In May I wore the dress to my brother’s wedding. It worked out wonderfully.. but I noticed that the bodice fit a bit more loose than I’d like. Add to that, the velvet ribbons I used for the guards on the bodice seem to be shredding and in some cases tore when the dress stretched under the guards (I’m not…
Tag: Blue&Black Swiss Gown
Pictures or it never happened
I ended up sewing together the hat and parts of the sleeves on the road-trip to Montana.. and after the wedding I ended up sewing on two more buttons before Coronet.. but it looked lovely. At Nate and Dusty’s wedding 5/21/2011:
Blue and Black Sleeves
Sleeves What I see Blue and black sleeves. The blue matches the dress and the black appears to be the same as the guarding on the bodice. The blue is slashed and bubbles along the arm. White (probably linen) pokes out of the slashing in the blue. The black is tight to the arm. Right arm has 7 bubbles(4 below…
Blue and Black ToDo List
[updating as progress occurs] Materials: (done)6+ yards of material (outer fabric)(usually wool) Deep blue med/heavy weight wool (done)2 yards of linen (to line the bodice and sleeves) Black Linen (done)5 yards of light linen (to make the white poofs in the sleeves) White Linen (done)2+ yards of guard fabric (or ribbons) Oodles of 5/8″ Black velvet ribbons TODO list:…
Tellerbarret and Goldhaube
Tellerbarret What I see: Blue hat, the outer edge is round. I can’t really see what’s going on the with crown but I plan to do a square crown that folds inwards. Two curled white feathers. Feathers have gold bits at the end possibly beads(?). I want the square points to extend almost all the way to the outside of…
1540 Blue&Black Swiss Gown
Diary started April 6, 2011 Finished: May 21, 2011 Summary My brother is getting married in May and I’m in the wedding party. My instructions are to make “a blue dress I’ll wear again in the future” and that “SCA clothes are fine”. With that in mind I determined to make a version of the dress pictured here: Link to…