Andreas French hood

After I added the wire to the stiffening I used spray adhisive to mount a felt piece of padding to the hat and brim. Let this dry thourally

Next I ladder stitched the top fabric around the padded side to make the front or top of the french hoods brim. I then slip stitched the linning to the under or back side of the brim. This took all day. Tommorrow I start on the top of the hood and the linning.

starting the french hood

Melinda worked on a skirt of many colors for Bridget.

While Judy worked on a pouch for Jade and worked on the french hood for Andrea.

Bella looks on to all this fuss and asks wheres the squeky toy.

Here I am adding wire to the stiffining for the French hood.

Marks concept drawing

This is the concept drawing for Marks costume. It will be showing up on the blog before the week is out. Andreas french hood is cut and will be worked on along with bridgetts costume.

Cutting que line up

Last night we cut Bridgets skirt and made her mock up bodic to try on. For clients in the que here is the line up:

Bridget
Andrea
Mark
Billy
Ronnie

That will let you know how soon your garments will start showing up. During the Season I will be making some assesories for sale at the Croft Cottage store look for them there.

well Jades dress is done. The dress used 16 yards of beads and a bag of beads were sewed on individually. she looks gorgouse in the gown.

time for hand sewing

Its time to finish the gown with the hand sewing. we have 17 yards of corded pearls and a bag of individual pearls to bve added. last night we sat with Mama Mia playing and sewed our fingers numb. Tonights plan is more of the same.

Broken Down

Melinda is working on the partlet. I took close ups of those cartridge pleats both inside and out.

My Sewing machine broke down tonight so I have to take it into the repair shop tommorrow. The needle jammed and broke the needle plate. That seems to have messed wth the timing as it will not zig zag now.