Asa now has a lacy bustle to hold out her skirts. The bustle is embellished with rows of lace ruffles and is stuffed to help hold it's shape. It ties on with ribbons, but I have to see if that's good enough, as the bustle sits a bit high in the back right now - it looks the right height, but there's at least three layers of skirts still coming on top of it. It may need hooks so it can be hooked lower onto her pantaloons. I have to wait and see how high her slip and skirts come.
I'll see about designing the slip patterns, but by this time tomorrow I'll need to have my sewing space cleaned up. My niece is getting married Saturday, and I have all kinds of family events all weekend. My daughter and her family are coming to stay with us, and my son and his girlfriend are flying in from Vancouver tonight. It may be Monday before I can get back to any sewing.
Maybe I'll pull out my boxes of fancy fabrics and ribbons and try figure out some nice colour schemes before I have to clean everything up.
My new doll body from Iplehouse arrived this morning. I ordered a SID Eva, but the head is moving on to it's new home as soon as I find a box for it. This new SID body is for my EID Asa head, but she's currently on the EID body, with Carina in storage, so I need to switch them so the new body can be blushed to match. I don't currently have any costumes for Asa to wear other than a dressing gown. I'm thinking after she comes back from getting her body blush, and I have a bit of free time between commissions, I may just make a style of gown I've always loved - an Elizabethan gown. Someone on DOA commented on my Pacific Princess thread that the dolls reminded her of Pocahontas. Wrong native style, but it did give me an idea. After she had been told (wrongly) that John Smith had died, Pocahontas was captured and held for ransom by the English. During her captivity she converted to Christianity, changed her name to Rebecca, and fell in love with and married John Rolfe. In 1616 the Rolfes travelled to London, and Lady Rebecca Rolfe was presented to society as a "civilized savage" and became quite a celebrity. There's actually a painted portrait of her in her Elizabethan finery. Now that appeals to me - doing something totally unexpected with a story everyone is only partly familiar with!
Maybe I'll pull out my boxes of fancy fabrics and ribbons and try figure out some nice colour schemes before I have to clean everything up.
My new doll body from Iplehouse arrived this morning. I ordered a SID Eva, but the head is moving on to it's new home as soon as I find a box for it. This new SID body is for my EID Asa head, but she's currently on the EID body, with Carina in storage, so I need to switch them so the new body can be blushed to match. I don't currently have any costumes for Asa to wear other than a dressing gown. I'm thinking after she comes back from getting her body blush, and I have a bit of free time between commissions, I may just make a style of gown I've always loved - an Elizabethan gown. Someone on DOA commented on my Pacific Princess thread that the dolls reminded her of Pocahontas. Wrong native style, but it did give me an idea. After she had been told (wrongly) that John Smith had died, Pocahontas was captured and held for ransom by the English. During her captivity she converted to Christianity, changed her name to Rebecca, and fell in love with and married John Rolfe. In 1616 the Rolfes travelled to London, and Lady Rebecca Rolfe was presented to society as a "civilized savage" and became quite a celebrity. There's actually a painted portrait of her in her Elizabethan finery. Now that appeals to me - doing something totally unexpected with a story everyone is only partly familiar with!
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