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jennylafleur) wrote2004-06-18 10:23 pm
jennylafleur) wrote2004-06-18 10:23 pm
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finial pocket design
Spent this evening finalizing my pocket design. I tried resizing and tweaking it on the computer but that turned out to be too fiddly. Doing it by hand was much simpler, despite my lack of artistic talent. It took a lot of tracing and re-tracing to arrive at a final product but I had fun. I’m very familiar with the shapes now and I had a chance to think through the stitches and colors as I worked.
I’m very happy with the finial design, although I had to lose the strawberries. It was going to be too much red/pink in that area so for color balance I replaced them with a flower (that will probably be yellow or purple). I’ll use them on something one of these days, perhaps on the shift (in place of initials). Bridget’s only comment was that the bee looked a little “cutesy” and I rather agree. I had to draw that on my own (based on the bee’s of the Queen Bee dress ), and it shows. It’s not very 18th century looking but it’s *me* so I kept it. He’s growing on me. Oh yes and a pic of the wool.
My linen is washed and ready to be ironed and cut. Hopefully I can get to that this weekend. I also have that black twill skirt to cut out. I really need an everyday black skirt! What I really should do is work on the LOTR gowns, I've been sadly neglecting them all week. *slaps hand* Bad Jenny!
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Ahh... the lure of the newest project!
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