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Hexacorallia in black and whiteUn collier terminé in extremis pour le challenge noir et blanc sur Parole de Pate. Kato polyclay en blanc et noir gravée d'après des transferts de dessins anciens adaptés, trouvés sur le site de l'Educational Technology Clearinghouse de Floride, peinture acrylique noire. Je ferais un bref tuto quand j'aurais le temps (pas tout de suite, donc).A necklace I finished

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I like jewellery made of beads that look like stones or branches. I have started experimenting to build a bracelet or a necklace with polymer "wood" or "coral", and stone-lookalikes. Now I am somewhat satisfied with my quartz mix (although this last iteration is a bit too pink for my taste), I made some stones beads.I did not like their shape too much (and they had an already baked core from

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Still in the silicon molds, and antiqued with black acrylic paint: Premo frost, ochre oil paint, metal fillings, and mica substrate from one of those canned plants. The canned plant did not grow, but the mica flakes substrate has found a new use. Lower picture : liquid Fimo, metal fillings and mica. I should not have left it alone before putting it in the oven, all the flakes and fillings fell to

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I had wanted to try faux stones from polymer clay for a while. I made a few tests two weeks ago, but they did not turn out quite as expected (mainly my fault, really), and were simple beads anyway, nothing very interesting. Last week, I tried again, this time with more attention to the details. I used three colors, a Fimo turquoise straight out of the pack, a turquoise-ish, greenish mix, and

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Etagère en carton et papier mâché peinte. Détails moulés en pâte de papier, dorés au doigt à la cire. Mortiers et pilons en porcelaine trouvés à un vide-grenier.Shelves out of cardboard covered with papier mâché and paint. Details molded out of paper paste and accented with brass wax gilt. Old lab mortars and pestles from a garage sale.Illustrations on the bottles: ancient medical illustrations (

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The bottles were finished a quite long time ago, but as usual, I am late with the posting.These are just a small sample, and I will post a picture of the whole "alchemist's lab"(or at least, of how far it is currently, because I sense it is still going to be ameliorated a lot).The labels once done, the bottles still looked way too modern. The thread at the neck, bottle-specific designs, and the

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The bottles will be placed in a specially made cabinet, for which I chose to use papier maché, as it is light but very sturdy. I learned a lot from my previous experiment to make a small bookcase from papier maché. I had the idea to reinforce the edge of the shelves with plastic u-shaped edges (from the DIY shop), and it worked great: the cardboard did not move, and the shelf edges remained

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An almost all image tutorial for the all polymer clay ringworld bracelet I made for the Perles & co contest with the theme "Visions of the future". A megastructure also known as Dyson ring (albeit it can be argued that this does not quite correspond to Freeman Dyson's idea), Coronal (if your source is Karl Schroeder), Orbital (if you are more Iain M. Banks inclined), or Halo megastructure. The

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I have recently started playing again with polymer clay, and while experimenting with transfers, I started wondering what to do with the transfered picture.My experimenting pictures were a tad gruesome, especially after I became aware of the Images of the History of Medicine and the Historical Anatomies from the National Library of Medicine (hat tip to Neurophilosophy), so placing them on

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A post in french, for once, as I made a promise about posting a tutorial...En GN, on rencontre souvent des "bibliothèques" qui consistent de quelques parchemins roulés ou à plat, posés sur une table. Outre les boutons qu'un tel mode de stockage donnerait légitimement à tout bibliothécaire un peu compétent, ce dépôt sur surface plane entraine également une limitation obligée du nombre de documents

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Box found at a "vide-grenier", in october.Pay particular attention to the topmost line...

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... and it got stolen by a time traveller.The sartorially aware will be able to guess the period from the dress the bold adventurer is wearing.On the other hand, she looks like she needs it way more than I do...

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This dress was a birthday gift last year to my niece, and I quite like it.As apparently, the mothers of her friends keep trying to search for the brand tag in the neck to get one for their daughters too, I am not the only one, and a review might be in order, especially since this is a very easy pattern.But first, credits were credits are due: this is the pattern n°139 from the July 2009 Burda

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One octopus of (almost) unusual size ?Check ! One very cluttered picture background ?Check !A very clumsy use of the photoshop functionalities to clear the background ?Check !The totem also features the great designs of a friend, highlighted by a great use of glow-in-the-dark paint, It also various crocheted sealife: branching coral (from jpolka's great pattern) and hyperbolic crochet corals.

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Whether in representations or for Halloween, re-ennactements of cannibalistic meals are sure to generate interest and reactions. I first realised this after the Maelstrom event hosted by the gnolls, as the image of the cooked avian lookalike haunted me for days. There are quite a few ressources on the web to mimic a relatively convincing human sacrifice (with the gold standard of the second

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... so you can get completely crazy afterwards.One week and a half before the event (aka last Friday evening), I decided I wanted to make more props. What triggered such a radical decision ?Well, after all we did, the pilar supporting the VLO was not visually satisfactory for me. And I received this book I had ordered:I am really torn as to whether I should recommend it. On one hand, it is just

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The octopus is to stand on a stone pilar for a better display.We must be able to take said pilar completely appart for transportation (in small cars already full of other paraphernalia), and reuse it on later occasions.We decided on an empty core supported by wooden beams, and surrounded by mattress foam.The foam will be covered by painted fabric, and can be used to pin whatever decor is to be

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Octopus vulgaris, Oceanopolis, BrestIt would be even better with a squid, but well*...* bonus points for those who get the joke. I am not even going to try to pretend it is a good one.

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...You never know when you will stop.For the same event as the octopus, we need some props for a (non-)human sacrifice and banquet. As I still need hubby for other purposes, we started making a body double for him. The wrap experience was so efficient for the tentacles that we decided to try it to make the torso, instead of the tried and true tee-shirt method (see here for an online tutorial on

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Hyperbolic plane and crocheted coral (great pattern from jpolka on Etsy, with my clumsy crochet)The octopus will stand on a large pillar. The whole is supposed to come from under the sea, so some attached sea creatures looked in order (and should hide a number of flaws), the most bizarre the better. They also needed to be easy to make, look good, and bonus points if we can attach them to the

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Just to show that the tentacles were not an elaborate (or not so elaborate) way to insult Propnomicon's (smaller) ones, some update on the octopus project as a whole might be in order.The octopus head is based on a large beach ball covered by papier mache according to the great tutorial of Mary Robinette Koval. I must say that of all the times I have made papier mache, this was the most efficient

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We needed a large octopus (I now, to be needing a large octopus is a strange concept).We started last weekend to make the tentacles, from this tutorial on Propnomicon.We decided on a length of 1.5m, plus a few dozens of centimeters wire free at the end. We made a few changes to method described in the tutorial, but it is a great and easy method to make tentacles.There are three different wire

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... topstitching (I won't even make a picture of it, because only half of it looks decent).... cutting spiral stays and attaching end caps to them.... putting in grommets after making the gorram hole in the fabric to fit them in.Discovering that I had started to make said holes in a channel made for a stay.Doing it all over again.Looking in despair at the rips in the fabric layers.But after

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I found a whole bag of these for a few euros las summer, unfortunately showing some traces of moulds and water damage, but still wonderful for the color drawings. This is number 31 from the 30th july 1950, and I photographed only the pages with drawings.The front page is especially beautiful with those two evening dresses. Page three gives a few pictures of couture dresses and hats.Then there is

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It is still under way, and has undergone a few construction accidents, but come on, this was the logical next step after the snail shell...Very dark blue but shiny ribbon polyester yarn (3mm wide).

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...or have to admit that my ability at following a pattern ended exactly at the third loop, where I miscounted and left out a few knots.

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A few days ago, I decided to get on learning new things (plus, holidays far from my sewing machine were threatening to put a dampener on my creativity).So in a moment of sheer madness, I simultaneously ordered books for learning crochet, knitting and tatting, and got supplies for all, with the idea that then I could shift from one to the other in case things turned bad.So, progress report for now

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I very much like the look of gardens in jars. However, overwatering them even once can be their demise, and is really easy to do.This is one of the reasons why I particularly like this piece I found one month ago in a small antique shop for pennies. It is a two part glass wasp trap, with a hole in the middle of the bottom to allow the entry of the wasps.I am not sure it worked very well in its

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...As soon as I decide on starting a project, I get sidetracked on something else. I had this great idea of a corset concept (actually, a whole costume concept, with accessories and all). I bought everything I needed for it during the holidays. I even made a muslin and cut out all 24 pieces of the fashion fabric and lining.And then the filet started calling out to me, and I made this. Disregard

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I found this dress this year at my grand-mothers, and I was so intrigued by it that I took it home (not like anyone else was interested by it anyway) although it is one size too small and so strange looking as to be unwearable.With no additional informations I would really have difficulties deciding when it is from. My grand mother said it is a dress, not a nightgown (which would have explained a

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I have been neglecting this blog for a while, and starting a regular feature is the best way to start updating it regularly.I love garage sales. Most often, you don't find anything of interest, but when you do, it compensates for all the other times. I went to a few particularly good ones this year, mostly in august, in smaller towns. As I was already carrying a pretty heavy and interesting load

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I made these skirts this summer (one in the second half of july, one in the second half of august), but I had not been able to make some correct photographs until now, and they really deserved it. I ams still not completely satisfied with the pictures, but I played with OpenOfficeDraw to make some composites, and they will have to do (otherwise I fear I will never be satisfied enough to post).I

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I have finished the dress n°107 from the june BWOF that Cidell and others already wrote a number of great reviews about. I have decided to consider the wrinkles to be a feature, and not a bug, as they seem to appear by magic as soon as I take the linen of the ironing table.I was pretty happy with the result, that is, until I tried it on, and realised I looked like an extra for Ashes to Ashes.

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I went to Tokyo for work in the beginning of August, and I had to check out for myself the mouth-watering account Erin gave of her visit to Nippori Textile Town. Getting there is very easy, as Nippori station lies directly on several lines, including the one coming directly in from Narita Airport (an 80 mn ride), so it should even be possible to get in town for fabric shopping if you have to

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The finished dress deserved a post on its own, so here it is...Except for putting together the silk dress and of the foundation, everything was hand sewn, to have a better control of what went where and how it looked, and because I do not completely trust my sewing machine.My sister wanted an empire waist, but it is very easy with those to get that highly sought-after pregnant, so at the same

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The wedding went wonderfully, great weather, great mood, and beautiful in general.I am going to dwelve more on a few of the details here, and leave a later post to the wedding dress all on itself.My sister had asked lots of her friends to help make decorations for the wedding, so everybody felt proud about a part or another of it.I was responsible for the dresses of the little flower girls (

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I managed to completely finish the details on the dress, and even make some passable photos. I am pretty happy with the result, even if it is a tad big on the girl. But she will grow into it, and even now, she can use it comfortably... She appears to love it.The back is very cute with the big bow, and I think it does not look too cheesy despite it.I could not find any embroidery thread of a

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Better late than never, this one got caught in the buffer...Sewing the ivory silk taffeta has almost nothing in common with sewing polyester taffeta: the fabric rustles like nothing I have ever manipulated, a soft, discreet, but somehow persistent noise, and the way it captures light is also more subtle and less articial looking than the taffetas I am used to.The taffeta will be overlaid with

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The week-end didn't quite turn out as intended, but I have managed since to get a few things done since.The wedding dress has taken shape, and is starting to look good. I will post a few details in a day or two.The delay has given me some pause to think about what to make for Mademoiselle ECPP. I started from the fabric I wanted to use:All three are cotton, and the plain one is cotton satin bed

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Monday is a holiday.My partner leaves tomorrow morning for a work-related trip.My parents have taken Mademoiselle away for the week-end.I have relatively little work to prepare for tuesday.That means I can sew !First, I have to work on this. The wedding is in one month and a half...Then, I must make some progress on the dresses for the flower girls, with the orange and dark red taffeta, using

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Here is what the dress looks like in daylight (I made some "champagne" looking liquid for a more party feel from some camomile tea. Yeah, I know, that IS sad).The color is still a bit off (it is a tiny bit less pink than this).For this summer, I will add some hair ornament from the same fabric. I have been experimenting a bit, and will probably go with fabric flowers of some kind. I think that

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It is the middle of the night on the old continent, but the dress is done. I will add better pictures tomorrow with the daylight, but right now, I am not home and have neither a nice background nor adequate lighting available.So, here is the dress (I now it badly needs to be pressed, but again, it will have to be tomorrow).I have somewhat better picture of the shoulder pads I made following the

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During the week, I have assembled the dress, tried it on a few times, and made a few necessary alterations. I have hand basted most of the dress, and hand-top stiched it at the waist and gathers.The top came out a little too big around and just below the bust, but exactly the right size at the waist. This is not surprising, as I would have needed 35 inches rather than 36, or rather even a smaller

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I not unexpectedly settled on Simplicity 4986. I need that dress for the wedding, and as I already had the washed and ironed fabric, it was the easiest choice, and my favorite anyway.I managed to cut the fabric two weeks ago, but then had to go away last week-end, so nothing got done since. The fabric is really nice, but frays a bit more than what I expected, so I zig-zaged around all the pieces

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This time of year is here again: the Vintage Pattern Contest of Pattern Review starts tomorrow.I have looked through my pattern collection, and sorted until only five remained, all approximately in my size as I don't have enough time to resize the pattern due to the big wedding dress project. I managed to eliminate them all but for five, four from what I would estimate as the sixties, and one

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I finished the dinosaur skirt three days ago, but I managed to wear it last week-end, and more importantly, last friday, although the lining was not hemmed and frayed like crazy over the course of the week-end.The skirt was really easy to sew, and highly satisfying to wear. It was also really confortable: the lining helped to make it warmer and easy to wear. The pockets were also great to keep

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Friday morning, at ten, I will be there.As I absolutely need a new outfit for this occasion (I will have to settle for a new skirt, though), I have started to sew the skirt I have been planning for a long time, from the Natural History Museum dinosaurs by Dan Morris for Timeless Treasures. The print is really nice, at the same time very fine and recognizable from pretty far, and the fabric

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My sister is marrying in july, and being her only female sibling, I have been designated for several highly important tasks.The partial decoration of the dinner room: It will be in a non-descript village party house, with white painted walls and modern windows, but a nice wooden roof support. To make it more interesting, I suggested replacing the short, dark green, rather ugly window treatment by

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...Le résultat final d'un travail exceptionnel sur une robe des années cinquantes depuis le début jusqu'à la fin...Pins and Needles, le blog de Summerset Banks, présente aussi ses projets plus anciens, avec toutes les étapes détaillées, le processus du choix des matériaux, des décors : exceptionnel.

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... Is what I should do. I know it. Because when not...The first assembly of the extensions for the pleats was not a success. I had thought that I could abstain to match the patterns of the fabric for these, as they would be hidden most of the time, but seing them spread around once sewn (and seing a test pleat in action) made me change my mind, and I ripped and shuffled the pieces until all the

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It all started with the best intentions, as usual.Last sunday, because of the unusually cold weather, I decided to make a stroller cover to make the seat warm and cosy. I had even bought a black polar fleece throw (black fleece is quite hard to come by, the only place I managed to find some was Ikea, and it is actually cheaper to buy a ready made blanket than to buy fleece fabric), which had the

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If you remember, last summer our protagonist had managed to match four butterflies in a dress for the little mademoiselle. But you only know part of the story. Emboldened by this feat, and staring at the remaining five yards, she started to wonder what pattern it would fit. After all, how hard can it be to match a dozen butterflies for a grownup dress ?She then, against all sense, decided on the

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Finally, I finished (well, almost, but it looks good enough to show) the project that took me hours of handsewing, mercifully in front of DVDs, but still: the Truly Victorian TV101 revised petticoat with wire bustle. It still needs to be shortened a bit, but the flounce overlay is exactly the right height and does add a really nice touch. It was remarkably easy to put together, apart from the 25

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In my quest for gifts this year, I decided to test chicken scratch, and started to look for some project I could insert some in. An apron looked a good way to try, but I wanted an interesting pattern. I found one in Ten All American Novel Aprons -- 1940s Apron Patterns With Complete Cutting and Sewing Instructions. I chose the "pocahontas" pattern, and decided to alter colors and feel completely,

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... And just in time.The pseudo -obi belt has bias ties from the kimono fabric, and is just the width of the waist.I am pretty happy with the way the pattern matches on both kimono, even if it isn't perfect...

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My not posting for quite a while is equally explainable by far too much to do and a commitment to a single project that needed waayyy more time than I thought. But I am back with quite a few projects that are due for christmas.I will start by the gifts for my brother in law and wife: assorted kimonos in a heavily patterned, absolutely beautiful wax fabric. I like this kind of gifts, as it is more

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When we saw the Ikea PS Lömsk seat for children, we knew we wanted it for the baby (correction by Not Quite Hubby Dearest: we wanted it for us, but the baby gave us an excuse - plus it was too small for us, but that's a detail).The only problem was that the seat is very cosy, but made out of hard plastic and actually not that confortable.I decided to add cushions to it to padd it. We bought six

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Pour ceux qui ne seraient pas encore au courant, Joss Whedon, aidé de sa famille et de tous les gens qu'il connait, a réalisé une mini série (trois épisodes, 42 minutes) spécialement pour le Net : Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, avec des super-héros (enfin un, mais c'est Nathan Fillon), des savants fous (Neil Patrick Harris), et des amours désespérés. Et des chansons...C'est gratuit jusqu'à ce

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Il y a plusieurs années, j'avais assemblé un sac en m'inspirant de ce que je voulais à l'arrivée (traduction: il est peut être de guingois, mais c'est moi qui l'ai conçu et fabriqué). Ce sac s'est avéré être fantastique pour transporter des livres, ou tout objet lourd, car sa sangle est particulièrement large, et il est solide. Etant donné que je ne le trouve plus, j'ai décidé d'en refaire un

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Enfin la photo de mademoiselle dans sa robe. Même si elle est un peu large, je ne suis pas mécontente du résultat. Et du bébé non plus, d'ailleurs...Post-scriptum : Je ne sais pas si mon enfant est la seule à avoir une fascination pour les chaussures au point de tenter de les manger, mais ça m'étonnerait. Pourtant, chez Kickers, quelqu'un a décidé que ce serait une bonne idée de faire des

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Dés que j'ai aperçu le MacCall's 7170 de 1963 sur Ebay, j'ai su qu'il fallait quej'en fasse une robe pour Mademoiselle Eulalie Constance Philomène Petitbébé.Il s'agit d'une robe toute simple, très courte et qui n'est pas cintrée, exactement le genre de forme qui est adorable sur la forme, un peu cylindrique il faut l'avouer, d'une petite fille de un an.J'avais d'abord considéré la faire en blanc,

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Il est temps de résumer l'action de ces quelques jours.Après plus d'une semaine de tergiversations, j'avais fini par me décider pour le patron Simplicity 1583, (c) 1956, et plus précisément le modèle 3 (à gauche). Il permet de faire une jupe et deux variations de chemisier, une avec un petit col montant (la seule différence entre le modèle 1 et le modèle 2 est le petit cordon qui se noue devant

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Saturday : Fabric shopping Because obviously, nothing I had in my huge stash of fabric would do. I basically wrote down the necessary length of fabric given for all my vintage patterns, and went hunting I bought more than five meters of a very tightly woven cotton fabric in dark chocolate color (sold under the name « Livingstone ») as an all purpose fabric, and various others for other dresses.

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Je crois que j'ai décidé de participer au concours de Pattern Review. Je ne suis pas encore sûre du patron que je vais réaliser, mais j'ai une ou deux idées...En tous cas, les posts qui suivent seront en deux languesSamedi : courses au Marché St-Pierre Parce que évidemment, je n'avais rien dans mon énorme réserve de tissu qui pouvait convenir. J'ai donc noté tous les métrages nécessaires pour

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Pour les amateurs/trices, il y a un concours de vêtements réalisés d'après des patrons vintage (1920 à 1975) sur Pattern Review (la participation est réservée aux inscrits sur le site). La date limite est le 31 mai (mais la robe doit avoir été commencée après le 1er mai), et les revues doivent comporter description détaillée et photos. Pour l'instant, il n'y a qu'une seule entrée, mais je pense

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La robe violette est presque prête. Elle a fini nettement asymétrique (les godets des deux côtés ne finissent pas du tout à la même hauteur), mais il devrait être possible de dissimuler cela avec une ceinture en biais.Le manque de solidité du tissu a eu une autre conséquence : il était impossible de percer pour mettre des oeillets pour lacer la robe. Je me suis résignée à faire des boucles à la

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... Je pense pouvoir donner deux conseils :les métrages de tissus sur les patrons ont beau être là à titre indicatif, cela ne veut pas dire qu'il va être facile de faire une robe avec deux mètres cinquante de tissu de 1m de large quand le mode d'emploi en indique cinq de 1m15 de large.S'il faut recoller plein de petits bouts ensemble, il vaut mieux ne pas utiliser une soie qui s'effiloche (part

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J'ai enfin fini la première robe "pour tous les jours" que j'aie jamais faite. Une envie subite en naviguant sur Dress a Day, et qui sera un jour réalisée avec des imprimés japonais. J'ai donc sélectionné un patron qui permet de jouer avec plusieurs imprimés différents, le McCall 5137, qui au dire des connaisseuses serait une robe proche de celle conçue par le designer Duro Olowu.Mais avant de me

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Mais il devenait impossible de résister.Comme si la blogosphère avait encore besoin de ca.Ce blog me servira à présenter les créations de mon esprit parfois tordu, et mes trouvailles dans le domaine de la couture, en particulier de costumes. J'y ferais des revues de patrons, des mises en ligne de conseils, et autres selon mon humeur du moment, et le temps que j'ai à y consacrer. Si tout va bien,

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