The Earth Is Flat: & Other Dressmaking Conventions

Well, the new year has swept in like fresh air around here and I am off and running on a million different projects, sewing and otherwise. M...

I managed to get both bodices close enough to finished that they could actually be worn so both the brown linen and the plaid silk made the ...

More about the costume progress later, but I thought you'd like to see the plaid dress in action!

Just a work-in-progress pic to remind me that I am moving toward bodice-dom!

Having cut out all my linings, interlinings, and the fashion fabric for my day bodice I am now confronted with the fashion fabric for the di...

I WILL start on my bodices for TeslaCon. I WILL! Right now.

See? Side to side ribbons holding my bustle tapes together so it doesn't look hideous from the outside!

I have been deep in the mire of a rather spectacular FAIL with the bustling of my second skirt. I started by approximating the placement whi...

In a lovely brown on brown striped linen from my stash. I'd still like to play with the bustling, and come up with a few more outf...

Something like 15 years ago I found an whole lot of organza ribbon in a wonderful pumpkin pie color, CHEAP, and bought it up. I stitched it ...

In fact, it's a skirt with a big poufy butt! I still have all the handwork to do to finish it (waistband, hooks and eyes, ribbons, etc...

All three rows of lace are now stitched on my skirts so I thought I'd post another picture. The uppermost row is the lace just after it ...

In order to cut out my skirts without making a separate set for the plaid skirt I basted in the tucks and hem before I cut it my pieces. Thi...

I've been sitting on my hands the last few days. (Well, OK, pleating lace trim in my glorious new perfect pleater!) All because I have b...

I added the waist tapes to my black bustle and it is just as amusing as I thought it would be to *finally* have a properly protuberant rump!...

It's just shy of 2 months until Teslacon 3 and I've finally put down my fear, picked up my sewing tools and gotten started on my cos...

Another find from today's lovely book. Do you see what I see? In the lower left section, near the bottom of the lady's skirts...peri...