Lynn McMasters also has a good pattern:

http://www.lynnmcmasters.com/LaBelleHat.html

I made this one last year for my sister, don't have a photo of it unfortunately, but it turned out great!

Love your dress!

That is glorious!

Hi Heather, Can you please give me your expert opinion on my mockup of the 1860s Ball Gown Bodice? I've made it before for someone else and it fit great, but on me it doesn't seem to fit quite right yet. My measurements were: Bust 40.5 Waist 33 Hip 43 Back width 14 I cut a size E Back and size G Fro...

That is what I did on this polonaise. There was a gap of 3 years between my cutting it out and finally sewing it up, and I had put on weight in that time. So I cut back the front using the Vest Basque bodice as a guide, and added in the vest piece. http://trulyvictorian.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view...

You can see why I had to marry this guy!

I actually think it looks great on you! I love the way the streamers look going over your hair at the back.

I really love the shape of your hat, and the decorations you have done so far! How did you do that awesome black ruching? And I really like the braid around the underside too. As to whether it needs any further decorations around the sides, I can see what you mean, but it's hard to say from just loo...

Don't waste your boning! You can always take it out of one corset and put it into another

If you use flowers with wire stems you can wire them together and then just stitch the wires down. Just make sure you have enough flowers to hide the wires.

Wicked!

Ok these aren't the best pics, as they are just snaps taken by wedding guests, but here you go. The train in it's rightful state at the wedding: http://trulyvictorian.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=11460 And hooked up at the reception: http://trulyvictorian.com/gallery...

I used the Parisian Trained Skirt for my wedding dress, and hooked up the train for the reception. I used 3 toggles sewn to the inside of the train, which hooked into rings sewn onto the top of the train piece, where it meets the top piece (you know what I mean). It looked great. The only thing was ...

ms.purdy on ebay might have something.

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/ms.purdy/&_tr ... 1438.l2754

Thanks Spittens, that is some great advice! I would love to do a course one day and learn how to do it all properly. There's got to be somewhere in London that I could go to learn!

I'm no expert on makeup unfortunately, so I was sort of improvising, but I can tell you what I did. Before I started I did a Google search on "How to make yourself look old" and found some interesting Youtube videos which gave me a few ideas, but sadly there are no videos on "How to m...

Thank you all - we really appreciate your kind words. This sure was a marathon, and we don't know what to do with ourselves now that everything is finished! :lol: Val, I made my headdress in two pieces. The veil, which I bought on Ebay and dyed with tea, is on a plastic comb and anchored down with h...

Dear all, I wanted to share pictures of some of the costumes that David and I have made this year for our theatre group's production of "Great Expectations". We've never really made costumes for other people before, so this was a big challenge for us, and we are very proud of what we achie...

How can this pattern be categorised as "Making History"?

http://butterick.mccall.com/b5797-produ ... age_id=385

I love it too! I guess we will all be wearing this bodice by next year!

Why not soutache or embroider a simplified design, and then fill in the rest of the details with your fabric marker?