I whipped up 13 hoods, a vampire coat and some demon pants for this gig. Nothing like doing a scramble two weeks before the show opened. As anyone knows, I don't like having to do shoddy work in a limited amount of time. But they turned out ok. The vamp coat, well, THAT was a treat to do. And if I say so myself, it turned out wonderfully and looked great on our vampire king. Here's a couple of pictures...
So, my summer was full of baseball with my youngest son, but I was able to make it out to MRF a couple of times, andf also made it to Bristol once. Got a great picture out of me when we were at MRF. It really shows the full gown and makes me look great.
Now that the prior season is over and Village of Terror is done, it's time to get back to the sewing I love....renaissance sewing. We here in west central Wisconsin have 6 months until the next fair season. In that time, I will be creating new gowns, not just for myself, but for the newest court members. In all, it will be a total of six new gowns. Now, for those of you have been following my blog, you've read that I like to make the gowns from the pattern up. I'm going to cheat on these. I've splurged and purchased Margo Anderson's Elizabethan Court Gown pattern. I'm waiting for it to arrive so I can get started. I feel like a kid in a candy store. But I still have to create new corsets for these new girls, but that won't take too long. And on the plus side, with three of these gowns, I'll have extra help getting them sewn together. Three of these girls can sew, so they'll be doing the easy tedious sewing while I do the more difficult seams and contouring. All in all, it's going to be great.
Keep watching, as I'll have more news and more tutorials coming!
