tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60500618717065515202024-02-07T08:02:57.342-08:00TrulyHatBlogTrulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14602465594517449862noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-70926133804436733262015-10-23T09:55:00.000-07:002015-10-23T11:08:05.684-07:00Pattern layout for my Embroidered Shift <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's the pattern and layout for the embroidered shift. I'm very excited to have gotten this done!</div>
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(for reference, I'm a size 12/14, with a 42" bust measurement. </div>
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Yeah, I totally just put that on the internet. See what I do for you?)</div>
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Enjoy :) </div>
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<br />Trulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14602465594517449862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-15701870347215877372015-10-21T10:17:00.000-07:002015-10-21T10:17:38.837-07:00New Blackwork stuff!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have finally made some actual garments out of the replica embroidered linen that I had made!</div>
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Up till now, I've made coifs out of it </div>
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but that doesn't really tell you much about how it will wear against the skin, or how it will drape.</div>
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I was going to wait till I was all done with my new white satin corset to take these photos, but I'm waiting for the nice wooden busk to arrive in the mail, and that could take forever, and the corset is really mostly almost done and anyways I have the patience of a gnat.</div>
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So - without decent lighting or further ado, I present: my new blackwork linen shift and partlet:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ta-Daa! </span><span style="font-size: small;">Ok - don't look at the busk part - cause I've totally just stuck a paint stir stick down there. It's the wrong shape, and all bumpy edged and....just look at the pretty embroidered linen!</span></td></tr>
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I was going for this sortof neckline effect:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">pretty groovy, no? I think this also made me want black lace on the edges.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The embroidered linen has a beautiful drape once it's all washed and ironed, and is very comfortable to wear! I was concerned that it might be too stiff or too scratchy. It's neither. :)</span></td></tr>
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I am also pleased with the way the pattern shapes ended up (after some ado with directional patterns and nap...) It is both comfortable under a corset and flattering to lounge about in. Sorry - no photos of the lounging about.<br /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">Sadly, you can't see the pretty lace on the edge in the shot above since my dress form is covered in black fabric. Plus - that red silk in the background totally steals the show. I think it wants to be a dress that goes over this, don't you? <br />Here's a better view of the lace:</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm pretty pleased with it. I think it was an eBay find.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />It started out white, so I used some ancient union Tintex dye that I've had for like, ten years. I had no idea if it would still work, but it did!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is a closeup of just the lace, before and after I dyed it. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;">And here's the lace I used on the partlet, which is less exciting, but got the job done. I dyed this one too.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is a nice angle that shows the way the partlet lies over the shift. It forms the ultimate in the peek-a-boo neckline, no?</span></td></tr>
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I'll work on adding my pattern layout to this post later, so you can try it out yourself.<br />
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The shift is 48" long, and took exactly three yards of the embroidered linen. (And I'm a size 12/14) The partlet took exactly 1/2 yard, but that was really squeezing it on there and lining the collar with plain, white, non-embroidered linen. It worked though. I'll try to share that pattern too.<br />
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Anyway - I'm pretty jazzed and could not wait to show it off!<br />Love to hear what you think!</div>
Trulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14602465594517449862noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-73325012592770644602015-09-10T06:52:00.000-07:002015-09-10T06:52:27.380-07:00Middle class adjustable feathers! (And hello again)Hello hat people!!<br />
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I'm back! I'm back! I'm up and running (ok, <strong>mostly </strong>up and running) after the big move to Ontario! My kiddo has started school, all the essentials are unpacked, and I FINALLY have something to post for you to look at. <br />
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I got a request this week from a lady who was interested in this hat on my website:<br />
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The only issue with it is that she's playing a middle class lady at a faire and the sumptuary guidelines find the ostrich plumes too uppityfancy for her station. Valid point, really. She asked if I could replace them with more middling feathers, so I've mocked up something that I really like:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dark feathers are dyed iridescent coque (rooster), the pale ones are guinea fringe, the speckled one is partridge and the green ones are dyed ringneck pheasant. The pheasant ones are not so electric in real life. Photography, eh? What can you do. Ok, I guess I could color correct, but I didn't. I'll just say that they are brighter in the photo than in my hand and hope that is sufficient.</td></tr>
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She also asked if I could make the wonderful ostrich plumes addable for when she goes to other faires and is not constrained by the character she is portraying at this one. I said sure:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm just a teensy bit enamoured with the guinea fringe, so I added a touch of it there too.</td></tr>
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If she pins the ostrich plumes on top of the other feathers, she'll get something fabulous like this:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well - only not held on, yannow, with my hand. BOY I can't wait to get my photo studio set up again! I wonder where the heck all the pieces are. Garage, probably.</td></tr>
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Anyway - I need to show her these pictures, and get her OK before I sew them on, but I thought some of you might be interested too! <br />
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I've missed doing this SO much. Moving is such total chaos, even when you label everything like I do. (My son loves to tell people that I labeled my labeler. I also labeled the shelf where it goes. I did that to be funny...but that doesn't mean I won't do it again.)<br />
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I hope she loves the feathers!!Trulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044600717797143525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-69944941404783578592015-05-28T10:54:00.002-07:002015-05-28T10:54:28.345-07:00Google and Blogger, I apologizeI just spent the last few hours maligning you to the world for deleting all my older blog photos, which you absolutely, totally did not do.<br />
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I will <i>NOT</i> currently be switching blog platforms.<br />
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Apparently I have two different google accounts (I think I knew this?) and both of them are allowed to post on this blog. (Cause that makes sense)<br />
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Then apparently someone tried to hack one of them and you locked the account to protect me, which locked all my photos too. Which made them disappear.<br />
So now they are back, and I'm relieved and a bit of a shmuck.<br />
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In the grateful department though - i realized that I really value this archive of my hat work, and I need to maybe pay a little more attention to it.<br />
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Also - I've tried to add the "like" box to posts (Very slick, that feature. Thanks)<br />
so let's see if that works.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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The no-longer-panicky-hat-lady<br />
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<br />Trulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044600717797143525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-61108557812033695422015-03-01T17:03:00.003-08:002015-03-01T17:03:39.920-08:00Fun with Elizabethan coif embroideryThat's a misleading title cause I don't embroider, like, at all. But I do LOVE me a good embroidered Elizabethan coif. (you see my problem, here)<br />
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To make it all much worse, I'm almost out of the machine embroidered linen I've been using for my embroidered coifs that I sell at Trulyhats.net and I can find more of it NOWHERE. <br />
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So - I've decided to have some fabric custom embroidered just for me! Sounds like a great plan, yes? <br />
The issue has been that I lacked an awesome, clean vector art file of the pattern I want, and I'm an Adobe Illustrator beginner. Not even an advanced beginner. I know enough Adobe Illustrator to spend over fifty hours tweaking a file, looking at YouTube for how-tos, moving little points and lines around till 3:00 AM, and then totally screw it all up by grouping a compound path all wrong or something. (Not that this happened, or anything.) (This totally happened.)<br />
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This is why it's taken a year for me to get to this point. <br />
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I finally decide on a design with this awesome blackwork pattern that I yoinked from the cover of this embroidery book:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Since I don't actually OWN this book, I've no idea what this embroidery is ON (Coif? Pillow? Sleeve?)<br /> but it looked just like I wanted, so I'm not going to worry about it.</td></tr>
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ANYWAY - Today I finally got it made, cleaned up, and printed out full scale to look at!!!!! Trouble was - It looked just like it did on the screen and it's really hard to say "yup - the scale is just right" unless you are looking at something in its final form.<br />
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SO. Since I'm likely to have to order 80 yards of this fabric (which will last me for EVER unless I decide to try to sell the yardage) I had better be for SURE fer shur about the scale, pattern and size. <br />
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Naturally, the only thing to do was to make a mockup coif with the pattern drawn on. <br />
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So this afternoon, there I was, with paper and fabric all taped to the glass of my back door (otherwise known as the poorman's lightbox) tracing the design onto some linen with a Sharpie marker. <br />
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Results: I love it. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Admit it - You're totally jealous of my SharpieCoif™<br />
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I placed it next to my current one to check out the difference, and I really think the new pattern will offer lots of advantages. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Biggest design difference seems to be the lack of white space present in the actual Elizabethan pattern.</td></tr>
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Also - I found it fascinating how different the same exact coif pattern looks on two different heads. Hairs. Hairdos. Whatevers. You get it. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another groovy composite montage thing. I'm an advanced beginner with Photoshop :)</td></tr>
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Now I just need to get back in touch with my fabric person in India to see if the estimate she gave me last January still stands. Fingers crossed! I sure hope this works out. As enamored as I am with the SharpieCoif, I cannot WAIT to see yards and yards of it all machine embroidered!</div>
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Trulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044600717797143525noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-89725408445173456252014-08-24T21:43:00.000-07:002014-08-24T21:43:02.269-07:00Progress on a replica custom order<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Finishing up my existing orders, I finally came to one I've been really looking forward to.</div>
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It's made of a fabulous long-haired (napped) cashmere/wool blend, which reads like beaver fur, and it's got a wonderful combination feather cockade made from dyed,burnt peacock herl and curled ostrich plume tips around a centered pin. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the first attempt at the shapes, and it's just placeholder bling. We're really only at the patterning stage. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But try #1 is totally viable! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I really like this shot. Shows the nice angle and curve I got in the brim.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same hat - different, wigless, head :)<br />
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We'll see what the customer says. I'm game either way. Yay progress, though!<br />
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<br />Trulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044600717797143525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-2956984116750089602014-08-05T18:55:00.001-07:002014-08-05T18:55:29.089-07:00Custom orders on pauseJust thought I'd post a note to let you all know that I can't take any new custom orders at this time due to a new job (yay!) and some family health issues.(boo!) <div><br></div><div>If I've already accepted your order, we are still on track, so no worries there. Just need a pause- likely till Dec. I'll be sure to post the "all clear."</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you all for understanding. </div>Trulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14602465594517449862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-59245186692715117532014-07-14T06:59:00.001-07:002014-07-14T06:59:13.590-07:00new girdle and carcanet set for a customer!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Here are some photos of a jewellery set just finished for an order.</div>
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(Had trouble getting the photos to shop up by email, so am putting them here.)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Closeup of centerpiece of girdle on my messy jewellery bench</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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All in all - a lovely order :) Can't wait to see photos of her wearing it!Trulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044600717797143525noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-85014872007410429202014-07-12T14:26:00.002-07:002014-07-14T08:58:47.056-07:00Cinderella dress padded hem tutorial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How I did the hem on the Coello dress</h2>
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So, I'm writing this tutorial because I think that hems do not get enough discussion and they are really important. They are especially important when they are done badly. </div>
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Before I start with the steps and the pictures, I want to add all the caveats. </div>
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This type of hemming is best for:</div>
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<li> Skirts that have curved hems, not skirts that are straight and are just gathered or pleated at the top. Curved hems have difficulty being folded up since the whole geometry of a circle makes the outside bigger than the inside, and then when folded up, it's got to squish/gather itself even more. </li>
<li>Skirts made of thicker silks, wools, velveteens, or upholstery fabrics. It's not for drapey slinky fabrics that really want a teensy double-fold hem. We called these Janet hems. Cause Janet did them better than anyone else I've ever seen. (She did a lot of things that way, though.) I miss her :(</li>
<li>Hems that will have trim put around them, like my dress did. This technique stabilizes the hem area, helping to prevent the trim from gathering or controlling the fall of the skirt.</li>
<li>Dresses that can be hemmed permanently, not for hems that might need to be let up or down. Once <i>this </i>hem is in, there are no alteration options. (So get the length really right)</li>
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Step 1: Find the hem line</h3>
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For this, I put the dress on the dress form over the farthingale and I used this lovely tool to get a chalk line that was parallel with the ground:</div>
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After finding the hemline, I took the dress to the ironing table and pressed the hem up. I discovered that I had very little "turn up" to work with in a couple of places, and that my turned up edge was very uneven. </div>
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Step 2. Prepare the hem tape</h3>
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I decided to use milliner's grosgrain (sometimes called Petersham) as a hem facing tape. Here's what it looks like straight:</div>
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and here it is after I've pressed in a curve: </div>
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I pressed a gentle curve into the whole length of the hem tape.<br />
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Step 3: Attach the hem tape</h3>
I laid the hem tape on the hem and pinned it through just the folded up part of the hem, about 3/8" up from the hemline. I pressed the tape flat to make sure the tape's curve was all groovy with the hem curve.<br />
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I then took it to the machine, unfolded the hem, and topstitched the tape onto the hem right at the edge of the tape. <br />
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When I came all the way around the hem, I folded the edge under and stitched it down.<br />
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Just for my sanity's sake, I put it back on the form and made SURE it was level with the floor. Looked good :)</div>
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Step 4: Trim the hem edge so that it is shorter than the hem tape</h3>
Pretty self explanatory. But here's a picture :)<br />
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Here it is all trimmed. <br />
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Step 5: Pad the hem</h3>
The hem looked a little drapey/wimpy to me since I needed it to hold up a lot of flat trim and since the overall look of the dress is very stiff. I decided to pad it with some craft felt. I got this idea from one of the notes in Patterns of Fashion 4 (Janet Arnold) where it says that the hem was padded with a thick layer of wool. Since felt curves nicely and doesn't fray, I decided to use it instead of wool. Also - it's cheaper, and I had a bunch of it lyin' around :) I would absolutely use this product again - worked like a dream.<br />
I cut 2" wide strips of acrylic craft felt, and joined the strips together with a zig stitch: <br />
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I then laid the felt right into the fold of the hem, and pinned it place. <br />
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I curved the felt with the iron as I went to make it lie smooth and flat.<br />
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IMPORTANT: This next bit will vary depending on how you will be treating the outside of the hem.<br />
IF: you won't be trimming the outside of the dress, I wouldn't recommend doing what I did here since it puts visible rows of topstitching on the outside of the dress. I would instead fold the hem out again and stitch just through the top edge of the hem tape and through the felt, and then do some kind of blind hem stitch at the top edge of the felt to hold it all up. That would work beautifully and be invisible form the outside. BUT - since I WAS going to put trim around the whole hem, AND I needed a guideline to use for that trim placement anyway:<br />
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I stitched through all layers, using this wonderful little screw-in guide that I could NOT live without. I have no link for you - mine came in a vintage sewing attachment kit. I think you can still get them, but I don't know what they are called.<br />
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I ended up doing two rows of stitching, since I found that my first row was too high for the trim placement. <br />
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Since I used trim I could curve, I pressed a curve into it before I laid it on the skirt. (which I really recommend - I'm a firm believer that there's just no really reliable way to get a beautifully trimmed curvy hemmed skirt with straight, unbendy trim. )<br />
Here you can see that the bottom edge is bigger than the top edge. This is trim I assembled from three separate pieces, so I was able to ease one side on in order to facilitate this.<br />
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Once again your mileage may vary, but I just lined the bottom edge of the trim up with my guideline and topstitched through all layers. <br />
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Here's an image of the finished bottom edge, with both rows of trim in place. I love how the hem edge is nice and smooth due to the support of the felt. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The trim needed a good press here, but did lie nicely after it was pressed.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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And that's it! At least that's how I did it on this dress.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ironically, the silly picture shows off the finished hem the best.<br />
Tha's ok. I like the silly picture :)</td></tr>
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Here are a few of the girdle designs I've been playing with. I'd love your opinions on these. Also - I wanted to share just cause the photos are so pretty. These can be made with any of the ouches in any color combination, but at this time I only have black stones for the large centerpiece stones in centerpiece option A.<br />
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I've only got the oval rhinestones in claw settings in black right now as well. Other colors are on order :)<br />
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So -What's your favorite?<br />
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I'm working on an Elizabethan dress based on this portrait. (Don't worry, I'll be making the hat too)<br />
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Why, you might ask? To have something on which to showcase the awesome sparkly ouches and the girdle belt and Carcanet necklace :) of course. I estimate that with the jewelry and all, this will use about eighty of them. First, I have to make it, though.</div>
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I've made great progress working on the bodice, including a sweet little upper sleeve puff with a zillion little darts in it and persnickety little pickadills.</div>
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In fact - it was SO much fun, I made this process poster thing showing the steps I used to find the sleeve pouf pattern. </div>
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This sortof got my documentation bug going, and also got an enthusiastic response from fellow costume <strike>geeks</strike> friends. </div>
I promised that I would document the process I used when I made the slashed and bedecked undersleeves. Without further ado, here is<br />
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I drafted two sleeve patterns, one that is the base shape of a very straight, pretty boring sleeve, with no puffs, and another that is exactly the same, but four inches longer. (I had done a sample of the slashes in order to find out the ratio of the larger sleeve to the smaller, which is how I came up with the four inches larger.)<br />
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On both sleeve patterns, I marked and notched the horizontal lines for the rows of trim and the spaces that I would slash, but it turned out that I only needed them on the larger pattern, and even on that, I used the ruler rather than my notches for the sake of precision. <br />
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My assumption that the slashes needed to be on the bias was proven to be true by the samples I did, but I wanted the slashes to appear vertical, so I cut the entire outer satin sleeve layer on the true bias. (This one is the larger pattern.)<br />
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Then, I marked all the horizontal trim lines on the back side of the satin, and very carefully marked the grid lines (3/4" apart and 3/4" high) that will be the slashes.<br />
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I placed a rubber cutting mat beneath the satin, and used a box knife with a new blade and my clear ruler to make the slits. The biggest challenge was to do them cleanly with one cut, since going back over a cut made it not as neat. <br />
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Here is the front view of the silk satin, with the slits all cut.<br />
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I cut out the smaller base sleeve layer from cotton drapery lining, which was thin but quite papery/stiff. This layer, I cut on the straight grain, like a regular sleeve.<br />
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I lined the two layers up and pinned them at the cuff<br />
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On the satin side, I pinned the first row of the trim through both layers of sleeve, just below the first row of slits. <br />
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And stitched it in place on both sides, using invisible nylon thread. (I did a number of samples with "real" thread - and this was by far the best looking result. Not my favorite stuff to work with, but sometimes it's the right tool for the job.) I found that a narrow zig-zag stitch was the least noticeable, which was a little surprising. I couldn't see the stitches at all. <br />
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I pressed the trim flat, and went back to the cutting table.<br />
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I placed a thick cord (I had to twist three together to make it thick enough) in between the two sleeve layers to create the ridge I wanted between the trim rows.<br />
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You can see the ridge here<br />
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I pinned the next row of trim in place below the next row of cuts, and gently pulled out the cord.<br />
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Repeated this process with all rows of trim<br />
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Another angle of the same thing.<br />
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Here are all the rows of trim, all pinned in place.<br />
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I then stitched all rows of trim through both layers of the sleeve, This holds all the puffs in place on the base sleeve. As I got higher up the sleeve, I rolled the stitched rows up and pinned the roll to keep the sleeve from being scrunched against the machine, and keep everything neat.<br />
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Here's the sleeve with the trim rows all stitched down, from the back side.<br />
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And here it is from the front.<br />
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I stitched the single vertical row of trim down the center of the sleeve and trimmed all the raw trim edges down to a smaller seam allowance on the long seam edges.<br />
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I then pinned the sleeve seam, matching the rows of trim carefully, stitched the sleeve seam, and pressed the seam allowance open. </div>
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Here's the current state of the sleeve. Next, it will get little satin pickadills at the cuff, and then get a
smooth, thin lining, and be otherwise treated like any other sleeve. <br />
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(Here's an earlier version, before I added the vertical trim, but it's pinned into the doublet.)<br />
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The entire process took three and a half hours (not bad, really!) <br />
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Whew!<br />
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Now? I will go to bed. <br />
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Taupe/beige perchy hat with "parade float" style feathers.<br />
I'm pretty tickled with it, though these feathers took some effort to get them to behave. They ended up pretty glorious.<br />
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Next Project: A bejewelled girdle that has been waiting patiently for me to finish this batch of orders. After the girdle, the next batch will begin. :)Trulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044600717797143525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-1969572619026384542014-06-04T18:26:00.003-07:002014-07-14T08:51:46.337-07:00Black and grey perchy hat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She's lovely, no?<br />
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Those are some IN-credible grey feathers. I wish every feather I ordered came looking like these.<br />
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One more order in this batch!<br />
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<br />Trulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044600717797143525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-73816623164061535882014-06-01T11:02:00.001-07:002014-07-14T08:52:11.698-07:00New orders finished!Here are three custom orders that I just finished last night and today, and thought I'd show some photos.<br />
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<b>Flamboyantly feathery Navy and rust:</b> (my camera made this look much oranger than it is) Also, I have only one more hat's worth of this rust trim. MUST find more, cause I love it. I also discovered that I can make filigree cones out of some of my filigree findings. They are a great size for feather ends.<br />
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<b> A Lovely Khaki green-brown bowler.</b> This one used a sueded fur-felt blank that feels quite wonderful and was a pleasure to work with.<br />
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<b>Fabulous bright red bowler,</b> with a leather sweatband and satin lining. it's really a smart thing with red hats, or you end up with a bright red forehead. Only color that really does that.<br />
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<u>New style of Tudor Ouches! </u></h2>
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I'm pretty jazzed - look what came while I was away!<br />
These are very like the square black ones I already had (which I just got a <i>lot </i>more of, btw.) in that they are pierced earrings, but they are a great shape and style to be used in Tudor gown and Jewelry bling!<br />
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They are 5/8" X 3/4" Plated metal alloy with acrylic rhinestones. They will be $1.50/Pair. I got 100 of each color, but if we like them, I can get more. They came pretty quickly.<br />
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So - whadaya think? I only got 100 (50 pair) of each color to give them a look. Do you like them? Should I order more? <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top view of the red fascinator, all attached to the base and the headband. I think it came out beautifully.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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My customer asked for a little more height, so I added a small bandeau-like base, to lift it up and cup it forward, and I made a
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's all stitched together. I think glue would have added too much extra weight. </td></tr>
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This was an exercise in "If you can't find it - MAKE it yourself"<br />
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Here's the dress fabric I was trying to coordinate with: <br />
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But all the nicer silk flowers right now are either magenta, electric red, or screaming orange, and I really needed something sort of more in the brick to raspberry range. So I combined about four different existing flowers, and painted each layer till it looked cohesive and had depth and shading. <br />
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I really didn't have the right color purple to do the curly feather thing that I did on the others. (which is too bad - cause I really did like that effect) BUT - I found some fabulous cut crystal beads that were the right purple with an over-wash of a red-gold tone. I knew they belonged in there somewhere, but I wasn't sure where.<br />
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So I took apart a nicer looking silk hydrangea, and added the beads in as stamen-like centers. I also made a centerpiece for the red flower out of the same beads. <br />
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I like the low-key but elegant silk covered button in the centers of the first two. </div>
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Then there's this one, which has a silk ribbon flower in the center. I like that the green in the center plays as a neutral, making the piece come across as all white - but it isn't monotone. Neat trick :)<br />
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My neighbor and dear friend Cory is a top-notch pro photographer with experience doing both portraits AND product shots, and he came over and we designed and built this frame setup and he had these used lights<br />
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and anyway - Lookit what I can DO now!!<br />
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I took a jewelry making class, and have sortof exploded with these.<br />
They are called carcanets (kar-kuh-nets) at least according to Webster, that's how it's pronounced. I'd have sure thought it would be kar-kah-neighs, but yannow. Whatever.<br />
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Here's a little composite of some grand ladies sporting carcanets.<br />
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I LOVE that they come in all colors. I LOVE that they vary in size from close around the neck to sortof wider, collar-of-state-like affairs. I love that they are so fabulously sparkly. <br />
And I admit that although I needed a new crafty obsession not at all, I'm really enjoying it.<br />
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Now - to figure out whether they need to be off-the-rack carcanets for sale, carcanets for custom order, carcanet kits, or all three. Cause I can't wear all of the ones I've even made so far!<br />
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Anyway - that's what's going on here :)Trulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044600717797143525noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-45768133871984668022014-04-01T12:12:00.000-07:002014-07-14T08:55:12.724-07:00Beaver hat - with kettle curl, jewelled band, and extrafloof!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a new custom order, that came out really spiff!<br />
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Super-duper closeup of the yummy beaver fur blank and jeweled hatband: <br />
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You can kinda see the kettle curled brim on the image below - I'm learning how to do that, and really enjoying the results!<br />
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You can see the curl here too. It takes SO much longer, but I really thing it's worth it.<br />
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And just a nice angly shot of it, all done. With a hat this tall, I just really had to have extra floofy feathers. <br />
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I've decided to put all of the Ouch Ordering Information, (which assonates nicely, don't you think?) right here, so that at least I've got it all in one place, and can link or point people to this post. </div>
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<b>What's an Ouch?</b> Ouch (rhymes with "pooch") is a historical term for a certain type of metal-set jewel, dating back to at least the 1500s. I have to assume that the word "brooch" comes from this, but the original ouches aren't likely to have a pin on the back like a modern brooch does. They were sewn onto clothing and headwear and made into jeweled belts, called girdles. I don't have an image of the back of an extant ouch, so I can't guarantee that my four-loop solution is accurate, but it certainly makes it easy to attach and make into the pieces I wanted. This lady below is covered in them. Blue ones, I might add. (Most of the rest of the ones in portraits are either red or black, but when I found this here blue ouch lady, I just started ordering a bunch of colors.)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfkI6tlHSt2lEN2P9Fv7AA0fE_foER0nJ_ZlUjyZm4SxLbLIE71U_kPXB2DjbC3-M2Fe0kbFfIeSMkUWUo8fM1vV58t845fuav7s1U9El6zq9YgNXOBHf2LbpNcVh8uWd8RKPn7pzv35I/s1600/blue+ones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfkI6tlHSt2lEN2P9Fv7AA0fE_foER0nJ_ZlUjyZm4SxLbLIE71U_kPXB2DjbC3-M2Fe0kbFfIeSMkUWUo8fM1vV58t845fuav7s1U9El6zq9YgNXOBHf2LbpNcVh8uWd8RKPn7pzv35I/s1600/blue+ones.jpg" /></a></div>
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<b>Did you make these? </b>I'm not casting them personally, so by most definitions, No, I'm not making them. I have had these custom made by a jewelry manufacturer, who has been lovely to work with. I hope to have more designs made through them in the future, but for now, these are the only ones. </div>
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<b>What do the backs look like?</b> This:</div>
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<b>How much do they cost?</b> They are $1.50 each. Since few people need just one of these things, I've set as low a price as I can, so that it's actually possible to cover a dress in them, if someone wanted to do that.</div>
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<b>How big are they?</b> They are 26mm square, which is about 15/16ths of an inch. They are about 1/4" thick.</div>
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<b>How many do I need? </b>Only you can figure this out.<b> </b>But - I used 17 of them to make a back billiment on a French hood, and that was with 10mm glass pearls between them. </div>
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I've had several people order around 80 to sew onto their court gowns, in case those numbers are helpful.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixpLC6FZN0DbZVsuyXDDsIu9zKLj1juFR_Pwxdt42reWHoXWaM9lpkiwHZwe35JK3KZc1FYCZS_ajP5rZsIae8nLOXZkzbO30aPjqDIdYTI3cSindrAJQSS6vmucaErgnnoeuw-rH4oRs/s1600/ouch+hood7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>
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<b>Can I get a discount if I buy a bunch of them?</b> If you need 300 or more, they are $1.25 each, though that's actually more of a price break than I get at that quantity. (My cost only drops $.09) Again - I'm trying really hard to make these as affordable as possible. You can mix colors to get to that 300, as long as I have them in stock, or even if I don't (though if I have to order them, there's a four to five week delay.) You can even get a bunch of friends together to make the minimum - it's all the same from my end, as long as there is only one invoice for me to send and one mailing address.</div>
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<b>What are they made of?</b> My manufacturer has described them as "Plated Metal Alloy" and I am told that means Zinc...mostly. Though sewing them onto things should be perfectly safe, I would not recommend allowing children to suck on them. Cause you never know, right? I certainly don't. The pearls and jewels are acrylic, but they look like glass.</div>
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<b>How do I order them?</b> You can send me an email at <a href="mailto:truly.carmichael@gmail.com">truly.carmichael@gmail.com</a> and tell me:</div>
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That's it. I then box them up, print a shipping label, send you the invoice, and drop them in the mail. <br />
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<b>What payments do you take</b>? Paypal or personal check.<br />
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<b>Can I have custom colors made? </b>Yes, actually - you can get pink and light green ones or whatever you like. IF - you need at least 50 of them. My minimum order in one color is at least twice that many, but I'll take the chance that someone, somewhere, sometime will want the rest, so I'll cover the rest of the order. (For cabochon stones or AB rhinestones, the minimum order is 300, so you'd need to want at least 200 of those, and I'll cover the rest.) Aren't I awesome? I'm totally awesome. Oh - and if you custom order some, there will be a four to five week delay. Nothing I can really do about that - other than let you know. <br />
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<b>What if I want more than you have in stock?</b> It takes four to five weeks from the day I place an order with my manufacturer till I can get them to you. If your need is urgent, I can ask what the cost would be to rush them. <br />
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<b>What colors do you have in stock? Ok - here they are, grouped by stone color</b><br />
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<b>Closeups with color names:</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Combo Red and jet in Bright gold</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Combo Red and Jet in Antique gold</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">dark ruby in antique gold</td></tr>
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<b>Closeups with color names:</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">jet in antique gold</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">jet in bright gold</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red and Jet in Bright gold</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Combo Red and Jet in Antique gold</td></tr>
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And these! These are two different styles of post earrings that can be
strung onto wires through the holes in the edging, or you can bend the
post back and sew them on. <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Purples</span></b><br />
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<b>Closeups with color names:</b> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amethyst in bright gold</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">amethyst in antique gold</td></tr>
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side view to show the amethyst stone color, which I found hard to capture in the straight-on shot</h3>
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Limited edition custom colors:</h2>
These are the remainders from
some custom orders. I have fewer than 50 of each of
these, and when they are gone, they are gone. BUT - these are what I have now:<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Ones that I don't have, but could get:</span></b><br />
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AB stones (Aurora Borealis, or rainbow washed stones.)</div>
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I currently don't have any of these except the sample they sent. What do you think of them? Should I order them? They would be getting the AB stones just for me, and the cost might be a few cents more, but what do you think? Are they over-the-top GOOD or just over-the-top?</div>
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<br />Trulyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044600717797143525noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6050061871706551520.post-72466988385933734172013-12-15T21:08:00.000-08:002014-07-14T08:57:03.217-07:00All four Musketeers!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After much ado and little sleep, here they are!</div>
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Can you tell who is whom?</div>
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The only thing I need to say about these is that D'Artagnan's feathers are <i>not</i> lavender, they area lovely grey. Not sure what my camera did there, but I decided to just tell you, and not worry about color correcting. <br />
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And now - I sleep. </div>
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