#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 keep meaning to cut something new out to sew, and keep not having time. But in the meantime, I thought I’d show something I started several weeks ago. About two years ago, a geography project that was in our curriculum was to create an embroidery design, the unit was on Ukraine and this had to do with traditional embroidered garments. So my oldest made this design, and asked if I’d use it in my own sewing sometime. I had to sit on this one for awhile to plot what to do, but I finally started it. Last year’s ice dyeing had this leftover sweatshirt fleece from some shirts I made when the boys were younger, but it only dyed on the back side. So I’m using reverse embroidery to put his design on the front piece of this sweatshirt, so I can also use that piece of fabric in a way that won’t look like my clothes are inside out. I also have a back yoke piece cut, but I’m only getting to work on this around once a week right now, so I’ll need to either speed this up or drop that ...
I just need to vent. I was hemming some jeans today and one leg was perfect. Did it in one try. The other? It took 4 times of sewing and picking it out! I’m done now but that was such a pain. I hate stretch denim so much. Can anyone else relate?
Almost time to start quilting panels for my jacket pieces. I have one more front section to piece and I need to lengthen the hood pattern (why does everyone always draft hoods too short?) and then I can make "sandwiches."
I took this photo before I stitched a strip of background fabric to each side of the stripes so that the pattern piece of the jacket back is completely covered.
