over-complicating costumes since forever ago
Not sure if fatigue is worse this year or what, but today has been spent trying to be at least upright and it has felt like a struggle all day, and that is after a day sleep that usually does help. But we did have “not a storm really” last night which brought down this…
Okay, this has taken forever and I was trying to get this ready for.. tomorrow. AHAHAHAHAHHAAH!!! But I decided to not take any shortcuts (except to stabilise layers before hand working.) So this meant stretching the velvet and pearls over the base. Loose over handing of the back, then the front with tinier over handing….
I woke early and put Pride and Prejudice on and sewed. And sewed. Backtracking a few days: My support bodice has been theorised and made. Basically I went this area has both Dutch and German influences and I really don’t want another sidelacing support so what if…?” The shoulder is cut separately like in Alcega…
Progress from 2006: Progress 2016 after stripping all the fire damaged bezants and sequins: New pearls on the upper right, the same pattern was repeated on the upper left and a matching overlapping design added to the lower part. Yes, it looks very wobbly. This is part of how the fabric was eased over the…