Sewing a Victorian Ball Gown Overskirt
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2023
- Hello Friends! This week we are continuing the journey of Making a Victorian Ball Gown! I have one week to be dressed and ready to go in a Victorian Ball in Chicago, so we are embarking on creating the overskirt. Since I have never made a ball gown before, this is a new adventure for me!
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The series keeps getting better and better the gowns are extravagant and it makes me WISH i could sew ahh so amazing you are a talented queen Noelle you have made us happy once again!
Awww thank you 💖
You can learn to sew! There's tons of free videos on here, how to. Or find someone locally that teach you.
Just start sewing! Start small. Make a couple placemats or a table runner. If you do not have access to a sewing machine, start hand sewing. Go to a thrift start, get an oversized shirt and take in the sides and shorten the sleeves. It may not look very good, but wear it when gardening or cleaning.
Read how to books. Watch sewing videos. Look for classes in your area. Everyone starts somewhere and your first projects will not be very good. Just keep sewing and practicing and you will get better.
As an agent of chaos I would use black Sharpie on the white spots. I know... sacrilege. 🤣
I hope you have a fantastic time ❤❤❤❤❤
Not sacrilege! I’d totally do that if I felt like anyone could see it for sure!
Just finished watching the whole video. Now I have to add that gown is stunning. 🤩
Have fun and be safe!
Your gown is looking so freaking fantastic! Adore the colour! I stopped the video part-way and cut out a miniature version of bustle shape (looks like a square with a corner cut out) and "bustled" it up the way it would go into a waistband. I think I finally understand how it works!
It’s so hard to explain that one!!
I love the drape of that overskirt. It just looks so lovely. The pattern piece in the back did take my brain a minute to do the mental gymnastics to figure out where it was going and then the lightbulb went on. As for me, I have put my knitting on hold after two snow storms dumps so much snow here in my city in. Every March I think....ah early spring and then I am reminded this is, indeed, Norway and I am living near the arctic. So, wrists are sore from all the shoveling and the knitting is just too heavy. I keep reminding myself that I am not in Truckee or Tahoe, so nothing to complain. 4 or 5 ft is not 53ft! So I have been peacefully embroidering this week. I've also been hand hemming my skirt that I did get stitched up after the fantastic suggestion from you to use starch. It is a bit hard to come by here, but I did manage to find one bottle of spray (better than nothing) and have more on order so I can start with my blouse next week. Might look into how to with homemade starch, starch my whole fabric prior to sewing which I read somewhere this week is an option for squiggly linen. Never done that either. I've starched after a garment is made.
I think corn starch like the one you use in cakes is somehow involved (called Maizena in Portugal, I think it also goes by that name in other European countries)
@@lenaeospeixinhos we do have it here, but more commonly potato starch. I was hoping to find commercial starch to make my life easier ☺️
Oh I think making starch is super easy, just need to find the supplies!
Have fun at the Field Museum when you get to Chicago! It is possibly one of my favorite places in the world.
I’m SO excited to go there!!
The rose is so cute!
Your sewing is so great!
I'm making a "modern shift" (mini housedress type comfy thing to wear under clothes so I don't have to wash them so often)
Great idea!!
@@Costuming_Drama thank you! It was a big struggle, but, I am managing! (I expanded a too-small sun dress, then, I patch worked sleeveless shoulders onto it, with no pattern or model. Now, I am putting on reinforced pockets & an extra button at the new neckline.
Hi Noelle, I'm new. I follow a number of your friends and have a life long passion for historical dress. I'm partial to the Natural Form Era silhouette. Love a good natural form dress. I'm going to a Victorian Beauty and the Beast themed cocktail party this week and have nearly finished sewing a Cogsworth inspired brown taffeta tea gown/ensemble.
Ah wonderful! That sounds fun! I’ve not tried natural form yet, but I may do soon! And welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride!
The gown reminds me of Satine's Red Dress! So pretty
Awww thank you!
I love the gown, the color and the dotted fabric. It looks good, and you look good in it! Can't wait to see it finished. Also looking forward to pictures from the ball!
I am currently teaching myself how to hand embroider and use beads by making a needle book. I made a crazy quilt cover with an applique owl on a cream background appliqued on the center front. I'm currently working on decorating it with beads and embroidery stitches. It is a slow process because I am working on it as I have time. I can so easily do nothing else all day just to work on this 😄
My sewing background is quilting, but I want to learn how to make clothes, so I am s-l-o-w-l-y working on a denim walking skirt with a lining. The mock-up is almost done, but again, it is worked on when I have spare time. Hopefully it will be done in time for next winter??? I hope so.
Thanks to you, I now have a white board on my shopping list. 😊
All hail the white board!
oh you look gorgeous in that dress! It's a marvelous look for a ball...genius.
Oh thank you!
Gorgeous dress. And all the patience that goes into it. If you put it onto the board it shows how much work and thinking ahead goes into making the dress before seeing the end result. It’s beautiful
Thank you! 😊
I bought the lacing ruler last year and it has saved me so much time (and tears!)
The red is so gorgeous! I love how it's turned out. 😍
I'm so glad! I’ll let Sahrye know!
Pokey poke and openy openy made me laugh out loud! I scared my cat 😂
I have a Kamsnap press and I use it daily lol I make purses but it has a hole cutter, rivet press, attachments for grommets, ect. It's such a life saver! I kind of wish I had 2 so I could just have one keep the hole cutter in it and then change the dies on the other one but it's not horrible. It's one of those expensive tools but totally worth it!
24:03 - 24:05 is my new way of life, thank you ❤ have a great time on your trips!!! 😍
Thank you!
The bodice and overskirt of your ball gown look great together! Can't wait to see how you decorate the bodice. --Lyssa WA, USA
Good news, I am prepping that video Right now!
I am months and months late on this, but I just had to mention how much I always love you in that particular shade of crimson red. Especially that taffeta with the black shift and the dot...it's just gorgeous fabric and absolutely stunning on you!
I am months late in replying :-) but thank you!!
So lovely.
I'm currently working through my UFO pile. I started last year and have slowly been finishing things. I'm almost done now and I'm thinking of starting a capsule wardrobe. I just ordered the two Victorian books that Sarah the Duchess of York wrote. I hear they are very good, and I'm looking forward to reading them both. I'm having a small family reunion in May, so I have no plans to go anywhere till then. Be safe on your trips and have fun.
Killing my UFO pile was the single most satisfying thing I did last year!
I had so much not quite right stuff accumulating in my UFO pile that I instituted a self-regulation that before scissors can touch fabric on any new project, I must get something from the UFO pile into useful service, darn some work socks and mend something in the mending pile. In some cases I needed to mull over how to correct the issues, in others I needed to practise necessary skills before taking the garment up again, in some cases I needed to learn more about fiting, but that heap is slowly decreasing instead of the other thng!
@Bun Helsing's legacy for me, it's a case of getting bored half way through the project and starting a new project.
Watching you as you work on your builds inspires me to work smarter. White boards rule! It works so well to keep me on tract. Thank you
I'm so glad!
Love watching you & your fantastic creations!
Thank you so much!
Hi Noelle!! I'm watching this Fri the 25th which I think is the night before your ball. I am a lifetime Chicagoan and I adore you and Morgan and many of your Crew so it makes me excited that you are here. I've been sewing since I was a little girl and have started making historical things since a little before the pandemic. I hope you love my city and next time you are here I would love to advise or meet up or anything you felt comfortable with. I hope you liked the Field it is one of my very favorite places. You look absolutely gorgeous in this dress! My daughters both want me to make them bustle gowns now but I said me first! Have a great time.
Thank you! Chicago is beautiful and I will for sure be coming back!!
Exciting times in my house, I'm about to be a great aunty! I'm currently planning all my baby knitting for my great nephew.
Wonderful!
Long time watcher, first time commenter.
For someone who calls themselves a slow sewer you smashed that out so fast! The contrast to your Merida gown was huge. Very cool to watch your progress.
I've been living vicariously through online creating content as all my supplies are stuck in storage at the moment. One day I'll have a nice space to craft!
Welcome to the comments section! Thanks for that! I actually felt like I was going so slow and blowing stuff off and not working enough each day so it’s nice to hear feedback like that! 💖
I have been holding off on Mandalorian til there are several vids to watch at once, I'm so not a cliff hanger person, like to binge watch! :)
I do that too!
Last of us was GREAT ! Love your videos!
I do sew here and there…mostly quilty type stuff…but I keep thinking I want to try an actual gown!!! It’s inspiring (and educational) to watch you!
Do it!!! You’ve got this!
"Rose Butt" hah! Love how this gown looks in that dotted silk. And yes to Ted Lasso. my sister-in-law introduced me to the show this past week, she also called it "wholesome." I was charmed. I feel like I need to rewatch episodes several times to catch all the movie references though
Hahahah it’s absolutely better upon rewatch!
I'm actually sewing today. It's a quilt top for a charity program. I've never done any sort of quilting.
i am currently working on a dress for my baby shower, which I altered the bodice of to be breastfeeding friendly. It's interesting to be viewing all my potential projects through a different lens of needs at this point.
Oh yeah I bet!
The gown is such a beautiful color. Looking forward to the choice of decorations. My projects are almost always reno-work on thrifted garments. Current projects are: removing excess adornments from a top with "good bones" (occasionally beads, sequins and paillettes are apparently chosen by committee, in this case obviously a large one 😉), changing fasteners on a dress (someone made a beautiful dress then attached a cheap button to the back) and making a maxi skirt into a mini skirt ('cause I am short).
Hello! thank you for yet another lovely video. You are the best of companions to listen to Noelle. That ball gown is going to look really lovely on you, can't wait to see it completed, and on my, the fabric, utterly sumptuous, swoon... At the end of the video you asked what else we like to do, sadly I can't attach a photo, so words will have to suffice; I fell further into costume and pattern cutting interests a little before covid began, and during covid then was sucked into my life-long hobby of bobbin lace making, so I'm busy making the lace for the blouses and not making the blouses at the moment. Eventually it will all come together, with the help of the whiteboard (- just like you) and necessity as I am running low on clothes to wear. Many thanks indeed to you for your channel.
Oh that sounds very awesome!!
Hi Noelle! I am giving my steamer a workout and tackling my mending and dreaded UFO heap. Have a lovely week
Sounds great! You will be so happy when that is all done!
I hope you have a great time in Chicago!
I recently finished my first Victorian corset and have moved on to the petticoat, where I foolishly decided to try insertion lace for the first time. This has multiplied the time required for the petticoat but looks so pretty. At least I'm doing it by machine and don't have a deadline. Slow and steady progress is still progress!
As for reading, I just finished "Stone Blind" by Nathalie Haynes (a retelling of the Medusa and Perseus myth), and just started "A Day of Fallen Night" by Samantha Shannon.
Insertion lace is so gorgeous though!!
the grommet setter can also take snap die sets, so you can set snaps with it. and rivet setters too, so you can set jeans buttons and double cap rivets. they're nice.
I did NOT expect the awl presentation to be that suggestive bright and early on a Monday morning. I am sitting in the office trying not to giggle like a school girl 🤣 I am an adult, damnit! 😂
😂🤣 here to help!
This rosebud dress is turning out so well! The overskirt seems like it cooperated better in the thinner fabric.
I have some mending and alterations to do to a couple of skirts. I'm also in the process of reorganizing my sewing room so that's its a bit more efficient and easier to remember what I have in stash.
Didn't realize that the Huntington exhibit was closing so soon. I didn't make it over there. Safe travels down to LA as we have been experiencing so much rain. Safe travels to Chicago. The ball sounds fun. My 1 year anniversary of taking sewing classes was this past weekend. I realized that I made a LOT of stuff, even though there is so much more that I want to create.
Well, hopefully you have many more anniversaries and many more projects to come!
Such a gorgeous gown! As much as I love the mid 1890’s it saddens me that overskirts become less of a thing.
SAME
Such a gorgeous colour on you. Thanks for sharing.
My big project right now is a coat based on Jefferson’s orange coat in Once Upon A Time. The flash of bright orange on the inside screamed “Make Me!” Maybe one day I’ll make a closer replica with real silk and velvet but for my first ever coat a poly dupioni and upholstery ultra suede will do just fine 😊
That sounds amazing!
Lots of roller derby in my life atm so not heaps of sewing. Brought a ticket to see comedian Daniel Sloss this weekend :p super stoked.
I just finished binge watching How I met your mother. Finally. Hadn't watched it since Season 1 was released.
Roller derby is so fun!! Totally worth less sewing!
So happy to see you on vid again! one of these days when you do an LA trip you need to have a meet n greet! ZenHugs!
Definitely!!
Those pleats came out fantastic!
I was going to ask if that undyed spot on the black could be covered with a Sharpie-- I don't know if that works on silk-- but it actually can't be seen at all, so that's great.
I'm currently between projects. I have a couple of things I want to knit for the summer-- a lacy bolero and a tee in linen yarn. I just haven't decided which to do first.
I would have if it was going to be seen at all, but it’s not so I’m not stressed about it!
I really enjoyed this one. Working on a quilted, multi texture, floor mat for my niece's first baby. Current audiobook is The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate by Jeannie Gainsburg, Shaina Summerville, et al. Current physical book Grow Great Vegetables in Virginia. I have been working too much, so I have taken a step back, trying to recharge my heart and soul. My garden keeps me sane
Good on you for recognizing that and pulling it back!! 🙌🏻
You did get a lot done! The overskirt would have put me over the edge; you put that puzzle together beautifully! Noelle, you're going to be the bell of the ball.
Have fun in L.A.,
xoxo's Sandie🤗
Thank you so much!
Looks awesome and I love a good chaos vlog!
Perfect wind down on a Sunday evening for me. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm so pleased, she had the spacing guides in stock literally for the first time that I've seen since I found your channel. I've been wanting one for ever. Hooray! I so appreciate you sharing your knowledge, not just of sewing which is massive, but also of tools that make life easier. The gown is looking gorgeous and what a flattering look on you!
I'm so glad you find it helpful! And thank you!
The rose butt is great! Have a safe trip to Chicago. If I felt I could drive Chicago, I'd try to come see you guys - just a glimpse - but I don't drive Chicago. I'd invite you all to ride the Amtrak train down to rural Illinois but you said you don't do trains. Lol! I haven't tried either yet.
My week will be cleaning house - ugh! - and working on art and making some tough decisions about my artwork and finances. I also plan to continue to write poetry. Oh, and I hope to continue to read one of two books I began a while ago - 1) Gandhi An Autobiogrphy or 2) Short Stories by Kafka.
I don’t think I’ve ever said I don’t do trains! I do them whenever I can, as a matter of fact!
Looking fabulous. You are going to luck Stunning.
Not something I could make. I'll stick to the simpler things.
Currently working on a pair of baby socks in tunisian crochet knit stitch. A complete yarn hog but looks great. Hoping I have enough left on this ball to complete the set of jacket, hat and socks. My friends are waiting until delivery to find out if boy or girl. So I'm doing bright rainbow colours. Suits their personalities better than pastels.
Also just purchased a 1923 singer 99k hand crank sewing machine (happy birthday to me) and gifted my 1888 12k to my MIL.
Ooooo that’s awesome!
Totally Rosebutt and I live it!!!! 😂😂 I finished cutting out a self altered dress (Tessuti Bondi pattern I have used before, changed to v-neck and lengthened) It sucked - fabric has diagonal pin tucks, I wanted a chevron with the center seam so had to turn the pattern. And piece the bottom. Whatever. Now I'm ready to knock it out sewing wise. WHHHHOOOOOHOOOOO for Tragus piercing! Do it do it do it! (But if you're a side sleeper, know that it might suck for a bit) I finally got my dream jewelry put in mine and I'm soooooo thrilled. I had the orignal jewelry from India in for 20 years and had to clip them out for MRI/surgery in 2009. Had been super sad and unhappy for the past 14 years, but finally stopped trying to justify the $ and got what I wanted 😍
Oh yay dream jewelry! And I got a piercing pillow so I can stick my ear in the hole while I sleep and that should make things a little less painful. I got like 5 piercings in my cartilage in a manner of like 4 months one year and they took like 2 years to heal because I rotisserie sleep and just kept making them hurt. Hopefully this will help
@@Costuming_Drama I had no idea there was such a thing!
The gown is turning out beautifully! I love working in silk, it always looks so gorgeous! Can't wait to see your Chicago pics, too!
Thank you so much!
A beautiful gown very elegant and chic
Oh thank you!
Just recently watched Everything Everywhere all at once and just yesterday watched 65 which I enjoyed. Not the most monumental film of course but I still enjoyed my time. Been working on my personal health with therapy for the first time in my life and feel I'm moving forward. Your videos help me so much since I always feel I could be in the room with you having a lovely chat over our sewing or crafts. ❤️ much love and thanks to you
Awww I’m so glad 💖
I guess you could say I'm a...how does that phrase go?...domesticated house husband? (yes, I even do windows on occasion lol) I'm also a harried and worn-out father of soon-to-be three home-schooled kids (with a fourth sibling as yet to arrive), and attempting to operate a full-time farm and do some sewing in what little spare time I have right now lol I also have designs on making a woodworking shop, a mechanics shop, a blacksmith forge, a tannery and leatherworks, a glassworks, a ceramics shop, a couple greenhouses, an herbalist shop/apothecary studio, a brewery, a distillery, winery (even though I don't drink commercial wines, since they all taste sour to me, and not a good sour, either), summer kitchen, semi-commercial-sized flour mill, a couple larger orchards, a couple berry meadows, a couple nut groves, a spinning mill and carding shed (and maybe a loom if I get REALLY adventurous lol), an apiary or two, maybe an oil press or two if I can find the time and money, a couple larger (or several smaller) flower gardens, maybe a couple fungus beds, and so on and so forth lol nobody ever accused me of thinking small lol
I think it was corsetry that brought me over here originally, but I think it was more the shenanigans that kept me here lol (there's a new slogan for ya: Come for the corsetry, stay for the shenanigans lol) I do intend to make at least one (and several more if successful) for my wife, and I have a couple other friends who are keeping an eye on my corsetry shenanigans in the event I achieve some modicum of success who would be interested in acquiring my skills for their own personal endeavors lol
And now, back to you lol
Hello! Lovely to meet you!
love your channel Noelle!!! that deep red color looks so good on you, can't wait to see the finished ball gown!!🤩
Thank you so much!!
Love a chaos blog!!!
Just finished season 2 of Carnival Row … loved it
Watched this and the bodice back to back while changing rough pin of hem to precise 5 inch hem on wide sheer overskirt on $AUD15 thrift store find. I'm going to need to run a gather and hand sew, (sewing machine ate some pleats on slightly heavier material underskirts) so im marking with pins. I don't want to cut the hem as there is grow room in the bodice which is thankfully tight enough on my still growing teen, but im worried the weight will pull fine fabric. We'll see.
So far I've been waiting for the whole project and watching together. So this format works for those who like weekly updates and those who like whole projects.
Good point!
Yay this is really coming together! For the October ball I can't decide if I want to do 1750s English gown or 1780s Italian gown so naturally I need to try them both. 😅 Next up on my list is an English gown mockup using the pattern from At the Sign of the Golden Scissors.
Ooooo they both sound amazing so I do believe that you need bothz
She's beautiful. You're beautiful in her.
Thank you!!
That color looks nice on you! 👍
Oh thank you!
Thank you for this in-depth look at the inside. This was really helpful to me.
Glad it was helpful!
Miserable cat jumped on the keyboard when I was trying to give this a thumbs up. Sometimes cats aren't all the help they think they are.
Nitpicking quilt blocks. I also watched a few Barney Miller collections on RUclips this week. I miss that show.
"Do it by hand" Noelle, are you ok? Blink twice if you need help!
(Honestly it's looking amazing!)
Hahahaha and thanks!
I love that you use Agile methodology in your projects
If you mean “the part of that methodology that is just common sense and actually works” then yes 😂. I’m not a big fan of “agile” when used in corporate settings. It gives VPs an excuse to behave badly.
@@Costuming_Drama agreed. I’m in software development with 2 week delivery cycles putting out smallish chunks of functionality. Agile works great for that environment.
I just finished my first 18th century petticoat, and am in the middle of a Rita Blouse from Charm patterns. I chose a crinkle rayon for the shirt, and am regretting it, but no matter. I'll finish it and see what a run through the wash does for me 😅 Next up is my very first corset. An underbust Arenea Black pattern.
This gown is looking amazing!
Thank you!
Thank you for showing to steam the curve into the bias BEFORE applying
😂 is that a pet peeve?
@@Costuming_Drama It is for me!!
I spent all day yesterday sewing the shirt for the pattern test I'm doing and now I need to take a break for a day because I hurt my back with all the leaning. On the bright side, it turned out beautifully!
Yay pretty shirt!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
You are very encouraging, thank you for sharing your skill
Thanks for watching!
This gown is gorgeous! I hope you enjoy the ball & get all the kudos you deserve.
Awww thank you!
The dress is gorgeous! You look positively Victorian in it ❤
Ha! Thank you!
You can also get smaller handheld grommet presses. Not as good as what you've got there, but I found it easier that doing grommets by hand.
I reckon about a metre an hour for hand-hemming, so that's the same speed as you :)
Hope you have a fabulous weekend in Chicago at the ball, and seeing your friends.
Thank you!
I am saving up my strength. All joking aside, starting April 1st I am going to be figuring out what garb still fits me and my three granddaughters because second quarter is Pennsic Sewing Time.
T A C O S ! ! !
4LYFE!
I love the fabric for this gown!! 😍 I can’t wait to see how you decorate it!! I hope you have an awesome time on both your trips ❤
I found out I’m going to have the house to myself (aside from our dog) for a little over a week, so I’m thinking I might try to get acquainted with the sewing machine I acquired a couple years ago. Or work on mending my pile of pj pants before I completely run out of good ones 😅
Thank you!! 😊 and that sounds great!
Cool tool for grommets,, guess in old days they made button holes.... Wondering how they reinforced the area....
They made eyelets!
Which are pretty much buttonholes
Was mostly listening (with glances at screen) while weaving some towels. I don’t know why you occasionally say you are winging it cause the outcome is so fantastic! But then you, Morgan, and several other costumers are your own worst critics. I think you all are excellent sewists. So looking forward to the finished gown. Enjoy LA
I mean I think you can wing it and still have a good outcome. Not knowing what you are doing doesn’t really have anything to do with the outcome half the time. 🤷🏼♀️
Yyyyaaaayyy chaos blog miss them
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(whispers) ROSE BUTT! Love it! I also love that you're always dressed in t-shirts and jeans, hair in a ponytail and making the most girly-girl clothes. :D Makes me want to try to fix the Simplicity pattern Victorian gown I made years ago for a Halloween party. Also, watching a Netflix series called Bad Vegan, which is a crazy story about a woman who married basically an insane person who swindled her out of $1.7 million.
Omg that story! And fix it!!! I’m sure it’s salvageable!
The Rose Butt dress. 😂
I'm excited to live vicariously through you in the next couple of weekly vlogs! (I love traveling, but having a preschooler really isn't helpful to adventures. I'm looking forward to the time she is old enough to enjoy traveling too.)
You have created a Beautiful Red Rose-Butt Bustle Ball Gown. Thank you for the wonderful inspiration.
Thank you! 😊
Disney's Castles - oh man, the story of Mad king Ludwig, who wasn't mad just didn't care for politics and wanted to hang out with gorgeous young male actors, he also got scammed by Wagner who tried to bleed him dry to write the Ring cycle, but yeah, he wanted to live in a fairytale so he built castles, Neuschwanstein being the most famous but there are lots of them, including a fairy grotto with a swan boat [he would get handsome young actors to wait on the shore and he would appear before them in the boat] an ottoman pavilion, there was a hunting lodge and it goes on, he did it mostly with his own money. He was probably [almost definitely] gay and when they tried him for madness [to replace him with his institutionalised younger brother] they used the grand romantic gestures he made to his lovers to indict him - including a midnight sleigh ride to see the stars. He was actually really popular at the time and even now Bavaria is like Best King Ever!
If you ever get the opportunity Neuschwanstein is amazing inside, it's painted with scenes from his favourite fairy tales and has one room that looks out over the alps and instead of a wall with windows it's a balcony with pillars so nothing blocks the view.
The director Luchino Visconti made a film [Ludwig II] which used extant gowns and filmed entirely on location in those buildings - it's very long and its so overwhelmingly lovely to look at I had to pause it to let my brain decompress. Empress Sisi [his cousin] is also in it [you can make very expensive movies when you're the Duke of Milan]
Your gown is lovely. I admire people who do victorian. At this point I would probably have an anxiety attack in a corset and all those clothes.
I am still working on the 360 stitch sweater, I am currently on the sleeves, both of them in stranded multi colour. Between house showings and offers negotiations with multiple buyers. Please get preapproved if you decide to buy (hitting my head on the desk) one down, on to the next one.
Oh for sure. You can’t function at all in California if you aren’t preapproved (also I’ve bought a couple houses before)
I finally cut into the 6yards of linen I bought from FS, I’m making some shorts for my Florida trip. It’s not quite the project I had in visioned but if they are comfy and fit well then it’s fine.
I guess I was feeling very brave when I bought the red almost Brick colored linen but I’m gunna make it work!
Sounds great!
Loving the new season of Ted Lasso! I've been telling everyone I know to watch it, but so few people have apple tv+!
My SO and I are in a disagreement about Nate's arc. I think he'll be redeemed, but he thinks he's lost to the dark side. lol!
I woke up Sunday morning and felt my sew-jo return!! I spent a few hours up sizing a coat pattern I've been putting off for years! Spent all day leaning over the table so now my back hurts, but it felt SO good to be back at it! Next step is to make a mock-up for the first time in my life. I bought super fancy wool coating, so I don't want to mess it up! Fingers crossed that it goes well! :D
I think not only will Nate be redeemed, but I think he might be a plant.
Also yay first mock-up! Come tell me how it went!
@@Costuming_Drama Ooh! I love that!! I think his hair going grey is stress related, and being 'evil' is why. I hope he'll come back to the good side and his hair will go back to normal! :)
Also, Jamie saying 'poopie' has been stuck in my head! Lol!
SAME
I’m going to the same ball as you I think, and I’m impressed that you have time to edit your video and make the dress all before the ball 😅 your dress looks beautiful and I look forward to seeing it in person! Also paislyandglue (Maggie) is my adviser in my college’s costume program :)
where in Chicago is the ball? and who sounded it? I am so bummed😢 I didn't hear about the ball. I live just over the state line in Wisconsin.
@@johngion2 it’s by the Chicago Historical Costume Society, I’m pretty sure the venue is northern chicago. Sorry you didn’t hear about it :(
Oh that’s very cool! Please come talk to me at the ball!
@@Costuming_Drama I definitely will!
I made my mom a double gauze sweater last week, just to see if that works (it does, beautifully) and circumvent the problem that I do not wear sweaters. The fabric estimates were ridiculously off though, so now I have a bunch of double gauze left. I figured, hey, no problem, my sister just had a baby, I'll make him something. Found some baby pants that do not require stretch, got approval from sis for BRIGHT RED BABY PANTS with varying degrees of poof.... And I still have double gauze left as I'm pinning these together while watching this. First world problems are real.
Edit: I remembered someone online mentioning "mini" (30-40cm) muslin squares were a surprisingly good, but relatively unavailable baby thing. (normal size are 70-80cm squares) My leftovers could make two, which should be enough for sis and BIL to test drive them. TO THE SERGER!
Your last two videos kept me company while I was bookbinding. I'm currently experimenting with trimming the edges, which is (it turns out) a rather frustrating process.
It does seem like it would be! I hope you figure it out to your satisfaction!
Goldstar should sponsor you, I just bought a grommet press, two corsets of setting grommets with pliers and I was done. Hoping this will help with the stays I'm working on (front and back lacing!), so many grommets
Oh it will make that whole thing so much easier!! And they totally should sponsor me!
Love your ball gown! Girl, I was following along till you connected the front to back with V’s. Dude, had to watch it three times to figure out what you were doing. I understood your words, just not How. I needed caffeine, yeah. That’s the excuse I’m using. Lol. It’s BEAUTIFUL.
Also I want to see you make the day jacket for this dress. It might come in handy in Chicago. Midwest weather is a pain this time of year (four seasons in a single day, heck just in the morning alone).
Oh a day jacket would not be done and I’m not going out into a city in this anyway. That will happen way later!
I’m still semi struggling though the shirt mock-up I’ve been working on. Also focusing on the basics at the same time so taking more time than I’m used to with sewing projects but, I’m trusting it’ll all be worth it when I end up having a few different cotton and linen shirts for the farm this spring and summer that will look and wear right.
Currently rewatching Batman the animated series and remembering why I’ve had a soft spot for the penguin as I watch a ep of him getting his heartbroken. All while walking around the house like him from a hip injury. The show still holds up really well, the only thing that I found really dated it was a equal opportunity superhero joke in the pilot but, it was still funny lol
I also finished Cabal last month and started another attempt at reading the persuasion, turns out making it my sewing background noise book created the best environment for me to absorb it. I can’t get over Jane Austin calling someone a dickhead 😂 I gained new respect for the classics
Hahahaha yeah. I hope your hip gets better soon!
Ok, I admit it. I'm addicted to skirts. It's a problem, it really is. I think I want to make a dress or something out of a fabric, and some part of my head says, " or a skirt.."
Yesterday, I ran across three yards of purple rose fabric in my stash, and I thought I could make a quick, one seam umbrella skirt, no problems. Then I saw a two yard bit and thought, "Or, I can make this six gore pleated skirt, and make the inside of the pleats in this dark lavender.." Then, I saw another little chunk of fabric, also dark lavender, but with ombre purple thistles on it. And I thought, Heeeeey, I might have enough of the rose to make two similar skirts with different pleat underlays. And then I thought, "yeah, but I still want an umbrella skirt, and I had originally wanted to make a floor length circle out of this....". So, now I'm looking for eight more yards of the purple rose fabric.
It happens 😂
Hi Noelle!! I discovered you thru my other favorite RUclipsr Ms. Bernadette Banner. I also follow Rachel Maksey and Morgan Donner and Abby Cox and Nicole Rudolph so it was just a matter of time before I started following you too. Love your work!!
Awesome! Thank you! And Welcome!
Started next in fashion, it’s on Netflix did season one today.
Book: The Lions of Tsavo, by Col. Patterson. Movie: The Ghost and the Darkness, with Kilmer and Michael Douglas (Superior Film!) (I contend that it is the Beowulf story with lions for Grendal). All this to say: The Lions of Tsavo are in the Field Museum in Chicago. Note: The 'lions' as they are exhibited are significantly smaller than the actual lions for reasons.
Oh interesting!
I was thinking...the black taffeta lining take a damp cloth and dab at the white spots...it could be from the washing process.
Will do! Thank you!
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RoseButt . . . 🌹🌹🌹😆😆🤣 hahaha! Looking excellent. Will she have sleeves? Or go over something with sleeves? Or sleeveless? Just curious. My giant green coat project for Costume Con is proceeding. Also hoping to check out the FIDM exhibit soon, and possibly the Disney thing at the Huntington, depending on weather. Thanks for the reminder that one is ending soon! Enjoy your trip and your tacos!
Swaggy chiffon sleeves I think!
Is it wrong that as you are doing your opening I think and now singing “East bound and Down”!
Ok I want all the stuff you just showed! Mechanical pencil with chalk yeah grommet press definitely. Note to self send video to kids for birthday wish list!!!