Sad News for Blogging

Blogger does not have an iPad app, and guess what I am getting from Santa this year? Yup. So I will try to keep this blog updated by cross posting, but if the posting stuff is as tricky as they claim, then I might have to just move over to WordPress completely. We will see. I have not given up all hope, but we will see.

And hopefully with the new iPad I can post more on my creative projects. Cause it isn't fair not to share. ;)

If you want to link directly to the new blog that will officially start in full after December 25...

http://cuteevilbunny.wordpress.com/

We are still staying cute, evil and bunnies are always allowed. :)

Hood in progress

I got the outer shell of a wool and linen hood done, aka the wool part. Now I have to add the linen lining. I need some warm things for me to wear to Crown Tourney in a week or so cause all I got is cooler stuff for spring/summer/fall wear.

Then it is ruffs and scrolls until November 13.

Messing with the blog

Please ignore the crappy design of my blog. I am playing with it to make is cool. So until then I am messing with it until I get done with my graphics. :)

Fail two...

Well I tried the name badges for Steve one more time with another technique...fail. Damn it! I have a rep to keep up here. Normally the first one doesn't work the usually the second one kicks in. Oh well, I have one more technique I can try to get a quick turn around name badge. Ok, actually two techniques, but one involves paint and I don't want to do that until the last possible minute if I can help it.

Plus I have a friend's mom who does primatives, look for a blog ~ Pineapple Primitives ~ and I have an urge to make some muslin pumpkins for around the house this year for the holidays. I am a freak. But check out her blog, her stuff is so awesome!

Scribin at 30th Anniversary - Concordia

Well I have had a request for scribin at the 30th Anniversary. So I said sure, yeah, we love scribin. So I will bring a few reference books and some paper and gouache. I might even show some pigment grinding as well depending on time and space.

If you want to have something specific shown I think right now I will have a little lesson on transparancy vs. opaque paint mixing and a mini lesson on doing white work painting as well, but if you want something else let me know and I will try to bring the info and stuff with me.

So I will be setting up a table for scribin in the basement, and I might try to set up a needle craft/textile table next to it so all the craftin people can hang close together and visit. :)

I will have paper, paint and pencils. But if you want to make a scroll, might want your own t-square (Office Depot on Central has them in expensive like $4) and as always bring your own brushes. I have a few, but they aren't the greatest, but you are welcome to them.

Full of fail

I am stitching a name plate for Steve's paintball vest, but it is taking too long and he needed it by this weekend. So I decided to make a temp for him with the sewing machine. It just failed everywhere. Which sucks. I only have one more night to work on it and it is a partial night to try again. I will see, but I am thinking it isn't going to work. He will just have to wait for the stitched out ones by hand. Oh well.

Topic to google today...

Fore-edge painting. Check out you tube and google and see what you get. It is freaking awesome!!!!!!

It has been a while

Wow, didn't realize how long it has been since I posted. I have been putting stuff over on LiveJournal, but I really think I need to separate my creative self from the rest of me so I can share it (cause LJ is locked and I think creativity should be shared).

So I am going down more scribal and book adventures now, started archery and even am a student to a very nice laurel in the SCA. More on that later.

To start check out what I have been up to at www.cuteevilbunny.com.

Till next time.

Dress pattern

Well I had finally found before Pennsic this year a patter close to what I needed for my Anne Meyer Dress. I bought the pattern at Pennsic from Pillage Village and took it home and cut it all out. Period Patterns are a great source for information and the patterns themselves. They give pages of photos and dates, countries and brief information on various dresses for the time. I used pattern 46.

Warning, it says patterns are size 20 on the outside, inside they have cuts up to size 24, the largest size is really about an 18. So you are really going to have to play with sizing and such.

I tried editing the pattern on my own, wasn't working. I tried on my body double, it just wasn't going there. I took it with me to a stitch and bitch at my friend Katie's house, and she helped me reshape the pattern to fit me and it looks great! I still have to cut out the pattern on good fabric, but she also taught me some sewing terms and ideas I didn't know and it was a nice session.

So actually I will be making a dress with the sewing machine this week out of some generic material to make sure it fits and I know how to put it together ok. Then I will cut it out of the good material and hand sew it.

I am still working on the second set of trim, and on Saturday I redesigned the chest trim because I had already done it before I moved in April, but couldn't find it to save my life. So I just redid it.

Barleycorn Scroll

Here is a photo of a scroll that was to be given at Barleycorn, but they weren't there so the name is blurred out, but this is embroidered scroll number two. I really need to give myself more time with these things.

Been busy, need to blog more

I have been busy as heck lately. And I feel bad I haven't blogged here since. I have done numerous scrolls and a banner. I have finished the first set of trim, and started the second set while I was at Pennsic. I should have the second set done in the next week. Then I have to work on trim that goes around the chest.

Here is what I have done, now I am missing one scroll I did for 12th night and another one for Birka, I keep forgetting to take photos of them.

Here is my friends Kris aoa she got at the Bardic Kings and Queens Competition of the East.



Here is a baronial award of the Pine for my friend Hobbe



Here is my table for the A&S Northern Lights competition, the first major and probablly the last competition I might enter



Here is a better photo of baby chuthulu and a bunch of his friends I made and gave out as tokens at Northern Lights



Here is the first of two Queen's Order of Courtesy that I did for Corination



Here is the second one



Here one of my scrolls I forgot to photograph, but here is the guy getting it, so you can see the back of the scroll



Here is the six foot banner I made for the East Kingdom fencers to use at Pennsic to unify them under one flag it was all hand sewn except the hemming along the outer most edge (ran out of room)



(fyi that is not my floor, but the boyfriends floor. Not that mine is much better, but he has cable and I was watchin' the tv while workin;)

I also did a scroll and AoA for Wars of Roses and a banner for a household I will try to find a photo somewhere.

starting dress...

Well officially I have started a part of the actual dress. I cut up linen strips, ironed them and marked up one half inch markers for the box pleats. It was fussy trying to get these things to lay right, and I tried ironing each individual piece, then pinning them down as I went. I wound up matching the marks and placing holding stitches. I will put reinforcement stitches once I am done with each strip and then iron down and starch. I will have to put a reinforcement band on it as well cause the linen is pulling apart quickly, so I need to work fast and then do a whip stitch around the edges to keep things together.

blackwork as of 01.11.08

Here is how it looked yesterday before I started working on it again. I actually now have five inches on each band and have rolled it over to have a blank work area again.

Body Double

One of the hard things about doing period garb that is close to the body, and you have an unusual body type or size it getting it to fit right without bunches, pulls, or openings in weird places. So to work on my meyer dress and get it pretty darn close to fit correctly I have made a body double out of duct tape and suran wrap. Then I put it over a fat girl sewing dummy and stuffed it with fluf so it can be used to size me. I might put a piece of knit fabric over it so I can pin things to it, but I have to go get said fabric first.

Here is me and my twin...yes ooohhh shock I have a photo of myself in here instead of just my craft. Scary aren't I. :D

crochet for fun!

Here is baby chuthulu, he will come with me to all future events and hangs out in my stitching bag.




Here is daddy chuthulu who hangs out in my boyfriends bathroom.

up to 01.05.08

Here is four of six lines of blackwork on the first upper arm lower band.

catching up...

ok, holidays are over and now is the time to catch up on things.

1) I have finished the collar for the undershirt to my meyer dress
2) I have finished the silk work of the neckline, but still need to add the gold to it for the undershirt to my meyer dress
3) I have completed a baby chuthulu and a full air freshiner chuthulu with crochet for my boyfriend - I am a freak :)
4) I have started the blackwork for the upper arm lower bands (longest arm bands) for the meyer dress. I don't have enough time to do all of them before Northern Lights on March 1. I will do the lower upper arm band and the band that goes across the chest by March 1. I will do the lower two arm bands by Mudthaw for the K&Q A&S comp.
5) I have ordered the fabric for the over dress. I changed it from white to green because this is not my wedding dress and I don't do well with white. It came in last Friday
6) I got irish linen for the undershirt and washed it.

I found the undershirt pattern in the Tudor Tailor, I just have to adjust it to my size and do a mock up. I think I will use one of the dresses from the Tudor Tailor as well and just drop the shoulder a little more, need to mock that up as well.

Blackwork takes forever! Each of the lower upper arm bands will take about 80 hours each. They are 16.5 inches long, and there are six rows of (three rows with two sub rows each) blackwork and so that is why I won't make my March 1 deadline. It took about a week to do five inches of one arm band.

Photos to come soon. :)

I was busy in October doing a aoa in embroidery. Here is the award as it was presented. I wished the royals had signed the back! But I can't say much about it, though other royals signed the back of such works of art. But I won't get into that.

Have not given up...but was busy

Hello!!!

I have not given up, I was simply busy with work and a whole heck of a lot of overtime. Also, did a lot of work for crown (did the heraldry signs and sewed 8 reversible tabards for the lists).

I had to finish an aoa scroll...which they wanted something original that I have never seen....so I stitched it! Though I have seen a stitched scroll before, but it was for a munche for an embroiderer. I will try to post the aoa scroll soon. I have a photo of it on my computer, but it is at home.

I have gotten a few books off ebay, including the Janet Arnold 1560 - ? book, The Turdor Tailor and a few embroidery books. So my period collection is growing.

But this is just a quicky post to say I am alive and am still stitching. I am working on the prizes for St. Nick's games right now, cause somehow I got selected to run them...they were despirate that is all I have to say. :)

And I have a new aoa scroll that will be stitched as well. I kind of like the look of them when they are presented. This one is for 12th night. See ya there.

And the Shitith Hits the Fan...

One book.

All it took was one book.

My entire Meyer dress to date, is wrong. (Yes, I whept a little at this - and swore a lot)

I got the $5 book from ebay I ordered Holbein - The Paintings - Complete Edition by Paul Ganz.

It has a couple of close ups of the dress in true size.

The blackwork is all counted and jagged, not smooth so all my patterns are wrong.

The collar, the most painful part, is on green fabric with only, only yellow bias stitching and outlined in blackwork with little blackwork hashes in the green sections.

Well, at least I got it now, and not later.

I am putting it all aside until after the November conference. Cause this sucks.

Break from project...

Ok, so I need to take a break from the Meyer Dress project, for much of the month of October. I work friday and saturday nights at a local haunted hayride as a witch and that takes up some time.

The boyfriend is also home until Sunday night so no work happening until then anyway. ;)

I am working on an aoa for Crown Tourney on Nov. 3 and I am stitching it. Though it isn't the project it is on the linen I had on hand and thank god I used some of it, cause it sucks and I am going to get a different kind for the blackwork for the dress. That should be finished sometime next week.

I also volunteered to help with the heraldry for crown so I will need to work on that the next two weeks.

Then work kicks in for our big conference November 12-15. After that I can start on my dress again. I was told I couldn't bring stitching to the conference this year. Which sucks. I get up at the butt crack of dawn work my ass off, be nice to people and then don't get to take a 15 and stitch a little? F%*#!$% bs I tell ya!

Also I am doing the favors for Wars of Roses this year! I am so excited! I have a couple of plans. We will see. :D

I do have some more updates on the dress. I will post some of the stuff I already did on here shortly.

Now it is time to get back to work...busy...busy...busy

My future self

http://www.extremecostuming.com/home.html

I think this lady is great. She is funny, creative, talented and absolutly nuts! I want to be her someday. :)

Started the dress :)

Ok so I am moving along on this...

The bag is done, except the drawstring is not attached. That is kind of tricky so I am waiting to see if I even want to put it on. It requires some fancy braiding once it is installed and I need to be relaxed and calm before I do it. Right now is not the time.

I laid out the ground on the new fabric for the collar and neckline (did that Saturday) and on Sunday I started the stitching...I am a few inches in the collar at this point.

I figured I don't have to buy the fabric for the dress until november when I get back from my show. That is how long it will take to get the embroidery done anyway.

Tassles

Well I made the tassles and attached two of three already to the bag. You have to weave the ends into the fabric itself. They look cute. I also attached the silk overlap on the top of the bag, this was tough, but it happened. The silk was really light and whenI folded under the edge to sew on and then wrap the silk over the top it created this dense color edge, I hated it. Luckily I had intended on the top linen flap to double over to give more strength to the pull string area so instead I flipped it forward instead of backward and covered up the line with the linen fabric, and it looks nice.

I sewed up one side of the bag aready to make sure I can get it lined up ok.I originally made both sides of the bag the exact same, in forsight I probably could have made the pattern continue from one side to the other, but I wasn't sure if it would have come out right once I joined all the pieces and stuff, so it is nice the way it is.

I will have the bag finished -- most likely tomorrow -- and I picked up the fabric for the collar yesterday half off at ac moore, I love the email coupons!!!! They send you a new one every week. It is nice. And hopefully I will remember about knitters this week, I wanted to hear the lecture too.