When the Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild announced a Game of Thrones event at the glorious Castello di Amarosa winery in Calistoga, February 2015, I really wanted to go. For a while, it seemed like finances would conspire against me, but I had a little help from my friends, and the plan came together. But
Who’s idea was it to make crazy complicated sleeves? Oh yeah, mine. Well, I’m chugging along… Tuesday night, piped all the panes of the slashed puffs (say that five times fast). Yeah, the girl who said she’d never pipe anything again after the Eugenie Project is on her second piped sleeves. Never say never. But
I hate the sleeves I put on the loose gown yesterday. They look like Henry VIII being an asshole. Another Reconstructing History pattern FAIL. Also, the collar is way too big (again, a reason not to follow the RH pattern; it’s so freakin’ *off* as far as size goes, either too big or too small,
I made piping and stuck it on the bodice. It did not kill me. Yay. <—ironic Took pix but not posting them because y’all know what it looks like. Just took pix to prove to myself that I did it. Sleeves — couple o’ mockups and I think I have the size right now. After
Out of skirtland! That monster is done! Well, I need to put hooks on it, but that waits until I’m all corseted, and there’s no-one around who can tight-lace me right now. But I’m calling the skirt DONE anyway 🙂 Picture with obligatory crappy flash is in my folder on the Y!Group. Now on to