Tudor corset and posable me!

The corset for the under garmets is finished, and here it is below. This is the original corset that goes with the shift, bumrole and hooped skirt which i will not be using. Looks alot more tudory (without sounding like a spanner).

Bumroles and Petticoats!

Well so far i have managed to complete the shift and bumrole for the undergarmets of my tudor dress.....

Here they are above with the Georgian corset i created a few months back, im not using the georgian corset but i wanted to see potentially what it may look like.

Ive decided against a hooped farthingale, again i think they make the dress look thin, flimsy and......well abit crappy looking, so insted ive gone for skirt layering, in which i have created a drawstring petticoat to rest on top of the bumrole.

Here it is below with moi in it, looking very frizzy!

Complete with tudor washing machine..

My new years Resolution!!

One of the things i would love to achieve this year is to make a life size tudor dress, complete with under thingys (corset, shift etc)

Dunno what id do with it after, probly prance around the house a bit in it, take a few good photos.........then probly sell it. Yes as you can see already i am obsessed with the tudor period, and i feel that until i make this dress, run around in it and feel like a princess just for a couple of minutes, ill never get it out of my system.

I have the whole of 2011 to complete it, theres no rush to get everything straight away, so it wont be expensive. I have already chosen my fabrics, although they bound to change at some point. im just itching to go, lol!

The patterns i am using are Both by Simplicity.

Not so sure on the hoop skirt yet, on some dresses ive seen, the hoops on the skirt can be seen on the outside, and makes the dress look like crap bought off Ebay.

I plan on making some petticoats to thicken the skirt, and the bumrole should help too.

Anyways we shall see..........but in the mean time, watch this space!

Clutch Purse...

This is my first clutch purse, i had no money to buy a new one for my Work Christmas Doo, but alot of scrap material, so this is what i came up with, its made from black velvet with a shimmery purple ribbon on the flap and a blue sparkly butterfly broach in the middle, the linen inside is gold.

Here i am on the night!!

A Tudor Christmas.

YAAAYY!!! Its that time of year again!!! HOORAH!!! I love being skint, ........on a lighter note though, I made a Christmas dress to celebrate this "I need some bloody money!" season..............

So the majority of this dress was made from already used material. She's going to sit by my TV all christmas and watch Repeats of 'The Grinch' with me. :)

Medieval Princess

Enough said.....i want a BIG cape, the little one looks snug......could really do with a cape right now :(

Lady in a silk dress.

This dress was made by combining some pattern pieces from other dresses with the original tudor pattern. I also altered the the original tudor skirt so it does not have the split down the middle.

I found this material when i went on a spontaneous material shopping spree and found loads of shimmering colour changing fabrics. This dress has now become one of my favourites.