#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
Merry Christmas, everyone!
If you're looking for something Christmasy to listen to/watch over the next few days, here's the most recent episode of my favorite podcast Blurry Creatures. It's a really fascinating (and nerdy) deep dive into the Biblical story of the Magi.
Two days after my son turned in his last paper for his bachelor's degree, I finished my shirt sewing project. Eight shirts, made to measure. Most of the fabrics are linen. Yes, regrettably you can tell exactly when I got my sewing machine repaired... but I hope these help him as he moves through his master's program and in life.
We had a very quiet Thanksgiving, and I'm doing palate cleansers between the shirts in my shirt gift project, so I ran through the scrap pile and made myself an apron.
Aprons, IME, should be made of thicker fabrics in order to actually prevent splashes and stains from getting to your real clothes. Both of these were skirt leftover bits :)
