This is a "busy work" project I have been working on. It is based on the Bronzino portrait of Eleanor of Toledo. The dress will have to wait some time before my skills are up to the task, but the partlet is doable now.
Here is the inspiration:

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I am sitting in my hotel room in Orlando waiting for my compadre to finish getting ready so we can leave. Still don't know where we are going today, could be Magic Kingdom, could be EPCOT. We may just decide we are too hungover to go anywhere today and just sit by the pool ( Read more... )

I am not entirely sure how to do this, or even that I want to. I have been resisting it for years, mostly because of all the political foo that it has caused my friends over the years. It would be nice to avoid that just once! So I will speak of pleasant things, like sewing, shopping, coffee and chocolate. The finer things in life ( Read more... )