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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 10, 2010 13:58:55 GMT
rags, one of my friends used to have a saying "looks just like a bought one" & it certainly applies to your shelves.
sandra
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Post by sorcha on Feb 10, 2010 18:40:07 GMT
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Post by jennieg on Feb 11, 2010 21:53:28 GMT
Great shelves, rags! and Sorcha, that is coming along beautifully.
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Post by ragdall on Feb 12, 2010 1:05:56 GMT
Thanks for the kind comments about the shelves.
Sorcha, You're so talented! It's coming together very quickly and looks fantastic!
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 12, 2010 5:26:57 GMT
wow! to work of talented mother & daughter. Do you have any other family pieces? I have a few unfinished embroideries that my mother never completed & several crocheted pieces made for her when she was a baby by her maternal grandmother Matilda & her mother's sister Ruby. I also have Matilda's workbox. It was made c.1860 of 2 exotic woods with mother of pearl decorations & MOP tool handles. I also have her silver thimble, a souvenir of Queen Victoria's 1838 coronation, which might have originally belonged to her mother, (name variously Mary/Mayella/Myella) as Matilda was born much later. Ancestral photos here - my.opera.com/sandra%20in%20sydney/albums/sandra
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Post by ragdall on Feb 13, 2010 8:17:38 GMT
sorcha, You completed the Japanese hanging in record time and did a beautiful job!
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 13, 2010 13:17:19 GMT
tonight I've been working on my 6" doll for the competition. She now has chemise, pintucked drawers, short petticoat & purple corset with black & pink lace! A long petticoat has been hemmed & pintucked, & her silk petticoat & ballgown skirt have also been hemmed. I can't finish these petticoats until I make her crinoline - it will be similar, but simpler to the one worn by the 18" doll posted above.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 13, 2010 13:18:55 GMT
I've just learnt that if I preview I get told nicely to re-attach my pic cos it disappears in previews.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 13, 2010 13:20:56 GMT
now to check out my jewellery & other wires to see if any are suitable for her cage crinoline. sandra
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 13, 2010 13:25:21 GMT
Click to enlarge is amazing - the very fine fabrics & tiny stitches are gi-normous!
Petticoat it a piece from an old very fine cotton hankie - chemise & drawers are a sligthtly heavier voile, yet both look the same.
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Post by sorcha on Feb 13, 2010 17:02:03 GMT
wow...and I thought I did tedious!
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Post by ragdall on Feb 14, 2010 9:00:21 GMT
Sandra, You do amazing work. How do you have the patience, (or the eyesight), to work so much detail on such a small scale?
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 14, 2010 12:39:00 GMT
Rags & Sorcha - she's only a small doll - not a miniature! Tho working with 18" dolls was easier - I liked that size cos I could fit 2 fingertips in while sewing on a sleeve.
I spent far too much time trying to make a cage crinoline. I tried several different jewellery wires with no success, eventually making a very small crinoline by following the picture & using the measurements given.
It was useless - it was not much wider than her hips & very unstable, 3 wires held in place by 4 strips of soft, thin tape.
Enlarging the measurements, ignoring the picture & using millinery wire & stronger, wider tape, eventually led to a wider but equally useless cage crinoline.
So I gave up & decided that as Cage Crinolines replaced petticoats stiffened with various materials, including crinoline (= French, a stiff material made with horsehair) I'd just make a stiffened petticoat! Or maybe 2, to put under her voile p/c & lined silk skirt.
sandra
these crinolines will join the foot fetish at the bottom of the doll cabinet - shoes that were too small, or too clunky to be worn by the 18" dolls. I couldn't throw them out, they took too much work!
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 14, 2010 14:39:57 GMT
Attachment is soooo easy! Petticoat hem was undone & a shoelace laid in & hem was resewn. Another wider tuck was made above the 3 existing tucks, & more shoelace sewn in. sandra
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 14, 2010 14:42:25 GMT
petticoat over corded petticoat, now all she needs is her lace-trimmed shirt & bodice - tho I might just have to cut another bodice as her waist has thickened!
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