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- About Me:
- Marjorie Gilbert is a graduate of Kent School and Kenyon College. She lives in
Maine with her husband and two daughters.
- Website:
- http://www.marjoriegilbert.net
- Published Novels
- The Return
- Favourite Books
- Pride and Prejudice
Anything Sharpe by Bernard Cornwell
Anything by Susan Howatch
The Horatio Hornblower series
The Aubrey/Maturin series
Nerve by Dick Francis
Hamlet
Henry VI, Parts I & II
Henry V
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The Continuing Drama: The Empire Gown Part II
More progress, indeed. The bodice is done and will actually fit me and not some other person.
I even added the sleeves as per the drawing, with three modest tucks rather than the gathers I had done in the previous, misguided version of the gown. As I could not figure out exactly how the sleeves were created as per the Patterns of Fashion, I created my own sleeve pattern and achieved similar results.
Next, will be the bodice piece with the edging in plain… Continue
I even added the sleeves as per the drawing, with three modest tucks rather than the gathers I had done in the previous, misguided version of the gown. As I could not figure out exactly how the sleeves were created as per the Patterns of Fashion, I created my own sleeve pattern and achieved similar results.
Next, will be the bodice piece with the edging in plain… Continue
Posted on December 31, 2007 at 12:31pm — 3 Comments
The Continuing Drama: The Empire Gown
After over a year of work, I am finally drawing to an end to my creation of an Empire gown from Janet Arnold's wonderful book, Patterns of Fashion I, Englishwomen's dresses and their construction, c 1660 - 1860.
As the original pattern was for someone from 1795 to 1805 (something I forgot to take into account when beginning the process) and the pattern itself is a line
drawing on grid paper where each square equals an inch, it is challenging, at
the very leas
… Continue As the original pattern was for someone from 1795 to 1805 (something I forgot to take into account when beginning the process) and the pattern itself is a line
drawing on grid paper where each square equals an inch, it is challenging, at
the very leas
Posted on December 21, 2007 at 12:49pm —
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Have you had any books other than The Return, published? Just ordered today from Amazon.
Cheryl in NJ
Go to: www.thewildrosepress.com at top of page open THE GARDEN GATE, skip Intro, left side of page, Main Menu, open: THE GREENHOUSE. Go to bottom of page, open: BLOOMING AND GROWING. My article is at the top. This is in no way as special as you making a dress from an ancient pattern. You must be a wizard! Celia Yeary www.celiayeary.com
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Now, if I can only remember how to attach the bodice front to the stays and skirt...
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