Updates and Sneak Peeks

It has taken longer to finish my sister's dress than I thought.  That is partially because I have been working on some other projects, none of which are finished either.  I have been pretty productive though, so I'll give you some sneak peeks of what I have been up to.

I drafted a pattern and am almost done with a 1940's dress for my sister. 

I found and altered a pattern for a new pair of 18th century stays. 

I made a cardboard mock-up of the pattern.

(And got fabric and boning for said stays.)

I designed a knitting pattern for an 18th century pinball

(a term to be explained further in another post).

 I've started to knit the front.

(And I am teaching my other sister to knit!)

 I learned how to make death's head buttons.

(This is a larger size I practiced on, the second one I ever made!)

I got this fantastic book! I'll talk about it in another post.

This new year is off to a pretty good start!

-Rebecca

A new sewing project for a New Year!

My first project of the new year: After watching a movie set in the 1940's, my sister decided that she wanted me to make her a 40's inspired dress. We sat down, looked at some inspiration pics, and drew out a design. This has been my first time using my new dressform to sew with, and it is going very well! My sister tried it on today, and everything is in place for finishing it up tomorrow or sometime very soon. I will post pictures when I get the chance; I've tried to show every step of my progress along the way. I'm looking forward to seeing her wear the dress out of the house. It looks great on her!

Rebecca

How to dress in the 18th century:

I am officially done with school for the semester, so Friday night I was able to open this!

"She" is almost exactly my measurements, except I can't get the hips quite large enough, but that's okay, because I don't really intend to be making pants on her (and I have two legs!).

So without further ado, my first tutorial:

DRESSING IN THE 18TH CENTURY

Busyness

So I feel like I have kinda neglected this for a little while, but once exams are over I will be back with some awesome stuff!  Because...
On cyber Monday I ordered:

• A dressform
• "Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centiry Fashion in Detail"
• "Costume Close-Up" and
• "Patterns of Fashion" (all books, and awesome ones at that!)

I can't wait to get them, even though I can't open them until next Friday. :-(
But once this semester is over, I'm going to definitely post more!
Until then!
Bye, I have a PowerPoint to do!

Rebecca

Some holiday classic songs...

So, since it's sufficiently holiday-ish weather here, I think it's time for some holiday music!
My holiday songs playlist.
And just in case I didn't say the word holiday enough...holiday!

I bet the 40's never thought of this...

It's kind of hard to put on headphones when you're wearing sponge rollers in your hair. It's actually quite funny-looking! :-)

Rebecca

It's the Holiday Season...

I've been thinking about Christmas presents today... I don't know what to give all the people on my list, but I'll probably make most of it. I don't know what it is, but I'd rather make someone a present than buy something for them. But anyway, if I make all the things I'm planning on, there should be some good tutorials coming up (after Christmas, of course!).

Also, my grandma bought me some historic fashion books as my Christmas present, so there will definitely be some exciting and interesting things to look forward to on this blog next year!

Rebecca