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It seems somewhat remiss of me to have already stalled with my posting. Boo hoo. I have several valid excuses: illness, family visits and what I want to talk about today.
I live in a small seaside town. The recession hit it like Chris Brown hit Rhianna, and what was once a scenic, Victorian...
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It seems somewhat remiss of me to have already stalled with my posting. Boo hoo. I have several valid excuses: illness, family visits and what I want to talk about today.
I live in a small seaside town. The recession hit it like Chris Brown hit Rhianna, and what was once a scenic, Victorian resort kind of faded to grey - literally. However, through a chance encounter with a friend's mum, who runs a local craft shop I got involved in a project called The Creative Emporium.
Agnes is a wonderful woman who seems to have joy in her heart and a smile on her face 24/7. Frankly it's exhausting being around her. She's been working with the local council and a ton of local artists (Bangor seems to be full to the gills with talented people) to create a kind of creative farmer's market where local crafters and creatives can show off their wares and hopefully make a little money along the way.
Once I'd got over the initial anxiety attack caused by the thought of showing my work to potentially hundreds people (if not more) during Bangor Culture Day I realised that it was a great opportunity! I'm taking some of my costumes down to the Emporium to display as well as my sewing machine to work on my boyfriend's Attack on Titan Cosplay outfit and some faux fur collars that i've been wanting to make and sell for ages.
I won't have as much to show as the other crafters, I'm quite certain, but for now it's a start. I'll post some pictures from the day here and in the mean time my 16th Century Stays will be put on hold while I organise myself for the event.
To say I'm nervous is an understatement but I'll stick it out and i'm sure I'll have a fab day :)
Peace y'all.
I left this project in my previous post having just checked that my pattern fitted. The next step was to mark the boning channels on the canvas layer, then baste it, marked side out to the top fashion layer.
Sorry for this rubbish photo, I was so excited that I was done marking channels that...
16th Century Stays Part 2: Construction
I left this project in my previous post having just checked that my pattern fitted. The next step was to mark the boning channels on the canvas layer, then baste it, marked side out to the top fashion layer.
Sorry for this rubbish photo, I was so excited that I was done marking channels that I totally messed up the picture...Classic me.
I chose to place a channel every 1cm, allowing for the first 1.5cm to be folded over for the lacings without a busk. This picture shows the channels once they had been stitched on the fashion layer:
The boning I'm using is 1cm wide and will be placed in every other channel.
After I had done this on the back and two front panels, assembled them at the side seams and inserted some boning just to check the shape.
So, this looks pretty weird, but it was the stage where I saw things start to come together. The front isn't meant to close fully and it will be lower at the top when it's finished.
At this point I went back and had another look at the book and decided to draft the tabs for the bottom and the shoulder strap.
I started the tabs the same way as I did the bodice; by draping some calico on my stand and drawing straight on it:
And then cut it up and turned it into a paper pattern:
Then I made the first few and pinned them on to check proportions.
Now, here is where the learning part of this blog comes in. You'll notice the tabs fit pretty perfectly, right? Wrong! I totally forgot about the difference the bias binding would make to their width and that I needed to tuck the front in for the eyelets. DERP DERP DERP. At this point I'd been sewing for around 8 hours and hadn't stopped to eat so my hands were shaking. I decided this was a pretty good sign that I should take a break and deal with adjusting the tabs later.
I'm almost up to date with this project now and I'm waiting for more boning to arrive in the mail, so I'll save the rest for another post.
Thanks for sticking this out, it was a marathon post!
Off now for dinner!
In my first post here I mentioned how much I admire Angela Clayton’s work and how much braver she is than I when it comes to her projects.
Around 18 months ago when I was living in Colchester, Essex and volunteering with the wardrobe department in The Mercury Theatre, the wardrobe supervisor...
Eva Green in ‘300: Rise of an Empire’ (2014).
I loved all of Artemisia's costumes!
16th Century Stays Part 1: Drafting the Pattern
In my first post here I mentioned how much I admire Angela Clayton’s work and how much braver she is than I when it comes to her projects.
Around 18 months ago when I was living in Colchester, Essex and volunteering with the wardrobe department in The Mercury Theatre, the wardrobe supervisor offered to teach me how to make a corset. At this point I had only a 6 week dressmaking course under my belt and I was excited and nervous to do it. Unfortunately, Corinna was so busy we never got the opportunity to get to work and so the fabrics and materials I bought for this project just languished on my shelf.
Last week I was flicking through my copy of 'The Tudor Tailor' by Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm Davies, and saw these stays:
I remembered how impressed I was with Angela’s beautiful stays, and without giving myself time to think I got to work!
I started by tracing around my size 12 'Close Fitting Bodice Block', which I drafted using the method from 'Metric Pattern Cutting For Women's Wear' by Winifred Aldrich:
I took that photo before I realised that there was no point in tracing on to paper, so I did it on to calico, cut out the patterns and pinned them on to my dress form.
My dress form is actually a size 10, so i had to do a little pinning and added the darts to get the calico to lie flat before I roughly drew on the shape I wanted. The wrinkles here look much worse than they actually were :)
When I was happy with the shape, I took the pattern off the form, used a Pattern Master to shape the edges, cut it out and transferred it on to the paper from earlier.
I added 1/2 inch S/A to the bottom and top and a 1.5 cm to the other seams. I gave the 1/2 inch because the book suggested that- it works out at 1.27 cm which is a nightmare to mark, I wish I'd done 1.5cm the whole way round! Live and learn, eh? Anyways, my paper pattern looked like this:
The last part of the prep was to cut out the pieces in my fashion fabric and my 'canvas layer'. I'll show the fashion fabric in the next post otherwise this will be gratuitously long!
Aaaand they fit pretty darn perfectly! *finger guns*
I'll leave you on that cliffhanger, there's more thrills and kicks where that came from!
I’ve already written about my inspiration for this blog and the gent who put it together for me and now the only person left to introduce is myself.
My name’s Julie, I’m turning 22 in 6 days and I’m from Belfast. Above is a picture of me wearing yellow for the first time in my entire life...
C'est Moi!
I've already written about my inspiration for this blog and the gent who put it together for me and now the only person left to introduce is myself.
My name's Julie, I'm turning 22 in 6 days and I'm from Belfast. Above is a picture of me wearing yellow for the first time in my entire life (about 6 weeks ago). When I was a kid I had this irrational hatred of it, as a teen I hated how it looked on me and a friend told me that if I ever wore it I'd look like a half peeled bananna. Cheers Davy.
I enjoy yoga, and try to work out twice a week but I have a cronic disease called Procrastination Absolutia, which causes me to put things off,even things I love and enjoy, until it's too late to do them.
Playing Settlers of Catan, Tekken 6 and Dungeons and Dragons with my boyfriend and friends is where I'm at when I'm not giving myself eyestrain in my sewing room.
My cat Tabitha is my best friend and I imagine she'll feature pretty heavily here. Fur babies fo life!
Y'all have my permission to squee. She's nearly 15 and still gets on like a kitten >.<
Here's a picture of me hitting a bullseye at 20m last night. Totally irrelivant but this is my show and I do what I want!
Last month I took a big leap of faith and quit my job of 6 years so that I could dedicate my time to my passion- costume. I'm using my days now to build a portfolio of work of which I am proud. This is proving a lot harder than it sounds. (More on this Later)
My intention for this blog is to network with other costumiers, document my own work and to build some confidence in my skills. I hope some people choose to hang out.
I'll be here, feel free to swing by.
I won’t beat around the bush here, first posts are always jilted and uncomfortable so I won’t prolong it. The beginning seems a pretty good place to start.
Like an award acceptance speech, I have a few people I’d like to thank…
Mat, tech wizard extraoridinaire. He was kind enough to create this...
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I won't beat around the bush here, first posts are always jilted and uncomfortable so I won't prolong it. The beginning seems a pretty good place to start.
Like an award acceptance speech, I have a few people I'd like to thank...
Mat, tech wizard extraoridinaire. He was kind enough to create this layout for me and support my vain idea of blogging.
The lovely Steph from www.faiiint.com whose blog is, in my opinion, one of the finest on the interwebs. Her blog is chatty in an intelligent way and her sense of style is amazing. Go and check her out. I plan on talking a little more about her in a different post.
Last, but by far least; Angela of Angela Clayton's Costumery and Creations fame. You can find her awesome work here; http://doxiequeen1.wordpress.com/
I am continuously inspired by Angela's work and attitude. We've been sewing for around the same amount of time and she's so much more brave than I. When I decided to start this blog I made the vow to be more like this brilliant young lady- to design, to make and to cross bridges when I arrive at them instead of allowing my fear of the unknown to stop me before I start. BOOM
If any of you are interested in garment contruction, fashion or costume check these ladies out- you can thank me later.
Now that's out of the way I can get on with the more exciting stuff.
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