An attempt to document my sewing journey and obsessive love of historical costuming and fashion, with a sprinkling of chaos thrown in.
Tag: upcoming projects
Been busy sewing, dealing with back to back home repair issues, and more! But I am still doing the #GeorgianJanuary2024 challenge on Instagram, and apparently you can turn the story highlights into a video reel! So here’s the prompts and my photos from Day 1 up to today!
In other news, next month kicks off my challenge #28DaysOfHistoricalDress, well 29 since it’s a leap year! So with this challenge, I dress in my historical and vintage ensembles for the entire month. I usually break it down to doing one era each week. So for example, one week I will do vintage, 1920s-1959s, another week with be 18th century, another will be Regency or Edwardian, and so on!
So i’ve been working on the wearable mock-up for my husbands 18th century waistcoat these past couple of days. It’s the JP Ryan pattern here:
It’s coming along well. My husband already picked out the color of the silk taffeta that he wants for it, and that is the color Sultan from Silk Baron. I don’t know if I am going to attempt to make functional pockets, just the pocket flap, or no pocket at all, but I do need to decide. After I do the mock up of course comes the real version. And then after that, he needs two new 18th century shirts.
As for me, I have my next projects lined up. The first being an Edwardian-era capelet for a stroll that I am going on with friends in January, along with a nice, big, fur muff. After that, I want to tackle view B of the Amalia Jacket from Scroop Patterns:
For this jacket, I plan on making it from yet more silk taffeta from Silk Baron (I seriously love that company), but this color is a gorgeous pink with greenish and blue tint, called Aurora. I got the sample in the other day, and it’s even more gorgeous in person.
I absolutely adore the zone front and peplum of the bodice! For the petticoat, I plan on going with the color Magnolia from Silk Baron. My friend said the colors are like frosted strawberry lemonade, and I am here for it!
Of course I need to make some new pieces for my kids, but they grow like weeds! My daughter when from wearing a 14-16 in girls at the beginning of the school year to a womens small/medium now. How am I supposed to keep up with that? Plus I need to actually find a decent and quick pattern for some 18th century jackets/bodices for her, since the petticoats are super easy to make. I may know how to sew, but I have no clue how to scale or alter patterns to make them kid/teenage size.
So that’s it for now. After I am done cleaning and getting things done around the house, I am going to pin the lining and fashion fabric of the waist coat and see how to go about sewing that. I’m kind of confused because I have literally skipped doing lining in any projects for years! I told yall that I am a chaotic goblin when it comes to sewing! So I’ve never properly done lining until my regency gowns and angelica gowns, but attaching the lining to those were different. This pattern calls for the fabrics to be pinned together all the way around right side out (which I can follow), and then it says flip it inside out through the armholes….WHAT???
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