Ah! back to my heirloon sewing days. One thing that is done when doing hand embroidery is "stripping the floss" Take the length of 6 strand embroidery, Figure out which direction the floss goes. One way the individual threads will feel smooth, the other way a little rough. Pull out each strand of floss with the grain one at a time. The line all six (or 4 or 3) strands together . Some people run an iron over the lined up strands. It makes the floss lie nicer and tangle less. French knots or colonial knots or bullion knots (number of wraps) is a great detail.
Thank you for the instruction. I embroidered some when I was young (many decades ago), but I never heard about the “grain“ of the thread or ironing to get them to keep together. Very helpful.
Every time I watch you make something, you make it all look DOABLE. I don't think I considered sewing as something I'd be capable of myself until I started following your channel. And now that I'm learning, as a plus sized person like you, making things i love and that fit me, instead of having to settle for stuff I can get into has become so empowering. This coat looks amazing! And a versatile piece that will bring you lots of joy, not just as part of a (gorgeous) cosplay outfit.
Well done! I remember learning how to make French knots in Girl Scouts, MANY years ago; that was one of the first embroidery stitches (as opposed to plain hand sewing stitches) I learned. I don't do much embroidery now, but I certainly still enjoy admiring other people's handiwork!
"But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you'd had one" - Baker's Wife wisdom for sewing projects, where sometimes we just have to plod on through a boring bit of hand finishing. Great project! Glad to see it completed.
This has got to be the most beautiful coat I’ve ever seen and it doesn’t hurt that pink is my favorite color. The workmanship is out of this world. Well done!!🧵
It's a really pretty coat. I like the way the princess seams are emphasized by the stitching over the seam allowances. It was really interesting seeing you wrangle and win over the embroidery function of your machine. You have a lot of patience.
I love your different dress projects, contemporary and historical, but I have to say this coat project was awesome. Your struggles with the embroidery were so interesting to watch and the end result was magnificent. Kudos for tackling such a difficult aspect of this project and persevering to the end. Commiserations on not winning any awards with the outfit but it really is stunning!
An outstanding and beautiful coat. Great choice of wear you were filmed. You looked perfect in front of the wood and glass background, it looked like you were on a ship. 🙂 It's been an educational journey watching you create this coat, learning about machine embroidery etc. In our eyes, you won.
Spectacular! You AND the dress look smashing! Such a jigsaw puzzle of the pattern and embroudery. It shows that each individual creation is the product of ingenuity and problem solving.
Oh my gosh, Rebecca, this is so beautiful! That embroidery is a triumph. I also found watching the embroidery machine entrancing, lol. I think I could honestly enter a mild trance state watching that in real life, lol. What a beautiful coat! It’s awesome you’ll get use out of it in your everyday day life! Take care.
It turned out beautifully. That embroidery was indeed a feat of endurance, but well worth it. Hopefully you get many years of enjoyment out of this coat.
I didn’t know about Emerald City Comicon, but had I known I might have come there! I live just down the highway, and I would’ve loved meeting you! The coat is beautiful! I am thinking of making similar and might even wear it for normal wear instead of cosplay!
I must be a sentimental old fool, but almost every time you do a reveal it brings me to tears! Is it the music? The first time I was aware of this phenomenon was when you did your Christmas dress reveal in the snow (years ago.) I always watch your videos from start to finish and maybe it's just the vicarious feeling that we have climbed the highest mountain together and now we are planting the flag on the pinnacle! The coat is absolutely beautiful and knowing what it took for you to accomplish it makes me feel so triumphant for you. The coat is museum quality. Who knows where it will end up after we are both long gone. I think you should include a sewn in embroidered note (in the lining) with the date and your name, occasion and maybe a tiny bit about the process of the embroidery. Looking forward to your next project, but I can't possibly imagine how you can top this one!
Oh! I’ve costumed Into the Woods! I made a b/w reversible cloak for the witch and a caftan for the raggedy old man/narrator with all the costume scraps. It was fun. My brother played the Baker. I dressed the Princes in lt and dk green cross quartered doublets in opposite colors. They decided to make a Bit out of their metals.
I believe you are a winner, for sure.....& I believe I am not alone in honoring you. Perservance Rebecca, or is it Rebecca Perseverance = you. Happy you will wear as your coat vs stuck in a closet. It is way too beautiful. 😊❤
6 strand embroidery thread is “supposed” to separate into individual strands. Obviously there is no “right” or “wrong” way to use the fibers, but if in the future you want a thicker thread that won’t unravel as you stitch you might try a pearl cotton or a fine crochet cotton. Your coat is lovely, very nice job.
The convention center for Comicon (in Seattle) reminds me of the Indiana Convention Center where I used to attend GenCon. Convenient access to the food court in a nearby downtown Indy shopping mall, but LONG hallways to walk back & forth, which required mid-walk rest stops for older & more out-of-shape con attendees like my husband & me. (And it's not as much fun going with our grown kids no longer wanting to tag along with Mom & Dad to the con. :( )
This one actually feels so much more compact than the old building - I think because it's taller, but not as long/wide. So it's luckily not too bad for walking around.
I am obsessed with this coat! The details really make it but I would never be able to work an embroidery machine. My French Knots need an interpreter. I'd find excuses to wear the dress too! I love it so much. You did a beautiful job on both.
Oh that is beautiful Rebecca 😍 so so much work but totally worth it - and its great that the coat is wearable for everyday! I know those strips over the seams were a pig to do but they really look fantastic and give that special little extra something yk? And paired with that lovely dress its just chefs kiss 💋 ❤❤ titanic really did have amazing costuming so i loved watching you make this - thank you for sharing it with us all!
I am adding this comment here so you are most likely to see this. I was watching a video you made three years ago about sizing up patterns and found in my stash a pattern that potentially went up to bust 50 inches. (pattern says it goes up to 48 inches, plus commercial ease...) Here is my post from the other video: Simplicity "easy-to-sew" pattern 1363 A, shirt has U.S. XXS-XXL which translates to bust 29 1/2 inches ALL THE WAY UP TO 48 inches. The package as size 4 all the way to 26 all in one envelope. I don't know if you will see this post, but I thought I should share the good news that there was a pattern printed in 2014 that went up to 48 inches. I guess with the added ease that you say commercial patterns have, that is a 49 or 50 inch bust.
I think this coat is one of my favourite big projects of yours! I have enjoyed each and every video on this so much❤ and the finished coat is amazing ❤ i have a coat on my 'once upon a time' to do list and I really liked the look of the strips over the seams!
Great job!! I know its to late now but, i feel like the hem should of been done using that lace heming tape. Like you used the bias. It would've been historical for this i would've thought.
Note, I used lace tape for a wool skirt once. It was not stable enough for the heavy weight wool tweed. I replaced it with bias tape. I just remembered this little nightmare (wanted to forget!)
Rebecca, your demonstration using both machine and hand embroidery is wonderful. Sharing the vagaries of machine work is so key. Sometimes sewing instruction makes it look easier than it is. Perseverance and creative solutions yield better results. I was wondering if rattail braid may be useful? It would require hand sewing for best results because of tight turns. Did you attempt a sample of that?
To form your design instead of doing machine embroidery. It gives a raised result on wool. Sometimes embroidery "sinks" into dense wools. My favorite coat (1974) had rattail cording on the upper sleeves. Sleeves were large at top, gathered and very full with a stiff netting inside to help them stand up. Imagine hand stitched braid forming scrolls and swirls design with black rattail. Very Victorian and rich looking on a black high quality wool. Sadly I don't have a photo of that coat. BTW, I have adored Victorian era clothing since I learned about fashion. I must be reinarcarnated from that Era.
@joandreyer2377 do you mean something similar to soutache, or a fully different technique? I've never heard of soutache being done with rattail, but the concept sounds similar.
Ok so now you have to come to cosi in columbus oh where they have a titanic grand staircase reproduction (and more) and take pics ❤ I will go with you (in a not creepy way)😊
As a non comic con person, it seems that they are more focused on the sci fi stuff that requires making armor and weapons? Maybe I am wrong? I think they should keep a category for focusing on sewing and I thought of that last year when I saw your comic con video. Your coat looks wonderful!
@@LadyRebeccaFashions ok, from online I didn’t know that. Do they limit time on projects? Like could you have one that you work on for a couple years? Or has to be finished in 12 months. I have never been so don’t know how that works.
By the way, in some of your way way back earlier videos you did a couple segments where you sang. I especially loved when you sang Somewhere over the Rainbow and the segment from The Music Man. Could you ever be persuaded to sing for us again? That would be delightful!
Tbh, I probably won't do any others, just because they go against copyright (and are actually most of my least -viewed videos). But I do keep them all in a musical theatre playlist on here, if you ever want to return to them.
Did you hear about what happened to Haley Marie Vintage? Stephanie Canada was there. She had the misfortune of witnessing it. Watch her video 📹 and Haley's video for more information for yourself. Some of the people within the international sewing community now knows about it. Please give Stephanie and Haley some love and support. They would appreciated it. Thank you😊.
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Ah! back to my heirloon sewing days. One thing that is done when doing hand embroidery is "stripping the floss" Take the length of 6 strand embroidery, Figure out which direction the floss goes. One way the individual threads will feel smooth, the other way a little rough. Pull out each strand of floss with the grain one at a time. The line all six (or 4 or 3) strands together . Some people run an iron over the lined up strands. It makes the floss lie nicer and tangle less. French knots or colonial knots or bullion knots (number of wraps) is a great detail.
Great suggestion!
My goodness thats so intense
Thank you for the instruction. I embroidered some when I was young (many decades ago), but I never heard about the “grain“ of the thread or ironing to get them to keep together. Very helpful.
Oh interesting!
Alabama Chanin calls it "loving your thread" 😉
Beautiful! You're so elegant. An inspiration to larger (normal size!) women! Beautiful costume. Yay!
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It is a beautiful coat! Well done!🥰😍💕
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Every time I watch you make something, you make it all look DOABLE. I don't think I considered sewing as something I'd be capable of myself until I started following your channel. And now that I'm learning, as a plus sized person like you, making things i love and that fit me, instead of having to settle for stuff I can get into has become so empowering.
This coat looks amazing! And a versatile piece that will bring you lots of joy, not just as part of a (gorgeous) cosplay outfit.
Thank you! And I'm so glad to hear that. I truly believe that with practice, effort, and patience, all sewing is doable. 😊
Well done! I remember learning how to make French knots in Girl Scouts, MANY years ago; that was one of the first embroidery stitches (as opposed to plain hand sewing stitches) I learned. I don't do much embroidery now, but I certainly still enjoy admiring other people's handiwork!
Thanks!
"But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you'd had one" - Baker's Wife wisdom for sewing projects, where sometimes we just have to plod on through a boring bit of hand finishing.
Great project! Glad to see it completed.
Wow wow!!!! Congratulations on a job well done!
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This has got to be the most beautiful coat I’ve ever seen and it doesn’t hurt that pink is my favorite color. The workmanship is out of this world. Well done!!🧵
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This is so stunning ! Thank you xx
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Fantastic work, that coat looks amazing!
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It's gorgeous!!!!!
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It's a really pretty coat. I like the way the princess seams are emphasized by the stitching over the seam allowances. It was really interesting seeing you wrangle and win over the embroidery function of your machine. You have a lot of patience.
Wow! You did such a good job and the embroidery turned out so beautifully! I think your viewers will definitely give you the People's Choice Award!
Thank you! 😊
That would make a gorgeous everyday coat! The pink and black is so striking.
The coat is stunning. You look very beautiful. Great job.
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I am stunned. You did a spectacular job and you look amazing!
Thank you!
I’m a girl and Pink is one of my favorite color💓😊.
I love your different dress projects, contemporary and historical, but I have to say this coat project was awesome. Your struggles with the embroidery were so interesting to watch and the end result was magnificent. Kudos for tackling such a difficult aspect of this project and persevering to the end. Commiserations on not winning any awards with the outfit but it really is stunning!
An outstanding and beautiful coat. Great choice of wear you were filmed. You looked perfect in front of the wood and glass background, it looked like you were on a ship. 🙂 It's been an educational journey watching you create this coat, learning about machine embroidery etc. In our eyes, you won.
Thanks!
When you took off the coat, it was like seeing Rose. Beautiful!! Great work!! Love it.😍😍😍❤❤❤
Aww thanks!
Girl! My name is Rose and you have made my dream coat! 😭 ❤it’s so gorgeous!!
Spectacular! You AND the dress look smashing! Such a jigsaw puzzle of the pattern and embroudery. It shows that each individual creation is the product of ingenuity and problem solving.
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Best historical costume!!
Such a beautiful coat. In fact, the entire outfit is absolutely gorgeous.
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Fabulous. The embroidery came out great. It was an arduous journey but a lovely finished project.
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That coat is gorgeous! All of the work and time was very much worth it.
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Beautiful !!😍
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Wow 😮😮 good Job
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The coat looks so good - and cozy!
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The coat looks wonderful! And it will be a great addition to your wardrobe for the few times you actually get winter weather
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Oh my gosh, Rebecca, this is so beautiful! That embroidery is a triumph. I also found watching the embroidery machine entrancing, lol. I think I could honestly enter a mild trance state watching that in real life, lol. What a beautiful coat! It’s awesome you’ll get use out of it in your everyday day life! Take care.
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I know the embroidery was a pain, but you kept at it until it was right! I absolutely love this stunning coat. Well done, Rebecca!😍🤗
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Both the coat and the dress look stunning on you! Very well done on making them 👍🏻
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The coat is beautiful!
BREAK A LEG, DARLING!!!!
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Stunning!
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It turned out beautifully. That embroidery was indeed a feat of endurance, but well worth it. Hopefully you get many years of enjoyment out of this coat.
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The coat is gorgeous 😻😻😻 I love the way it drapes and flows ❤ whole outfit is wonderful 👍🏻👍🏻
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Absolutely wonderful. It's beautiful!
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I didn’t know about Emerald City Comicon, but had I known I might have come there! I live just down the highway, and I would’ve loved meeting you! The coat is beautiful! I am thinking of making similar and might even wear it for normal wear instead of cosplay!
This is such a great cosplay! You put so much work in and you can definitely see it. You look gorgeous ❤
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I must be a sentimental old fool, but almost every time you do a reveal it brings me to tears! Is it the music?
The first time I was aware of this phenomenon was when you did your Christmas dress reveal in the snow (years ago.)
I always watch your videos from start to finish and maybe it's just the vicarious feeling that we have climbed the highest mountain together and now we are planting the flag on the pinnacle!
The coat is absolutely beautiful and knowing what it took for you to accomplish it makes me feel so triumphant for you.
The coat is museum quality. Who knows where it will end up after we are both long gone.
I think you should include a sewn in embroidered note (in the lining) with the date and your name, occasion and maybe a tiny bit about the process of the embroidery.
Looking forward to your next project, but I can't possibly imagine how you can top this one!
Thank you! ❤️
Absolutely love how the final look came out!
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The coat and the dress are beautiful 😍
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It's SOOOO pretty!!! You should be so proud of yourself!! ❤
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So gorgeous
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Oh! I’ve costumed Into the Woods! I made a b/w reversible cloak for the witch and a caftan for the raggedy old man/narrator with all the costume scraps. It was fun. My brother played the Baker. I dressed the Princes in lt and dk green cross quartered doublets in opposite colors. They decided to make a Bit out of their metals.
I believe you are a winner, for sure.....& I believe I am not alone in honoring you. Perservance Rebecca, or is it Rebecca Perseverance = you. Happy you will wear as your coat vs stuck in a closet. It is way too beautiful. 😊❤
Thanks!
This coat is so wonderful!!! It fits you sensational. Well done! Greetings from Austria
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I love it! really pretty and you have won a price in my book!
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Wow! All Ur hard work paid off beautifully. Congratulations. It a beautiful coat. Ciao.
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6 strand embroidery thread is “supposed” to separate into individual strands. Obviously there is no “right” or “wrong” way to use the fibers, but if in the future you want a thicker thread that won’t unravel as you stitch you might try a pearl cotton or a fine crochet cotton. Your coat is lovely, very nice job.
Good to know, thanks!
The convention center for Comicon (in Seattle) reminds me of the Indiana Convention Center where I used to attend GenCon. Convenient access to the food court in a nearby downtown Indy shopping mall, but LONG hallways to walk back & forth, which required mid-walk rest stops for older & more out-of-shape con attendees like my husband & me. (And it's not as much fun going with our grown kids no longer wanting to tag along with Mom & Dad to the con. :( )
This one actually feels so much more compact than the old building - I think because it's taller, but not as long/wide. So it's luckily not too bad for walking around.
Well done
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I am obsessed with this coat! The details really make it but I would never be able to work an embroidery machine. My French Knots need an interpreter. I'd find excuses to wear the dress too! I love it so much. You did a beautiful job on both.
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I was wearing my Rose’s swim dress and Rose’s Pink coat at queen mary 1 ship as being a girl💓😊.
You look lovely! This really suits you, L hope you get a great deal of wear out of your creation!💕
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Wonderful outfit u look amazing,so pretty. I want that coat !
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Turned out really beautiful!
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The coat is beautiful!
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Absolutely gorgeous! You are so talented!
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That came out gorgeous.
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So elegant!! Beautiful work!
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Oh that is beautiful Rebecca 😍 so so much work but totally worth it - and its great that the coat is wearable for everyday! I know those strips over the seams were a pig to do but they really look fantastic and give that special little extra something yk? And paired with that lovely dress its just chefs kiss 💋 ❤❤ titanic really did have amazing costuming so i loved watching you make this - thank you for sharing it with us all!
Thank you!
I am adding this comment here so you are most likely to see this. I was watching a video you made three years ago about sizing up patterns and found in my stash a pattern that potentially went up to bust 50 inches. (pattern says it goes up to 48 inches, plus commercial ease...) Here is my post from the other video:
Simplicity "easy-to-sew" pattern 1363 A, shirt has U.S. XXS-XXL which translates to bust 29 1/2 inches ALL THE WAY UP TO 48 inches. The package as size 4 all the way to 26 all in one envelope. I don't know if you will see this post, but I thought I should share the good news that there was a pattern printed in 2014 that went up to 48 inches. I guess with the added ease that you say commercial patterns have, that is a 49 or 50 inch bust.
Yay! Well done.
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The coat is stunning and you looked so gorgeous at ECCC! Made me miss it and Seattle. Awesome Con in DC is fun but not the same.
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You look stunning!!!
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I think this coat is one of my favourite big projects of yours! I have enjoyed each and every video on this so much❤ and the finished coat is amazing ❤ i have a coat on my 'once upon a time' to do list and I really liked the look of the strips over the seams!
Thank you!
I really love your videos You are so helpful. thank you!
This turned out awesome!
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Gorgeous
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Well done!
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Beautiful work!
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Great job!! I know its to late now but, i feel like the hem should of been done using that lace heming tape. Like you used the bias. It would've been historical for this i would've thought.
Lace hem tape is lovely. It can be unavailable so requires ordering on line (planning weeks ahead). Rebecca's use works well here.
Ok, i buy mine at Walmart regularly.
I live in a smaller city and Walmart here doesn't always have stock, esp. limited color choices.
Thanks! I've never used that before, but I like the clean lines of bias tape.
Note, I used lace tape for a wool skirt once. It was not stable enough for the heavy weight wool tweed. I replaced it with bias tape. I just remembered this little nightmare (wanted to forget!)
Beautiful
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It is probably too late , but you can purchase heming lace. Old fashioned solution, but I'm old😉
That looks so good :)
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That is so beautiful! ❤️ Now all it needs is a bit of water damage 👀 I'm kidding of cause! 😁😆
No! I'm so afraid to spill on it, tbh. I think it's going to be my special occasions coat. And thanks!
Rebecca, your demonstration using both machine and hand embroidery is wonderful. Sharing the vagaries of machine work is so key. Sometimes sewing instruction makes it look easier than it is. Perseverance and creative solutions yield better results.
I was wondering if rattail braid may be useful? It would require hand sewing for best results because of tight turns. Did you attempt a sample of that?
Thanks! For what application would the rattail braid be useful?
To form your design instead of doing machine embroidery. It gives a raised result on wool. Sometimes embroidery "sinks" into dense wools. My favorite coat (1974) had rattail cording on the upper sleeves. Sleeves were large at top, gathered and very full with a stiff netting inside to help them stand up. Imagine hand stitched braid forming scrolls and swirls design with black rattail. Very Victorian and rich looking on a black high quality wool. Sadly I don't have a photo of that coat.
BTW, I have adored Victorian era clothing since I learned about fashion. I must be reinarcarnated from that Era.
@joandreyer2377 do you mean something similar to soutache, or a fully different technique? I've never heard of soutache being done with rattail, but the concept sounds similar.
Backstitching the collar makes sense.
Ok so now you have to come to cosi in columbus oh where they have a titanic grand staircase reproduction (and more) and take pics ❤ I will go with you (in a not creepy way)😊
As a non comic con person, it seems that they are more focused on the sci fi stuff that requires making armor and weapons? Maybe I am wrong? I think they should keep a category for focusing on sewing and I thought of that last year when I saw your comic con video. Your coat looks wonderful!
They do actually have a needlework category, but it was packed this year! I think something like 3/4 of the entrants were needlework. And thanks!
@@LadyRebeccaFashions ok, from online I didn’t know that. Do they limit time on projects? Like could you have one that you work on for a couple years? Or has to be finished in 12 months. I have never been so don’t know how that works.
some people do work on theirs for years. I would never have that kind of patience!
By the way, in some of your way way back earlier videos you did a couple segments where you sang. I especially loved when you sang Somewhere over the Rainbow and the segment from The Music Man. Could you ever be persuaded to sing for us again?
That would be delightful!
Tbh, I probably won't do any others, just because they go against copyright (and are actually most of my least -viewed videos). But I do keep them all in a musical theatre playlist on here, if you ever want to return to them.
what weight of thread are you using for the hand stitching please? also great job!
You mean for the French knots? Just the standard embroidery thread from Joann's. And thanks!
@@LadyRebeccaFashions thank you. you're very welcome. your whole Rose ensemble in my opinion is first place material!
Try twisting your thread 2-3” before knotting.
Did you hear about what happened to Haley Marie Vintage? Stephanie Canada was there. She had the misfortune of witnessing it. Watch her video 📹 and Haley's video for more information for yourself. Some of the people within the international sewing community now knows about it. Please give Stephanie and Haley some love and support. They would appreciated it. Thank you😊.
Yep, Stephanie told me about it when we were at ECCC together.
i hear the guys from critical role were at the emerald city comicon
Yep, they had a panel on Sunday.
Gorgeous
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