Kambriel Lovett Gown
Dec. 31st, 2009 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kambrielO.K., this needs to happen... A "Miss Lovett" photo with a similar cake (in the "bubbling cauldron" stage), while wearing this dress:
By the way, the dress was created entirely from "stash" materials that I already had on hand... I created it as a bit of a challenge to not have to go out and buy anything for it, and am so happy I did, because it put lots of treasured, but not yet utilized fabrics and trimmings to use and I think came out even better than it would have had I just bought something new to make it with :)
~ Kambriel
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By the way, the dress was created entirely from "stash" materials that I already had on hand... I created it as a bit of a challenge to not have to go out and buy anything for it, and am so happy I did, because it put lots of treasured, but not yet utilized fabrics and trimmings to use and I think came out even better than it would have had I just bought something new to make it with :)
~ Kambriel
[Kambriel.com ~ Etsy ~ Twitter ~ Tumblr ~ Facebook]
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Date: 2009-12-31 08:31 pm (UTC)(Tho' I know that your fabric stash is far, far better than the rest of ours! ) ;)
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Date: 2009-12-31 08:47 pm (UTC)The drippy overskirt (for the underskirt ~ yes, irony) is probably my favourite part of the entire dress ~ I'm glad you noticed it!
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Date: 2009-12-31 08:44 pm (UTC)Also <3 moire taffeta. I like the photographic effect but I'd also love to see these in full color as well.
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Date: 2009-12-31 09:33 pm (UTC)Moire taffeta is for me now what crushed velvet used to be. I love the play of light it has! Hopefully I'll get some more proper photos of it soon, but the dress is itself all black with just the tiniest touches of crimson at the lower sleeves and some lacing in the back.
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Date: 2009-12-31 09:01 pm (UTC)Now let's play "what do you recognize"?
The ultra-delicate spiderweb/rose black lace used for the overlay of the lower sleeves? It's the lace you gave as a gift last year that I said I'd have to wait for just the perfect use before cutting into it! And look carefully at the lower hem of the underskirt... tassel fringe procured on one of our visits (when we found the vast quantities of "dead stock" black trims)!
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Date: 2010-01-01 02:16 am (UTC)I remember an exhibit on needlework in Salem called "Painting with Thread" ~ and thought that was a lovely way of putting it into words.
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Date: 2009-12-31 09:18 pm (UTC)So much scope for the imagination. Each time I look at the picture I discover something else!
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Date: 2010-01-01 02:17 am (UTC)I love that ~ and wish you could see it all in person!
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Date: 2010-01-01 02:19 am (UTC)Are you wearing your dress tonight?
I just saw a picture of Amanda and she was!: http://twitgoo.com/asi1y
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Date: 2009-12-31 10:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-01 02:20 am (UTC)I keep wondering about what I should make for when we go romping about together. Something red? Any particular ideas or inspirations you might already have in mind that you'd like to see fulfilled?
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Date: 2010-01-01 02:22 am (UTC)I actually agree with you in that I think this is one of my personal favourites as well! I think it's due to using a lot of favourite pieces of fabrics and such that I've been holding on to... I've only tried it on briefly once or twice, but as soon as I put it on, it just feels so ~grand~.
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Date: 2009-12-31 10:38 pm (UTC)For some reason, after seeing the mixer and this now I have a song about meat pies going on in my head.
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Date: 2010-01-01 02:31 am (UTC)Must be the sequins fault ;)
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Date: 2009-12-31 11:00 pm (UTC)Oh that is beautiful!
And I think forcing yourself to use stash materials was a great idea. You were probably able to come up with combinations you'd never have thought of otherwise. I think that's why I have so much fun making clothing for the dolls I make - I just get out the fabrics from the stash and let them guide me in the right direction.
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Date: 2009-12-31 11:00 pm (UTC)That's GLORIOUS.
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Date: 2010-01-01 02:33 am (UTC)Let me know when it happens, that way I can take some time off to go feed the puffins every now and then ;)
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Date: 2010-01-01 02:38 am (UTC)I hope you're having a terrific New Year's Eve :)
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Date: 2010-01-01 01:39 am (UTC)So much love, where do I begin! I should send you some of my old lace, LOL!
Happy New Year, I wish you and Curse much joy!
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Date: 2010-01-01 02:37 am (UTC)C's dad told me something to that effect ~way back when~ (I was frilling up an otherwise plain white oxford as a gift for C), and it totally took me off guard coming from a retired Marine master sergeant!
I'd be happy to help create something out of your old lace stockpiles anyday... But you know, it would probably be most ~sensible~ if I had to come up there and sort through them with you ;)
Much joy to you for the new year as well!
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Date: 2010-01-01 01:43 am (UTC)Absolutely beautiful - amazing work!!! You definitely have a knack for mixing textures. :)
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Date: 2010-01-01 02:10 am (UTC)You and me... Venice ~ in these gowns. The stuff dreams are made of!
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Date: 2010-01-01 02:37 am (UTC)... and you know that's a complement from me!
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Date: 2010-01-01 02:40 am (UTC)I miss you!
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Date: 2010-01-01 07:06 pm (UTC)It's one of my all-time favourites too ~ somehow everything just came together even better than I'd imagined... especially that drippy lace overskirt. I never knew ~what~ I'd do with the piece of fabric (a gift from C several years ago), but I think it definitely fell into the right purpose :)
It makes me think of something you said not too long ago about being able to just do what you feel is right (opposed to keeping it "as ordered") ~ having that kind of freedom can really make a massive difference!
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Date: 2010-01-01 04:25 am (UTC)thats all I have to say right now..
Wow
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