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This weekend went by soooo fast. On Saturday, my BF and I went to Steamport Gamble, which was a very tiny Steampunk event in that cool Victorian town I like so much. I will do a separate post on this event and what I wore.

Yesterday was mostly spent running errands, cleaning in preparation for my new roommate, working on audition music, and going to a callback. I did manage a little Rapunzel sewing, though. I took off the terrible fraying etsy piping from the bodice, made new piping, and started on the embroidery! I just did the first motif, but the skirt edges are all marked for the embroidery, so it should be quite easy to do the rest starting tonight. I realized I haven't embroidered in over a year. My poor fancy machine. I've really only done three large projects on it (Anna, Rapunzel #2, and the Court Gown), plus several smaller things like reticules and t-shirts. Hopefully, I will have enough thread and stabilizer for this whole project, though the stabilizer may require a Hanukah miracle...

Here's a bad picture of the first motif. This is one of the front corners.

Steamport Gamble and the 1890s Walking Dress

On Saturday, my bf and I headed across the water to Port Gamble (the privately owned Victorian mill town) for their first ever Steamport Gamble event. It was due to be a tiny event, with four panels/presentations, a handful of vendors, and a fashion show. There were also originally supposed to be crocquet and lawn bowling outside, but they were cancelled due to rain in the forecast. And really, weather is the big story here.

We arrived there about 11am, looked at the vendor hall (so not impressed), and then saw that the huge Victorian house that has always been closed up in the past was open! It turns out that was where they were doing a couple of the presentations, though they were still setting up when we got there. That means that no one was paying attention to prevent us from going upstairs and exploring the house. I know the house has held a variety of functions over the years, but it hasn't been able to be used for anything in quite some time because it's not up to fire codes. Most of the house has not been updated, though there were two 50sish-era bathrooms added, and many different layers of wallpapers in all the rooms. It was so cool to see, though, because while I love gleamingly restored homes, there's just something about ones that have been kept repaired but not updated. We took a whole bunch of pictures, and then headed down for the firearms panel downstairs.

( Lot's of pictures under the cut )

And that was the end of the exciting part of our day!