Hi everybody and welcome to my August makes and September plans.
Well I can't believe that it's September already, it seems like August just flew by and if you
remember from my August plans video I had quite a lot of plans that I knew was
overly ambitious and at first when I was looking at all of my makes for this
month I was a little disappointed and thought that I didn't really get that
much done. So the reason that it felt like I didn't get that much done at
first this month is that I pretty much exclusively worked on one project and
that project is what you can see behind me, my fitted English down that I've been
working on this down I've been making for the Carolina Renaissance Festival which
starts at the end of this month on September 30th. When I think back to this
time last year and my first costume that I made, my French Gown, I remember
going to the dress rehearsal which happens the weekend before festival
starts and my costume was largely held together by safety pins, I still had a
ton of work to do. When I look at this now I have something that's completely
wearable, it's basically finished, I could stop
right now if I wanted to, I just always want to add a little more detailing to
it. So I'm ecstatic to be finished a month early I've certainly been working
on this for the better part of a year so I'm very very happy to be completed with
it. The one thing that I worked on this month that wasn't related to the
Renaissance Festival was finishing up a home sewing embroidery that I had showed
in my last makes video and that one I had showed you the hoop that my dog had
chewed up but I had the floral wreath done and I had mentioned that I wanted
to embroider with Game of Thrones quote here it is all finished I re-hooped it,
trimmed off the back, and I embroiderd on it "I drink and I sew things". I didn't get
the full quote in there because I realized I didn't have the room for it. This
really started out as a practice piece so I love how it turned out I
definitely want to do more Game of Thrones quotes and more sewing related hoops
maybe to hang up somewhere in my crafting room. I did finish one Renaissance Festival related
item that was not related to my English Gown costume and that was just
this cute little beaded collar that I made for my dog. It has a rainbow of beads on
it on a white velvet collar I put elastic in it so that it goes
around her neck and it won't accidentally choke her anything and she wore this in
the Charlotte Pride Festival that we marched in a couple weekends ago. A lot
of fun and she had a great time she loves seeing all the people at parades. I
love making these little details for her to make her look all fancied up. As far
as my English Gown goes this is where I had the bulk of the sewing that I
finished this month happen and I'm so happy to see it finally coming all
together. So the first thing that I got done this month was actually to finish
he undergown for this dress. I finished this undergown back in like April or
something and I had just hemmed it but I had never put the gard on the bottom
and so finally I completed it months and month later, I put the gard on the
bottom of the gown. This gard actually has some horsehair interfacing so that's
different than horsehair braid, is just a woven material there's a lot
of stiffness they usually use it like men's coats and things. I
stiffened the hem of that with this, this is just so I don't have to wear a hoop
skirt with this costume but it still gives it a little more volume and shows
off the amount of skirt that I do have in it, and then I just sewed this
gold dupioni silk on the bottom of it. This was completely done by hand, I have
now sewn the bottom circumference of this skirt, which is over
100 inches, six times. I had a double turn hem underneath so I sewed around that
twice with each turn then I sewed the top and the bottom of the horsehair
interfacing into it by hand so that was two more times around the circumference
of the skirt, then I attached the front of the gard by hand I did that you know like
right sides together and flipped it down and turned it to the inside and then
affixed the inside portion down by hand. That's six times round the bottom of
this, you can see maybe why I put it off a bit, but it's now done I think it
look so gorgeous. I bought this silk kind of sight
unseen and it matches the embroidery on the silk of the dress perfectly so I'm
so happy with that. The next thing I did was put together the skirt for the gown.
I did not have any of the skirt done last month I didn't even have it cut out
yet so I cut out the skirt it is a lightweight wool and it's underlined
with a mid-weight linen just to give it more body, so I cut out the skirt and
the lining. It required some piecing because was it was not wide enough for
the pieces especially on the back because as opposed to different skirts
that I've done in the past this skirt is cut on an angle so it's not a
rectangular start it's actually an angled skirt, so it required some piecing
and I was the first time I'd done any piecing before. It went okay, it wasn't the
greatest and I kind of messed up the piecing on my linen because I totally
ran out of linen and I was piecing just like little bits and pieces of it
together and it didn't turn out great so there's actually some linen missing from
the inside turned edge but it's mostly covered by where I turn the wool over so
you don't see it. Cut that out I sewed it together the top edge was finished. On
the bodice I finished the inside of the bodice
covering all the raw edges with bias tape and things like that so I finished
the bottom edge and then I was able to sew the skirt to the bodice I added all
the velvet trim to the bodice which was really fun. This velvet trim is just a
ribbon so the fact that it goes on a curved line was an adventure to go on
and I actually wound up running a gathering stitch along the inner edge of
the curve and easing that curve into itself so it it has some bumps in it
that you can see but the bumps are really even I think that it adds a
lovely texture and visual interest to the bodice of the gown. And the skirt has
a bunch of cartridge pleats in the back. So I pleaded and attached that all
together and then I was able to gard this as well this is garded with just a
green velvet. I really hate sewing with velvet I had such a time with this. I
originally was going to sew it all by hand because I said, "Hey, I sewed all of
the silk guard on by hand so I should be able to do it with velvet too!" but
velvet is just way too slippery for me to be sewing by hand especially without
pins. It wound up doing some funky things on the inside so I really won't show
that but I did sew on the front edge by machine with my walking foot and lots of
pins and everything and sew the inside down by hand. Really happy with that,
the velvet just gives it a lot of body to the bottom of the skirt to really
help it float over the horsehair lining of the underskirt so it all looks really
pretty. The last thing that I did was create these under sleeves for this gown.
You may have seen the videos that I posted on how I made the puffed sleeves
on it but I finally made the under sleeves as well. These will just get
pinned or tied to the kirtle underneath. These sleeves were drafted following
instructions from a paper written by someone named Jose Felipe Francisco from
Madrid it is a historical method of drafting sleeves called
"old thirds" it was accurate to the Elizabethan period so I followed the
instructions written up on the blog Caitlin'sClothing.com. I found that it
did make quite a nice sleeve I just had to do a little bit of adjusting I
felt it was a little tight in the elbow and a little long in the upper arm so I
just shortened it up made a couple muslins and then I cut out the silk and
they are lined with a handkerchief weight linen just to give them a little
more stiffness and also comfort close to the body.
I cut the silk pieces with a 1 inch seam allowance and that is because this
silk like many silks frays like nobody's business.
And I had mentioned in my August plans video that I was going to embroider by
machine all of the quilting on this and then I wound up deciding to do it by
hand because, I don't know I was a little bit crazy I had been watching a couple
embroidery tutorials and things like that and I felt hey you know it will
look really special if I do it by hand so I knew that with the amount I
would be working this fabric it would fray something awful so what I did was
cut a one inch seam allowance and I took some fusible web trimmed it down
very small and ironed the fusible web on to the edges of that seam allowance. And
what I hoped that would do was stop them from fraying because the fusible web kind
of glues everything together. Then I had a really easy time I actually just
ironed the silk onto the linen and cut around the outside. That also served
as the basting so I didn't have to hand baste it all together as I embroidered. I think it
turned out really well the embroidery went way faster than I thought.
I thought this was gonna take me a week or more to do and I finished it all in a
couple of hours. Probably because it's just straight lines and running stitches
but I was really happy with how that turned out I think they look gorgeous.
So I embroidered the sleeve pieces separately and then I sewed them
together with a French seam. Doing that French seam allowed me to cut off all of
the fusible web so there's no more fusible web left in it and it gives just
a really beautiful sleeve I love that it matches the under dress brings a lot of
visual interest to the sleeves of the garment. In Elizabethan times sleeves
were a very important part of the garment because there is so little
fabric in sleeves you were able to make the sleeves from a more expensive fabric
and show off a lot of wealth and status in the sleeves of your garment so I'm so
happy with how these turn out. So that's it for my makes in the month of August I
did go on a business trip this month so I feel it if I had had that extra week
at home I may have gotten to do more but I did a lot of the hand sewing for this
costume on that trip I think that overall it was a great month. So let's
move on to my September plans. So for the month of September I'm really excited to
say that I have very little historical sewing that I feel I have to get done. I
am just going to adjust the way the skirt is attached. I can't actually
remember cause was so long ago but I think that I may have deepened the front
point of this pattern when I was drafting the bodice up and that messed
up the curve of the skirt and you can see there's kind of like a bunch of extra
fabric here so I'm just going to raise where the front portion of the
skirt is attached to give it a more smooth look, that'll probably take me
about an hour to do. I'm also going to be adding a little bit more trim I'll be
adding some velvet trim around the bottom of the puff sleeves adding some
trim around the waist line and probably continuing this bold line down the front
of the skirt and maybe doing an extra line of blue velvet
right over the green velvet to add a second band on the bottom. That's really
it. For this costume I had originally planned to do it partlet and cuffs
underneath it as well. Once I finished it and wore and everything I felt like the
neck just came up too close to be able to truly show off a partlet underneath.
I might still do the cuffs but I probably won't. I spend all my time
at the festival holding dog leashes and I just feel like that extra piece around
my wrist will really hinder me in that. I might also start making a hat for it I
do have a hat that I can wear but it's a straw brimmed hat and when I'm sitting
down all day in a building and leaning back I feel like that brim might get
annoying to me so I might make a smaller matching hat as well. So since I don't
have a lot of historical sewing to do this month that means this month is
going to be all about contemporary and home sewing. So mean first things first I will be
making those curtains that I talked about in my August plans video for my
kind of kitchen and dining room area. I'm having a housewarming party in a couple
weeks and I just need to get those done. I'll actually be starting on those shortly
after I finished filming this video. It'll be really easy just really have to
turn the top and hem the bottom. I'm also going to be getting to the Sew House
7 patterns that I talked about in my last video.
After a bothering my sister every day for a couple weeks she finally sent me
over her measurements so I'm going to start cutting out the burnside bibs that
I'm making for her for our birthday out of this black linen from fabrics-store.com
very exciting to be doing that. I'm also going to be starting on my
birthday present for myself which the tea house dress from Sew House 7. You'll
remember in that video I talked about purchasing a purple and white cross dyed
linen from fabrics-store.com and as I was waiting for it to go on sale they
sold out of it and I was devastated because I love purple. That was a
expensive fabric but I was willing to spend the money on it for myself as a
birthday present. My best friend helped me out and she went searching online and
found this cross dyed Merlot and white linen from fabrics.com and so I
purchased it and it is so soft and smooth it is even more purple in person
than it looked online so very happy about it and very excited to be working with it.
Recently while I was walking around Hobby Lobby I found this little bag in
the embroidery section and they had like some tassels and patches and stuff to
sew onto it as kind of a project thing and I love the kind of coppery rose gold
leather, faux leather on the bottom of the bag so I knew that I wanted to buy
it and do something with it. I got a selection of matching embroidery
floss and also some coppery beads in the bead section. I'm not sure what I'm going
to embroider on it yet I was thinking maybe like a very geometric pattern so
I have to look some up, but that's kind of going to be my little hand sewing
project for this month to keep me occupied while I'm watching TV and things like that.
Another project that I'm thinking about doing for this month is actually going
to be more of a dying project as I was working on unpacking I found this
project that I had made about a year ago it's quite large so you can't really see
it properly but this is a knitted dress and I knit this dress
not by hand actually I knitted it on a knitting machine while I was doing some
training for my job and I love this dress so much it was inspired by another
dress they had sitting on a mannequin in the showroom when I was doing my
training but I knitted it out of this wonderful soft wool yarn that they
had there. I have to dye it because it has some oil stains on it so I'm
thinking I'm gonna dye it a really lovely fall color maybe something in the
mulberry family or maybe I'm thinking also an olive green. So I'm just going to
dye it. It has like this split off part of the skirt to give it kind of like a
lovely little frill and asymmetric detailing on the side so I'm going to
sew some clear elastic in to that just to give it more support from the weight
of the fabric and just finish it up basically so that I can actually wear it.
It's a tank top dress with a turtleneck and so I'm really excited that I found
it in all my stuff and I'm really excited to see how it turns out and give
it like a little fall dress. That's mostly it for my sewing plans this month
the only other sewing related thing that I'm doing this month is I'm
participating in the #sewphotohop on Instagram. I did make an Instagram
so that I could kind of show off my sewing. I do post a lot of little silly
things on my story while I'm sewing as I get kind of a little cooped up in my
sewing room, the longer I stay there the sillier I get. So make sure that you
go follow me on instagram as well my Instagram is msjennl10 just the
same as my YouTube username and I hope that everyone else participates in the
#sewphotohop. It's been really fun so far seeing everyone else
participating. Thanks so much for watching! In the comments below tell me
what your plans are for the month of September and be sure to like it
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