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Lady LaSalle
10-09-2005, 10:59 AM
:ban I just found the PERFECT fabric and beaded trim for one of my outfits that I want to make for next year!!! :sewing Can you say "dusky purple dupioni" and "pewter beaded organza ribbon" 3 times fast? LOL!!!! Just think 1880's walking dress! Should I tell you that I bought the buttons and hat months ago for this project? :grin Nah! I'll keep that I secret!:noe
Tatted Lady
10-09-2005, 11:19 AM
Hey LL, that sounds b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.

I want to make a walking dress soon. What pattern are you using? One from TV?

Hey, how much rain did ya'll get up there? We heard that Allentown,Pa. got over 9 inches, and some of the other areas got over 12 inches. Ya'll ought to be washed out into the ocean by now!!!!
Lady LaSalle
10-09-2005, 11:43 AM
We got about 4" here. The folks to the north of us got pounded. There is just mud everywhere! We needed the rain, but holy smokes! AND the stinkin' rain washed out our match today! That really bites! It was the last one at Guthesville for the year! :cry It's one of our favorite local matches.


As far as the dress goes, it's going to be the TV 221 tie back skirt and probably an extremely modified Hermione overskirt. The bodice I'm still toying around with. My little voice in side me is saying " over the top double breasted" . I usually listen to my little voice when it comes to sewing. Hasn't been wrong yet.:re
Fannie Kikinshoot
10-10-2005, 06:55 AM
LL, Truly Victorian has a double breasted pattern now. I love a double breasted bodice and plan to make one some time in the future.
Lady LaSalle
10-10-2005, 08:04 PM
Oh girl! You should see the pattern that I'm gonna use! You are going to die! It's out of the National Garment Cutter Pattern book. OH BABY!
Lady LaSalle
10-12-2005, 04:45 PM
This is the dress that I sketched. Now it's not perfect, but I think you'll get the idea. Here is both views:
Lady LaSalle
10-12-2005, 04:48 PM
Here's the front
Lady LaSalle
10-12-2005, 04:49 PM
And here is the back
Clancy
10-12-2005, 05:00 PM
Hey LL that looks great, cant wait to see that one completed.Great scetches by the way. When i was in Denver with PMS we went to Denver fabrics and they ahd this neat book of figurs that you could ue to draw your dresses on. She bought one, they seem like a really neat idea. If we ask nicely she may post a pic of what im talking about. I think from memory they were about $35.00

On the subject of scetches how many of you keep your scetches when the dress is completed? I have kept all of mine and have made them into a kind of album, with samples of the fabric and trim that was used and the patterns and have a photograph of the finished costume. Kind of like a portfolio i would say...
Fannie Kikinshoot
10-12-2005, 07:20 PM
Clancy, those templates are great. I use the "hour glass" template for my outfits.
Fannie Kikinshoot
10-12-2005, 07:21 PM
See.............
Clancy
10-12-2005, 10:19 PM
Fannie,Thats them

Do you know of an online place that i can get a set from. I kicked myself that i never got them when Shawn got hers....Oh i could try Denver fabrics and see if they have them.

Otherwise if i ask nicely would it be possible to send you money if you could get me a set...I would only want the females ones not he mens ones.
Fannie Kikinshoot
10-13-2005, 12:21 AM
Clancy, I sent you an email.
Clancy
10-13-2005, 06:09 AM
Thankyou, Thankyou,:bow Thankyou:bow :bow
Coffee Em
10-13-2005, 12:06 PM
The figures aren't as cute as the one Fannie posted, but the Threads magazine site has croquis (this is the official technical fashion designer term for these drawings, though it sounds like some kind of toasted bread to me!) for various figures to download here:
http://www.taunton.com/threads/pages/t00147.asp

Cheers,
Coffee Em
Pretty Mean Shawme
10-14-2005, 02:42 PM
We can't post a lot of our sketches right now, because they are http://images.animationfactory.com/imagedir/animations/business/filecabinet_messages/top_secret/top_secret_sm_nwm.gifhowever when you all do get to see them, you will notice we are all in that same pose!

I do love those templates!

I have changed what I have been drawing over however. I had poor Iron feather take a picture of me in my corset and combination in a similar pose and then messed with it in Photoshop until I had an outline of me.

So now when I do my sketches they are on my body not the perfect template.
Fannie Kikinshoot
10-14-2005, 03:38 PM
So now when I do my sketches they are on my body not the perfect template.
You are too hard on yourself!! Those templates are not perfect....but you are!:kiss
Wallaby Jack
10-14-2005, 04:33 PM
"You are too hard on yourself!! Those templates are not perfect....but you are! "

I'd agree with Miss Fannie....... but I don't want another slap......


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