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Reviving the teal anglaise of evil..
Mar. 8th, 2012 02:26 pmRemember my complete and utter failure of an anglaise? This one? Yeah I'm not reposting a picture it's THAT BAD.
Well Apparently Peter Wentz Farmstead down the road from me is having some 18th century event on the 24th. Here's their description:
Experience the daily camp life of Revolutionary War soldiers and camp followers from regiments of the Mid-Atlantic Department of the Continental Line as they prepare for battle reenactments throughout the region. Soldiers will practice drills and maneuvers at various times each day. Merchants will be selling items typical of the period throughout the weekend.
And I thought it would be fun to go. (I feel no guilt as a) it's suggested donation of like $2.00 and b) it's so close it uses zero gas money) If no one on here wants to/is available I may just email them and ask if they'd like an extra volunteer for the day. Either way it means I need to not be naked. So I think I'm going to go back to the evil dress and try AGAIN! The goal for today is to get the sleeves taken off. I need to make the armcyes deeper and then I'll decide if I would rather cut new sleeves with the seams in the CORRECT place, or just take some off the top of the sleeve head so I don't have giant puffed sleeves. I need to shorten off the front point, shorten the waist at the sides, make a new stomacher, and take up the shoulder seams, and re-hem it so it's even. (okay there's a 90% chance I'll put two buttons on the back and polonaise it so it's crooked hem doesn't show. shhhhhhhhh). It sounds like a lot but in theory the tricky back pleated bit is fine.
Well Apparently Peter Wentz Farmstead down the road from me is having some 18th century event on the 24th. Here's their description:
Experience the daily camp life of Revolutionary War soldiers and camp followers from regiments of the Mid-Atlantic Department of the Continental Line as they prepare for battle reenactments throughout the region. Soldiers will practice drills and maneuvers at various times each day. Merchants will be selling items typical of the period throughout the weekend.
And I thought it would be fun to go. (I feel no guilt as a) it's suggested donation of like $2.00 and b) it's so close it uses zero gas money) If no one on here wants to/is available I may just email them and ask if they'd like an extra volunteer for the day. Either way it means I need to not be naked. So I think I'm going to go back to the evil dress and try AGAIN! The goal for today is to get the sleeves taken off. I need to make the armcyes deeper and then I'll decide if I would rather cut new sleeves with the seams in the CORRECT place, or just take some off the top of the sleeve head so I don't have giant puffed sleeves. I need to shorten off the front point, shorten the waist at the sides, make a new stomacher, and take up the shoulder seams, and re-hem it so it's even. (okay there's a 90% chance I'll put two buttons on the back and polonaise it so it's crooked hem doesn't show. shhhhhhhhh). It sounds like a lot but in theory the tricky back pleated bit is fine.
