Kusudama

I finished! Instead of watching bad movies on Netflix, I noticed that Ghost Whisperer was on and decided to watch that instead. I think this took me around two hours total, but there was some waiting for glue to dry, making sure the cookies in the oven didn't burn, getting rice cooking and a few other distractions along the way. But it is done! And Tangie took a bite out of it, but it was fixable as well! 

The biggest challenge that I ran into while working was that some of the pages were so darn fragile! But I guess you can't expect too much from a falling apart book that was printed in 1844. Yep, 1844. It is one old book. My apologies to anyone who is offended by reusing a book that is already damaged beyond repair and yes, I do know some people who are offended by stuff like this. Seriously though, if I tried to fold some of the 2 inch by 2 inch squares it just fell to pieces. Lucky for me, I cut some extra squares so all was good. I think I am going to use the two ribbon tails to tie a bow at the bottom.

And because I just can't leave you with a single picture, or rather the only one that came out halfway descent (thank you rainy weather), here is a picture of my stays mockup.

I am going to need to take the side seams in a tiny bit from the front piece so I get a gap between center front because it meets and you need the gap to get the lift/shelf effect of the time period. But that's easy and I might wait until after I cut the fashion fabric and get the lining together because it might just be that the mockup fabric stretched some.

Regency Fabric

I now have the fabric to begin making the Regency dress and I'm rather excited. Being on a slight budget I decided to go look at curtains at Target and managed to snag two white sheers. Just have to toss them in the wash and I'm ready to go. Now I really wanted cotton, but they only had polyester (ick), but what could I do? Oh well, I figure if it turns out looking good then I know that the pattern will work and if it goes disastrously wrong then I didn't waste good materials.

Crinkly texture fabric which I like

Costumes

Just a small sampling of costumes I made during four years in the costume shop. And a little bit of randomness at the end.

Sorry for the sideways picture, but every single stripe of the six gores match and I'm dang proud of it.

Interesting things would occur around exam time.

I've been out of town for the past few days at interviews and am heading out of town again tomorrow, but will hopefully have some little things to show when I get back either hand sewing or embroidery.

Have a great weekend everyone!