Tarnmist Prep
Apr. 26th, 2006 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
callistotoniAs I've mentioned previously, I'll be having sewing workshop June 17 in Tarnmist (Morro Bay, specifically). I just booked my room. Mostly we'll be making slopers.
But now I'm thinking about what needs to be done. I'll have a mix of people, some want to learn to sew, some can sew a t-tunic but aren't at that next level. Brainstorming in the car I came up with a list of what people should know and often don't with regards to SCA clothes:
-- Bias--what it is, how it can work for you, how to deal with it so it doesn't work against you.
-- Ease. What it is, how it needs to change according to fabric and cut. How to work with it.
-- Interior construction. This is what, in my opinion, is most lacking in beginner's costumers. Even down to when and how to use facings on simple garments. Obviously a bigger deal with later period costumes. This would also cover seam finishes.
-- The use of trim with discretion, if at all.
-- Sleeves, the bugbear of many people. This is kinda a tough one to do without time spent one on one. I should write this, though, 'cause I doubt we will get to it on the 17th.
Add to this some sort of good online sources for fabric and data, since I suspect that Tarnmist doesn't have the same sorts of fabric stores available to them that we do in the Bay Area.
I really should just write "Genevieve's helpful hints--or what is not obvious to the beginner sew-er". In my copious free time...
But now I'm thinking about what needs to be done. I'll have a mix of people, some want to learn to sew, some can sew a t-tunic but aren't at that next level. Brainstorming in the car I came up with a list of what people should know and often don't with regards to SCA clothes:
-- Bias--what it is, how it can work for you, how to deal with it so it doesn't work against you.
-- Ease. What it is, how it needs to change according to fabric and cut. How to work with it.
-- Interior construction. This is what, in my opinion, is most lacking in beginner's costumers. Even down to when and how to use facings on simple garments. Obviously a bigger deal with later period costumes. This would also cover seam finishes.
-- The use of trim with discretion, if at all.
-- Sleeves, the bugbear of many people. This is kinda a tough one to do without time spent one on one. I should write this, though, 'cause I doubt we will get to it on the 17th.
Add to this some sort of good online sources for fabric and data, since I suspect that Tarnmist doesn't have the same sorts of fabric stores available to them that we do in the Bay Area.
I really should just write "Genevieve's helpful hints--or what is not obvious to the beginner sew-er". In my copious free time...
