The Frock Chick

November 15th, 2010, 08:03 pm

I did start to adjust the Sunburst skirt. But I am not happy at how the pencil is showing through.

So I have enough left over to recut the skirt front panels and I can use bits of the current skirt fronts for the bodice.

I’m not going to use a crepe for some of the bodice panels like in the original but then I’m using pearls rather than faceted beads for the clouds anyway (the original used cut beads the later copy uses pearls). I’m looking forward to working on this one too 🙂

The cutwork is daunting but I have a handle on it, this is one of the reasons I want to machine sew around the pattern- it’ll help stabilise the fabric. I have my hair canvas petticoat to neaten at the top and a cotton twill petticoat. And bustle to make. Oh and sew up my corset as well 😉

November 14th, 2010, 11:05 pm

So I did manage to bust out the Sunburst skirt and sew it up enough to start sewing over the pattern. But there are two thick blue pencil marking the width of one of the skirts which is narroer than what I went with. That said I can most easily rectify this but moving the side panels in to that line, redraw the pattern on the side gores.

And I just got side tracked from my hunt for the two Sunburst dresses in my reference art and tex> Latishhistoric> latevicrefs folder… So much yumminess saved from ebay and auction sites. And even more in reference art and text> Latishhistoric> 1870s-1880sbustlenfbustle

Found her 🙂 Yes the narrower skirt is right for this dress so I’ll do exactly that; take the skirt in at the front and add the pattern to the side gores 🙂 Now to sort those folders out.

June 13th, 2009, 05:19 pm

Well I spent the afternoon drawing on fabric but I do finally have my beading layout transfered to the back of the fabric 🙂 The dark blue vertical line is where the original seam was. I shifted it out a little as it just balanced a little better that way on me.

The two dresses have seams in different places anyway. It is however a good 10cm narrower each side than I originally cut. And the reason it looks like a cotton is because the satin lost so much body when washed (which it needed in order to be decoloured) that I had to back it with a fusible fabric.

I used solidot or whatever it is called. A much better option than most but still a little annoying 😉

The pattern is off centre but balanced on the whole. I shall probably add a little more in the way of clouds near the bottom right hem.

So tonight I shall hunt out my pieces of netting and see what is suitable and start sewing the various lines. I may be lucky and not have to do the clouds as well as the rays of sun if the fabric is at all transparent when working it on the frame. Oh and here is the bargain frame I got: I think I will cut off the top (above where the frame sits) and use the wood to create a pocket for the sides to sit in so I can easily break it down to slide in beside my wardrobe 😉 But hopefully the next photo will show beading happening!

June 12th, 2009, 11:38 pm

Fantastic  Thanks to an online tutorial I now have a grid for my skirt pattern  Thanks to myself it was tweaked to be a useful grid pattern for scaling  Thanks also to myself I have a scanned scaled image of my skirt pattern and can now apply a grid to the back of the skirt panels and transfer the design!

I will probably head to the local shops in the morning and get some chalk pencils to do this.
A set of three so I can use the pink for the grid and blue for the design. And then very soon after that sew the design with my machine.
I may have to stitch the net to the back of the sun bursts before sewing the pearls in place. Just logistically speaking. And then do the pearling then beading and then clip the satin away from the net.
And before then i’ll find some yellow fabric for the interlining to show through the net.

http://www.kci.or.jp/cgi-bin/collection/collection.cgi?lang=e&path=1770/05-007716_a
Sadly the photo does it so little justice, you need the Taschen book to really appreciate how stunning the trimming actually is.

Noooooo!!!!

I just realised something: http://www.kci.or.jp/exhibitions/index_e.html Japonism in Fashion, New Zealand Jul. -Oct. 2003, at the Museum of New Zealand, Te papa Tongarewa, Wellington Dec. 2003-Mar. 2004, at the Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu, Christchurch.

I know I wanted to go and now I really wish I had. I think “my” worth gown would have been in it 🙁 Well Worth’s copy of his own gown but in pale pink rather than pale yellow and with c1893 huge sleeves 😉 But the embroidery was the same.

pout.

oooh: http://www.wacoal.jp/c/kci/2009/02/dresstudyvol552009.html

DRESSTUDY Vol. 55 (Spring 2009)　38p. 500 yen +S&H fee: 200yen・
CONTENTS LECTURE: Luxury in the Western Culture by Koichi KABAYAMA
Bourgeois Luxury in Seventeenth-Century Germany: A Costume Collection in the Hessisches Landesmusum Darmstadt by.Johannes PIETSCH 😀