Enlarged and simplified fabric design.
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- In the Society for Creative Anachronism I am known as Lady Rose Pennyngton, an English Lady residing in Elizabethan London. Sixteenth century English and Florentine costume are my main focus areas, and I particularly enjoy the challenge involved in creating garments based on portraits. I have also made garb from other eras as they were required for particular events, and bits and pieces for people as needed. In the future I intend to kep working towards period authencity and completeness of costume from head to toe. And of course, continuing to have fun costuming :) Please Note: "This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and analyze traffic. Your IP address and user-agent are shared with Google along with performance and security metrics to ensure quality of service, generate usage statistics, and to detect and address abuse."
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How did you enlarge your design? Did you freehand it at all? This is so lovely!
ReplyDeleteI found a picture of a similar piece of fabric and traced over it. I simplified the design by leaving off a lot of the really swirly bits because I thought it would be too complex to applique (and it is still very time consuming to do). Then I estimated the required size based on the size of the front motiff compared to Eleanora's forearm and used a photocopier to enlarge it to the size that looked about right compared to the bodice pattern.
ReplyDeleteI then retraced it onto architects tracing paper so it would be durable enough to last the life of the project. I have been using the tracing paper to line up the pattern underneath prior to ironing the pieces down.
I wanted to make the skirt a continuous pattern, so did all the applique on the front and back panels then joined the sides - carefully measuring (stressing and remeasuring) to make sure the applique pattern would fit in the space. Mostly it worked out ok.