Someone wanted to know the books I got while on vacation...well here they are:
British Embroidery Curious Works From the Seventeenth Century - Kathleen Epstein
and
Eighteenth-Century Clothing at Williamsburg - Linda Baumgarten
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
First Setback
Ok, ok, I started stitching the trim for the chest. I used tracing paper for the pattern and attached it to the top.
1) It works well to punch through it and stitch the pattern, but it tends to pull away from the fabric making the stitches really loose.
2) When you go to tear it away, it is too thick and pulls the stitches even loser and it looks really poorly done once you get the tracing paper off.
I am only on the third flower on one side, so it is good I tested. I would have been pissed if I got all done and then pulled it away.
I am going to stop at the dollar store and get some white tissue paper and try again. Hopefully this will work better.
I will also only attach one strip to the fabric at a time. Two tends to make things a little loose as well.
Also I ordered my silk and it is in. Yeah! I did the kumihimo braid for the outside of the bag on the round disk. I will do a flat braid for the pull tie on the square disk later next week.
Things are slowly coming along. I need to start writing up my research now or I will forget a lot of it by the end.
1) It works well to punch through it and stitch the pattern, but it tends to pull away from the fabric making the stitches really loose.
2) When you go to tear it away, it is too thick and pulls the stitches even loser and it looks really poorly done once you get the tracing paper off.
I am only on the third flower on one side, so it is good I tested. I would have been pissed if I got all done and then pulled it away.
I am going to stop at the dollar store and get some white tissue paper and try again. Hopefully this will work better.
I will also only attach one strip to the fabric at a time. Two tends to make things a little loose as well.
Also I ordered my silk and it is in. Yeah! I did the kumihimo braid for the outside of the bag on the round disk. I will do a flat braid for the pull tie on the square disk later next week.
Things are slowly coming along. I need to start writing up my research now or I will forget a lot of it by the end.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Well the chest trim is in production as I wait for the silk I ordered to arrive for the collar and the rest of the bag.
Above is all 60 inches of the chest trim already traced onto the paper.
Here is a close up of the pattern. I know it is a little larger than the original photo, but I am a bigger girl so it will help balance when it is done.
Here is the paper sewing the ground. I cheated on this one and used a machine, but it will all be ripped out once the blackwork is done.
Here is the start of the blackwork. I am using Cresent Colors - Old Crow for the blackwork on this piece.
Above is all 60 inches of the chest trim already traced onto the paper.
Here is a close up of the pattern. I know it is a little larger than the original photo, but I am a bigger girl so it will help balance when it is done.
Here is the paper sewing the ground. I cheated on this one and used a machine, but it will all be ripped out once the blackwork is done.
Here is the start of the blackwork. I am using Cresent Colors - Old Crow for the blackwork on this piece.
Monday, August 20, 2007
So far so good...
Here is one skein or 5 meter of silk floss of the two colors of the Cresent Colors, Belle Soie in Shepard's Pasture and Mango.
With this I can determine how much floss I will need for the rest of the german bag and the collar and neckline of the underchemise of the Meyer Dress. I am estimating 7 skeins of the green adn 10 of the yellow because the yellow has to buttonhole all the way around as well. At $5.50 a skein, and $7.50 shipping it will be $101 for just the collar and neckline, and I still have to get the ground fabric. Time to go shopping (online is the only place I can get that much of the two colors). I will be ordering on Wednesday, we will see how long it takes to get in.
With this I can determine how much floss I will need for the rest of the german bag and the collar and neckline of the underchemise of the Meyer Dress. I am estimating 7 skeins of the green adn 10 of the yellow because the yellow has to buttonhole all the way around as well. At $5.50 a skein, and $7.50 shipping it will be $101 for just the collar and neckline, and I still have to get the ground fabric. Time to go shopping (online is the only place I can get that much of the two colors). I will be ordering on Wednesday, we will see how long it takes to get in.
Vacation
Yes, I was on a two week vacation this month. Which, is why I haven't posted as often as I should have. I kind of boycotted all electronics I didn't need to deal with while on vacation, but now I am catching up.
We went down to Virginia (Steve and myself) taking grandma in tow for the first week. We really just lounged by the pool, but one day we went ot Colonial Williamsburg.
Steve wanted to see the gunsmith, I wanted to see the printer and bindery. I missed the printer, it closes at 1, but I got to see the bindery, but there was a group of little kids inthere when we stopped and I couldn't ask the questions I wanted too, which sucked, but it was nice hearing what he did have to say.
Steve saw the gunsmith, but it was not as impressive and he remembered, and a whole section was not accessible like it used to be when he went as a kid. In fact, a lot of Williamsburg was not as nice as I remember. Lots of things were closed or closed off and not available to the public any longer. I remember it was also a lot more informative and characters used to have to stay in persona and I remember many of the costumes used to be nicer.
I looked through all the exhibits, and I was very saddened to find only two examples of embroidery in the whole place. I found both in the Governor's Palace (and once photobucket starts working again -- cause it isn't this morning I will post the two objects up).
Though I did find a lovely book on british embroidery in the bookstore onsite and also a new book on costuming for Williamsburg. There was another book but it was $65, out of my budget for this trip (gas alone was about $350 for the 1st week alone).
And needless to say I didn not get much embroidery done, but I did work a little on my german bag for the Meyer dress.
We went down to Virginia (Steve and myself) taking grandma in tow for the first week. We really just lounged by the pool, but one day we went ot Colonial Williamsburg.
Steve wanted to see the gunsmith, I wanted to see the printer and bindery. I missed the printer, it closes at 1, but I got to see the bindery, but there was a group of little kids inthere when we stopped and I couldn't ask the questions I wanted too, which sucked, but it was nice hearing what he did have to say.
Steve saw the gunsmith, but it was not as impressive and he remembered, and a whole section was not accessible like it used to be when he went as a kid. In fact, a lot of Williamsburg was not as nice as I remember. Lots of things were closed or closed off and not available to the public any longer. I remember it was also a lot more informative and characters used to have to stay in persona and I remember many of the costumes used to be nicer.
I looked through all the exhibits, and I was very saddened to find only two examples of embroidery in the whole place. I found both in the Governor's Palace (and once photobucket starts working again -- cause it isn't this morning I will post the two objects up).
Though I did find a lovely book on british embroidery in the bookstore onsite and also a new book on costuming for Williamsburg. There was another book but it was $65, out of my budget for this trip (gas alone was about $350 for the 1st week alone).
And needless to say I didn not get much embroidery done, but I did work a little on my german bag for the Meyer dress.
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