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About Me
- Clara Florence
- Just a girl with a sewing machine and a penchant for the 18th century. Not content to make costumes for one-off special events and for swanning around at home in, I re-cut the 18th century for my modern day wardrobe. I take the silhouette of the era and translate that into clothes I can and will wear anywhere, anytime. Yes I wear stays! Yes I wear petticoats! Yes I wear frills and flounces and fabrics which really belong on armchairs. That's half the fun.
Awards
Awarded by The Dreamstress & Madame Berg August 2009
Hey, just be glad it is silk voile and not really tightly woven cotton :-( My hands hurt so much!
ReplyDeleteI do feel your pain though. I hand stitched the rolled hem of my stonewashed silk charmeuse wedding dress - all 12 yards. Not quite 18, but it still sucked!
You love it because it's pretty of course ;)
ReplyDeleteWhen I'm facing a task that I feel is very daunting, I try to focus on how beautiful the end result will be.
And I try to see hand sewing as a meditative activity. The more I sew the more relaxed and stress relived I'll be.
I never sew a hem by machine ordinarily but am sorely tempted with this. It's not the volume of sewing, it's the lack of convincing evidence that this hem actually looks significantly better handsewn than not. It's the first time I've ever used such fine fabric and my usually totally invisble stitches seem to pull and pucker at every stitch. I'll probably perfect it though by the 17th meter...;p
ReplyDeleteDoing the least noticable hems first...lol
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