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Bustlepunk Revisited

M.K. Hobson — Fri, 27 May 2011 05:08:38 +0000

All the way back in 2009, nigh on an eternity ago, I posted a little something called The Bustlepunk Manifesto. Hardly a proper manifesto at all, it was really more of an excuse to post a picture of a really stunning Worth gown along with a bit of topical silliness, which sprung from some [...]

How to splice gimp

M.K. Hobson — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:29:20 +0000

When you’re doing Victorian costuming, and you get to the part where you start doing trims, you will find that you use gimp. A lot of gimp. And of course by “gimp” I do not mean this:

… but rather this:

Gimp, sometimes referred to as cordonette, is very useful for covering up [...]

Weekend update: plying the gimp

M.K. Hobson — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:47:28 +0000

OK, so not many pictures this week, sorry. But my camera utterly failed at getting closeup shots of the layered trims I’ve been working on, so … oh well. Anyway, that’s the big news for this weekend … I’ve been sewing on trim. Yards and yards of trim. (I bought a whole bolt of [...]

Bodice Follow-Up

M.K. Hobson — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:00:52 +0000

So after last night’s post, I went back to Truly Victorian and poked around, hoping to get inspiration as to how I wanted to handle the bodice in my new, post-blue-taffeta reality. See, for the top I was intending to make this:

I was going to recut the sleeves (bell sleeves? No thank you) [...]

Skirt (construction) is finished!

M.K. Hobson — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:30:19 +0000

I had a very trying weekend. First of all, my sewing machine started acting up. I need to open it all up and clean it, maybe that will help. But even more intensely annoying was the discovery that I cannot get any more blue taffeta, at least not the particular shade & brand I’ve [...]

Bonus Midweek Costuming Update

M.K. Hobson — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:41:58 +0000

A true test of how obsessed one is with any project is how early in the morning one is willing to get up to work on it. These days, I am getting up at 4 a.m. to get a few hours of work in on sewing before I have to go to work. Insanity? [...]

Crazy train

M.K. Hobson — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:34:47 +0000

I hate to say this but I’m starting to get pretty sick of sewing. And when one is sick of sewing a Parisian trained skirt, one is clearly sick of life. But I am not so sick of life that I’m going to fail in my project blogging duties, because of all the duties [...]

“Basting & pleating, basting & pleating …”

M.K. Hobson — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:10:53 +0000

… all weekend long I sang that song. Which isn’t so much a song, really, as just words I kept humming tunelessly to myself. Basting and pleating. Basting and pleating.

It wasn’t all basting and pleating though. The big news from this weekend is that I got the front three skirt panels done! Have [...]

The Redonkulous Purple Dress … Photos!

M.K. Hobson — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:26:20 +0000

I knew that the splendiferous Ellen Datlow would come through for me … she always takes the best photos! Here they are from her Flickr gallery:

This is my favorite of all the shots. You can see the hand-stitching on the bodice hem & around the buttons. And the fan [...]

Ooo la la Tissot

M.K. Hobson — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:42:52 +0000