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Final Victorian Corset
A few months ago, I posted my mockup progress on a 1890ish corset. I actually all but finished it back in October and wore it as the support layer at Steamcon. I had the binding machined one one side, but wore it without hand stitching it down on the inside. Worked great under my Victorian dress, looked awful by itself. A few months later I finally ( Read more... ) -
1950's Support
I have had some fun lately looking at 1950's fashion, especially the Dior New Look style (really, who hasn't?), but specificly I am most enjoying looking at the support structure and undergarments of the style.
This late 1940's bra has an interesting closure method. It looks like there is a button on either side of the ribcage and two crossing ( Read more... ) -
14th Century Ryan Doll
A very sweet boy in our barony had a birthday coming up (in October) and since I was on a doll kick, I made him one. His family does mostly late 14th century garb, so I scoured Larsdatter for every 1370s ish image I could find (of men) and decided on my main inspiration images. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find much more than this one at the ( Read more... ) -
Corset Mockup
To my LJ friends: I wrote this entry for the CorsetMakers lj ( here) but figured I'd cross post it here too, because yay pictures!
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Making a friend smile with a gift
A good friend of R and mine is a lovely lady who sometimes needs a little reminder that she is a hero to our (previous) barony and kingdom. R thought that as a hero, she should have an action figure! :D Thus the Amazing Bloxam Action-Figure was born.
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IRCC II: Portrait Miniature Necklace
Submitted another IRCC II update, but I think I will hold off on reposting it here since it would just be redundant. However, I do have something new and shiny to show off: A portrait miniature necklace! There are many extant miniatures from England, but there are enough from Italy to not make it out of the question for me to make one for this ( Read more... )
