I pushed myself to finish and it’s now done. Yipee! Thanks for all your encouraging thoughts here and on the Facebook page. So here’s the process (with quite a few pics): Read More...
Tag: Regency
Making Handsome Machine Buttonholes
You *can* make smart looking machine buttonholes. This is not a myth. For those of you who choose not to take the time (or can’t for whatever reason) to make handmade buttonholes you can use your machine to great effect. Now granted, hand sewn buttonholes are period correct until the sewing machine could produce zig-zag Read More...
Finding the Motivation to Finish
A Regency dress should be simple to finish. Two or three skirt seams, a bodice seam, set onto a waistband, set in sleeves, neckline bias and back closure and Done! Yeah, right. Although it IS easy, that “simple” dress has been on my sewing table for two months now. TWO! I guess when you’re in Read More...
Embroidered Voile Regency – Cutting & Pattern Work
Initial progress has been made on my ca. 1811 embroidered voile Regency gown. I pulled out all my most recent dress patterns and decided to go with a combo of my last Regency ballgown and the bodiced petticoat I made for under it. Here I’m tracing the original pattern. I then cut down the neckline, lowered Read More...
The Drool Fest
What better way to enjoy historical fashion than to look at the real thing! I had the grateful opportunity to visit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) over the weekend. Through rain, fog, bright sunshine and a blowing snow storm (complete with police escort!) my husband and I got to gasp, drool and Read More...
Daisy Gold and USC Red Spencer
At my whirlwind trip thru downtown LA in January, I couldn’t resist picking up some silk for a new spencer. I must have a new outfit for my attendance at Jane Fest in April and it WILL be accompanied by a spencer. My friend and mentor, lana/Lily, and I kept coming across the same shades Read More...
Drapes for Dresses
As a response to the February 2011 article on Regency fabrics, my friend Gina posted on the Facebook page that she didn’t see her curtains mentioned as possible raw material. Ha! Well, here’s where that came from. (And no, I didn’t actually steal her curtains for my project.) Read More...
Fabrics for Danceable Regency Ball Gowns
Ok, I admit I love day wear more than evening dress. This is true for both my historical wardrobe and in my 21st C. life. But when it comes to the invitation to a ball, I have to have *something* to wear to the event, right? With a new year of historical costume events planned, Read More...