Crochet hanger covers

So what do you do when your costume shop has expensive beaded dresses that fall off of the hangers?  (or 7 of them?)  You use up scrap crochet thread to make matching padded hangers.

Update:  Added photo during re-stocking...

Dicken's Fair Costume Approved!

My Dicken's Fair costume has been approved.  Yippee!   

So the long and the short of making it.

The Skirt.
The skirt is actually 7 panels (gored) using the skirt pattern from Butterick 6196.  The regular pattern only uses 5 panels, but I added two when I bustled the skirt a few years ago.  I re-hemmed it so that it sits a few inches off the floor.  I just pleated the into a waist band and added a placket.  I made the skirt large enough to wear with or without a corset.

The Bodice.
The bodice is made using the lining pattern from TV456.  I used the upper sleeve pattern to make a pattern for the sleeve.  I did the math for the cuff as I wanted to be able to slip my hand through the cuff and not have to fasten it.

The Shawl.
Hand crocheted from about 5 skeins of gray lambswool blend.  Its big enough and basic enough to be used for several centuries of costumes.

The Tucker.
That would be the white blouse part in the close-up.  I went shopping at the thrift store for a blouse that closed around me neck and had pretty embroidery.  It cost about $4 at the thrift shop.

The Underthings.
The corset I've talked blogged about before here.
I also wore the corded petticoat and the cartridge pleated petticoat.

The Bonnet needs to be embellished but I'm very excited!

more on sexy bookshelves

So last Sunday we adopted a 5 week old male kitten. He's ADORABLE. However, he naps a lot (as babies tend to do). Here is his latest napping place of choice... On my bookshelf and his bedding of choice? A 6-skein hand crocheted alpaca shawl.

:/

I suppose I should be glad he didn't decide it looked like a litter box....

moss washcloth take two

so the second washcloth that I'm working on is with a size mm hook and i only chained 24 to start so that it will be the same size as the first (size g hook - chain 32). am packing up to take to show tonight to work on...