The Red Elizabethan – oops!
Back in November I did a bunch of work on my Red Velvet Elizabethan ensemble – and a bit of blogging about it. I assumed I’d written all the relevant blog posts, because I’d thought about writing them so much, but I went looking for the final project status wrap-up for the year, and realised I never wrote it! Oops! When I last blogged about it, I had an inspiration image: And the ensemble had a finished bodice, and an assembled skirt, which just needed to be put together. I have since done that: From the back, it looks spectacular: Look at those pretty pleats! (very timely): From the front? Not so much: Granted, it looks a lot better on a person than on that dressform, which is too big for it, so the bodice won’t laced closed. But even on a person, the lacing doesn’t sit totally smooth, there is a bit of wrinkling in the bodice, and the front pleats aren’t deep enough to sit nicely. Re-doing the skirt pleating is easy enough, …
