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see how many historical sew fortnightly tasks i can tick off with just the one item i m sewing like a mad thing at the moment trying to get together items for a market stall in a bit less than a month items of children s costume since i ve decided that i love sewing for kids you can do the most over the top outlandish things and kids will love it so with that in mind before the big reveal let me tease a little and tick off a few challenges however late i m completing them 1 challenge 6 fairytale in 1844 the hans christian andersen fairytale the snow queen was first published earlier this year a film was released with disney s take on the tale frozen has since become the favourite movie of every little girl on the planet or at least it seems that way to anyone who wanders through a kindergarten and hears the spectacular versions of the hit song let it go i ve had previous run ins with queen elsa costuming and with the frantic mothers who have been desperately trying to find a costume for their birthday girl but this time i m attempting princess anna instead 2 challenge 3 pink not sure if you ve noticed but anna s cloak is pink or at least magenta i m choosing to interpret this as pink which leads me to 3 challenge 2 innovation early fabric dyes were created using natural substances there was a limited range of colours available and many tended to fade science accidentally delivered an alternative when william henry perkins was attempting to synthesise quinine but instead created mauveine a synthetic dye this was closely followed by fuchsine in 1858 or 1859 sources vary on the date discovered by frenchman francois emmanuel verguin and in 1860 magenta discovered by brits chambers nicolson and georges maule the colours were a great success and many variations on the shades have been produced since i m using two of these in my cloak bouguereau s psyche 1892 using magenta for the goddess s cloak 4 challenge 10 art okay i know this one s a stretch but technically the creators of the disney movies are artists these days they re digital artists but the skills are still the same and given that i m working off a single image i figure this will fit give me some leeway here folks and finally 5 challenge 15 the great outdoors this one is less of a stretch i m making a cloak it s made for wearing in the great outdoors and anyone who s seen the movie knows that anna acquires the cloak in order to survive the blast of icy weather triggered by her snow queen sister elsa as she treks to an ice palace to try and talk her down wow 5 challenges in one better than i thought so now i ve covered that off how am i making a disney costume that is also historical well keep reading and you ll find out i know the inspiration image is a cloak with a cape over the top i m simplifying things and just making the cape the design for this is drawn from a pinterest page that shows a pattern book from what looks to me like the early 1940s again i m choosing to interpret it that way so that it fits the challenge not being blessed with the ability to read spanish i ve had to guess on a few things and just take the image as my inspiration but i managed so for the great unveiling of the finished product the challenge i don t really need to list them all again do i fabric about 70cm of velveteen and about 50cm of satin lining pattern my own but based on the spanish pattern book above year 1940 ish notions polyester thread 1m of satin ribbon how historically accurate is it reasonably accurate i left the darts out of the original pattern and played with the length but on the whole it s pretty close the fabrics are synthetic versions of things that were available at the time hours to complete including drafting the pattern and faffing about figuring the best way to iron velveteen answer dont use steam instead it probably took about 4 hours total first worn never worn but going to be for sale on etsy and at the essendon north kindergarten fete so some time after the first sale total cost the fabrics were all bought wholesale so providing a price to make is a little inaccurate based on what i would pay buying retail i can say that i m selling them for au 30 though posted in blog shop tagged dress ups historical sew fortnightly inspiration patterns projects repro sewing work 1 comment june 11 2014 by theladysews the glitter ball i know it s been ages and i ve start to write posts in my head so many times i ve lost track of them but i have a moment of breathing space in the insanity that has been my life for the past month and bit so it s time time to update time to explain time to sparkle the busy has been caused by a few things mainly a terrifying coming together of the need to work damn those people and their expectations for payment of bills and the need to pass my course if i plan on ever graduating in between there have been moments of incoherent rage at just how many other things i d rather be doing than whatever was in hand especially if whatever was in hand was my laptop and i wasn t cruising for inspiration but there has also been a birth of sorts so it s not all bad perhaps i had better explain in my enthusiasm for sewing things for my niece back in april i made a costume for her birthday she was queen elsa then someone approached me through my normal dressmaking means and asked me to make another one so i did and somewhere along the line a new sideline was born so yes now my sideline sidelines have sidelines but that s beside the point because in refining elsa s look before launching her into the world of etsy complete with terrible place holder pictures until i can bully er convince a photographer to take some nice ones for me for free i realised that the key to success with five year olds was bling and lots of it of course this has a side effect i have no photos of the wreckage of my bunker when i finished the last dress i m still to traumatised to contemplate it let s just say that some point during the first one i learned that i should have sparkle clothes and drop sheets and well things that could be quarantined because glitter gets everywhere and i mean everywhere but on the plus side there is now this back view complete with train because every snow queen needs a frosty cape too much sparkle is not nearly enough unless it s on a 6 2 sports photographer occasionally known as the bear when he s off to photograph a football match then it s not only enough it s hilarious sparkles shine silver and trains yes this is a princess dress there will be more and that s without factoring in the pdf pattern i m putting together for this one once i get my head around the fact that i will be going out with glitter in my hair on my face under my nails in places that glitter should never be because every princess wants to sparkle and now i m off to make more costumes or i will be in two weeks when the final assignment gets handed in to my lecturer none of which will sparkle in any way unless you count the tape off high vis workwear because i m off to sew for boys now anyone fancy themselves as turbo posted in blog shop tagged dress ups patterns update work leave a comment gallery may 12 2014 by theladysews please help save foundations revealed and your wardrobe unlock d this gallery contains 2 photos these sites are amazing resources i don t normally reboot but they are definitely worth attempting to save even if my own budget doesn t currently let me enjoy them much to my annoyance posted in blog leave a comment april 25 2014 by theladysews historical fashion fiction in brief lulls between sewing cash generating alterations only folks so no new work photos at the moment nothing exciting being finished right now and studying i ve been carving out some relaxation time with a novelist that i ve been meaning to get into for a while but never for some reason made it past the first couple of pages on previous attempts georgette heyer has been credited with creating the historical romance as we know it today she was a prolific author from the 1930s until her death in the 1970s setting many of her novels in the world of regency england romance is the key word in that description if you you do not like your plots predictable your heroines atypical of their time but still beautiful and genteel and your heroes well heroic then i doubt very much you ll enjoy any of the four works i ve read so far so maybe there was more reading than there should have been but in my defence i was in serious need of something to keep my mental attention while i hand hemmed four dresses reconstructed a fully lined jacket and took up 8 pairs of trousers authentic regency fashion the stories are light enough to fly away but enjoyable all the same once you get past the fact that you know exactly how they are going to end i think it was this that held me back from them for so long as someone who has long scoffed at romance i find it hard to admit that i now have a sneaky liking for it arrived at by way of chick lit but it s true i do enjoy something light fluffy and easy to get through in a single sitting provided that sitting is something like 7 hours long that is what i don t like is the apparent lack of awareness of fashion int he regency period displayed in the books so far sure there are passing mentions of muslin an awareness that the fast set would damped their skirts to make them cling to the body but the remaining descriptions sound like they are much later in the nineteenth century and it bugs me even when my brain is switched off by the rest of the book it seems that they hoped to get by with references to muslin and the occasional pelisse seemingly the only phrases really known by the author but the lack of detail about dress sets the novels apart from the genuine regency article and it is disappointing georgette heyer looking all soft and romantic just like her novels i haven t read all of the novels written by heyer although i have a goodly number of them queued up on my kindle for perusal at a later date but so far i find her novel entertaining enough if formulaic i will no doubt read many more them but for all that i prefer phillipa gregory for my history sure she is also capable of playing fast and loose with historical fact and the film adaptations of her novels are guaranteed to send me into paroxysms when the female leads drop their dress to be completely naked underneath but for all that there is at least an outward appearance of research gregory knows the facts before she meddles with them heyer i m convinced just made them up to suit her i ll still be reading her though it s like car crash fiction terrible but at the same time you have to look posted in blog tagged bah humbug books regency review leave a comment april 11 2014 by theladysews normal service will resume once i get through with the thousands of words i have to write if i m going to pass my current round of studies i would like to think that this will get easier but somehow it never does in the meantime here s one of my procrastination projects queen elsa for my niece who was very excited when she unwrapped her birthday present and refused to do a normal pose for me when she insisted on putting on the dress another example of my wonderful phone tography but this is as close as i could get to an actual elsa pose not sure what she thinks this looks like but this is what i got when i asked for a smile for anyone interested i plan to put this patter up on easy when i have breathing room i couldn t find any actual patterns so made my own the blue aqua is a basic dance satin with ribbon sewn onto the bodice everything else is crystal organza although in the photos it looks kind of like i wrapped her in cling film it looks much better in real life when the pearly iridescence shimmers as she moves posted in blog tagged dress ups frozen patterns projects queen elsa sewing work leave a comment march 28 2014 by theladysews incomplete insomnia insane i have been suddenly and stupidly unexpectedly busy of late who would have thought that going back to university for a post graduate degree attempting to scrape a living sewing and generally surviving would leave me with bout 4 hours a day for the combination of sleep and blogging and that none of the tasks would get done properly apparently not me or i would never have signed up for the insanity all of this of course means that my plans for historical sew fortnightly ing for doing side projects of completing any projects to my own satisfaction seeing my friends and family and generally having any sort of breathing space have fallen by the wayside so i ve made a point of carving out a few minutes to post a much delayed and incomplete entry for the bodice challenge of the historical sew fortnightly and added it to the list of things to be finished at a later date along with the planned rest of outfit to go with it the front cut aways are still to be determined it s missing sleeves trims seams but you get the picture right you do please say you do because i have big plans for this outfit if i ever get the time i have enough of the striped cotton to make a bustle overskirt and what i hope is enough of the blue linen left to manage some sort of underskirt cobbled together in truly period fashion with cheaper fabric for the invisible bits there is some weirdness happening in various parts of this which need to be addressed before that though and the whole hemline needs to be adjusted it s going to be higher in front and dip down at the back over the bustle and there needs to be well there needs to be lots of things i figure this bodice is maybe a third of the way done if i m generous and that s having cheated and machined it what you can t see from these photos though is that it s also flatlined i didn t want to cheat on everything i figured i could justify machining since they did technically exist then there are many things i would change about this in hindsight already not least of them is the way i ve done the back seams it is in no way historically accurate nor it is something that i like so i m tempted to pull them out and re do now that i m not in a mad challenge deadline mode although i m in mad conservation professional practices easy mode which will be followed by more essays and if you look closely you might just see that steam coming out of my computer my ears my head as i implode from all the pressures at the moment no wonder my sewing was not going well with all this going on but i have to put it aside a certain niece has a birthday coming up which means that all other sewing not directly relating to income must be put aside to make a queen elsa costume in full frozen snow queen glory good thing i discovered how to get through months with next to no sleep during my first stint at uni shame that was more than ten years ago and my body refuses to submit to demands for alertness on a week of four hours a night which might go some way to explaining any incoherence in th...