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Production photo of female Hobbit for inspiration. |
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Historical Sew Fortnightly challenge #1 for 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
New(ish) costumes: mending and adjusting one costume to work as a different one.
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vintage 1940s poster. |
The first one was fixing my hooped petticoat. It's one of the cotton petticoats-with-tucks-filled-with-hoop-wire numbers that have been around for years, and it's served me pretty well for over 12 years. I had removed the top hoop wire (it's a 5-hoop petticoat) because the petticoat was too long for me, and threaded the drawstring through the now-empty space where the wire had been, shortening the petticoat by about 6 inches. No hemming -- all was good. Unfortunately the drawstring was not all that strong, and it broke on my friend, who had borrowed it to wear to the Dickens Fair. While she was wearing it. Thankfully, it had been slipping down all afternoon, and she was in a dressing room when the breakage occurred, but we panicked for a while! She ended up buying a new hoop petticoat at the Dickens Fair, and I brought my old one home, and shoved it in the closet. Until now, when I looked through my stash and found a length of corset lacing that I had bought years ago, that ended up not being nearly long enough, but was a good length for a waist drawstring. I promptly took it out, found my bodkin (I love those!), and threaded it in the empty drawstring space. My hoop is usable again!
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
World War 2-era gingerbread for the new year!
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Image from http//clipart.edigg.com |
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast,
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
"The Winter Evening" (Book Four), _The Task_ (1784)
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,
And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,
So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
"The Winter Evening" (Book Four), _The Task_ (1784)