Dress pattern wanted

[luinar.livejournal.com]

Hi Everyone.

I wonder could anyone help. I'm looking for a pattern for a dress like the one Veronica Lake wore in This Gun for Hire. I know a woman here seems to have made her own version, but there's no mention of a pattern and I'm not at the stage of making my own.

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance.

Horse! and wool!

[grygon.livejournal.com]

I had a 9some hour adventure yesterday traveling some 200miles and seeing a dozen or so abandonments and sites stopping at a lady's house to pick up the dead horse she's been saving for me for nearly a year. They kept her covered so the beetles and flies cleaned her up very good. I'm not sure how complete her legs are, and I know I am missing her tail bones, and I know for sure two of her hooves are missing (hind hooves). So instead of articulating her in whole I might just do a euro shoulder mount and save the rear bones for carving and stuff.

Anywho, the lady also cut her mane and tail for me. Today I experimented in cleaning some wool and I think it has partially felted on me despite me being as gentle as possible with it: I just put a handful of it in a mesh bag that we buy our oranges in ( http://wolfram.org/writing/howto/1.html ) and pushed it into the soapy water and pushed a rock on top. Once in a while I move the bag back and forth, but I guess even that much movement is bad. :( I did two soapy water changes when the hot hot water turned warm, then a 3rd of just plain hot water to let the soap leach out.

So I am wondering, since it clearly doesn't take much agitation at all to knot up fibers... how on earth can I clean this cut mane and tail without it becoming stubbornly knotted on me? It's folded into a bag so it might already be a little knotted. And for those who have used horse hair in jewelry or art, what do you do exactly- clamp it and braid?

My first post here -- I do jewelry stuff

[deboranter.livejournal.com]

I just finished this piece. You know I always find it hard to guesstimate the time I spend on a piece because I paint something one day, finish it up, put it aside, and finally use it months later. Anyway these were raw brass stampings that I colorized using lumiere paints and metallic ink pens. I just finished them with an acrylic matte spray finish. I used a brass crescent half ring for the base and "riveted" the colorized brass with a simple paper brad so I could get some spin on the pieces. But because the back looked really ugly and not secure at all I then glued brass filigree over the brad findings which lost me the spin on the watch faces but I still have it on the colorized findings. The red gear in the middle was not colorized by me -- I bought it that way. It hangs from a simple brass rolo chain with a lobster clasp.

A couple more things by me.

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 Please forgive me cutting and pasting my marketing text but by the time I get done posting everywhere I get a little lazy.  It doesn't include the link to my shop so it should be ok.


Its time for spring and what do we like in the spring? We like bees and butterflies. Bees and butterflies are cool. This is all brass with different finishes. The two butterflies are really old (that would be GENUINE VINTAGE BRASS STAMPINGS in marketing speak) and have oxidized themselves into this coppery finish. Its known as gingerbread brass and there isn't much of this left out there. The bees had the coppery finish applied by humans instead of nature. That's a genuine natural 12mm malachite cabochon because spring is when things start getting green and besides it looks really good there surrounded by all that coppery finish. This all adorns a brass filigree in a gun metal finish suspended by an 18" inch chain with a lobster tail clasp. Hand made, as is all of my stuff, and one of a kind.




This beautiful necklace is made of these very cool green spotted shells with an orange backing interspersed with green pearls. All these are dyed of course. To my knowledge, pearls and shells do not come in bright orange and green. Its approximately 18" in length including the copper toggle clasp at the back

Jean Dress Recon

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I don't sew nearly as often as I would like to - but here is another reconstruction. I got this dress recently at Goodwill, and strangely saw potential in it :)

Before:




After:



( Lots of pics :) )