At Her Leisure

I really don’t have a good excuse for making this. I was browsing Ravelry one day and saw the pattern and thought it sounded amusing. Plus I had all the necessary materials in hand. Naturally, I had to make one.

Click here to see pictures on Ravelry

( And here's what I did... )

Thoughts after wearing:
Okay, so I actually haven’t worn it yet except for trying it on to take a picture, but I can see where it would serve to give just a bit more oomph to the back of a full skirt. I wasn’t sure at first whether it should be worn with the smallest piece up or the largest piece, but after trying it both ways, I decided it looked better with the larger piece up. Since it will be ages before I have a dress to go over it, I decided not to wait before writing it up and posting it. Anyway, it was fun to make, and that’s what matters most.

At Dress U last weekend, they convinced me that the best way to keep in touch with other costumers would be to get either a LiveJournal or Facebook account. I've opted for LiveJournal, and here's my first post.

I enjoy needlework and reading. My particular needleworking interests are sewing (mostly historical costumes but also some modern things,) knitting (again, mostly historical costume pieces,) and cross-stitching. Mostly I read vintage mysteries and classics.

Dress U last weekend was great. I haven't uploaded many of my pictures to Flickr yet and still need to get copies of L's pictures so that I'll have pictures of everything I wore, but here's my copper 1820's dress with court train that I wore to the formal dinner on Saturday night.


At the end of the evening I took off the train to get a couple of pictures of the back of the dress.


Hopefully by next week I'll have a proper write-up of the project. In the meantime, I'm working on a 1947 green linen-look dress, which is getting pretty close to being finished, an 1847 knit bustle which is also close to being finished, a teal linen/rayon blend 18th century petticoat, and a pair of 1857 red cotton knit gaiters. I should be finishing some of those up in the next week or so and will write them up as I get the opportunity. I'm also working on Bucilla's "A Summer Stroll" cross-stitch, but that's not going to be finished any time soon.