A tiny obsessive perfectionist sewing her way through history
Ok we are backing up even further on the Designing for Heat wagon here because I realized I skipped a lot of what I consider to be the essential beginning steps last time! Here we go again. ~~Note that as always this is informed by my personal experiences, your mileage may vary~~ My goals: to [...]
So I am trying a new thing here. I see a lot of costumers online who have....for lack of a better term.....actual income? And they make the most gorgeous amazing things in silk and fine lace and I don't do that just because, well. I can't. I might not ever be able to do that [...]
Hopefully some of you remember the Avoiding Heatstroke Dress from a while back, which was intentionally designed and built to keep one (1) tiny human who is bad at homeostasis from developing heatstroke at events in the 95-105 ºF range. It was....moderately successful, I survived June Crown 2018 but Purgatorio 2019 killed me. It [...]
I'm in a weird sort of mood-- I didn't sleep well, and I'm stressed about school-- so we're doing something a little less optimistic than usual. Plus, if I write this now and I am ever low on project inspiration I can come back here and get some ideas! It looks like I am going [...]
I'd been having a hard couple days and really feeling like I hadn't made anything or progressed this year, so I'm trying to remind myself. Spanish 1520s dress! Sideless surcote (pictured with the fabulous Sarah of Mode Historique) Darrin's hood! (Unphotographed-- camicia for Queen Alyce) Some hose-- I need to redo these, they always feel [...]
Ok. It's been a while, both since I wrote anything generally and since I wrote about this. Hi! I survived my first semester at grad school Mk. II! I've been back in California for a week and a half or so now, and it has been nice to sleep as much as I want, dig [...]
Just wanted to insert a notice apologizing, I am still mostly alive I swear but likely won't be posting anything until after all of my assignments are due for the semester. I'm not sewing on much and I tried to write a post on TORM and just... couldn't make it happen. My 3000 word technical [...]
Drachenwald Crown Tourney has come and gone, actually more than a week ago? I did kind of massively overdo things that weekend and spent most of the week recovering. But! I went! I did finish my fitted gown in time, thank god, because it was chilly. Going up the spiral staircase to the dormitories in [...]
I always feel a little bit awkward about doing this, like "look at all these things I want! Please buy them for me!" But the reality is that while my family loves me they don't always know what to do with me.....both in terms of gifts and also social dynamics. I also love it when [...]
Last year I did a post that was "all of the things I learned in my first year of historical costuming!" I decided that it might be nice to make that a tradition, so here are the things I learned in my second year of historical costuming. Year Two lessons End threads well when [...]
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