Upcoming events and plans
Sep. 20th, 2007 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizabeth_mnThere are a couple fun costume things happening in the next few weeks in the Twin Cities:
Sept. 29th: Living History Society is hosting a "Slice of the Season Hop." An informal dance, with pie! Civil War era attire is encouraged. Admission is $10 plus one pie, or $15 if you don't have a pie. No pre-registration required. www.lhsmn.org for more info.
Oct. 13th: Victorian Society's Autumn Masked Ball. Looks like $40 for members and $50 for non-members. Register by Oct. 1st! www.northstarvsa.com for more info.
When I asked my husband if he wanted to go to the LHS dance, he said he is tired of wearing the same Victorian suit all the time (!!!). At first I thought "Crap! Now I need to make him some new clothes!" but then after a while I remembered that I should really be glad he is interested in costume. And I know it's only a matter of time before I can talk him into some plaid 1860s pants. I'm determined - it will happen.
Anyway, finishing a couple big projects makes me want to refresh and re-organize my sewing project list. Here's what I hope to do in the next couple months.
Sept. 29th: Living History Society is hosting a "Slice of the Season Hop." An informal dance, with pie! Civil War era attire is encouraged. Admission is $10 plus one pie, or $15 if you don't have a pie. No pre-registration required. www.lhsmn.org for more info.
Oct. 13th: Victorian Society's Autumn Masked Ball. Looks like $40 for members and $50 for non-members. Register by Oct. 1st! www.northstarvsa.com for more info.
When I asked my husband if he wanted to go to the LHS dance, he said he is tired of wearing the same Victorian suit all the time (!!!). At first I thought "Crap! Now I need to make him some new clothes!" but then after a while I remembered that I should really be glad he is interested in costume. And I know it's only a matter of time before I can talk him into some plaid 1860s pants. I'm determined - it will happen.
Anyway, finishing a couple big projects makes me want to refresh and re-organize my sewing project list. Here's what I hope to do in the next couple months.
For the rest of September
- New collar and cuffs on HB's Victorian dress shirt (they have always fitted just a bit too tightly, and the collar always slips off - I'm just going to make it permanently attached.)
- Finish 1 pair of HB organic-denim jeans
- Black pinstripe vest for HB (for everyday wear)
October
- Coat for my black modern suit (I haven't forgotten this poor little thing!)
- New sleeves on blue ballgown bodice (to go with my wedding dress skirts) for Autumn Ball
- A few new fall/winter wool skirts for everyday, including finishing that weird red teen-ish one from last spring
- Finish that red corset I never finished for the Fair
- Start a Victorian dress coat for HB, finish by 12th night ball
The dress coat is the big scary project that I've had the fabric for for 3 years and have been avoiding for even longer than that. Tailoring is scary! It took me almost a month to make the frock coat for his wedding suit. For the dress coat I plan on using the Laughing Moon frock coat pattern as a base, because I know it fits him already, and altering it based on some of the diagrams in The Cut of Men's Clothes.
Some time in the future, I also plan to make a new frock coat and the aforementioned plaid pants for the HB, a couple new ties and vests for him, and probably a new ball dress for me (maybe for 12th night?).
Then there's also my random embroidery and knitting projects, but they don't really have deadlines. I still want to finish the pillow I didn't finish for the Fair, and I have the pretty pink yarn to make another winter hat with.
- New collar and cuffs on HB's Victorian dress shirt (they have always fitted just a bit too tightly, and the collar always slips off - I'm just going to make it permanently attached.)
- Finish 1 pair of HB organic-denim jeans
- Black pinstripe vest for HB (for everyday wear)
October
- Coat for my black modern suit (I haven't forgotten this poor little thing!)
- New sleeves on blue ballgown bodice (to go with my wedding dress skirts) for Autumn Ball
- A few new fall/winter wool skirts for everyday, including finishing that weird red teen-ish one from last spring
- Finish that red corset I never finished for the Fair
- Start a Victorian dress coat for HB, finish by 12th night ball
The dress coat is the big scary project that I've had the fabric for for 3 years and have been avoiding for even longer than that. Tailoring is scary! It took me almost a month to make the frock coat for his wedding suit. For the dress coat I plan on using the Laughing Moon frock coat pattern as a base, because I know it fits him already, and altering it based on some of the diagrams in The Cut of Men's Clothes.
Some time in the future, I also plan to make a new frock coat and the aforementioned plaid pants for the HB, a couple new ties and vests for him, and probably a new ball dress for me (maybe for 12th night?).
Then there's also my random embroidery and knitting projects, but they don't really have deadlines. I still want to finish the pillow I didn't finish for the Fair, and I have the pretty pink yarn to make another winter hat with.
