#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
51 of 226 equilateral triangles made. I got a little more fabric because I want to add a more mid-tone pink to the pink triangles I laid out originally. So I'll be basting a few more new pieces, then swapping some old pieces, and finishing those pinks ones.
#epp
We ran a little late on the annual tie dye day this year, which ended up not being the worst thing because it wasn’t boiling hot! I dyed four things this year. The first two were thrifted garments. The denim shorts, originally white, were dyed with a special ice dye blend called Northern Lights.
The shorter dress was originally a light peach, and my inspiration photo for the color scheme had more of the peach showing, but I’m not at all mad that this turned out darker. It was a little too sheer for my comfort before. I used a navy, a purple (grape, I think?), and another ice dye blend called Rattlesnake.
The lace was a random spool of 100% cotton crocheted that I found in my stash, and I also did the Northern Lights on that. I thought the teal would pop out more, and I was originally thinking this for a top pattern I’ve had for years, the fabric I already have is a plain teal so I was thinking of embellishing for more interest. I may need to rethink that plan, depending on how this...
