Bliaut Part 2

Facing around the neck, and watching Project Runway on Hulu.

UUUGH so many panels to sew. :/

The neck facing (UGH)

Turning it right-side out...

 

Sewing gores and stuff together. Easy, but SO. MANY. GORES. 

I decided last minute to line the lower portion of the sleeves. It means I won't have to hem, witch is awesome, but is going to add some extra time to the total it takes to finish this dress.

 

 

Bliaut Part 1

Well, I managed to burn myself in the first 10 minutes, but I started a new dress...

Doing a bliaut, though I haven't done one before. Had already cut the sleeves out before I thought of a better way to do it. Oh well.

Also decided to do an extra full skirt, so cut extra gores. Wasn't aware I had so much fabric!

Took just under an hour to cut all the pieces out. Now to start pinning!

(I hate pinning...)

I have some trim to use as a belt and sleeve embellishment, which I think I bought almost 8 years ago, so I've been holding off for the perfect dress. I hope this is it!

 

Yards and yards of green! Gotta iron the whole lot.

    

The huge sleeves. They're gonna be a bitch to do anything in, while wearing this dress, but I will feel so damn pretty in them! :D Did them fitted till the elbow, because I have bands I want to put around there for embellishment.

Gusset bits for the armpits. 

Gores, four per side, for a total of eight. The circumference of the skirt is going to wind up being just about ten feet.

Here's the whole dress, all laid flat! Haven't put in a neck hole yet, but that's okay. This is probably one of my favorite shades of green. I've been sitting on this fabric for a few months now, maybe over a year? I dunno, a while, anyway. 

 

Seriously, fuck pinning.

 

 

My hoarded trim! I used to have this trim in brown and gold as well, but I can't for the life of me find it, which is a shame, 'cause a brown and gold version of this dress would also be lovely... 

Pennsic Stuff

Did some number crunching, and there's around 18 weeks left until Pennsic, and I have approximately a minimum of 14 more pieces I absolutely need to make.

It's not as many pieces as a feared, but it's still a lot. I need to do at least one a week, or more, and I'm basically working broke, with scrap fabrics and bedsheets...lol. Haven't managed to set aside much in the way of funds, either. Winter has been tight.

Still. We'll make it work. :}

Craft Room

Got some additional shelving for the craft room. :)

Antique Store Find

No idea what I'm gonna do with it yet, but it's interior dec width antique lace? I'm thinking it might be time to brush off some Victorian patterns, just for fun... Break up the Pennsic madness a bit.

Or. Padmé Amidala's wedding dress was antique Italian lace (mostly), and this is hardly Italian, but maybe I could made a replica...

IDK, I'll sit on it for a while. See what it hatches into. 0u0

Viking Outfit

Here's the finished viking outfit! well. the first one, anyway.

I made the beads on the brooches detachable so I can mix-and-match with different dresses eventually.

Viking Brooches

Bought beads with a friend today to make  Viking apron dress brooches. They turned out pretty well, I think. Still have to add pin backs, though.