I got a book! Thanks to the fabulous Carolyn for the recommendation-- this book is nuts. Ridiculous amounts of information about what Queen Isabella, Catherine of Aragon, Juana la Loca, and more wore and owned. If I get ambitious I might try and replicate one of Isabella's simpler outfits, maybe one that won't require $1000 [...]
Author: notanothercostumingblog
Bio Engineer turned (hopeful) textile conservator
Accessories time
Sleeves for 12th Night are.... In progress. I mostly ignored the instructions on the pattern to make these. I sewed the top seam with wrong sides together, clipped the seam and turned it right side out and basically treated it as flatlined. As you can tell by the shape these are NOT meant to close [...]
DAY O’PRESENTS
Lovely gifty #1 DRESS FORM! Luckily I am a normal size so it was easy to find and get! No more trying to determine trim placement in my house windows! Not actually a gift but I got it yesterday so whatever-- beautiful fascinator block from Guy Morse. Sadly these pins are Too Large and therefore [...]
Me in dresses, mostly
Spanish Renaissance dress is wearable, if not done: Two more eyelets and a hem. I would love to have sleeves for Twelth Night but I don't think it's going to happen. I submitted for my name and came up with a (conflict-free!) device, but I can't register it until I hear back about the name. [...]
I hate titles (and deadlines)
Sooo I did what I always do with sewing projects: start out with no deadline, decide I want to wear the thing to an event, freak out about getting it done, then sew frantically. #TimeManagement I'm normally good at that! Just not with sewing, apparently. I watched 2.5 movies on Monday and embroidered through my [...]
I FINISHED SOMETHING
But not really Dress embroidery is DONE It doesn't look like much here but I'm pretty pleased with it. Good thing, too, because I've decided I'd like to have it wearable for West Kingdom's 12th Night event, which is on January 7th. Well, for most people it's the 5th-7th but I can't take time off [...]
Hats and Ed Ball Anxiety
Good news: Smol hat friend has feathers! It's very hard to photograph a hat on your own head ok. This lil guy is still waiting on veiling that I bought on the internet but so far fascinators are SUPER FUN. Bad news: I might've overreached myself. Edwardian Ball is coming up and I thought "Hey! [...]
My Life in STEM
Once again I'm writing a blog post when I should be sleeping... but here I am. I wanted to get this out of my head before it disappears. The robotics organization that my entire life was devoted to in high school posted something on Facebook recently about the rates at which kids drop out of [...]
Hats hats hats
One of my more recent crafting addictions is blocking hats. It's a somewhat unfortunate addiction because hat blocks are really expensive. We have some at work but they're not geared to what I want to do soooooo.... All my Christmas presents are hat blocks. Go to Guy Morse Hat Blocks if you want to be [...]
There’s really no reason for you to read this
Things are coming along! My camicia is done-- I followed the highly recommended instructions here, and got a great reminder of why standing on one end of a measuring tape and holding the other and squinting is not an effective measurement technique. I intended it to hit at upper ankle, it's mid-calf. Whatever. It's in [...]
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