2010 Costume Year in Review!

 Every new year I like to do the annual round-up of what I wanted to do costume-wise during the previous year compared to what I actually accomplished and then list what I intend to make during the coming year.

At the beginning of last year my plan-making was crippled by a severe lack of money, so my to-do list was restricted to making things solely out of fabric I already had.  However, my plans included:
-Dark cotton print regency 'work' dress (yes!)
-Cotton voile long sleeved regency dress (nope)
-Blue silk 1812 evening gown (nope)

In 2010 I actually made:
1860s Windowpane check silk day dress

1860s Bonnet


1860s Apron


Dark cotton print regency dress and chemisette


Crocheted 1860s Sontag


1860s Asymmetrical wool dress


Even though I strayed more into the Civil War instead of the Regency period, I managed to get through the whole year ONLY sewing from my stash or using fabric which was gifted to me! Yay for sticking to resolutions!

And of course this doesn't include the garments I made over the summer at VSF, or all the ba-jillions of alterations and repairs that I've done at CW so far.

As for next (this) year?  Well, 2011 will hopefully include:
- finished prezzy for Tyler
- 18th cen. mitts
- 1770's pet en l'air and coordinating petticoat
- Voile long-sleeved regency
- 1812 evening dress
- more 18th cen stuff because I seriously need more clothes!
- secret project for Greenfield Village

We'll see what happens though... plans always end up changing!
 

following a sudden bunny trail

First finished "thing" from 2011!

Okay, so it's really just a quick, digital painting, but I still had a lot of fun doing it.  I've never actually done any digital painting before (crappy oekaki dreck from when I was 16 does not count) and I wanted to try something new.  I don't have a tablet or even photoshop or gimp so I used the online drawing program on deviantArt and just drew with my mouse.

And let me just say that "painting" on the computer is nothing like painting with a real brush and paints.  It's much more immediate, but also much less responsive... or perhaps that was just my mouse.  If I had all the nice technology I could see myself really getting into digital work, but that day is still quite far off.  Although I think I'd be much happier doing costume renderings this way than with pen and watercolor.  Guess I should probably start saving for photoshop...