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Apr. 27th, 2007 09:06 pmI've decided my next doll dress will be the Russian Court dress. I've been putting together a pattern, and it actually looks really good! I totally eyeballed it, and it came out perfect the first time! I can't believe how simple it was; maybe I'm just getting good at it! I think I'm going to do beading, too. It'll be so awesome to have it made up and be able to say I made the pattern myself. I'm so excited now!
But I don't know if I can tear myself away from reading Busman's Honeymoon long enough to actually cut out and sew a dress. I started in on it the same day I finished Gaudy Night. They're both unputdownable. (Which I don't think is a real word, but plenty descriptive.) BH is so far HILARIOUS. I can only read it when I'm alone, because my mum is one those nastily annoying people who will ask you to explain what's so funny every time you laugh out loud reading a book. And I'm pathetically geeking out about the wedding dress, I've been doing sketches trying to figure out what this thing would look like. But how do you fashion a beautiful 1930's wedding gown out of the description that it's ' Worth, period, stiff gold brocade, long sleeves, square neckline, off the face headdress, and no jewelry but long antique earrings and makes her look like a Renaissance portrait'? The fact that it's Worth is encouraging, but the rest of that description is just vague enough to be unhelpful, and precise enough to be restrictive. Not that there's any actual reason why I need to design such a gown, but the costumer in me simply cannot resist such a challenge!
But I don't know if I can tear myself away from reading Busman's Honeymoon long enough to actually cut out and sew a dress. I started in on it the same day I finished Gaudy Night. They're both unputdownable. (Which I don't think is a real word, but plenty descriptive.) BH is so far HILARIOUS. I can only read it when I'm alone, because my mum is one those nastily annoying people who will ask you to explain what's so funny every time you laugh out loud reading a book. And I'm pathetically geeking out about the wedding dress, I've been doing sketches trying to figure out what this thing would look like. But how do you fashion a beautiful 1930's wedding gown out of the description that it's ' Worth, period, stiff gold brocade, long sleeves, square neckline, off the face headdress, and no jewelry but long antique earrings and makes her look like a Renaissance portrait'? The fact that it's Worth is encouraging, but the rest of that description is just vague enough to be unhelpful, and precise enough to be restrictive. Not that there's any actual reason why I need to design such a gown, but the costumer in me simply cannot resist such a challenge!
