#HolidayPhotoHop2020 Day 9: Nostalgic
(part 1)
Back in the summer of 2013, I worked as part of a small team of costumers to build all the interior sets of Victorian style gazebos for the Dallas Arboretum's 12 Days of Christmas display. There's something rather nostalgic about gazebos and Victorian styling for Christmas!
There were some delays with the gazebo builds themselves, so the entire thing was put off until November of 2014, but the Arboretum has used this as their annual holiday event ever since. I've heard that many people have made it an annual tradition to go see it.
The Nine Ladies Dancing gazebo was the most involved sewing of the twelve. We built all 9 dresses for the mannequins according to the designer's sketches. I personally stitched the purple dress and the green dress just before it in the display rotation. Two other stitchers assembled two dresses each, and then we each made different parts of the other three together.
I ended up losing all my good photos from the actual build in the costume shop (my phone was stolen about a month after we completed everything), but I got photos when we went to see the entire installation the next year.
First photo was one of the professionally taken pictures used for publicity. The rest are from the night I went to see the completed display with my husband.
I'll post a 4 minute video I took in a separate post so you can see it all in motion and how everything glitters & shines.
#arboretum12days
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.
