bias dress

[juldea]

Look what I made!!! (opens in a new window)

It's for my first SCA event tomorrow. It took me 17 hours to make! Woo!

I'm tired. Goodnight.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yeah my digital camera is slowly dying, and its latest problem is inability to focus at ANY distance. Sorry about that.

The dress was made using a pattern that I made earlier that day. The pattern was made using a test-dress (well really just the torso and a few inches of skirt; not long enough to be a dress) which was created from... not exactly a pattern, but a method of taking certain measurements and making a geometrical figure out of them and then cutting and sewing that to fit the body shape.

The dress is cut on the bias, which provides the nice clingy shape and drape. The skirt on this particular dress is OVER two full circles :) Lots of skirt to twirl around while dancing!

The fabric is a purple linen we (my friend Jen and I) found on sale for $2.99/yd, and uses 7 yards (although we could've gotten away with a yard less fabric - I have sizable scraps at the moment).

Hmmm those are all the things I can imagine you asking, anything else needed? :) I could write down the directions to make it if you're interested... it's not that hard, but it's time consuming to do all of the pinning and sewing and trying on to get the perfect fit.

[zenandtheart.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I used to make things like that but it sounds like yours is much more impressive! two full circles!!

There was only one dress I made that I was really proud of, in red and gold silk in a late renaissance high-waisted style with a beautiful chemise and wicked sleeves.. I wish I could show you a photo of it but i lost it years ago. Everything else I made was just your basic wenching gear. There was one woman I met who made a Queen elizabeth I gown all in white with the stiff ruffled collar and everything, all made traditionally and hand embroidered and beaded with hundreds of bugs and butterflies. She copied the style exactly from a portrait I think and won an Order of the Pelican for it, it was astounding.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yay I know what an Order of the Pelican is!!! :D

At the event I went to Saturday I attended an "SCA 101" class which taught me all about ranks and awards and such. Yay :)

I wish I could see a picture of your red and gold dress... it sounds gorgeous. I'm still in the wenching gear phase, hehe.

[zenandtheart.livejournal.com]

nothing wrong with wenching.. it's easy and it shows a lot of cleavage - and we all know that cleavage is what most guys are in the SCA for;).. that and being able to wear armour and drink out of tankards and eat with a knife and their fingers.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Hehe and I provide most SCA guys exactly what they want ;) I had so many compliments on that dress... hehehe.