Another general question for my own curiosity

[isabelladangelo]

What is one thing you haven't made in your chosen craft(s) that you would love to be able to make someday? This should be something you *think* is way to difficult for you to make now, but you hope to be able to get to a level to be able to make it someday. For me, it's one of the knitted early 17th c jacket. My knitting is slowly getting better but something like that is way way far in the future. I just love the colors and the design of it...and I think I could edit it enough to make it look really late 16th c rather than early 17th. :-)

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[pepperbeast.livejournal.com]

Aargh! HTML fix!
(I will answer the question-- I just need to think about it a bit.)

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

the knitted early 17th c jacket

ETA: Dang. Sorry - I fail.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

It's impossible to link directly to things from the V&A. I've no idea why! I can't even log-in to order photographs from their collection.

The best you can do is provide the museum number and have other people search for it.

There are two knitted jackets at the V&A: a pink/yellow one and a blue-green/gold one.

Pink: 807-1904
Blue-green: 106-1899

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

That's what I tried to link to too. :-)

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Bella mia, your link is totally fuxored. Can you put a space in there, pretty please?

My problem is usually not having the skills, but having the funds for the materials to get there. Like I know I have the skills to make a handsewn Elizabethan outfit (or my dream Regency knitted lace dress), given enough patience and research time, but the thought of spending the hundreds of dollars I'd need to buy all the fabric and thread and boning intimidates me. That might all be a separate issue, though.

That said, my embroidery is definitely subpar. I've got satin stitch down and I can backstitch and make French knots, so that takes care of like 75-percent of the skills, but it could all be so much neater. My chainstitch would probably make a better embroiderer recoil in horror.

I guess that means I'd really like to embroider a version of the Margaret Laton jacket at the V&A someday, or something similar to the one embroidered by the Attack Laurel. Because, you know, pink!

I'd also really like to learn how to make bobbin lace. I know that drawn-thread work is not to my taste and buttonhole lace is boring to me.

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Fixed, sorry!

Bobbin lace is something I have yet to try my hand at and probably should.

For an Elizabethan, if you do it out of linen and silk, it might be within your reach, money wise. It won't be hand woven (well, it might be if you get Thai silk) on a 16th c loom, but you can get some pretty fibers for under $5 a yard every so often on fabric.com and ebay...if you want to bother with ebay anymore.

[molly-world.livejournal.com]

I really want to learn jewelry making. I love the way a beautiful accessory can just finsih an outfit (and who doesn't like more bling?!)

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Jewelry making as in beading or as in metal working? There is a wonderful bead shop at Tysons and another one in Laurel. I could easily loose a pay check at either. I need to find my beading needles again because some of the pearls I use do not like to be beaded down on to a partlet or trim...

[cleopatramwi.livejournal.com]

Gloves. They completely confound me.

I can't knit anything either. Except a potholder!

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

I haven't bothered with gloves yet although I guess I could try....

Hehehe...My poor Mom still has a bunch of potholders I made her when I was 5 with the red plastic weaving loom. Remember those?