HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! And welcome to the Roaring Twenties! What happened to last year? I blinked, and missed it. Something must be happening to the space-time continuum. Perhaps I have been travelling at Warp Speed for too long, or encountered some sort of space anomaly causing a temporal distortion... Sorry, been watching…
Time for my annual review at the close of the year. This year has passed so quickly that it has left me gasping. The days seem to have flashed past me like for the hero of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine... For some of the time, it's been more a case of what…
Not sure if there is a WOYWW today because it's Christmas Day but I thought I'd post anyway - I wrote most of this on Christmas Eve in the evening. What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I am crafting again!!! I can hardly believe it myself. I have been putting my new (early…
My stash of cards is now so severely depleted that I am driven back to card making. This is something I always say I don't enjoy, and don't want to get stuck doing, but once I'm actually doing it, I really do quite enjoy it! Just recently I have been watching quite a…
Updated! New photos of Tudor gown below... What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I have tidied up! I still have a lot of fabric scraps to tidy up and reorganise, but it's so good to be able to see some surfaces again, and to be able to move round the room a bit…
Cutting it fine... The last couple of days before the Tudor banquet on Saturday, I had to pull out all the stops to get everything finished in time. Yesterday I worked on the braid and pearl embellishments on the bodice, and today I sorted the jewellery and made one or two necessary adjustments…
I must apologise for not visiting people last week, and for not replying to the lovely comments I received, but I'm going all out on trying to finish the Tudor gown in time for Saturday. What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? The usual chaos, with some new additions! On my desk you can…
I spent a considerable amount of time and effort drafting a pattern for the sleeves. I cut one out in old sheeting as a mock-up and tacked it onto the bodice and tried it on. This way I could see what alterations needed to be made. Initially I cut the pattern in the…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Another really late post! Not many minutes till the end of the day...) Chaos Left: My normal mixed media and papercrafting desk has turned into an overspill desk for my sewing project... and Chaos Right: This is my normal sewing area, with the sewing machine across the…
Background Two types of hood, or head-dress, were popular during the Tudor period; the gable, or English hood, and the French hood. The gable hood was favoured by Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, and shown worn here in Holbein's portrait of her: The gable hood was also favoured by Henry's first wife,…
