In my last post, I hinted at what I was trying to make and for those with even half a neuron, you would have figured out I was trying to make a Regency frock.
I was trying to make it for a themed afternoon tea. A friend of a friend wanted to wear her Regency outfit and thought if you can't get to an event where you can wear what you want, make an event up!
The chemise was made exactly from the Sense and Sensibility Regency Underclothes pattern. I had to piece the back as I was trying to make everything from stash and was a little short for one of the pieces. From the back I have this very attractive line of stitching across the widest part of my hips, but it's underwear, so I shouldn't worry...
There was quite a lot of disappointment and three toiles to get a corset that worked for my ample figure. I was basing my pattern off an extant example from Hunnisett, as that was the closest I could find to something for my shape. Carolyn was a star throughout the whole thing and Autumnheart helped me with the finishing touches on the final fitting, but in the end, we got there!
This was the final fitting with coutil and sewn on rigilene in lieu of worrying about boning channels for just fitting purposes, and it is laced on with a couple of lacing strips. The final version is two layers, one of the coutil (utilised from the toile) and one of a cotton/linen blend that I had left over in my stash from a shirt I made for J earlier this year. Boning is artifical whalebone from Greenfields in Surrey Hills. There were something in the order of 30-odd handbound eyelets and the whole thing was finished with commercial bias tape, machine sewed on the inside, then hemmed down on the outside to save my fingers from having to work through the coutil!
Unfortunately, I didn't even get close to having the dress done (fabric was washed and that was it), but I was able to borrow one from Dr. Nic, as she had a prior engagement and couldn't make it.
So, without further ado, here we all are.
Wearing this dress did make me wonder if I would be better off wearing dresses from the end of the period, when the waistlines were dropping. Don't know. I guess I'll have to make a empire line dress for myself to see. (One more thing to add to the UFO pile, unfortunately.)
As for that UFO pile I mentioned previously, the only thing to scratch off it is the guarding on the 7-day Spanish bodice. Sigh.
Final note: yay for $1 wooden rulers as corsets busks! If they can hold me in, they can hold pretty much anything...
I was trying to make it for a themed afternoon tea. A friend of a friend wanted to wear her Regency outfit and thought if you can't get to an event where you can wear what you want, make an event up!
The chemise was made exactly from the Sense and Sensibility Regency Underclothes pattern. I had to piece the back as I was trying to make everything from stash and was a little short for one of the pieces. From the back I have this very attractive line of stitching across the widest part of my hips, but it's underwear, so I shouldn't worry...
There was quite a lot of disappointment and three toiles to get a corset that worked for my ample figure. I was basing my pattern off an extant example from Hunnisett, as that was the closest I could find to something for my shape. Carolyn was a star throughout the whole thing and Autumnheart helped me with the finishing touches on the final fitting, but in the end, we got there!
This was the final fitting with coutil and sewn on rigilene in lieu of worrying about boning channels for just fitting purposes, and it is laced on with a couple of lacing strips. The final version is two layers, one of the coutil (utilised from the toile) and one of a cotton/linen blend that I had left over in my stash from a shirt I made for J earlier this year. Boning is artifical whalebone from Greenfields in Surrey Hills. There were something in the order of 30-odd handbound eyelets and the whole thing was finished with commercial bias tape, machine sewed on the inside, then hemmed down on the outside to save my fingers from having to work through the coutil!
Unfortunately, I didn't even get close to having the dress done (fabric was washed and that was it), but I was able to borrow one from Dr. Nic, as she had a prior engagement and couldn't make it.
So, without further ado, here we all are.
Photo by C. Aquino.
Wearing this dress did make me wonder if I would be better off wearing dresses from the end of the period, when the waistlines were dropping. Don't know. I guess I'll have to make a empire line dress for myself to see. (One more thing to add to the UFO pile, unfortunately.)
As for that UFO pile I mentioned previously, the only thing to scratch off it is the guarding on the 7-day Spanish bodice. Sigh.
Final note: yay for $1 wooden rulers as corsets busks! If they can hold me in, they can hold pretty much anything...
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