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TheEvenStar
54 year-old female from Oviedo, FL
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October 24th, 2011

Two years, eight months in the making...
I put the finishing touches on my Requiem Gown project today. What began with an Internet search for fabrics, trims and photos of the movie gown for reference - has finally culminated in my 'close as I can' reproduction.
The custom dyed velvet jumper presented "challenges" I hadn't anticipated - and while I can see lots of 'mistakes' - it turned out okay.
For those of you who've been following my progress - here are a few 'finshed product' photos. First is a full length shot of just the jumper:

Left profile full ensemble:

Right profile full ensemble:

One more for good measure!:

No - I'm not going to 'dress up' for Halloween in this. I don't know if I'll ever wear it in public - for me the enjoyment was in crafting it. I'm trying to decide if I want to 'take on' making the cloak next...
Posted 3 months ago by TheEvenStar
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DadHavoc
Wind Ridge
Posted 1 month ago
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The girls father was a pretty scary guy. Not one I would want to mess with. The sad and untold part of this story is that a friend of mine dated her later and was also run off by her dad. When we compared notes, it turns out he chased off a lot of her boy friends. Something that I didn't really make clear was that none of us were "items" within our group. We enjoyed each others company and doing things together. It wasn't really a boyfriend girlfriend relationship within the group..
Stonesword
Posted 4 months ago
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In reply to TheEvenStar, #1:
Ah, Canada's Thanksgiving is earlier than the U.S. Driving home from where? It was a lovely weekend in New England.

The Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia
Stonesword
Posted 4 months ago
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I'll have to find some more light houses first.

:-)
BaghdadBean
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Posted 4 months ago
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What you are seeing is my dining room table plus a folding table (propped up on books to make them level) with two cardboard pattern cutting 'boards' taped down to them - with muslin taped to them.... It means I don't have a dining room for several months at a time when I working on a project. My daughter's cat likes to sleep on top of my current 'project' - so I have to cover it with more muslin sheeting when I'm not actually working. I have a 'walking foot' for my sewing machine to sew the velvet. I didn't want to have to 'tear out' anything after the stitching. Every step is a learning process...Thanks for dropping by - and your interest.

The male contingent in my household would rise up in revolt if I stole the dining room table for a sewing project. My house is an older rancher, and it has a long, narrow footprint with lots of builtins. The result is that I don't have much room for furniture. I am thinking about rescuing my old 1920's dropleaf table from the garage so that I can have a real honest to goodness work surface big enough to do layouts on, in the meantime, I use the ironing board and my fold out sewing cabinet table when I'm not cutting things in the entryway.

I've thought about trying a walking foot, but finding a decent one for my 1930's Singer has been difficult. A lot of the modern plastic ones just don't work that well with the old straight stitch machines. Someday maybe I'll be able to afford a black penguin. I mostly use seam tape and interfacing for the slippery stuff, and do my stitching with the hand wheel. You've got quite the project there, I'm glad I found it on here.

Cheers!
Stonesword
Posted 4 months ago
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Please?!


???

More lighthouse pictures?
Stonesword
Posted 4 months ago
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In reply to TheEvenStar, #1:
You mean there won't be any more? Boo hoo!

Maybe if I make some more of my own

:-)
DadHavoc
Wind Ridge
Posted 4 months ago
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Hey, I meant to ask how the Requiem Project is going. Are you still working on it?
DadHavoc
Wind Ridge
Posted 4 months ago
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My brother in law has already been contacted by his company's Crisis Counseling Team. He has been offered counseling and time off from work as needed. When I spoke to him this evening, he told me he will make a decision Monday morning based on how he feels whether to return to work or take the counseling. He is a great guy and a tough cookie but I can see that this has rattled him.
Stonesword
Posted 6 months ago
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In reply to TheEvenStar, #7:
What kind of camera do you use? I've never heard of a 'sunset' setting before. I often wonder how to 'correct' an image - like when a subject looks too dark against a bright background....

Your photos are great - adjusted and otherwise!

It's a Fujifilm HS20.

It's seems pretty standard now for digital cameras to have "scene recognition", but I find that auto feature doesn't work that well.

Another feature they have is "scene selection". And one of the selections is for sunsets.

Others are evening, portraits, scenic, ...
Veela
Posted 6 months ago
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Its actually not even a picture that I took at all. lol. So it's someone else's cat.

But it's a reference to this internet meme
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