Poe-ness

[jennylafleur]

I almost costumed today! January = Poe's birthday and thanks to a date being settled on and news that darling girliegirl32786 is coming down for the event I am once again ready to embark on Victoriana.


I love the dress I made last year but it needs some tweaking. The shoulders have an annoying habit of not wanting to stay up. I blame my lack of on-the-shoulder-sleeve fitting skills. I spent a chunk of the day researching and pondering all sorts of options - a chemisette to tack the shoulders to, a bertha of some kind to raise the neckline, a tucker with a drawstring to help keep everything in place. I think for now I'm going to try the easy and extremely un-period method of elastic at the shoulder (per Hunnisett). If that doesn't work I'll go for the tucker.


The fun part of this tweak involve the trimming I didn't have time to do last year. RUFFLES. Normally I'm not a huge ruffle girl but when I found the above fashion plate with rows of bias ruffles playing off a striped skirt I fell in love. I'm sure I will want to stick myself in the eye with a fork at some point (ahh the hemming - help me!) but it's going to look so neat when I'm done. I'll also add rows of bias ruffles to the sleeves like the original pattern. Yay!

Comments

[my-stitching.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't been able to pink the ruffles on my green silk taffeta ballgown. I forget the exact number but I think it was 80 yards of ruffles!! (not that they are all actually ON the gown yet, but they will be eventually)

[jennylafleur.livejournal.com]

Nice to know I'm not the only crazy one! :P