Labor Day Weekend & Rendezvous 2009 at MDRF Tuesday, Sep 8 2009

Holy crap! That was a great weekend, perhaps the BEST weekend at Ren Fair I have EVER attended.  If I sound overly excited, it is because I was! I had an absolutely AMAZING time!!!  First was because it was Labor Day Weekend, and I have never been to the MDRF for Labor Day-and I happened to have met the Clan M’Crack-they are great people.  Secondly it was the big Rendezvous 2009-like the holy mecca for all rennies! lol.

So here are some pictures of my garb, my friends, and other things:

So yes, it was a very great time. Met lots of great people and had fun. I made all the garb that I wore. The red and black panel skirt was from 2 years ago. The purple circle skirt I completed the day before fair. My black corset was thrown together quickly, but I can secure it even more.

Now although I will not be going to another Ren fair for another month, my sewing urge is itching! lol. I told myself I was going to rest, and not sew at all. But I am already itching to make a new gown for October 4 and closing weekend. I know that I will have a lot of garb! I already did the green gown for opening weekend, but like I told my husband: each time I sew, I learn more and get better. And after I attend ren fairs I look at gowns and see new techniques and such, and I am drawn to it and can’t help myself! I have this fabric gorgeous light blue with a goldish tint jacquard type fabric, that I am SURE it is dying to be used as a gown   I even have the material for the underskirt/kirtle

We will see. I am supposed to go to JoAnns today with Dave today   So that as always is fun.  I need to learn some new techniques on gown making-I am not sure how to make the bodice of the gown stiff?
Happy Sewing

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On the grind…again! Tuesday, Sep 1 2009

So I am STILL trying to finish Blakes ensemble! Yesterday I hand stitched the trim to the cuff pieces while my husband was getting his hair braided. But I still have to do the following

• attach grommets to the sleeves
• attach cuffs to sleeves
• add trim to the bottom and the opening
• add 3 snap hooks to close the doublet
• pin and cut pants pattern/sew
• pin and cut hat pattern/sew

Like I said before, all this work..for free. booooo!  Once I do that I wanted to knock out a new corset for this weekend.  This weekend is the big Labor day/Rendezvous at the fair, and this is the first year my husband and I will go!  Big tailgate with the people from renaissancefestival.com, woot woot.

So anyway, yeah, I have a couple of yards of this blackish/silverish tafetta fabric that I got months ago, when my original gown was going to be black and silver.  And I was thinking about making a corset with straps out of that, then adding some extra fabric along the bottom, to give it somewhat of an attached skirt look, but it’s not really a skirt-feel me?  sort of like this:

Example Corset

This is by Damsel in this Dress (her stuff is amazing)-and I give credit where it is due.  But You see that bottom part with the floofy (technical term!) fabric around the bottom?  that is sort of what I want to do.  Now for a corset, the fabric seems perfect, but to make a skirt out of it, seems a bit weird, the fabric itself is somewhat stiff.  So I am not sure what I am going to do for the skirt.  I mean a simple skirt will do, BUT  I don’t think I have enough extra fabric! lol.  So we will see.

I must go now, another day of sewing, then picking my little sister up (who now loves the ren fair by the way) to bring her back to my house. Happy sewing!

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Procrastination… Tuesday, Jul 21 2009

Is my best friend and my worst enemy.  I always have something else that “needs” to be done before I end up sewing.  It honestly should not have taken me this long to get my gown completed, especially with the fact that I didn’t have to do the daunting task of adding boning to my bodice (which I kind of regret now, but I already have a back up plan, so all is well).  The next part is sewing the overskirt to my gown, adding the trim, and hemming.  Then making the underskirt, and then trying to figure out which sleeves I want to have.  And probably make a french hood. I am not sure yet.

Once my garb is complete, then I can work on my husbands.  Make him some pants, and a new shirt, and I have to look through my fabric stash for some more fabric.

So today is the day!

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Sewing day! Tuesday, Jul 14 2009

So sewing day with my friend Megan went well. I made a bum roll, and got about 85% of my bodice completed. She is coming over today again, so I plan to have the bodice fully done, well actually can’t have it fully done because I ended up ordering this awesome trim online from

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/zuke989_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_ipgZ they have amazing trims at amazing prices. Not necessarily a huge variety to choose from, but they satisfied my needs. So when she comes over I hope to have my middle panel of my bodice put on, the straps, an work on the sleeves. Not to sure if i am going to get to the overskirt part today, but we shall see.

After I complete my outfit, it is then to work on my husbands outfit this year. Which consists of new pants, a doublet, and possibly a new shirt. We will see about that one.

But for now I must go. My husband and I have an early Dungeons and Dragons game (the things we do or love-I HATE waking up early) to attend.

Happy sewing.

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