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chocolatepotI got into a Kickstarter for an HP fan film set in the Marauder Era, and I'm still wondering how it's legal. Because it's not, right? But nobody's even mentioned the fact. Is it because the ME fans on Tumblr are all teenagers and have always had fandom as an out-in-the-open pastime? I guess I shouldn't go there.
Today's patterning: finished the last wedding dress, then decided to step away from "significant because of provenance" and switch to something different - a one-piece dress that looks like it was maybe meant to seem like a princess dress ca. 1867, but isn't actually. Then jumped forward and did the Delphos dress and then Grace Fenton Ross's wedding lingerie dress.
In chronological order:
Small child's dress - 1850s, 1860s
Julia Coolidge's dress - 1865 (or thereabouts)
Faux-princess dress with bretelles - ca. 1867
Jennie Goodman's dress - 1878
Mary DeLong West's dress - 1896
Grace Fenton Ross's dress - 1905
Evening dress - ca. 1912
Delphos dress - ?1915-1930?
Isabelle Sloan Rohlf's dress - 1916
Wedding dress for a woman I can't remember - 1934
Pair of silk drawers - 1941-1945
So I can see that I do have a couple of gaps. There's a mid (I think) 1880s wedding dress (brown, with a cool shaped closure), and one from 1881 or 1882 that is on the books as an 1871 wedding dress for someone who was way too rich to have worn something like that for her wedding anyway. Last week I mentioned a wedding dress from 1872 I was able to stick with a name through Ancestry.com, that would be a good one to fill in the earlier 1870s.
Clearly I should do some things from the 1920s. There's a wedding dress, but it's so boring, just a t-shape, basically. The trouble is that nearly everything from that decade is boxed because it's not in great shape, so when I browse the racks I don't see them and there aren't any pictures in PastPerfect - my eye doesn't get caught.
I do want to do this checked suit from the early teens that has some wedding provenance attached. It's in great shape, and very attractive, with the interestingness done through cut rather than trim. Not really a necessary one, but I've loved it since I started in 2011. To be honest, my main criterion for all of these is "in my fantasy life where I'm a talented seamstress, do I want to make it?"
I am keeping a few things back, though. There are two very, very nice children's outfits that I'm earmarking for my future children's clothing book, and there's a coat I love but also want to save for the future. Not sure about the plaid 1840s cloak. It's related to the family, though, so I suppose I'll do it now.
(If anyone, for whatever reason, wants an early copy of any of these patterns, I'd be happy to send a draft.)
Those Tyrells have sharp thorns. OH DID YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE. I'm practically one myself.
I hope the guy who plays Joffrey doesn't spend the rest of his life being typecast. I mean, this episode was an absolutely fantastic performance of something like 30 minutes of straight fuckery from him (not to mention a horrifying death scene), but I hope people take "he's a great actor" from it rather than "he makes a great jerk".
I hate how the weather goes directly from "too cold" to "too hot". (Too hot is anything over 72.) And there are no screens in, so I can't crack a window at night or at any time ... can't open my window at all, anyway, because they're crappy windows and possibly painted shut.
Today's patterning: finished the last wedding dress, then decided to step away from "significant because of provenance" and switch to something different - a one-piece dress that looks like it was maybe meant to seem like a princess dress ca. 1867, but isn't actually. Then jumped forward and did the Delphos dress and then Grace Fenton Ross's wedding lingerie dress.
In chronological order:
Small child's dress - 1850s, 1860s
Julia Coolidge's dress - 1865 (or thereabouts)
Faux-princess dress with bretelles - ca. 1867
Jennie Goodman's dress - 1878
Mary DeLong West's dress - 1896
Grace Fenton Ross's dress - 1905
Evening dress - ca. 1912
Delphos dress - ?1915-1930?
Isabelle Sloan Rohlf's dress - 1916
Wedding dress for a woman I can't remember - 1934
Pair of silk drawers - 1941-1945
So I can see that I do have a couple of gaps. There's a mid (I think) 1880s wedding dress (brown, with a cool shaped closure), and one from 1881 or 1882 that is on the books as an 1871 wedding dress for someone who was way too rich to have worn something like that for her wedding anyway. Last week I mentioned a wedding dress from 1872 I was able to stick with a name through Ancestry.com, that would be a good one to fill in the earlier 1870s.
Clearly I should do some things from the 1920s. There's a wedding dress, but it's so boring, just a t-shape, basically. The trouble is that nearly everything from that decade is boxed because it's not in great shape, so when I browse the racks I don't see them and there aren't any pictures in PastPerfect - my eye doesn't get caught.
I do want to do this checked suit from the early teens that has some wedding provenance attached. It's in great shape, and very attractive, with the interestingness done through cut rather than trim. Not really a necessary one, but I've loved it since I started in 2011. To be honest, my main criterion for all of these is "in my fantasy life where I'm a talented seamstress, do I want to make it?"
I am keeping a few things back, though. There are two very, very nice children's outfits that I'm earmarking for my future children's clothing book, and there's a coat I love but also want to save for the future. Not sure about the plaid 1840s cloak. It's related to the family, though, so I suppose I'll do it now.
(If anyone, for whatever reason, wants an early copy of any of these patterns, I'd be happy to send a draft.)
Those Tyrells have sharp thorns. OH DID YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE. I'm practically one myself.
I hope the guy who plays Joffrey doesn't spend the rest of his life being typecast. I mean, this episode was an absolutely fantastic performance of something like 30 minutes of straight fuckery from him (not to mention a horrifying death scene), but I hope people take "he's a great actor" from it rather than "he makes a great jerk".
I hate how the weather goes directly from "too cold" to "too hot". (Too hot is anything over 72.) And there are no screens in, so I can't crack a window at night or at any time ... can't open my window at all, anyway, because they're crappy windows and possibly painted shut.
