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.
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Date: 2008-05-27 12:17 am (UTC)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.