Community Colleges Contain Creepers.

I'm just sayin'.

And they took out the Chick-Fil-A that was here! :(

And by the way, ladies (or gentlemen to whom this applies), LEGGINGS ARE NOT PANTS! Ugh.

School started this week for me, so that means I'm off to Virginia Western on Tuesdays and Thursdays and work the rest of the time. My next big, BIG project will involve outfitting the cast of "It's a Wonderful Life" for a high school near my house. I've never made any 1930's clothes, so it should be interesting, and definitely a new experience!

For now, I thought I'd show yall some of the first dresses I ever made. EVER EVER EVER. Like the first three dresses I ever put together.

This is a much, much younger me in the second dress I ever made. Looking back, it was pretty horrible, but I learned so much when I was making it!

The green 1860s dress my friend Abigail is wearing here was made about the same time as my blue dress. It was pretty accurate, historically, looking back on it, and had a dog-leg closure and the skirt was cartridge-pleated. We both worked on it together, and laughed our faces off when we couldn't figure out why on earth the sleeves looked so funky and wouldn't fit! Thankfully, we discovered we'd stitched them on backwards, and quickly repaired the mistake.

And here, in this picture, the seventh from the right, is the first dress I ever made! I made it just before I started high school. It's a muslin regency dress taken from the Simplicity version of the Sense and Sensibility pattern. It has been altered, and my friend Hilary is wearing it here for a recent production of Pride and Prejudice, in which she played Kitty. The purple open robe (as well as most of the other costumes in this picture) she's wearing over it was made by the fabulous Emily Marsh, whose site you can visit here. (It's really worth taking a look at!)

That's all I've got for now, but I do have three 18th century hats, a 1790 jacket and a new early regency dress I made that I haven't shown you yet, so expect to see it in the next posting! Hope all yall have a good rest of the week and enjoy the weekend!