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sunburst taking in

November 15th, 2010, 08:03 pm I did start to adjust the Sunburst skirt. But I am not happy at how the pencil is showing through. So I have enough left over to recut the skirt front panels and I can use bits of the current skirt fronts for the bodice. I’m not going to use…

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sunburst adjustments

November 14th, 2010, 11:05 pm So I did manage to bust out the Sunburst skirt and sew it up enough to start sewing over the pattern. But there are two thick blue pencil marking the width of one of the skirts which is narroer than what I went with. That said I can most easily…

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sunburst tracing

June 13th, 2009, 05:19 pm Well I spent the afternoon drawing on fabric but I do finally have my beading layout transfered to the back of the fabric 🙂 The dark blue vertical line is where the original seam was. I shifted it out a little as it just balanced a little better that way…

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sunburst scaling

June 12th, 2009, 11:38 pm Fantastic  Thanks to an online tutorial I now have a grid for my skirt pattern  Thanks to myself it was tweaked to be a useful grid pattern for scaling  Thanks also to myself I have a scanned scaled image of my skirt pattern and can now apply a grid to the back of the…

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sunburst- pink version

http://www.kci.or.jp/cgi-bin/collection/collection.cgi?lang=e&path=1770/05-007716_aSadly the photo does it so little justice, you need the Taschen book to really appreciate how stunning the trimming actually is. Noooooo!!!! I just realised something: http://www.kci.or.jp/exhibitions/index_e.html Japonism in Fashion, New Zealand Jul. -Oct. 2003, at the Museum of New Zealand, Te papa Tongarewa, Wellington Dec. 2003-Mar. 2004, at the Christchurch Art Gallery, Te…

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progress, reinspiring

November 8th, 2008, 06:36 pm Inspiring afternoon spent sorting through the back room 🙂 I found a few old projects that I may just redo now that I have them all in one corner and can see how much work would be involved. Hannibal/Elissa costume. I found my old bodice and new velveteen (needs colour…

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August 2nd, 2007, 01:33 pm Ummm… I have another cunning plan. I will probably be doing my Worth Gown this year. *hangs head* But I know now how quickly I can pearl so it shouldn’t be too bad. As a refresher: http://costumes.glittersweet.com/historical/sunburst.htm Direct to the actual dress: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/haut/hob_C.I.49.3.25a,b.htm I actually have just over 6m of…

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