Evenstar Designs

I'm introducing a several part series for our wonderful trip to CW!! :D  a random llama in the car... we get goofy when we're board. :D  We went with some wonderful Christian friends - the more the merrier!! I lost count of how many times we had our pictures taken by complete strangers. :D :D   Out side the Capital building for  Pleading Her Cause. Walking down Duke of Gloucester Street :D  Walking in the garden... So many people asked to take our pictures here - I guess we looked good sitting on the fence outside the Raleigh ;) The young Mrs. Washington and her brother Bartholomew Dandridge on their beautiful Cleveland Bay horses - Isabella and Lancer. So if you've ever gone to CW, you've probably crossed paths with Captain/ Colonel James Innes. He is the most outspoken Patriot who also posses a sense of humor! We were talking with him about various things - mostly the war. He encouraged ...

Almost done except for hemming!! :D 

Another 18th century gown for our long anticipated trip to Colonial Williamsburg!! I'm working fast on this one to have it ready for the trip. I have a lot of sewing to get done, so back to work for me!! Later that day... trying on a dress with that many pins in it is rather scary... But I survived. After stitching it all down, I added lacing hoops, and tried it on: Next I made the sleeve ruffles. The are rather simple - just strips of pinked fabric and scalloped lace gathered on a piece of bias tape: More coming soon!

So I added a full circle skirt, and the straps:  then I measured how much to take of in the back for the zipper: then I sewed the zipper in. More in Part 3!

Took a little photo shoot in the woods outside our house...

This year's homeschool ball is a masquerade theme -  so I can make anything, and just add a mask, right? For the last year I have been thinking about wearing a Southern Belle gown. After watching the 1953 German movie Sissi multiple times (which is set in the 1850's)  I knew that was what I wanted to do. And of corse I had to go all out with historically accurate undergarments.  (Why do I do these things to myself?? :) ) Corset: Simplicity 9769 Pinned and ready to cut out on a canvas drape I found at goodwill ;) All ready to sew! One half done... ... and both halves done! After sewing some channels, and killing my hands  by pounding grommets into the back... Voilà! It doesn't have the boning in it yet - that's still in the mail :) I whipped up the chemise this morning. enter the hoop! I got a new hoop the other day. It was all twisted up into this little package when I got it. I started to unt...