Textual Update

Hello friends!

I'm dreadfully sorry for the lack of recent posts on here. Kat and I have been quite busy but I seem to have misplaced my camera cord. I have lots of wonderful pictures of our progress that I have not been able to upload, and as a result I've been putting off updating here. What's the use of a costume blog after all if you can't see what we're doing! At any rate, this is the abbreviated version of our progress since my last post.

Kathryn's costume is still flying along! We gathered up the waist band of the underskirt and have begun toying with the idea of hoop skirts. I happen to already own one that I made for the aforementioned (last sewing update) Elizabethan costume I did. Kat's skirts are so beautiful and full and the hoop really accentuates them. We also started putting together the under sleeves. We discovered some beautiful little lace at Jo Ann's this afternoon that Kat hand stitched along the cuff of the undermost sleeve (the white bit). She also created the slits in in the middle sleeve and hand stitched down the facings that we fondly refer to as the vaginas (seriously they look very inappropriate...). She was also busy this afternoon cutting out all the layers that will become her French Hood! We went to Jo Anns to get the fleece for this and happened upon a 2 dollar simplicity pattern sale! Kat picked up a number of patterns for various future endeavors and I grabbed two that will serve as good guides for Roses' pink coat if I end up doing that. (Things on that are looking up! I just got a new job -huzzah!- and found some gorgeous salmon wool at Sew Low. Only trouble is I don't think they have the 6 yards I would need...so we'll see.)

As for Rose, I've finished the bodice for now. Kat and Mum helped me fit the over layer over my under layer and corset and I stitched them together by machine. I had intended to do it by hand but it came out very neat and a hell of a lot faster. Im very happy with how the two purple sashes came out. So now I've moved on to the 4 skirt layers. I cut out all the front pieces and then discovered I ran out of the pink and darker lavender. So I ran back to Sew Low to grab another yard of each to cut out the backs. This afternoon I finished all the raw edges, sewed the 4 sets of side seams and based all the skirts together at the top. Tomorrow I plan to attach them to the bodice and see what the hem situation will be. I feel like mine could be done very very soon. Oh and I also have to mess with the invisible zipper up the back.

Thats all for now because I'm falling asleep and this is boring without pictures.
Night folks!
Cheers,
Thera