I'm still tweaking it, and I'll be adding more "how-its-made" pictures form time to time. I did put some additional pictures up yesterday. And as everyone here knows, nothing is for sale on my website, it's strictly informational.
The purple brought back memories too. Once when I was in grade school, my mom kept me home sick from school, then left to go to work. I spent the day adapting a pattern to be one shouldered and making myself a purple satin fitted top.
I have had that pattern in my stash for a long time, I originally bought it for a prom dress for one of DDs.
Oh! :-( Did you ever get to see the finished gown?
Each of DD's attendants chose their own style, the only requirement was the purple satin. I went with the MOH to David's Bridal so she could get an idea of what would work for her (she's a strictly jeans and T-shirt kinda gal). The only top she liked, and which looked good on her, was that one, with the added advantage that it covered the tattoo on her right shoulder. ;-}
Beverly, that is absolutely beautiful! It looks very nice on you and is a very flattering style. And it shows wonderful workmanship as is usual for your projects. Thanks for sharing,
I think I saw a small snapshot of it in someone's album a few years later. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of most of the wedding sewing I've done. It is easier for me to take pictures now with the digital camera.
That's too bad. I love my digital camera, too. I try to take pictures of everything I make, I wish I had done that over the last 60+ years.... or not! That would be a huge album.
I also finally have had a few minutes to look at your site. I love the paisley jacket. Nice work on the front with the disappearing buttonholes. That blue/green is one of my favorite colors. I also enjoyed the picture of your husband in the suit. I don't think I had seen him before. He looked very kind.
Hi Kirsty! Thanks, I am very happy with the jacket, I know I will wear it a lot.
He was a good guy! ;-) I'm so happy we had that formal portrait taken. I still have the suit, I can't bear to donate it. I think I'll take some pictures of it to add to the "Men's clothing" section. I made a tailored sports jacket for my (then future) son-in-law in 1982 but so far I haven't locate any pictures of him in it. And I still have all the Pendleton wool shirts I made for DH.
Digital cameras make life much simpler in many ways. Talking of historical albums of pictures, I know my Dad has some pictures of my Grandma's work. Grandma sewed professionally and I'm told she was very skilled - she seems to have taken pictures of her work on the wearer's - as shots of strange people pop up regularly in the family photo albums! Such a pity she got altzheimers then died before I was old enough to teach proper dressmaking - she did teach me a little hand sewing.
I don't think so!!! I spent most of today going through 6 year's worth of digital images, which I have a very bad habit of uploading to the harddrive then ignoring. Searching for pictures of the last several birthdays my aunt-brother-sister-and-I celebrated together in order to make prints for them convinced me that I HAVE to have a better system.
It's wonderful that you have the pictures, and sad that she wasn't able to share her skills with you.
Digital is easier and certainly far cheaper. I have a metal box filled with little metal tubes that have negatives in them. Strips of negatives. They stink. I need to get contact sheets done so I can find out if there's anything on the film worth saving. I suspect there's lots of footage of early airplanes that would be valuable to someone, so I can't just toss them out. I leave them sealed in the metal box, safe. Odorfree that way, too.
I have no argument with that. My problem is, where I might have taken two pictures using film to be sure I had at least one good shot, I now take tens. That means I have a lot of duplicates, which I have to look at full screen before weeding out the not-so-good shots. I do appreciate that I don't actually have to make prints of all the losers.
If they have historical significance you might send some of these folks an inquiry:
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(Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)
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Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum)
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(The Museum of Flight)
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(New England Air Museum)It would be a real shame if they disintegrated, and film eventually will as I understand it. Beverly, who has 50 years worth of 35mm slides to digitize one of these days....
Thanks. Once I have contact sheets, I'll look into that. These were my stepfather's, and he was a recreational pilot and went to lots and lots of air races back in the 30's and 40s. The last time he flew somewhere, he showed the cabin attendant his pilot's license, and the captain had him brought into the cockpit to spend the flight in the jump seat. He was in his late 80s, early 90s at the time, and it was before 9/11.
Thanks! That's good information to have. One good thing is that I got the film out of Florida and into this arid climate. Though being in the metal canisters probably helped to keep it from deteriorating, plus most of it is in individual sleeves, too. Not like movie film. It's one more thing on my List of Things to Do.
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