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[theladyrebecca]

After a super productive Friday, I had no time at all for sewing yesterday, and didn't get much done today, either. I painted my order ribbon with two more narrow stripes down the sides (which is how it looks in the portrait, but not how the Order of Charles III ribbon actually is, so I decided to add to the wide stripe I had already painted). And while that was drying, I finished painting the medals. Such tiny details - I wish I had smaller brushes, because while I think I got the Starry Cross medal pretty darn close, I couldn't put much detail on the Charles III medal. And then I made the bow tops for them, and I put pin backs on so that they would be easily removable.

In the picture, the top one is the Order of the Starry Cross, which started as a cabochon backing for a pendant, an the bottom is the Order of Charles III, which was a blank gold medal. 


I was hoping to be able to try on all the gala stuff, so that I could figure out the sash length and get the hooks and eyes on the train waist, but I ran out of time before rehearsal, so that will have to wait till Tuesday. 

I also dug out my extant 1890s bodice with the huge sleeves, which I will be bringing to show my class, and washed the organdy so that I can cut out all the pieces for the students.

So here's a couple questions for the hivemind -  
1) We're making an 1890s sleeve as part of my class. There are tons of 1890s sleeve shapes out there - should I do an 1890s upper sleeve puff, which would work either for an evening sleeve or paired with a lower sleeve, or should I do a leg-of-mutton sleeve? I'm leaning towards the former because they require less fabric. 

2) Also, because there are so many sleeve shapes out there, I was thinking of providing drawings of a couple shapes in my handout, and not providing a huge paper pattern (especially since I will be doing all the fabric cutting ahead of time). Is this fairly normal for classes? I can't remember. 

Comments

[m_of_disguise]

If I was attending the class, I would love some gridded patterns in the handout. Not necessarily an actual paper pattern for a sleeve, but sort of like the gridded patterns in Janet Arnold. Then I could make them at home when I had the opportunity to. I do realize that would probably be a lot of work, though. XP

[theladyrebecca]

I can probably manage to do that. I'll have to play around with things a bit.

[mala_14]

The Orders look awesome!
1) That sounds like a good idea to me. People like having options.
2) Sorry, no clue.

[theladyrebecca]

Great - upper puff sleeve it is!

[nuranar]

The orders look amazing! I am in awe of anyone who can actually draw and paint.

[theladyrebecca]

Thanks! I don't feel like I can paint creatively, but I'm usually not too terrible at copying!