Dress of the Court of Saxony

It’s not going as quickly now that there’s not an immediate looming deadline.. but it is going. The bodice it now completely attached to the skirt. The part across the front where there is no bodice is attached to a piece of wool and then attached to the bottom of the white placket. I’m still toying with the idea of…

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Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon Poetry

My first stab: Rolf, relentless victor, triumph realized on the field, wreathed in laurel leaves, calls forward love. Aurora of shy smile stunned by victory to silence wears rose wreath with pride. Royalty of the West. Three words from a cup: laurel, smile, forward. My first ever Anglo Saxon (ala Beowulf) poem. I don’t like the second half line.. “triumph…

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Dress of the Court of Saxony

On Sunday Ysabella had Mari come and teach a class on German’s. Nice class. Lots of pictures. Mostly confimations of things I’d come to understand. The class gave me time to finish with attaching the gold trim. It’s all nice and flat. On Monday night I ironed and then attached a 100% cotton gingam strip to the top of my…

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Dress of the Court of Saxony

Last night I trimmed about 1.5″-1.75″ off the bottom of the bodice all around and then finished that edge. Since I’m going to be attaching cartridge pleats I needed a finished edge. The plan for tonight is to re-attach the gold trim along the front edges of the bodice and to finish all the hand stitching on the trim on…

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Dress of the Court of Saxony

I started the weekend with a finished dress and finished the weekend with a couple of bags of pieces of dress. It’s like a deconstructed german dress 🙂 I tried the dress on and both Edith and Sefa agreed that the bodice needed to be shortened about 2 inches all the way around. I took the dress off and then…

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Waffenrock

Post-mortem Everthing was wearable. He looked -fabulous-. Here are the pictures to prove it: Picture by Bianca

Dress of the Court of Saxony

Well it happened. Purgatorio occured. I got lots of compliments. I took a camera but of course completely forgot to take any pictures. I’m hoping other people took pictures and post them in the next few days. The dress was wearable.. and even relatively comfortable. It wasn’t as hot as I feared it might be. The only thing I found…

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Waffenrock

Landsknecht Waffenrock

Diary started Jun 26, 2006Outfit Finished on August 25, 2006. Summary landsknecht n.from Landsknecht “servant or soldier of the country or land”: a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd. Fearghus is on court for TRH Rolf and Aurora. They are stepping up in Germans (Landsknecht) and have requested that their court wear…

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Dress of the Court of Saxony

2 days until Purg Yesterday my company took all of us to a baseball game. I brought my caul and started sewing pearls onto it. It turns out that you can make good progress on sewing down pearls to a caul at a baseball game.. assuming you don’t actually like baseball.. and are perfectly ok with missing most of the…

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