Saturday 10 December 2011

ug 2 jobs makes ...

....sewing time hard, and getting posts up harder ....
BUT I have completed all of my aunts and uncles presents at least the hand sewing is all thats left then the mailing part.

Nat's quilt is almost done, got d and ended up sewing the body of it the other day when all I planed to do was plan it and cut it out.

I cut out a corset using the pattern I got fro laughing moon called a silverado http://www.lafnmoon.com/ she has a lot of good stuff.

and other then that i have been working a lot but me and a close friend have decided on finaly making Michael Turner costumes and I will be making an Aspen costume and she will be Grace heres her costume

Im still deciding on mine right now but I had some entrusting ideas for this costume that I look forward to puting together, I think the wings will be the biggest challenge because of getting them to comic con

here are some of my options and ideas

Tuesday 15 November 2011

progress up date

So today I only worked on my Christmas present quilt project to get it to one spot all the squares I need are to here, I was going to make each hanging with three squares one plain and two like this but I've changed it up . One square plain so I can embroider on it and then one like the one above.

This is what I worked on mostly I had already gotten to this point the other day, so I had the top petticoat gathered. What took me so long today was the ruffle on the top petticoat I just did it the most time consuming way possible because I could I guess not sure why.

This is me gathering the under petticoat, the reason I posted this image is to show a double gathered stitch and how much better it looks the when trying to do it with only a single row of stitching or like what happened to me just below

one of the strings broke and you can see how much neater and easier it is to sew with two likes of gathering stitching

this is the other reason it took me so long, I spent a lot of time doing math today to figure out if I had enough fabric for the under petticoat. I did not have enough of any one kind,, and even then I had to buy the pretty bottom print you see, which was pricey. But I was able to piece this together, the reason I didn't use any of my other fabric was because I didn't want it to become to heavy and cause discomfort as well as possibly misshaping the hoops.

oh so pretty

Stupid ruffles *glare*, oh high pretty expensive fabric on the underneath your so cute with that perfectly matching cotton lace :)

decided to go all out and embroider this up instead of the plain straight stitch

top and bottom together, happy with my choice to make and use both, now you can't see the hoops at all and the skirt of the dress will sit much nicer i think.

just chilling in my hoops and petticoats, couldn't help my self

it's fun trying to stand up in this its like a suction cup

yep much to wide for this mirror lol

Sunday 13 November 2011

History of the hoop skirt Starting with the Farthingale

I was going to do all the hoop skirts in one post but I decided to break it into each individual style per post

The other day I wanted to find out exactly when the petticoats went back to a crinoline hoop skirt, so this lead me to do a bunch of research on the history of the hoop skirt.

Hoop skirts

Basicaly the hoop skirt is a womans undergarments, which were worn threw out the years to support skirts in the fashionable shape during the period.

A hoop skirts construction is of a consist of petticoats with casings sewn where hoop steels, whalebone, rope or other materials were used to hold it in the right shape.

Threw the era's there were Farthingales 16th, Panniers 18th, Crinoline mid 19th, Bustle 19th

The Farthingale

(Spanish verdugado) a term applied to an structures used under western European womans clothing in the late 15th and 16th centuries to support the skirts into the desired shape.

The Farthingale was used during 15th and 16th centuries, originated in Spain, the Spanish farthingale was originally stiffened with Giant cane, and later with willow cuttings, rope, and some where around 1580 whalebone.

Giant cane: Arundo donaz tall perennial cane ( reed)

Tudor Gowns show the silhouette of the Spanish Farthingale, and essential to Tudor fashion

French farthingales, 1580 ( also known as bumroll)

The French Farthingale was also known as a bumroll introduced 1570 to england from Franc

* it appears to have consisted of a bloster-like rool either stuffed or held out with reeds which being fastened around the hips, served the purpose of widening the skirts at the hip area, creating drapes.

* some modern costumes conjecture that the french farthingale and the great farthingale refer to one and that same garment, the difference in shape and construction being due to changes in fashion from the 1580's to the 1590's

Silhouette, 1590s Elizabeth 1, the Ditchley portrait

The Great farthingale also known as a drum or wheel or cartwheel and in some casses the Catherine-wheel, this name was given to the style of farthingale which evolved from the french farthingale, becoming fashionable in the 1590's

Unforunatly there are no surviving examples of this type of garment, but throw references like the painting of Queen Elizabeth above and her wardobe accounts during the time refer to the size of the structure.

The great farthingale was worn at an angle ("low befor + high behind") which elongated the torso and shortened the legs.