Honestly, I have had a hard time finding any motivation to sew lately. I believe the reason is because I have recently added 3 workouts a week to my schedule. It sure is keeping me busy! The flip side of that is that it is also keeping a weight loss goal in my head. It seems so silly to put time and effort into tailored garments when weight loss is a goal. However, it is Renaissance Festival season here in sunny Minnesota, and I find myself without anything to wear. The funny thing is, I have lots to wear, but nothing that I actually want to wear, making the lack of inspiration to sew anything more of a dilemma. Alas, in a last ditch effort to be costumed, I scoured my closet. I found that one of my best options also fit well! After trying on what seemed to be a perfectly fitted lower/middle class bodice, I remembered that it had been a work-in-progress during that particular season. I used Margo Anderson's Historic Costume Patterns for this bodice. It was big for the first wearing, so it was altered until it fit me well. Thankfully, this bodice didn't need much work in order to wear it for our first visit this year! All I wanted to do was add tabs around the waist. I chose rounded tabs, and they are the cutest! I am very happy with how they turned out!
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Greetings! It has been a couple of years since I've posted here! I started using my Livejournal to post when I had something to share because I regained access to it during my work day. However, over the past couple of years many of my friends have moved on from LJ due to problems, so I thought I would revisit this blog. I probably will post the major highlights from my LJ here eventually, but if you would like acess, just drop me a line there. Wow, do I have some excited news! (Please note: slight sarcasm!) Since I started sewing, back in...oh 2005, I have been attempting to get a ducttape dummy made. I actually had one early on, but after a few years it got sticky and died. Since then, I have been using my Uniquely You dress form for anything I can except drapings & fittings, which I have managed to, mostly successfully, on my own body. Evenstill, for some things, this is less than ideal. So last year a group of gals had a ducttape dummy party, and I got a new one made! I haven't had the chance to use it very much because I've been trying to solve a problem that I've had for years: how to use a beautiful cast iron stand I got for a song to support my dummy. Since the stand wasn't intended for this use (actually it used to have a vintage gumball machine on it, just like the one pictured below except mine was yellow >.<) this presented a problem. Thankfully, we have a good friend who is an engineer. One day I showed him what I was working with and we came up with away to make it work. A steel floor flange and pipe. It wasn't easy to find a flange that would hold a pipe large or small enough to work with, but in our last attempt we found one! Success! To finally finish this project, I have been wanting to retape my dummy for weeks with this cute Duct Tape I found at Michael's Last night was my first chance to get it done. I knew it wouldn't be a simple task, as I overstuffed my dummy to the point where she wouldn't compress at all. I need her to wear my corsets for fitting, so I had to unstuff her, retape the opening, and then find a neat way to tape her using the patterned duct tape. I bought the 2 rolls of tape the store had in stock, but I knew it wasn't enough, and I confirmed that last night. Now I'm just waiting until I can find more tape, then, maybe you'll get to see a picture of my excellent, polka-dotted, duct tape dress form. It's been years in the making and I am so close to getting her done!
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