Renfest Dress Progress

Hey-o! For the last couple of weeks, I've been working on my Renaissance Festival costume. I've made a few changes to the costume plans. Instead of making a veil I'm going to knit a Tudor style hat, I'm knitting a shawl, I bought a corset belt online, and I'm going to make a cross stitch purse. I also decided that it would be easier to make my main dress in two parts, so it would be quicker to put on.

So far I've finished the shift. I used this pattern for it and I think it turned out really well.

Adding binding to the neckline.

The finished shift before embroidery.

The pattern was easy to make, but the armholes were confusing. I think it was because I was hand sewing, but if you use a sewing machine it would be fine.

I used 1 strand of DMC Black for the embroidery and just did an alternating cross pattern on the cuffs and neck.

I'm almost done with the corset. I decided to not use boning in it because I have never worn a boned corset before and I don't think an all-day festival would be a good place to start. So instead I used heavy weight denim and covered it with the cotton I used for the shift.

After I sewed the layers together, I sewed this cool hook closure tape onto the front opening.

After that, I sewed on quilt binding to the edges.

At the moment, I'm sewing the eyelets and I think I might do a tutorial on it.

So that's about it, thanks for reading and I'll see you next time! 

Progress Report (Sorta)

I'm back! (don't know why I said that, I didn't go anywhere) So in the two months (!) I haven't blogged I have been working on a 1920's inspired dress to wear to my friend's wedding. At the moment, I only have in progress pictures, but hopefully, I'll have pictures of the finished soon.

The infamous embroidered bird.

Close up of the wings.

Adding more colours.

 Part of the tail.

Sewing a tulle overlay.

Adding beads to the neckline.

Sewing tulle to one of the skirt panels.