adjust anyway, so I'll sort that out for her, and then she needs a waistcoat and britches, I have a pattern for the britches, and the waistcoat should be easy. Clare will be a boy too, I have some gorgeous fabrics for her coat and waistcoat, just need something for her britches.
So tomorrow I'm hoping I might manage to get out my undies, I need to try the corset on, and I know it needs a little mending. I want to make some panniers like the ones Kirsten Dunst's Marie A wears when she's dressed to enter French soil, the ruffly hip length ones! I've been looking for pics of other ones like that, no luck yet.
Oh, and I'm going to try posting everyday again, might help me work harder :D
For the Regency ball I want to make a new ballgown for Clare, nothing else, so should be not too bad. For the ball in May I want to make myself a new ballgown, I've had the fabric since CosCol, what, 3 years ago?! I've made a new dress for May the last 2 years, usually it's a quite time sewing wise!
The Baroque ball is the one that's worrying me :( I want a new dress, and need new panniers, Mummy wants to be a chap, I have a coat at school that I wanted to adjust anyway, so I'll sort that out for her, and then she needs a waistcoat and britches, I have a pattern for the britches, and the waistcoat should be easy. Clare will be a boy too, I have some gorgeous fabrics for her coat and waistcoat, just need something for her britches.
So tomorrow I'm hoping I might manage to get out my undies, I need to try the corset on, and I know it needs a little mending. I want to make some panniers like the ones Kirsten Dunst's Marie A wears when she's dressed to enter French soil, the ruffly hip length ones! I've been looking for pics of other ones like that, no luck yet.
Oh, and I'm going to try posting everyday again, might help me work harder :D
