So I've mostly settled on my A&S entries for Adiantum's competition in January. I'm torn between doing a reconstruction of Livia's hairstyle, and doing a research paper on the position of Ornatrices in Roman households. The former would be easier, because I've worked out how to accomplish the hairstyle already, my trouble would be how to flesh out the documentation to make it feel like it was worthwhile. On the other hand, I have very little actual research on the position of Ornatrices within a household, though I have done a little preliminary book searching. I mostly like the first option because of the visual aspect of doing the hairstyle is a little flashier, and I'm known in the area for hairstyling.
The other entry I'm intending is my soon to be made Housebook dress. I decided to make this dress because my family has graciously given me tickets to go back to Texas for a visit at the beginning of December. I'll get to be home for Stargate's Yule, and was pondering whether or not to make something new, and was talking it over with my best friend. We both mentioned that the only dress we were interested in making at the time was the two different styles of dress that we would be wearing with the cute red fringed hats I made months ago. Since the styles were different, and the colors were different enough, I felt we wouldn't be too terribly twinkie, and we could go ahead with the plan. We've now challenged each other to make a fancy new dress, though The Boy thinks there should be a prize for the "winner." Her boy has promised to take us out for a drink.
I've been working on it slowly, and most of the info is posted over at our shared
blog. I've got the underdress, the hemd, done enough to wear, though I would like to hand finish all the seams before entering it in at Midwinter. I've included the inspiration image, which of course I can't find the actual citation at this moment, but came originally from
Eme's Compendium. You also get a couple photos of me in my hemd and cute red fringed hat, and a lovely Paint sketch of my pattern for my hemd. It came out of about 4 and 1/3 yards of 3.5 oz linen from
Fabric-Store.com, which I had originally bought back in February to make a smocked hemd for my Trossfrau. I've gotten the bodice patterned, but now need to figure out the sleeve pattern. I also got to use a fantastic local resource, the
Eugene Textile Center, to dye the wool coating I was given as a thank you to a gorgeous teal color. The whole thing is coming along, but I have about a week and a half left to sew the whole thing together, if I allow time out because of travel to Seattle for Thanksgiving. I'm hoping it will all come together, but I think it will be okay.
The other entry I'm intending is my soon to be made Housebook dress. I decided to make this dress because my family has graciously given me tickets to go back to Texas for a visit at the beginning of December. I'll get to be home for Stargate's Yule, and was pondering whether or not to make something new, and was talking it over with my best friend. We both mentioned that the only dress we were interested in making at the time was the two different styles of dress that we would be wearing with the cute red fringed hats I made months ago. Since the styles were different, and the colors were different enough, I felt we wouldn't be too terribly twinkie, and we could go ahead with the plan. We've now challenged each other to make a fancy new dress, though The Boy thinks there should be a prize for the "winner." Her boy has promised to take us out for a drink.
I've been working on it slowly, and most of the info is posted over at our shared blog. I've got the underdress, the hemd, done enough to wear, though I would like to hand finish all the seams before entering it in at Midwinter. I've included the inspiration image, which of course I can't find the actual citation at this moment, but came originally from Eme's Compendium. You also get a couple photos of me in my hemd and cute red fringed hat, and a lovely Paint sketch of my pattern for my hemd. It came out of about 4 and 1/3 yards of 3.5 oz linen from Fabric-Store.com, which I had originally bought back in February to make a smocked hemd for my Trossfrau. I've gotten the bodice patterned, but now need to figure out the sleeve pattern. I also got to use a fantastic local resource, the Eugene Textile Center, to dye the wool coating I was given as a thank you to a gorgeous teal color. The whole thing is coming along, but I have about a week and a half left to sew the whole thing together, if I allow time out because of travel to Seattle for Thanksgiving. I'm hoping it will all come together, but I think it will be okay.
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