The frilled back petticoat ended up taking me a day and a half to sew together, WAY longer than I had thought! There was so much detail that went into it, but it was SO worth it because it looks amazing! I took it all into Tafe today, and took some photos of each piece on the mannequin. I didn't take photos of the Shot Taffeta underskirt as I do ( Read more... )

I made a decision on the petticoat situation! After having another look at this amazing Lady's Early Bustle Underwear (which I discovered last year whilst researching for my talk on Bustles), I decided to heck with it, I'll make TWO petticoats! So I got those cut out today at my Tafe's Open Day - Access to large tables for cutting, access to ( Read more... )

In my last post I mentioned I was having some trouble deciding about petticoats. I have 3 different ones that I am trying to choose between, or I could do a combination of them.

( 3 Pretty Petticoats )

Thank you everyone for all your helpful comments on my previous Ballgown post! After lots of thinking, and some sudden inspiration from my stash, I have made my final decisions!

( For more details, click here :D )

After a very successful trip to Lincraft today, I've settled on the fabrics for my ballgown. I've also picked out a few possible trims and a few possible patterns. I would really love some feedback about my choices to help me make my final decisions! This is really only my second full Victorian ensemble, so I'm still really unsure of what I'm doing ( Read more... )

Continuing on with the unorthodox costume posting, I thought I'd post up my plans for the rest of the year!

( 2010 costume plans under here! )

Ok, this might seem like a WEIRD way to post this, but I realised I never did a 'Costumes of 2009' post, and I've done a few this year, so hell... why not!

The last costume round-up post I did was 18th July 2009 'The Year So Far', where I posted photos of the first 6 months of 2009, plus posted about my plans for the rest of 2009. So.... here's ( Read more... )

I was all set to apologise for not updating as regularly as I would like, but then I realised that I'm about to post about pretty much the only costume I've done this year (I've put together a few things, but they've been very quick... I'll get to them eventually!). Which is kind of sad really... But oh well ( Read more... )

I was informed by a friend that sewingpatterns.com was having a 3 day 99c sale on all McCall's patterns! I had a bit of a browse around, and came across a few that had me inspired, so I decided to go ahead and order a few of them. The postage ended up costing double what the patterns cost, but all up I got 5 patterns for just over $20, which makes ( Read more... )

I just realised I hadn't posted this here ( Read more... )