Artist Salon Prep-Work
Hello again & welcome to another week.
As mentioned last week, I was beginning to prepare projects for travel for an artist salon get-away with some of my friends if schedules permitted it. And they did. So soon I will be sewing & creating under a different roof. My goal is to finish Nellie's Frills, my Aqua Mist Maid Marion Cloak & if I still hadn't managed it, hem my Cinnamon Slip.
Most of my prep work this past week have been focused on my Cloak & acquiring materials for my upcoming Renaissance Dress for the festival this year.
For my cloak, I have spent this entire week taking pieces apart.
I make these pieces for me, not to be 100% historically accurate, or at least not yet. When I initially conceptualized this cloak, I had wanted the lining to be periwinkle & the outside velvet to be Aqua. As you can see, I managed to find the velvet in the color that I wanted, & I love it. But that periwinkle lining... I think that early on I determined that I would dye the fabric the color that I wanted. I feel that despite how gorgeous a color periwinkle is, it is not a common color & definitely would not naturally exist in the flannel backed satin that I wanted. During this time, I had found that the Jacquard brand had a paint/ dye that worked on both natural & synthetic satins in a color officially called periwinkle, which I had purchased.
However, when I had initially "dyed" the fabric, I was rushing & crammed too much fabric into the pot. The result was a rather weak periwinkle tint. To remedy this for my revamped return to the cloak, I separated the lining from the the outershell, then the hood from the body of the cloak, and since the body of the cloak consists of 4 panels, I seperated the body panels along the back center seam. Hopefully these pieces are now small enough that when I place each section in the pot the dye will take better than before.
That is pretty much it for this episode. The next thing for the Aqua Mist cloak will be dyeing the lining & contending with the hood since my initial flub up with it. Until next week...
As mentioned last week, I was beginning to prepare projects for travel for an artist salon get-away with some of my friends if schedules permitted it. And they did. So soon I will be sewing & creating under a different roof. My goal is to finish Nellie's Frills, my Aqua Mist Maid Marion Cloak & if I still hadn't managed it, hem my Cinnamon Slip.
Most of my prep work this past week have been focused on my Cloak & acquiring materials for my upcoming Renaissance Dress for the festival this year.
For my cloak, I have spent this entire week taking pieces apart.
However, when I had initially "dyed" the fabric, I was rushing & crammed too much fabric into the pot. The result was a rather weak periwinkle tint. To remedy this for my revamped return to the cloak, I separated the lining from the the outershell, then the hood from the body of the cloak, and since the body of the cloak consists of 4 panels, I seperated the body panels along the back center seam. Hopefully these pieces are now small enough that when I place each section in the pot the dye will take better than before.
That is pretty much it for this episode. The next thing for the Aqua Mist cloak will be dyeing the lining & contending with the hood since my initial flub up with it. Until next week...
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