Making the Circus Apron for Amy Karol's apron event - Tie One On - Circus Theme. If you haven't been over there - you need to click over and check it out.
All of the apron entries are up - you can find them here.
Painting the muslin with True Value paint - colors: Sandy Brown (this ends up looking like a dirty buff pink), New Orleans (pale chartreuse green), and Country Blue.
I am feeling super tired right now - so you will have to excuse the lack of writing and explaining the silly seamstress struggles I underwent while ignoring the stern clucking and tutting of the invisible seamstress teacher in the room. Ha - I will too make the yoke collar this way and spend hours trying to correct the wonky turn in it! I will demand that this cummerbund belongs here even though I can't get it to fit properly and the design doesn't even need it!
Yoke collar and star pocket are made from rayon velvet backed with felt.
Back of apron skirt unbuttoned. The apron is a cross between a pull-over smock and a pinafore.
Bound buttonhole - quick down and dirty method.
One quarter circle added on either side of center back to make the faux train flounce.
The circus theme was really exciting, so much inspiration in those circuses!
I based the apron on the costumes the lady horseback riders and tight rope walkers wore between 1890-1910. Costumes made for circus performers are really interesting - so many really fun details and surprising visual twists, especially the costumes made between 1880-1950. To look at period circus costumes you can click over to a previous post with several research links.
I am really excited to have my third blog called House Work started - you can check it out here (or you can click on the button in the sidebar).
And I took a new picture of my feet the other day - that one over there in the sidebar - ha they look like sausages wedged into those trouser socks.
I hope you are having a good holiday weekend!
To see previous Tie One On apron entries go here, here and here.
And for an amazing film about a traveling strong man named Zampano and his hired assistant Gelsomina, so beautiful and heartbreaking, click here. (Zampano bought Gelsomina from her mother).
For more about La Strada go here.
