Quick and dirty sewing like I haven't done in ages. Tomorrow is our square dance for the local spring festival with the theme, "Rollin' on the River." The committee folks are doing full fantasy ante-bellum outfits with hoops and ruffles, in blue and ginger, of all colors. Well, I don't have that kind of time or energy, so I went looking on eBay and found a little over a yard of 1960s home decorator barkcloth fabric with steamboats printed on, among other motifs. The way the steamboats are spaced, I decided the best I could do is cut those areas out in oval shapes and applique them onto a skirt. There are 6, so my six-gore skirt is alternating panels of a blue that almost matches the water in the print, and a gold that matches the foliage of the trees. Got the appliques stitched on and the skirt serged together last night. Need to do the elastic casing today and figure on a hem treatment. Even though it will take a while, I'm thinking of bias strips from the fabric as a band,! just to pick up the other colors in the print, but I'll see how making my own bias tape goes with this fabric.
Ann Wass -----Original Message----- From: Patricia Dunham <chim...@ravensgard.org> To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> Sent: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 2:05 am Subject: Re: [h-cost] ping? nothing since Jan 13 <WAS: buttons> not really.... well, not much... my husband found a duvet cover at St Vinnie's he other day, lovely cherry cotton velveteen. he's crowing about making a ummer-weight frock coat for his steampunkery, since I got him the patterns last hristmas... of course, the pattern came with 2 vests, but not a ouble-breasted one like he wants... or maybe we'll experiment with this stuff nd use it for a lining eventually? for myself, he also found a P(urdue?) black melton stadium blanket at the same tore?, the preceding week, for, again, $11.99, for MY current daydreaming roject, a Caucasus "burka", men's winter garment, as per this pic... ttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/02/1032423/-Why-Winter-is-Good-for-Occupy-Wall-Street nd of course, as soon as we found this fabric, it got warmer! Still working hrough cleaning up the blanket, deciding what to do with the excess fabric probably going to leave it attached but hemmed up or something...), and whether r not the cleaned-up wool will be nice enough against the skin, or if I'll have o figure out some sort of lining... Part of the clean-up involved leaving it ut on a clothes-line for several days... the way the water beaded on the urface was just classic! chimene On Jan 17, 2012, at 12:16 AM, <penn...@costumegallery.com> wrote: > Hi Patricia! I see you! Anything costuming wise up? Kathleen Mitchell is coming to visit me today! Very excited! _______________________________________________ -costume mailing list -cost...@mail.indra.com ttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
