#HolidayPhotoHop2020 Day 3: Sparkly
This is another project that isn't exactly Christmas, but the beaded starbursts I helped make sure look Christmasy by themselves!
These were for the Queen's gown for Tyler Rose Festival in 2019. My mentor and I tambour/couture beaded the starbursts (I think there were 16 or 17 total) and then a few other local costumers took what we did and appliquéd them to the dress they built. I love the crunchiness of all the different beads and crystals together. They were blindingly sparkly to work on.
It wasn't my favorite costume execution overall, but I'm sure the dress was amazingly flashy on stage with all the other heat-set crystals!
(This type of beading with a frame is what my mentor and I plan to officially start a business doing in the coming months.)
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
I draped a really rough half-scale ruffle tail for one of the debutant dresses Janet & I are making. I just eyeballed and freehand cut a scrap of (un-ironed) muslin in a spiral and pinned it to my little dress form to make sure it was long enough to reach from hem to waist. Then I marked the folds and traced it onto graph paper and cleaned it up. The graph paper makes it easier to copy at 200% and tape the pieces back together.
I'll transfer the enlarged frankenstein paper pattern to brown paper when I'm back at the studio tomorrow or Friday and then make it out of the real fabric.
#ruffle #fiestabuild
I made 2 of these valentine garlands. Found the tutorial via Instagram and thought it would be perfect to send to Ashley, my daughter in Oregon, and Madison, my birth daughter in North Carolina.
Pics are from Ashley.
