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newmoonstarSerious sewing has finally begun. I think I've finally come up with a workable pattern for my Burgundian dress, but I just realized I don't have any books that show the back of one of these dresses, so I'm going to have to hunt one down at the library before I cut out the back of the skirt. And I seriously need to buy some darn millinery wire for the hennin, otherwise there's no point at all in making the dress if I don't have the hat to complete it! EEEE! *breathe, self, breath!*
Also, I found some checked silk that looks exactly like a skirt in an 1839 fashion plate I love, BUT it's REALLY heavily slubbed, and thus, not period. Normally I would say no way to any silk that nobbly for historical purposes, but checked silk isn't exactly easy to come by if you're on a budget, and maybe because it's patterned the slubby-ness might be less apparent? So that's another dilemma at the moment.
In another "oy vey!" moment, I found out they're going to have a little competition for doll clothes at Costume Con. After this whole year of deliberatly NOT sewing doll clothes BECAUSE of Costume Con. ARG!!!! Too late now!!!
Still going through skating withdrawal. Because the season isn't over till the World Championships, even in an Olympic year, and I can't disengage from skating entirely until after Worlds, which might not even be on TV this year, so that's going to be super rough on me, especially when I have all this sewing to do. I actually watched Ice Castles and The Cutting Edge last night instead of finishing the sewing I was doing! This is NOT good! (Especially The Cutting Edge, a movie so terrible it's actually hilarious. I literally laugh out loud whenever I see it, because it's so cliched and ignorant about every aspect of skating. Especially that weird bit about that freaky spin where he lets go of her, and yet she can 'land' it. If you let go of someone on a spin like that, there's no way to control it, they would DIE. Literally brains splashed all over the ice. It would make Dubreil & Lauzon's fall at the Torino Olympics look like a tea party. Was there anybody advising them about skating on this movie? But Ice Castles is actually good, the only movie about skating to have that distinction!)
Also, I found some checked silk that looks exactly like a skirt in an 1839 fashion plate I love, BUT it's REALLY heavily slubbed, and thus, not period. Normally I would say no way to any silk that nobbly for historical purposes, but checked silk isn't exactly easy to come by if you're on a budget, and maybe because it's patterned the slubby-ness might be less apparent? So that's another dilemma at the moment.
In another "oy vey!" moment, I found out they're going to have a little competition for doll clothes at Costume Con. After this whole year of deliberatly NOT sewing doll clothes BECAUSE of Costume Con. ARG!!!! Too late now!!!
Still going through skating withdrawal. Because the season isn't over till the World Championships, even in an Olympic year, and I can't disengage from skating entirely until after Worlds, which might not even be on TV this year, so that's going to be super rough on me, especially when I have all this sewing to do. I actually watched Ice Castles and The Cutting Edge last night instead of finishing the sewing I was doing! This is NOT good! (Especially The Cutting Edge, a movie so terrible it's actually hilarious. I literally laugh out loud whenever I see it, because it's so cliched and ignorant about every aspect of skating. Especially that weird bit about that freaky spin where he lets go of her, and yet she can 'land' it. If you let go of someone on a spin like that, there's no way to control it, they would DIE. Literally brains splashed all over the ice. It would make Dubreil & Lauzon's fall at the Torino Olympics look like a tea party. Was there anybody advising them about skating on this movie? But Ice Castles is actually good, the only movie about skating to have that distinction!)
