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!
