Pictures of the Venetian . . . finally.
Apr. 21st, 2007 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msmcknittingtonI went to my first SCA event EVER today, and had a good time. For it, I was planning on whipping up (cue maniacal laughter) out of this burgundy velvet I got for a song, but the fabric doesn't want to be that. It wants to be mid-sixteenth century Venetian. Or maybe just Italian -- based on the Eleanora di Toledo gown.
Anyway, I made a pair of sleeves and a sash for a dress I finished a long time ago and never took pictures of. The dress is actually made out of a stretch jacquard, but it doesn't really look it until I step on the hem, which doesn't happen much because the hem is the right length. Go, friend and your mad hem-marking skills!
Oh, I also hemmed it . . . last night. You know, because finishing doesn't actually mean hemming.
WARNING: Don't look at my face. I look . . . dyspeptic.
This one really shows off my sunburn. Guys, I am lobster red. This is a great color for something you're about to eat, but not my shoulders and breasts. Yowza. It's been a while since I had a sunburn. Stupid April weather in Wisconsin.
Anyway, the sleeves are just the plain sleeve pattern from Tudor Tailor. The velvet ribbons are tacked on and then tied into renaissance bows. The sleeves are basted into the armholes. One of the sleeves turned out to be a whole inch shorter than the other one. I've no idea how that happened, as they came from the same pattern and used the same seam allowances.
The sash is a length of silk chiffon I had left over from my mid-nineteenth century bonnet. It's tacked down at seven points along the bodice (front opening x2, halfway up the front point x2, halfway down the back point x2, at the back point), and the stitches covered up with little pearls. Two bigger pearls are at the front point to cover up where I sewed the green velvet ribbon. Pretty sure this sash is not period, but I have a memory of seeing something similar. Probably not in chiffon.
The chemise is a totally undocumentable raglan chemise in totally inappropriate cotton muslin.
I made this bodice a couple cup sizes ago, so it doesn't close as well at the top as it might. See the curve along the front opening of the bodice? That's from my 36 DDs pushing the steel boning out of shape. RARGH. Can't win.
The sunburn is period, though.
The back. Not that exciting. I'm wearing a little black velvet caul to cover up my short modern hair.
There ya go, guys. Lobster in a dress!
EDIT: Fixed the second picture. It really is of the back, now.
Anyway, I made a pair of sleeves and a sash for a dress I finished a long time ago and never took pictures of. The dress is actually made out of a stretch jacquard, but it doesn't really look it until I step on the hem, which doesn't happen much because the hem is the right length. Go, friend and your mad hem-marking skills!
Oh, I also hemmed it . . . last night. You know, because finishing doesn't actually mean hemming.
WARNING: Don't look at my face. I look . . . dyspeptic.
This one really shows off my sunburn. Guys, I am lobster red. This is a great color for something you're about to eat, but not my shoulders and breasts. Yowza. It's been a while since I had a sunburn. Stupid April weather in Wisconsin.
Anyway, the sleeves are just the plain sleeve pattern from Tudor Tailor. The velvet ribbons are tacked on and then tied into renaissance bows. The sleeves are basted into the armholes. One of the sleeves turned out to be a whole inch shorter than the other one. I've no idea how that happened, as they came from the same pattern and used the same seam allowances.
The sash is a length of silk chiffon I had left over from my mid-nineteenth century bonnet. It's tacked down at seven points along the bodice (front opening x2, halfway up the front point x2, halfway down the back point x2, at the back point), and the stitches covered up with little pearls. Two bigger pearls are at the front point to cover up where I sewed the green velvet ribbon. Pretty sure this sash is not period, but I have a memory of seeing something similar. Probably not in chiffon.
The chemise is a totally undocumentable raglan chemise in totally inappropriate cotton muslin.
I made this bodice a couple cup sizes ago, so it doesn't close as well at the top as it might. See the curve along the front opening of the bodice? That's from my 36 DDs pushing the steel boning out of shape. RARGH. Can't win.
The sunburn is period, though.
The back. Not that exciting. I'm wearing a little black velvet caul to cover up my short modern hair.
There ya go, guys. Lobster in a dress!
EDIT: Fixed the second picture. It really is of the back, now.