Hi,
Its ben a while since i last posted here. I had almost lost all my good
patience with a projekt i started.
It is such a lovely ribbed silk, but its so difficult to work with. I think
its the worst silk i have ever tryed. I had cut out the forepart, and the
back, the sleaves, and the cuffs.
I always starts to make the sleaves of a suit, as it is so easy going. I had
just finished both cuffs, and was sewing the buttons on to the cuffs and
sleaves, when i stuck my hands so badly and bleeded all over on the inner
cuff side for the left sleave. I tryed everything, spit on it, and used
earsticks with salt water, but the collour of the silk is so fragile, that
it wasnt going to be saved.
Then i thoaght, well thats what happens, and i started on the other sleave.
You wont believe, the same thing happened to this cuff.
I compleately lost my interrest in this, and gave up. The silk is interlined
with a calico cotton, and it was so hard to stick into, that i often stuck
myself.
In the end, i shouted out loud to myself, to h... w... i.
Then i rushed off to the fabric shop, and baught myself some lovely
oldfashioned silk taffeta. Thank god for that, i know how to work with that.
It ended up with a very opalescence shot green taffeta with shades of very
pale green. This is for jacket and breeches, and a matching green in the
same collour of the pale green, for waistcoat and cuffs of the jacket. It is
all going to be embroidered with silver spangels and cut glass beads that
looks like the old spangels made of paste. I found these cut glass in
excactly same greens as the taffeta..............
As for the ribbed silk projekt, it is put away, and i have stabbed it at the
bottom...................................
I had hoped to go to an event at the Gustavians in august, but now i am
sure, i wont make it because i wanted to wear something new. I guess
reenacting is canselled this season...........
Bjarne
Leif og Bjarne Drews
www.my-drewscostumes.dk
http://home0.inet.tele.dk/drewscph/
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