A peek at why I've been silent this month!

DSCF1299, originally uploaded by textile_owl.

So this weekend, we're taking a trip to the Bristol Renaissance Festival. What a wonderful excuse to remake an old gown! After all, I can't very well afford to make one from scratch at the moment and I wasn't very satisfied with how the gown turned out initially.

So using four years more experience, and unfortunately four years of a shape change, I reworked Penelope Arden's gown into something a bit more showy. I only purchased a couple of yards of the blue/red taffeta you see here, everything else was in the gown originally and there are also sleeves to go with, but I have no photos of those yet, having only just finished up the hems this evening.

More pictures are clickable through the photo, and a more thorough explanation will hopefully come around as well with complete ensemble photos!