June Faire

[theladyrebecca]

I didn't get much sewing done this weekend, but I did get to go to a Faire! It's called June Faire, and it was hosted by the SCA over in Port Gamble, which is a cute little Victorian town across the sound. My bf and theladysarah and I attended. I haven't been to a faire since Sarah and I went to one almost two years ago!

I decided I needed to upgrade my outfit (the navy velvet doublet gown I've been wearing for almost every faire since fall 2010), so I finally added the sleeves I had planned for it in the first place. In fact, when I went to go see what fabric I had left over from the original project, I found that the only remaining pieces of velvet were seven strips already cut and hemmed into panes, plus two longer serged strips, and that all the gold fabric left was already cut and serged into narrow strips as well. So I was able to make three-paned sleeves, with a band at the bottom. I think it improves the look.

Despite being on the water, it was soooo hot in the sun. Just as a reminder to those of you in the rest of the country, Seattle rarely gets above 80 degrees even in the middle of summer. Well it was at least 82-84 I think on Saturday (yesterday it got to 89!), so wearing that big heavy velvet gown for the first time in almost two years was rather unpleasant in the sun. Thank goodness I brought my parasol and fan! The shade wasn't too bad, though, and we all had a lot of fun. My bf had attempted to make a whole crusader outfit in about 1.5 weeks or so before the faire, and unfortunately did not get it into a wearable state, so I was so glad to see him still enjoying himself at his first faire!












As far as Belle goes, I did get almost all the twill tapes sewn onto the ruched seams in both overskirt layers - I think I have two left to go. There's not too much more to do on the skirt, though I'm about 80% positive that the hem on the upper layer will have to be done by hand. But other than the hem, I just have the waistband to do, and sewing on the ribbon flowers. Then it's on to the bodice. Other than rehearsal on Sunday, I don't have any other plans this coming weekend, so I really really want to try and finish the whole thing by the end of Sunday. I need this done! 

Comments

[vanessa-lynne.livejournal.com]

Fun! I Love Port Gamble. Did you go into the tea shop?

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

We did, but left after about a minute and went to eat crepes at the faire instead. It was way too hot in there.

[vanessa-lynne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, A/C is not big out here. Ha.

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

Seriously. It felt so good walking into the library yesterday. If I didn't have someplace to be, I probably would have just stayed there. The grocery store felt really nice, too.

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

You look lovely! How was the event?

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was small, but decent. Better than the only other WA faire I've been to, but nothing compared to eastern/southern faires.

[sadievale.livejournal.com]

Lovely pics!!