Every Christmas my family starts insisting I put the sewing machine away. I usually swap my sewing for knitting, but this year I wanted to sew, and since I am a pseudo-historical costumer, I decided to try and see if I could make an entire outfit by hand.
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| Mau helped me cut out the jacket pattern. |
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| I am somewhat OCD about stitches. |
The jacket took approximate twenty hours to finish. It's cotton, with linen interlining and a cotton/linen for lining.
Skirt from
this tutorial. Made in cotton. (Don't tell anyone it's actually a bedsheet...)
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| WIP |
I made the stomacher two months afterwards, two weeks before a photo shoot, because I'd forgotten about it. In linen, embroidered with vintage woolen thread given to me by my grandmother. She used to embroider bunads (Norwegian national costumes), and has tried in vain to teach me anything about embroidery. I don't really know how to embroider, but the end result wasn't half bad.
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