Posting some older items, to catch up with what I’m working on now! Item Data:– Type: Acrylic painting on canvas– Date made: August 2011– Pattern: used photos of each engine for accuracy– Fabric: canvas– Trim: n/a– Time to finish: several days– Notes: The engines are painted using photographs of the original engines that participated in
Iris Painting
Posting some older items, to catch up with what I’m working on now! Item Data:– Type: Acrylic painting on canvas– Date made: July 2011– Pattern: Painted freehand, using photographs as inspiration and as a guide– Fabric: canvas!– Trim: n/a– Time to finish: Don’t remember. one or two days, I think, including drying time.– Notes: Kelly’s
Painesville reenactment, 2012/1862
Hello! Since I’ve now stepped into Civil War reenacting, during the 150th anniversary cycle, many of my posts from now on will be related to the Civil War era. I’ll also be trying to organize the blog a little better, so you may start to see “labels” applied to old posts too, which should make
Denim Skirt
Hello once again! I’m back, making a few updates and making some more clothing. I may also get around to restructuring old posts…In this post you’ll also see me using a new template of data to make sure I tell you everything relevant about the garment.Here goes! Garment Data:– Type: skirt– Date made: Actual skirt,
Mathematical Crocheting
Hello again!It’s been a while, but I finally have gathered together a few more pictures. So over the next few days, you can expect to see some more examples of things I’ve made.Enjoy! Here is a coat/dress that I made last year. The dress shape is the the same pattern as you have seen in
Spring Sweater
This sweater, knitted for my seven-year-old sister, was made following no pattern. Each piece was carefully counted, as I made the front, the back, and each sleeve. The bottom edge and the cuffs are k4p4 ribbing. The back has cables 8 stitches wide. Garment Data:– Type: Child’s sweater– Date made: 2008?– Pattern: none– Fabric: yellow
New autumn, new projects
Well, greetings again to everyone who comes here to visit. It has been quite a while since I posted last… I have many reasons, but no excuse! But now that my hectic summer has settled down to a merely busy fall, I believe that you will be seeing more of me! I recently moved to
As a sidenote: I follow european soccer!
I follow Germany, partly due to my background, and partly because I lived there for a year my senior year of high school. ~Sarah
Bathing Attire
When I journeyed to Germany, my school put on a fashion show of swimsuits of the century. I was responsible for the 1900s and 1910s. Garment Data:– Type: Swimsuits– Date made: Spring 2003– Pattern: None; based on photographs and drawings– Fabric: Cottons, extant dress– Trim: n/a– Time to finish: ?– Notes: n/a More pictures (and
Dabbling in Design
The following picture is of a shirt front that I designed. Not the actual shirt, of course, but the design thereon. Garment Data:– Type: Shirt design (picture)– Date made: ?– Pattern: n/a– Fabric: n/a– Trim: n/a– Time to finish: ?– Notes: This is the cast shirt for a production I was in, as Mrs. Medlock