Next Project!
Jun. 7th, 2010 07:18 amA couple of months ago on etsy, I bought two lovely sheer cotton (voile?) remnants that are about three or four yards long. They are both antique and they both have beautiful embroidery (wool?) along the edges -except for one edge that someone cut off! I think they may have been tablecloths or something like that in a previous life. However, given the decorations and the "cut edge", I want to remake them into skirts for two different summer dresses. One will be an early Regency and the other will be a late neo-directorate.
I'm going to try to match the material of the soon to be skirts and hopefully start on the Edwardian one this week. I need yet another good Edwardian dress. :-) The dress will be in a wrap style, given the decorated edges (I don't want to destroy the embroidery that's there), with the raised bust line. Hopefully, I can find some trim to match the embroidery in my stash (I certainly have enough!) and use that to decorate the sleeves edge. I *might* just cut off the top edge of the soon to be skirt since it has an embroidered scallop edge on three sides and use that to match the sleeves to the skirt.
Anyway, that's my next project. After that, I might finally sit down and finish up the Elizabethan I've been procrastinating on forever! Probably not. I'll probably finish the 18th c gown before that. :-)
I'm going to try to match the material of the soon to be skirts and hopefully start on the Edwardian one this week. I need yet another good Edwardian dress. :-) The dress will be in a wrap style, given the decorated edges (I don't want to destroy the embroidery that's there), with the raised bust line. Hopefully, I can find some trim to match the embroidery in my stash (I certainly have enough!) and use that to decorate the sleeves edge. I *might* just cut off the top edge of the soon to be skirt since it has an embroidered scallop edge on three sides and use that to match the sleeves to the skirt.
Anyway, that's my next project. After that, I might finally sit down and finish up the Elizabethan I've been procrastinating on forever! Probably not. I'll probably finish the 18th c gown before that. :-)