What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? I have to say nothing much has changed on mine this week. Still the same detritus mid-project, working on the auto-opening window cards I was doing last week. I got my friend's card off a day late because the glue wasn't dry, and it took an extra…
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…
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,…
What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Better late than never - just managing to get this posted before the end of the day! I wanted to bring my Tudor gown project up to date before posting, and I have also had other commitments today. I'm sorry I didn't manage to visit many of…
The Skirt This was made from the brocade curtains I got on Ebay. It was relatively easy to make, being quite a simple shape, but the fabric is quite thick and heavy. I used the existing hem on the curtains and cut the required length from the top. Then I stitched the side…
