I don't just like Natalie 's costume, I love it! ❤ As for any historically accurate fashion police, it's Faire and anything goes so they can go pound sand. I once burned the midnight oil and put together not only a Renaissance Faire dress for my self but also one for my daughter. My mom offered to take us right after we moved to AZ and I ran down to Walmart and got myself some fabric and found some cheap eyelite fabric fir my daughter. The idea was to go half dressed. Since I was on a deadline I ordered skirts for my husband and boys and hit the machines and in two days I pumped out two dresses and chemises. I was exhausted! But we looked good. There was no way my daughter's dress was historically accurate as it was baby pink eyelite and first $2/yard I couldn't pass it up since I knew she would outgrow it with in a couple years and for a dress that she would wear maybe three times, it was worth it. The only thing I wish I had at the time was an eyelite press, which I have now. It would have been a real time saver and I wouldn't have smashed my finger setting eyelites. Totally worth it! I wore my dress up until ye old plague hit. Ironically we went the weekend before everything went into lock down. Since we are hoping to go back next year I have plans for a Tudor style kirtle for myself. I also plan to crochet my own snood. 😉
I am seriously considering getting an eyelet press, or at least better setting pliers than I have now! We exhausted our hands doing them, even Anna with her rock-climber grip strength.
Seconding salomae, and I don't even sew. Have family ties with the trade through mom's side of the family though. I'm really tempted to sit her down and video what she remembers of Grandma Susan's time in it, especially in 1950s NYC. Hell, even her memories of NYC back then and take a day trip or ten to record where she grew up as it looks now.
@@KnittyKitty86 PLEASE do this!! You will never ever regret doing it, your momwill feel SO seen and loved, valued and validated. Enjoy! Perhaps you can even post it, if your mum is ok with that. (If you do, let us know in comments of current videos maybe? Assuming Snappy isok with that, of course)
A friend helped me make my ren faire costume in 10 hours. Halfway through the event we realised we'd sewn the dress with basting stitch and had to safety pin the thing together for modesty
Oohhh!! You ladies did a wonderful job!! Thanks again for reaffirming the fact that you make what you want according to your standards. To hell with others “standards” and to hell with gate keeping what should be a fun event. I hope all your Ren Faire dreams come true in your dreamy attire. 🥰
Did this years ago, one weekend and I made a Tudor(ish) dress for my 10yo daughter, a basic Tudor dress for myself and a T-tunic and simple trousers for my husband (simple Viking style) plus shifts for myself and my daughter and an underskirt/petticoat for my daughter. In weekend for a re-enactor event open to the public meaning the clothes actually had to look realistic even if not wealthy/noble class realistic and in period appropriate fabric. Did it as well using a blanket (my dress), several sheets (shifts, husbands T tunic and trousers) and an old plain curtain from a charity shop (daughter's dress) with the petticoat from a length of left over curtain fabric I had. Made with a hand sewing machine as this was before I had an electric one.
Okay, it is fascinating how persistent Merge Gardens was with sponsoring the costuming and sewing community this week. I've seen 4 costubers' videos thus far and without fail each one had a Merge Gardens sponsor segment - and I haven't even yet seen the today's Nicole vid, so I suspect I have one more Merge Gardens ad read ahead. It's nice to see you all getting the support to make the incredible, informative and innovating work, but holly hell, this week is borderline earie XD Like a secret collab behind the scenes, just fascinating. Anyway, do get that bag, the eyelets and electricity for the machine won't pay for themselves!
I don't know a lot of the inner workings, but advertising of all kinds will often go in campaigns during a set period of time. Glad you enjoyed the video!
V, your face when you were watching Natalie cutting and making the things was so sweet! You were her number one cheerleader ❤ Natalie, you did a great job and you look fantastic!
The "point your f*cking toes" sticker and the "hop, hop back, hop back two, three, fours" in costume made this video the greatest ❤ also more singing of Irish tunes please 😂
You may be confident I was singing the entire time I was working on Nat's shirt while she was in the shower! I just couldn't use the audio because I was singing along to copyrightee music and TH-cam would get cross.
I've just started watching and I already love this. I'm not really a beginner but I do have ME/CFS and that has put me off sewing a renfaire costume out of fear of exhaustion! If you two can do it in a weekend, I can do it in a month, yay!
It turned out so well! I like the fabric choice almost as much as I enjoyed the dynamic of you two in the video. 😃 Perhaps you should bring her back as part of a mini-series for beginners...
The outfit turned out supercute! It looks great among the rose bushes & stone walls 🌻🦋👑 To answer the coffee question: Once you have "cream" (plant or not) & sugar in a "drink", to me, it's a liquid equivalent of "icecream"/a dessert. Especially when you have added seasoning, spice, and/or other flavors.
@@SnappyDragon 🎃 I usually have my tea with a "dollop" of milk, but when I add sugar, or syrup, and more milk, even that simple drink I think of as dessert. For many years I have been bemused at the caffeinated slushies and "soft serve icecream drinks" that Big Chain "coffee houses" serve.
I did something like this as a teenager. I bought a book in the Village, I went to Stuyvesant High School, and bought a book of authentic historical patterns. Patterson Silks was nearby and my Indian grandmother brought over some fabrics from India. I also went to Chinatown to get some fabrics there. I sewed myself an Italian Renaissance dress for Halloween. It took me four days. It was a hit at the party. I sewed it by hand.
No quick or indeed any full outfits, but you folks have actually got me to start sewing :D So I've cut off a pair of trousers that I got a hole in, and hemmed them as knee-length bermudas. My sewing started out as a bit of a drunken zig-zag line but got steadily more even through the second leg, and almost looked good in the end. JUST YOU WAIT TILL I GET MY HANDS ON A SEWING MACHINE. I'm 53 and I dared to be a beginner, suck at it and just try! This is soooo much fun. Thanks, all of ye (by which I mean V, and also the commenters here who encouraged me into daring to try 😁🥰
Ahhh we gotta get you a sewing machine! If it helps, mine was $100 and is a very beginner-friendly model, and it regularly does work far above its pay grade.
@@SnappyDragon I'm kinda eyeing a historical one. Someone at a place very near my auntie's (whom I'll visit in December) is selling a 1908 Singer in working condition and ohmygods I *know* this will be awkward and a modern one can do so much more but all reason goes out of the window when I look at this piece of art ❤
I have a friend who collects vintage machines. Her current project is making wardrobe from the period each machine is from, only using her fabric stash.
Super impressive work for a weekend! Outfit turned out so cute and I love this kind of working together spirit! My re-enactment group does weekends where everyone who wants to comes together to for example make shoes, dye fabric or sew something and everyone is helping everyone with their experience and expertise. It's always so fun and cosy and together we make better things than alone!
It turned out well and looks cute on Nathalie. The fabric shades suits her coloring and flatters her even more. Watching this have me some ideas for a Pirate Wench ench dress that is in my future once I kiss my wheelchair goodbye for good. As to accuracy police; its best to ignore them. They are insecure people who go after others to make themselves feel better. Its so much easier to go on the attack than to take the time to get one's self under control. It is literally impossible to do historically accurate these days. The breeds of animals and strains grown no longer exist. There is a reason for that; better quality replaced the originals over time. Then there is how the fabrics are made. Even if woven by hand, the fibers of today are superior to that of the past. Most are machine made these days which provides a standardized product. Cost is another thing to factor in the argument against historically accurate. Most normal mortals cannot afford the cost of natural fibers. 15 yards of wool at $85 a yard??? 15 yards of silk at $165 a yard??? Folks forget the most important thing and that is to just have fun! When confronted with historical accuracy drama queens, I flat out tell them to go get a life and learn some basic manners and etiquette.
One of the best pieces of advice I have been given is that when you are teaching a beginner sewist how to make a period shirt/shift, cut the underarm gusset in half on the diagonal. That way you can piece the sleeve together with one half of the gusset on each side, and lay it flat to seam on the the body. It really helps make the garment construction less "3D" and more "2D". You can literally lay every piece on the ground, unstitched, and say "Now sew it all together where the pieces are touching" and it will make sense with no further explanation. I did this for years in my own garb making and only started making shifts with a square gusset in the last few years when I mostly moved to handwork. I find square gussets simple enough when making them by hand, but really fiddly by machine. If I needed a quick and dirty shift in a hurry now, I would go back to using two triangles because it is so much easier and faster when sewing by machine.
Natalie your dress is gorgeous! I LOVE the colors and the damask!❤️ Many thanks to Natalie and Vi also for publicly letting people know that it's ok to try different ways of doing things (even if it doesn't work!) and showing how to let out a pattern or easily add to it. The very fact that women are not all made like paper patterns are what makes us unique and beautiful! I didn't understand that when I was Natalie's age and the adults around me reinforced my thinking! (Early 1970s 😢) I look at my old pictures now and wonder why I thought something was wrong with me! Natalie's huge smiles as she showed off her new creation is reward in itself. Enjoy, Natalie!😊
We got really lucky with the kirtle pattern-- right proportions, although it turned out with more ease than we really needed. The shirt pattern we drafted ourselves according to Natalie's measurements.
@@SnappyDragon when I was her age I weighed 117lbs on a 5'3" body. But my bras were DDs so I had one size top and one size bottom pattern wise! My first sewing teacher wanted all of us to make a dress. Skirt and top were not allowed. I wish I'd had an instructor like you that could've shown me how to cut a pattern to my measurements! Instead, she made me buy two patterns of the same dress and tried to fit them together, with disastrous results (and a lot of giggling classmates!) that made me quit sewing until I was an adult. It also made me think badly of my body until adulthood. As I said, the smile on Natalie's face says it all! This is how you teach that sewing can be fun but can also be done!
Natalie's expressions are priceless. She can at a later date add blackwork embroidery on collar and cuffs. Now you needto make a RenFaire court gown in 2 weekends. Lol
Gorgeous. Turned out so well. I'm using a similar pattern, but I've taken out the point as wheelchairs and pointy things below waist level are uncomfortable (same reason why I cannot wear corsets). Going to do the same with skirted doublet. Hopefully be ready in a week.
I was so happy to see a new V vid!! It's so lovely watching you hang out with your friends! This is an impressive project and makes me even more excited to get my sewing machine set up this winter!
Look, as a non-coffee drinker, I don't care how much cream and sugar you add to your foul bean potion, it is still coffee. If you add a scoop of coffee ice cream to a milkshake, it is now coffee. Did you put espresso chips in your cookies? Congratulations! You're eating coffee.
Heck yes! Doing a version of this is how I made my first historical dress. My friend Emily, a more experienced costume, came over on several afternoons and hand-held me through making an 1850s outfit for Dickens Faire in 2019.
I'm trying not to giggle because I'm recovering from maybe plague(negative had classic symptoms) and laughing = coughing. but I want to be entertained during confinement. naptime renfaire watching
I was super excited to see you at Folsom! I saw you coming in while we were heading back to our tent for lunch and squealed at you that I loved your blog ( dunno why I said blog). I hope you had fun, it's one of my favorite faires.
We were headed out and hungry, plus I never know what to say. I didn't see you again until we passed you while doing closing parade, so no chance of talking then either. Funny thing, I had just finished recommending your channel to a guild mate and there you appeared.
Not sure if you guys have already come out to the faire, but if it's this weekend, come say hi to me at hookah! It's going to be a hot weekend, so stay hydrated 😊
If you can't source synthetic whale bone, the heavy zip ties(cable ties) work really well for boning. (Source my wife who requires a lot of front support).
Those can work really well for some people! Natalie has found they don't give her as much support as she'd like, so we probably would have needed to fully bone the kirtle with them rather than a few strategically placed pieces of steel.
I love this!!! Feeling very inspired cuz I’ve been considering doing this with a friend but wasn’t sure if I was skilled enough but it looks like y’all had SO MUCH fun together making a thing. And of course Natalie’s costume is fantastic!!
You absolutely are skilled enough! And also, there are plenty of ways this could have been simplified further if necessary (like the smooth-covered bodice, the pointed front, et c).
This was an absolute joy to watch!! ❤️ And the outfit turned out beautiful! Nathalie looks stunning!!!! I personally love doing stuff like this. Accually having a weekend sewingparty with my daughter next weekend.....she is going to be a ...somewhat historical-correctish pirate for halloween. But I have other obligations so we have to do it like this 😊
Sewing parties are my favorites! On our mockup-testing day we also had another friend over learning to sew garments for the first time. He'd asked if making pajamas for his partner was a good first project, so we raided my stash for printed cotton and he made a 19th century chemise for her.
This is so wholesome and lovely to watch. I love seeing the friends supporting friends; especially when Snappy, as the more experienced sewist, took over the more fussy parts. Well done for achieving the timeline! ❤️ the outfit turned out wonderful
thank you! With the fussy parts, we'd reached a point where it was too fussy for Natalie to learn from the practice, so it really was easier for me to just do those. Next time, she can do the annoying topstitching and I'll iron the skirt hem 🤣
Have you ever tried sewing over metal eyelets!?!?!? 😅 wondering if it's possible gold standard between both!??! I feel like I need to give it a go. Effort though 😂
In one weekend, I made 18 cook hats for my school (out of old sheets). I made cardboard patterns and traced them with washable Crayola markers. It was a good time.
@SnappyDragon Yeah, after the first one, I did them production-line style: all of step 1, then all of step 2, etc. I don't remember how long they took on average, but they were a lot faster than the first sample one.
It looks so good! I'm still wearing my first Ren Fair skirt that I got as a teenager! I just finished whipping pocket slits into it, so I can have more storage space 🤣. I actually really like it...I should clone it..... 💜
Fun project! I've only 2 1/2 projects under my belt, but this looks very doable for those of us still "fresh" to the world of sewing; I can see myself sewing this in a short time, although I'm sure I'd still be swearing like a sailor even if I took the advice of basting lol.
I don't think i've ever managed to complete a project in just a weekend, but i managed to spin four ounces of wool into yarn with just a piece of dowel with a screw hook (not even a whorl so i couldn't use it as a drop spindle, i was rolling it on my leg or twirling it in one hand the whole time) in just a week. The power was out for three days and it was winter so we were all huddled up in the living room and i desperately needed something to keep me busy. My wrist and back hurt so bad by the time i was done and i was still new to spinning at the time so it was full of knots, but it was something like 425 yards of malabrigo solis hand dyed merino i got from a local shop and i made it myself
Imagine a Cat who is a Tailor Like wow you got multiple sickle shaped scissor fingies? How awesome 😂 Like you could make bias tape so quickly with these
I am not following what you did to add bust space in the kirtle. Or was it not the kirtle that got the gusset? I took some screen grabs of your screen drawing but I’m on a phone and it just can’t get it big enough to make sense. I looked on Patreon but at least at the level I am at I don’t see any thing more. Do I need a different level?
The shirt has square underarm gussets, and we added side gores that start in the underarm so there would be more chest space without broadening the shoulders. The pattern diagram is scanned and attached to the Works Sighted, which is the Ginger Chai tier on Patreon. But you can find similar diagrams elsewhere!
I mean, this comes over and over again in your videos... What would sewists from the past do if they had access to modern machinery and methods to assemble garments? Would they say "No thanks" or will they embrace the time saving technology? Not implying all of them would use the sewing machine, but a lot would consider the option, specifically if the most important is a finished garment versus top quality. To me, it relates to couture and every day wear. I would expect the time saving methods used for the later, and some part of hand sewing or embelishment of one sort for the other. The most important is not the method, but in the end the value you want to add to it. You can have used a entry price sewing machine and cheap material but it means the moon to you because you took the time to make it.
not sure if its a new camera or not but there appears to be some sort of beauty filter on this video, it causes some strange visual glitches around your friends face.
I have a small tip for every begginer that is struggling to keep seam allowances consistent. Just use those seam allowance magnets, you stick them to the machine plate and you don't have to check if you're doing it straight. Someone (I'm sorry, can't remember who) did a video debunking the myth that they are doing harm to the machines, they are too weak. And, I mean, it's Ren Faire costume, they are not reenactments, so historical accuracy police can go and check their own wardrobe. If they didn't grow the flax for linen, what are they doing?! 😂
@@SnappyDragon That's clever! It seems way quicker than marking on fabric, especially when you're doing something like cording or some heavily boned garment, you wouldn't waste half of a day marking lines. I'm writing it down so I wouldn't forget.
Technically whales are a renewable resource, in the same way as wood. And in the same way as whales, we (humans) have managed to over harvest to the point where our old growth forests are almost completely gone.
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Cats are chaos gremlins. It's why we love them.
Precisely 😁
I am a chaos sewing goblin, so I guess it only makes sense that I'm owned by 3 chaos gremlins 😅
Glad other people also refer to absolutely every inanimate object as “this guy”
I don't just like Natalie 's costume, I love it! ❤ As for any historically accurate fashion police, it's Faire and anything goes so they can go pound sand. I once burned the midnight oil and put together not only a Renaissance Faire dress for my self but also one for my daughter. My mom offered to take us right after we moved to AZ and I ran down to Walmart and got myself some fabric and found some cheap eyelite fabric fir my daughter. The idea was to go half dressed. Since I was on a deadline I ordered skirts for my husband and boys and hit the machines and in two days I pumped out two dresses and chemises. I was exhausted! But we looked good. There was no way my daughter's dress was historically accurate as it was baby pink eyelite and first $2/yard I couldn't pass it up since I knew she would outgrow it with in a couple years and for a dress that she would wear maybe three times, it was worth it. The only thing I wish I had at the time was an eyelite press, which I have now. It would have been a real time saver and I wouldn't have smashed my finger setting eyelites. Totally worth it! I wore my dress up until ye old plague hit. Ironically we went the weekend before everything went into lock down. Since we are hoping to go back next year I have plans for a Tudor style kirtle for myself. I also plan to crochet my own snood. 😉
I am seriously considering getting an eyelet press, or at least better setting pliers than I have now! We exhausted our hands doing them, even Anna with her rock-climber grip strength.
@@SnappyDragon get the press, it's worth the money and it saves your hands.
Seconding salomae, and I don't even sew. Have family ties with the trade through mom's side of the family though. I'm really tempted to sit her down and video what she remembers of Grandma Susan's time in it, especially in 1950s NYC. Hell, even her memories of NYC back then and take a day trip or ten to record where she grew up as it looks now.
It’s always better when you are garbed!! And if you made it yourself, better still 😁
Hope you have the BEST time when you come visit!!
@@KnittyKitty86 PLEASE do this!!
You will never ever regret doing it, your momwill feel SO seen and loved, valued and validated.
Enjoy! Perhaps you can even post it, if your mum is ok with that. (If you do, let us know in comments of current videos maybe? Assuming Snappy isok with that, of course)
A friend helped me make my ren faire costume in 10 hours.
Halfway through the event we realised we'd sewn the dress with basting stitch and had to safety pin the thing together for modesty
Oohhh!! You ladies did a wonderful job!! Thanks again for reaffirming the fact that you make what you want according to your standards. To hell with others “standards” and to hell with gate keeping what should be a fun event. I hope all your Ren Faire dreams come true in your dreamy attire. 🥰
Did this years ago, one weekend and I made a Tudor(ish) dress for my 10yo daughter, a basic Tudor dress for myself and a T-tunic and simple trousers for my husband (simple Viking style) plus shifts for myself and my daughter and an underskirt/petticoat for my daughter. In weekend for a re-enactor event open to the public meaning the clothes actually had to look realistic even if not wealthy/noble class realistic and in period appropriate fabric. Did it as well using a blanket (my dress), several sheets (shifts, husbands T tunic and trousers) and an old plain curtain from a charity shop (daughter's dress) with the petticoat from a length of left over curtain fabric I had. Made with a hand sewing machine as this was before I had an electric one.
I bow before your fortitude. We were all exhausted after outfitting just one person!
I loved how supportive and realistic you both were in the making of this ensemble.
Make more like this!
Aww, thanks! More like this is indeed planned, at least as far as outfits. I gotta finish my new Ren Faire costume too!
The end product was gorgeous, but your friendship, help and support of Natalie is the star of the show. TFS 🥰😍😘
Okay, it is fascinating how persistent Merge Gardens was with sponsoring the costuming and sewing community this week. I've seen 4 costubers' videos thus far and without fail each one had a Merge Gardens sponsor segment - and I haven't even yet seen the today's Nicole vid, so I suspect I have one more Merge Gardens ad read ahead.
It's nice to see you all getting the support to make the incredible, informative and innovating work, but holly hell, this week is borderline earie XD Like a secret collab behind the scenes, just fascinating. Anyway, do get that bag, the eyelets and electricity for the machine won't pay for themselves!
I don't know a lot of the inner workings, but advertising of all kinds will often go in campaigns during a set period of time. Glad you enjoyed the video!
I noticed this too!
V, your face when you were watching Natalie cutting and making the things was so sweet! You were her number one cheerleader ❤
Natalie, you did a great job and you look fantastic!
You can just see the joy in her face and body language when she is wearing it. Great job under such a time crunch.
The "point your f*cking toes" sticker and the "hop, hop back, hop back two, three, fours" in costume made this video the greatest ❤ also more singing of Irish tunes please 😂
You may be confident I was singing the entire time I was working on Nat's shirt while she was in the shower! I just couldn't use the audio because I was singing along to copyrightee music and TH-cam would get cross.
"I ran patreon, not onlyfns" got me on knees😂
Natalies dress is so cute, i caant❤
Y'all did a great job getting this made in a weekend. Fantastic work
Thank you! It was definitely an *undertaking,* but one we're proud to have done.
Natalie, you look fabulous and you're so lucky to have V to help you and be an amazing friend. ❤
I did a Saturday project, back in undergrad. I assembled a Hello Kitty kimono in six hours.
Ahh that's so impressive!
I've just started watching and I already love this. I'm not really a beginner but I do have ME/CFS and that has put me off sewing a renfaire costume out of fear of exhaustion! If you two can do it in a weekend, I can do it in a month, yay!
You absolutely can! And there are a lot of parts of this that can easily be adapted for handsewing-from-bed/couch, too.
It turned out so well! I like the fabric choice almost as much as I enjoyed the dynamic of you two in the video. 😃 Perhaps you should bring her back as part of a mini-series for beginners...
YES!☺️
I'll let her know! Would be a fun series for sure.
Came for the miraculous feat of costume in a weekend; stayed for the vacuuming of dripping sarcasm out of carpets.
That turned out so great! It looks great on Natalie, and I love how happy she looks in it!
Thank you! I shall pass along your compliments 💚
The outfit turned out supercute! It looks great among the rose bushes & stone walls 🌻🦋👑
To answer the coffee question:
Once you have "cream" (plant or not) & sugar in a "drink", to me, it's a liquid equivalent of "icecream"/a dessert. Especially when you have added seasoning, spice, and/or other flavors.
I'm telling Natalie you also think she drinks "ice cream tea" 🤣
@@SnappyDragon 🎃
I usually have my tea with a "dollop" of milk, but when I add sugar, or syrup, and more milk, even that simple drink I think of as dessert. For many years I have been bemused at the caffeinated slushies and "soft serve icecream drinks" that Big Chain "coffee houses" serve.
I did something like this as a teenager. I bought a book in the Village, I went to Stuyvesant High School, and bought a book of authentic historical patterns. Patterson Silks was nearby and my Indian grandmother brought over some fabrics from India.
I also went to Chinatown to get some fabrics there.
I sewed myself an Italian Renaissance dress for Halloween. It took me four days. It was a hit at the party.
I sewed it by hand.
I could've watched 2 hours of this omg you guys are so entertaining and cute
aww thanks! some of that is Editing Vi making us look our best 😅
Editing Vi does a bang up job. I'd love to be able to sit in on a session or two.
@@KnittyKitty86 trust me you do not! editing Vi is not fit for public consumption 🤣
@@SnappyDragon😂😂😂😂!
@@SnappyDragon I believe it! There's times my photo-editing self isn't much better.
Looks like you had so much fun. Sewing is always better with a sewing buddy
So true!
No quick or indeed any full outfits, but you folks have actually got me to start sewing :D So I've cut off a pair of trousers that I got a hole in, and hemmed them as knee-length bermudas. My sewing started out as a bit of a drunken zig-zag line but got steadily more even through the second leg, and almost looked good in the end.
JUST YOU WAIT TILL I GET MY HANDS ON A SEWING MACHINE. I'm 53 and I dared to be a beginner, suck at it and just try! This is soooo much fun. Thanks, all of ye (by which I mean V, and also the commenters here who encouraged me into daring to try 😁🥰
Ahhh we gotta get you a sewing machine! If it helps, mine was $100 and is a very beginner-friendly model, and it regularly does work far above its pay grade.
@@SnappyDragon I'm kinda eyeing a historical one. Someone at a place very near my auntie's (whom I'll visit in December) is selling a 1908 Singer in working condition and ohmygods I *know* this will be awkward and a modern one can do so much more but all reason goes out of the window when I look at this piece of art ❤
@@SibylleLeon I have heard really good things about the older machines, if one likes analog!
I have a friend who collects vintage machines. Her current project is making wardrobe from the period each machine is from, only using her fabric stash.
@@thomastheisman1751 Sounds amazing, I wish I could see the results :)
How did you know I was going renfaire for the first time in 12 years!!!!
I'm just that wise 😁
Lovely outfit for a lovely faire maiden. Huzzah to Natalie the sewing faire maiden!
Super impressive work for a weekend! Outfit turned out so cute and I love this kind of working together spirit! My re-enactment group does weekends where everyone who wants to comes together to for example make shoes, dye fabric or sew something and everyone is helping everyone with their experience and expertise. It's always so fun and cosy and together we make better things than alone!
There's a reason sewing circles have been a thing since . . . IDK, probably as long as sewing has been a thing
It turned out well and looks cute on Nathalie. The fabric shades suits her coloring and flatters her even more. Watching this have me some ideas for a Pirate Wench ench dress that is in my future once I kiss my wheelchair goodbye for good.
As to accuracy police; its best to ignore them. They are insecure people who go after others to make themselves feel better. Its so much easier to go on the attack than to take the time to get one's self under control.
It is literally impossible to do historically accurate these days. The breeds of animals and strains grown no longer exist. There is a reason for that; better quality replaced the originals over time. Then there is how the fabrics are made. Even if woven by hand, the fibers of today are superior to that of the past. Most are machine made these days which provides a standardized product. Cost is another thing to factor in the argument against historically accurate. Most normal mortals cannot afford the cost of natural fibers. 15 yards of wool at $85 a yard??? 15 yards of silk at $165 a yard???
Folks forget the most important thing and that is to just have fun! When confronted with historical accuracy drama queens, I flat out tell them to go get a life and learn some basic manners and etiquette.
Such truth about accuracy!
Wow ❤ this is incredible!! Great job ladies!!!
For the record, a regular latte has no added sugar unless your milk of choice has sugar. ❤❤❤
One of the best pieces of advice I have been given is that when you are teaching a beginner sewist how to make a period shirt/shift, cut the underarm gusset in half on the diagonal. That way you can piece the sleeve together with one half of the gusset on each side, and lay it flat to seam on the the body. It really helps make the garment construction less "3D" and more "2D". You can literally lay every piece on the ground, unstitched, and say "Now sew it all together where the pieces are touching" and it will make sense with no further explanation.
I did this for years in my own garb making and only started making shifts with a square gusset in the last few years when I mostly moved to handwork. I find square gussets simple enough when making them by hand, but really fiddly by machine. If I needed a quick and dirty shift in a hurry now, I would go back to using two triangles because it is so much easier and faster when sewing by machine.
Oooh interesting! I'll remember that.
Natalie your dress is gorgeous! I LOVE the colors and the damask!❤️ Many thanks to Natalie and Vi also for publicly letting people know that it's ok to try different ways of doing things (even if it doesn't work!) and showing how to let out a pattern or easily add to it. The very fact that women are not all made like paper patterns are what makes us unique and beautiful! I didn't understand that when I was Natalie's age and the adults around me reinforced my thinking! (Early 1970s 😢) I look at my old pictures now and wonder why I thought something was wrong with me! Natalie's huge smiles as she showed off her new creation is reward in itself. Enjoy, Natalie!😊
We got really lucky with the kirtle pattern-- right proportions, although it turned out with more ease than we really needed. The shirt pattern we drafted ourselves according to Natalie's measurements.
@@SnappyDragon when I was her age I weighed 117lbs on a 5'3" body. But my bras were DDs so I had one size top and one size bottom pattern wise! My first sewing teacher wanted all of us to make a dress. Skirt and top were not allowed. I wish I'd had an instructor like you that could've shown me how to cut a pattern to my measurements! Instead, she made me buy two patterns of the same dress and tried to fit them together, with disastrous results (and a lot of giggling classmates!) that made me quit sewing until I was an adult. It also made me think badly of my body until adulthood. As I said, the smile on Natalie's face says it all! This is how you teach that sewing can be fun but can also be done!
Natalie's expressions are priceless. She can at a later date add blackwork embroidery on collar and cuffs. Now you needto make a RenFaire court gown in 2 weekends. Lol
She really rocks that dress. During the Renaissance Natalie would have been a supermodel.
*Conditions hair in the scarcasm dripping from tour jokes*
I just cant get enough of this stuff.
Lovely fabric, lovely ladies 👯♀️
The outfit is lovely! Definitely the perfect thing for a fair.
Gorgeous. Turned out so well.
I'm using a similar pattern, but I've taken out the point as wheelchairs and pointy things below waist level are uncomfortable (same reason why I cannot wear corsets). Going to do the same with skirted doublet. Hopefully be ready in a week.
That outfit came out very beautifully.
I think a pretty renaissance hairnet would go well with it and boost the appearance of authenticity.
Thanks! We weren't going for authenticity at all, but I do agree a hairnet would look really pretty on Natalie.
Hey, thanks for the motivation, friend-I now feel like sewing this weekend!
PS: Natalie is a delight!
PPS: if it came out of a blender, it’s an ice cream drink.
Isn't she just? I have such great friends.
I'm glad you could help your friend and have fun doing it.
Man, I needed your Get It Done energy this summer! I’m on the street cast for my local ren faire and making garb was no joke!
>_> we won't talk about the pieces for myself I've been planning for months and only just started, two weeks before the event . . .
I was so happy to see a new V vid!! It's so lovely watching you hang out with your friends! This is an impressive project and makes me even more excited to get my sewing machine set up this winter!
Yaaaay more excitement!
Sewing with friends is so much fun! Thank you for sharing the process.
It's the best :D I always get so much more done when it's a sewing party.
"Metal eyelets? GIMME!"
Piñata impressed pretty❤
The damask is so pretty and the end costume looks great!!!
This video is precious.
aww thank you 🥰
@@SnappyDragon You're welcome. 🥰
Look, as a non-coffee drinker, I don't care how much cream and sugar you add to your foul bean potion, it is still coffee. If you add a scoop of coffee ice cream to a milkshake, it is now coffee. Did you put espresso chips in your cookies? Congratulations! You're eating coffee.
OK this is fantastic!! I love the outfit and it looks like y'all had a really fun time making it. Happy frolicking!
I shared this with my sister as she wants to learn to sew a little and im like this might be a good thing for her lol
Heck yes! Doing a version of this is how I made my first historical dress. My friend Emily, a more experienced costume, came over on several afternoons and hand-held me through making an 1850s outfit for Dickens Faire in 2019.
I'm trying not to giggle because I'm recovering from maybe plague(negative had classic symptoms) and laughing = coughing. but I want to be entertained during confinement. naptime renfaire watching
It looks soooooo goooooood! Brava! ❤
Catchin’ up on your videos after a few months of Life Intervenes. This one’s really fun, and also I love the background music a ton!
It’s beautiful!! What a lovely job you both did! 💙💙
I was super excited to see you at Folsom! I saw you coming in while we were heading back to our tent for lunch and squealed at you that I loved your blog ( dunno why I said blog).
I hope you had fun, it's one of my favorite faires.
I had a great time! I'm sorry if I wasn't able to stop and talk for long, crowded Faires are a tricky environment sometimes 😅
We were headed out and hungry, plus I never know what to say. I didn't see you again until we passed you while doing closing parade, so no chance of talking then either. Funny thing, I had just finished recommending your channel to a guild mate and there you appeared.
@@theresaanndiaz3179 as if by magic! 🤣
Not sure if you guys have already come out to the faire, but if it's this weekend, come say hi to me at hookah! It's going to be a hot weekend, so stay hydrated 😊
Our trip is going to be later this month 💚
Natalie's outfit is lovely.
I've done a few weekend projects but they tend to be simpler than this one.
This was ambitious for sure, but we did have something to prove 🤣
If you can't source synthetic whale bone, the heavy zip ties(cable ties) work really well for boning. (Source my wife who requires a lot of front support).
Those can work really well for some people! Natalie has found they don't give her as much support as she'd like, so we probably would have needed to fully bone the kirtle with them rather than a few strategically placed pieces of steel.
I love this!!! Feeling very inspired cuz I’ve been considering doing this with a friend but wasn’t sure if I was skilled enough but it looks like y’all had SO MUCH fun together making a thing. And of course Natalie’s costume is fantastic!!
You absolutely are skilled enough! And also, there are plenty of ways this could have been simplified further if necessary (like the smooth-covered bodice, the pointed front, et c).
Thanks for this neat costume video!
My one weekend projects tend to be child sized. I’m on a bit of a one hour dress redux kick so those are usually just a weekend
This was an absolute joy to watch!! ❤️
And the outfit turned out beautiful!
Nathalie looks stunning!!!!
I personally love doing stuff like this.
Accually having a weekend sewingparty with my daughter next weekend.....she is going to be a ...somewhat historical-correctish pirate for halloween.
But I have other obligations so we have to do it like this 😊
Sewing parties are my favorites! On our mockup-testing day we also had another friend over learning to sew garments for the first time. He'd asked if making pajamas for his partner was a good first project, so we raided my stash for printed cotton and he made a 19th century chemise for her.
It's just started and i'm already exicted. Such a short deadline and so much work. Great project!
thank you!
Ooof, I need a friend like Snappy Dragon. Lol. I was forced to go like a commoner to the Ren Fest. 😂
But you went, which is the part that matters!
This is so wholesome and lovely to watch. I love seeing the friends supporting friends; especially when Snappy, as the more experienced sewist, took over the more fussy parts. Well done for achieving the timeline! ❤️ the outfit turned out wonderful
thank you! With the fussy parts, we'd reached a point where it was too fussy for Natalie to learn from the practice, so it really was easier for me to just do those. Next time, she can do the annoying topstitching and I'll iron the skirt hem 🤣
Adorable
It's lovely!
Have you ever tried sewing over metal eyelets!?!?!? 😅 wondering if it's possible gold standard between both!??! I feel like I need to give it a go. Effort though 😂
Looks awesome!
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In one weekend, I made 18 cook hats for my school (out of old sheets). I made cardboard patterns and traced them with washable Crayola markers. It was a good time.
Eighteen? 😶😶😶
@SnappyDragon Yeah, after the first one, I did them production-line style: all of step 1, then all of step 2, etc. I don't remember how long they took on average, but they were a lot faster than the first sample one.
Wow! That turned out so lovely ❤. Have so much fun y’all!
We intend to! 💚
This was a great video and she looks great. She'll definitely be at home at faire.
She's gonna have so much fun!
It looks so good!
I'm still wearing my first Ren Fair skirt that I got as a teenager! I just finished whipping pocket slits into it, so I can have more storage space 🤣. I actually really like it...I should clone it.....
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I LOVE when you have something that stands the test of time that way!
Fun project!
I've only 2 1/2 projects under my belt, but this looks very doable for those of us still "fresh" to the world of sewing; I can see myself sewing this in a short time, although I'm sure I'd still be swearing like a sailor even if I took the advice of basting lol.
The basting may not reduce the swearing, but it certainly improves the results and the state of one's fingers after!
I don't think i've ever managed to complete a project in just a weekend, but i managed to spin four ounces of wool into yarn with just a piece of dowel with a screw hook (not even a whorl so i couldn't use it as a drop spindle, i was rolling it on my leg or twirling it in one hand the whole time) in just a week. The power was out for three days and it was winter so we were all huddled up in the living room and i desperately needed something to keep me busy. My wrist and back hurt so bad by the time i was done and i was still new to spinning at the time so it was full of knots, but it was something like 425 yards of malabrigo solis hand dyed merino i got from a local shop and i made it myself
Oh my goodness, what a project!
Great video!
Putting my weekend plans to shame tbh 💜
Look just because we're madwomen who will do absurd things to prove a point, doesn't mean you have to be 💚
It turned out so well!!
Thank you! We're both really pleased with it.
Back in the 1970s, my mom had a sewing machine that would do buttonholes automatically. Could same be done for thread-bound eyelets?
This is amazing! Perfectly done!
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Beautiful work! I'm trying to last-minute put together my own renfaire costume, and i was wondering what size grommet y'all used?
I think these are size 0 or 00
Hee hee, fun!
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Do you know where I can get the patterns you used? Specifically the curdle?
Morgan Donner did a tutorial for Kirtle drafting a few years ago.
Imagine a Cat who is a Tailor
Like wow you got multiple sickle shaped scissor fingies?
How awesome 😂
Like you could make bias tape so quickly with these
Kitten Scissorhands? 🤣
@@SnappyDragon Precisely! 🤣
I am not following what you did to add bust space in the kirtle. Or was it not the kirtle that got the gusset? I took some screen grabs of your screen drawing but I’m on a phone and it just can’t get it big enough to make sense. I looked on Patreon but at least at the level I am at I don’t see any thing more. Do I need a different level?
The shirt has square underarm gussets, and we added side gores that start in the underarm so there would be more chest space without broadening the shoulders. The pattern diagram is scanned and attached to the Works Sighted, which is the Ginger Chai tier on Patreon. But you can find similar diagrams elsewhere!
@@SnappyDragon thank you so much. I tried making a kirtle mockup for my DDD bust and it was not acceptable because of my tiny shoulders. 💜💜💜
@@ColorJoyLynnH This kirtle pattern has different-sized front pieces for different bust sizes! We found it runs large, also.
I mean, this comes over and over again in your videos... What would sewists from the past do if they had access to modern machinery and methods to assemble garments? Would they say "No thanks" or will they embrace the time saving technology? Not implying all of them would use the sewing machine, but a lot would consider the option, specifically if the most important is a finished garment versus top quality. To me, it relates to couture and every day wear. I would expect the time saving methods used for the later, and some part of hand sewing or embelishment of one sort for the other. The most important is not the method, but in the end the value you want to add to it. You can have used a entry price sewing machine and cheap material but it means the moon to you because you took the time to make it.
I keep coming back to it because it keeps being true! (and makes for good humor)
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not sure if its a new camera or not but there appears to be some sort of beauty filter on this video, it causes some strange visual glitches around your friends face.
I just did a one-day bumroll, but that's not particularly impressive. 😅
I have a small tip for every begginer that is struggling to keep seam allowances consistent. Just use those seam allowance magnets, you stick them to the machine plate and you don't have to check if you're doing it straight. Someone (I'm sorry, can't remember who) did a video debunking the myth that they are doing harm to the machines, they are too weak.
And, I mean, it's Ren Faire costume, they are not reenactments, so historical accuracy police can go and check their own wardrobe. If they didn't grow the flax for linen, what are they doing?! 😂
I love those magnets so much! And for really little seam allowances, I have lines drawn on clear tape on my straight-stitch foot.
That's great idea! I try not to use tiny seam allowances, because I'm not that experienced yet, but it could be really useful for topstitching!
I started doing it when making corsets, so I could sew the boning channels by measurement rather than with a narrow zipper foot and a piece of boning.
@@SnappyDragon That's clever! It seems way quicker than marking on fabric, especially when you're doing something like cording or some heavily boned garment, you wouldn't waste half of a day marking lines. I'm writing it down so I wouldn't forget.
and it's no, nay, never 👏👏👏👏 no, nay never no more / will I play the wild rover / no never no more
well done!
Technically whales are a renewable resource, in the same way as wood. And in the same way as whales, we (humans) have managed to over harvest to the point where our old growth forests are almost completely gone.
Did they mention the pattern?
I’m Australian. I consider starbucks/ American coffee to be liquid candy. That stuff is not coffee