crochet and embroidery

Sometimes I don't feel like sewing, that is mostly the time I feel terrible, and the last few months where terrible. It was physical imposible, but I dind't feel it. The spirit for sewing was gone. 

After a time, in the innermost moment of lost and grief, I took my crochet-hook and began with a blue pineapple reticule. Beeing a person that not can living without doing sometimes, it is hard to find something to do without thinking to much and losing to much energie. Crochet and embroidery where doable. 

And sinds a few weeks, I'm sewing again, you can see in my last post that I sew a pair of pants and some under garments. Woehoe! I have to look out, because, my burn out is still there, but some things with time in balans and patience I could make new thing again. 

So this is the first result from my blue pineapple reticule, I have to make a lining and a new strap. This is for personal use. 

I made also the sort of pompon with the leftovers cotton yarn. The yarn is from action, it has a multi-color overflow, so all the colors you see is from one yarn. 

 I making an second one for a friend of mine, she wanted a purple one... why not, purple pineapple are cute 

 And this is my first attempt for embroidery sinds nine years ago when I was in first class of middle school. I like the combination of old pink and grey stripes with the colorful embroidery. The pompon is old, I don't know how old, but I'm would not be suprised if it be over thirty years old. 


The embroidery design is partly my own, and partly off The sense and sensebility pattern An regency closet. 

An close up for the embroidery, it would be very nice addition for a new regency outfit. It is from the same fabric I made the underthings and a regency apron. So fabric well spent. 







Overall, I'm very happy with the result, and I hope to enjoy this result with new costumes. 

Next time, my new costume for elfia Haarzuilen, and yes it going to be big! 

ochreous medieval dress

This is an dress i love very much, I made it in November 2014 for an event in December. But is seen for other people like an sort of invisibility cloak.... I have heard thing where my tose go crook from...
thing like "yellow is the color of the whores..." or "this dress do you look like a poor woman..." uhm, yes.... that sure are the compliments I want to hear if you made the dress only by hand.... okey, I choose this color because I didn't want to be rich, because I don't have the money to be look rich.... seems logic... 

But alright, because the dress has also an effect on the photographers, because they don't see me literaly, I don't have many pictures of this dress. And I mean good pictures. 

 So because i have not really a good picture when i weare it and you can see how it is falling, I have here the dress on my mannequin.

 The side of the dress, yes I have tail hanging from my belt.

I had the luck or the unluck... it's how you look at it with al that snow and coldness, and a clothing shange in the snow... 

but I have a pair pictures of this dress in the snow, but because it was freezing, I had a fur skin over the dress... So you can't see the dress properly. 

 Here is another one, but you can see, it is not very good blog material.

 I have made an chaperon, but it was not really good, I have plans to make changes to it. But that is for later on... when I have time for it.

So for the making part I have more interesting pictures. 

 This is not my pattern, I fount it on the web, but I haven't the source anymore.

For the surcotte or "over" dress, I used this instructions and I found them very good. you don't need very much fabric to make it. 

I measure my length from shoulder to toe and take it dubble. 

 So when I cutted the parts and sewed de big parts together. belief me, it is not so impresive that part. I went to made hem from this dress. I don't no how to call hem.. hemming.... euhm... I thing you get the point :p

At first I sewed like this, but I wanted more color in the surcotte and saw my leftovers wool of school in the corner and began hand sewing again and the pictures below are the result of it.

my underdress is made of simple brown-grey cotton, I wanted linen but I din't find the right color  for this project.

the yellow dress is made of real wool, it was very nice in the winter... In the summer, mwaaah.... it go's, but not very recommended.

you see my underdress has the same finish as the over dress.
 For this project I gonna leave it for today, i'm sorry that I have not updated this blog for a month. It was a busy time. 

greets Jessie.