Nonpolitical post

[msmcknittington]

What's that meme? Take a pretty, happy picture and post it for your friends to marvel at? OK!



Click on it to make it bigger.

This is what is currently on my dressmaker's dummy, waiting for me to finish NaNo and work on it. This is what I hope to end up with. It's an 1850s day-to-evening dress. There's a plastron concealing the low neck, and then there are detachable sleeves. My sleeves will be long and tight to the wrist, I think, mostly because I have very little fabric.

Right now, I have it on my dummy over my 16th-century bumroll and about three yards of tulle pleated over that. The skirt is just pinned to the dummy, so that's not done. The bodice also needs to be fitted and I need a new 1850s corset. Also, a bunch of petticoats. So, everything! Heh.



I originally put the skirt on the dummy because I had it hanging over the dummy's shoulder, and Gus kept trying to reach up and pat it with his paw. He's got this thing for hiding under long skirts when they're on my dummy, so I put it on for him to hide under. (Uh, the jury is still out on whether or not this was a wise move for fabric health.) He hasn't hidden under the skirt yet, but he has spent much time hiding behind it.

I'm not sure why he has that little billhook in front of him. He does look like he's planning something . . .

Comments

[troubleagain.livejournal.com]

Kitty!

Also, that dress is going to be gorgeous!

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Gus! He's my monster cat.

Here's hoping!

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think that it's just me, but on two separate computers, instead of a pic of what's on your dress dummy, I get a link to the IMDB page for Jane Eyre.

Is this a-purpose?

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Er, no. That's all my bad. I linked to it somewhere else while I was writing this entry. Whoops!

The larger view of the dress pictures is not illuminating at all. It's just kind of there, as an option. But not an option, since it's not really there.

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh my. That is a splendid dress!

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Isn't it like being stabbed in the eye with silk?

I reallyreallyreally want something 16th-century out of this same fabric in a period color, but I haven't been able to find anything remotely like it again. It's really heavy silk faille taffeta, and it feels amazing. And the sound! It's a very sophisticated rustle.

[sora50.livejournal.com]

"Fix" me, eh? I'll show them.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Oof. He needed to be fixed. He was a mean cat.

[koshka-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Very pretty, now that the picture is working :)

And aww, kitty!

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is, it was working when I previewed. I must have gone and mucked something up after that point.

It's that incredibly heavy silk faille taffeta from FFC! I think the dress you wore for Hallowe'en is made out of it.

Kitty! He's spent all night in the bathtub, and is angry at me because I was at work all day and wasn't there to play with him after lunch.

[irisheye.livejournal.com]

I lurve the color of that dress. :)

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

It's really, really magenta. Incredibly magenta.

[irisheye.livejournal.com]

Haha, yes. Even in the photo, it looks vibrant.