The Earth Is Flat: & Other Dressmaking Conventions

I'm also not done, as my bodice has yet to be started and the camicia embroidery project may well outlive me, but I finished my final re...

Moving on with my hem, I ran another row of prick stitch through the all the layers about 1/2" from the edge of the hem on the fashion ...

Well, I finally gathered up my courage and started on the hem of my skirt. First step, rounding out the train I just folded the fabric i...

Now I'm working on the back. :)

Because the 1/4 width pieces I am using for the triangular shaping in my skirts were actually longer than a skirt panel I am able to play ab...

Not wearing them, or even sewing them, but my brain has been shorting out on the subject of drafting/draping trains on my courtesan gowns fo...

Last year after I bought the stunningly beautiful blue silk which I have been afraid to cut I bought a printed linen in a similar pattern to...

You know how it is. I finished my fan and spent a couple of days glorying in my accomplishment...and then I started thinking that now that...

After the gold paint dried I discovered that while it was wonderfully shiny it was that horrible green-gold color that I loathe in metallic ...

I've realized that I neglected to chronicle and photo document the most important part of the fan--most important from a structural pers...

I added the final flourishes to the dragon-leafy things that stick out at the sides of my fan and managed some passable leaf shapes on the l...

One interesting thing about the paperclay is that it doesn't particularly want to stick to the dry version of itself. I was using it mor...

Or, rather;  Il mio velo è finito! I am saving the final 'as worn' photos for the unveiling of our finished projects ('Unveili...

I know that I want to make up a dress from the terrifying, beautiful, blue silk I bought (but never used) for IRCC2. I've been fretting ...

I'm a natural fiber girl, by preference, but I'll make exceptions for a synthetic fabric that really gives the feel of what I'm ...

'Real Life' intruded and has eaten up the vast majority of my weekend thus far but I did manage to get in some work on the fan handl...

The bad news is that acanthus leaves are, apparently, very hard for me to sculpt. I keep applying some paperclay and working it into somethi...

Still loving the paper clay! Bit by bit... It's coming together!

...Ooooo! that's better! The plastic wood seems to be providing good framing and structure but it's completely lacking in suitabil...

After roughing in the carving for the handle I cut a groove across the top plate of my handle base and inserted a craft wood oval to provide...