1930s Trapunto Linen Suit - Part 1
I'm going to kick things off with my first project. I love the straight clean lines of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Being tall and somewhat on the itchy side of Amazonian, I suit the straight clean lines better than frills and furbelows. I have never forgotten the lovely lilac gingham sundress I wore to work once, and how glamorous and lovely I felt with my net petticoats rustling...right up to the point where one of the senior management team told me I looked marvellous, and was I in a show. So yeah. That smarted. The thing is with a lot of the late 30s clothes, they look quite plain and severely cut, and then you realise that the devil is in the most subtle details. And that, gentle reader, is how I roll. I love all those twiddly little things that you don't notice at first glance and that come back and bite you, hard, shortly afterwards. One of the things I love in my "other" life - re-enactment - is trapunto quilting: corded and padded quilting. It's oft