Well, I was sewing right up until about 6:30 last night and still have a little bit of trim to put on the neckline, but nothing was missing that anyone but me would notice. I've decided to insert a zipper in the overgown as well, it's quite difficult to get on, though not quite as hard to take off. At some point today I plan to add the last bit of trim and wear it again this weekend to the
Drachenburg Folklore Festival Sunday. At that time, I'll get pics. Last night by the time I got dressed, it was just too dark. Eventually I want to use something else to sew this trim on. The metallic thread I used is very scratchy against my skin. In fact, I had little red marks on my arms where it rubbed. Other than that, it was fairly comfortable to wear, and perfect weather for it. I could see where if I tried to wear it in warmer weather it might be a little less comfortable. I'd like to get a different shaper to wear underneath too, maybe one of the one's with shorts at the bottom instead of just the skirt type one I have now. It tends to ride up and become uncomfortable and I find myself adjusting it frequently. I definitely want to put skirt hitches and probably even sleeve hitches in eventually as well, especially for things like trying to eat, or hold a squirmy infant.
After some trick-or-treating, we went to the Warner Parks to join up with some of the Tennessee Fellowship and Nashville Smial. They're a great group and very welcoming. I'm glad to live in a city where there are people that do things like this. In Huntsville, there just wasn't much outside of the SCA group and I was just never very interested in joining the SCA there. Marie, Kathryn and Rebecca I met a couple of weeks ago when we went to see Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Everyone else was new to me. Louis was wearing a chain maile shirt that he made himself that was really fantastic. They had a nice roaring fire going and lots of great food. Jonah was a big hit in his gnome costume. Chris got some pictures before we left the house. His entire outfit was thrown together yesterday evening. I was gluing his pointy hat at like 5pm or something. Hopefully someone will post the pictures they took from our gathering last night. As I was talking to Kathryn as we were leaving, she mentioned wanting to do something like this every year about this time, to kind of balance the year's events with the Ren Faire in May. I think it would be fantastic, especially if we could do it on a weekend to utilize some daylight hours for things like maybe a nice hike or something. The parks are really lovely, and bonus, they're like 2 or 3 miles from our house!
Steffany and Lilly came up as well. Lilly was dressed as Nagaina from Rikki Tikki Tavi. Steff did a fantastic job on a tough costume to accomplish. She used a baseball cap with styrofoam and covered it with black sequin fabric to make it look like a cobra's head. She put the little swirl markings that Nagaina had and painted some eyes on the top, then using pipe cleaners formed a forked tongue and attached it to the bottom of the bill of the hat. She wore a black leotard and Steff made a cape-like attachment out of the sequin fabric to look like a snake. Steff brought a corset and raided my closet to come up with a gypsy costume. She looked great, too! Chris wore a peasant-type shirt I made him a few years ago and the vest from our wedding. We threw together a "cloak" out of 3 yards of black silk velvet I had in my stash. It wasn't even hemmed, just a clasp at the neck and that's it. I had a hemmed piece of navy silk velvet to use as a cloak, but I never felt the need. I was quite comfortable in the dress itself.
We had a really fun time and even though there are still a couple of stray things to finish, I'm so glad to have this costume crossed off my list! Now, on to the Angel gown. . .
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