Hanna's last apron

This is the last apron for the character Hanna.  She still needs two dresses made for her.  This apron was sort of a pain to make I think I have not had enough good sleep lately becasue of all the sewing.  I tore out at least 10 different seams at least 3 to 5 times each.  It was truly a simple pattern I just could not think straight while sewing.  Once again I used a sheet I found thrift shopping to make the apron.

 

The red lines are upholstery cording.  I like the two tie closure for the back it is a little different than most aprons.  The original pattern did not have cording or anything in the seams but it was too plain for me.  So I added the cord but still think it has a simpleness to it that I like.

Amy's blue apron...and petticoat

This does not look like much by itself but with the blue dress that has a lot of details I thought it would be over the top to add a lot of detail to this apron.

This is supposed to be Amy's Art apron to keep her other clothes clean.  So not really supposed to be a fashion plate item.  It is blue gingham with blue rick rack trim on pockets and three different laces one edging all over the place.  An insertion on the pockets that has rick rack woven through it.  The on the hem is  a longer nicer lace. c
Sorry I had a hard time photographing this apron.

Also I promised to show the petticoat hem of Amy's blue dress.  Blue lace that I wove double sided purple satin ribbon through and antique rick rack trim that is blue and white.

Amy's remake of Meg's dress

 

In the play to show time passing there is a dress that both the characters Meg and Amy wear.  Meg's dress has long sleeves and a high collar and a different belt I showed a little bit of it a few days ago with Mr. Laurence's scarf  I will try and post the finished dress tomorrow.   But Amy has her own style so when she gets the hand-me down she remakes the dress into this.  A short sleeved fancy belted lower neckline dress.   The dress does have a little too wide of a neckline so I am going to go back and rework that area by adding prairie points.  Will make a post about that when it is redone. Which should make the area around the neck less wide by a few inches and more comfortable for the actress.

Some detail points of the dress I have used lots of different trims in the hopes of it looking like the March's like to embellish their clothes but because of finances do not have the money to buy trims so they are using up little bits of this and that to make their dresses pretty.   If you look in the picture just above you will see 7 trims just between the sleeves and waist and there are about 7 more on the dress. So I got my little bits of this and that and used up a lot of scrapes that are not big enough to make any one project but all grouped together work just fine.  I also could not find a striped fabric I liked well in my stash or at the store so yes I reverted to a bed sheet again for the striped fabric.  I think it came out well.  Since the character Amy is all about things fine and such I gave her hints of lace around the neck area.

I also used lots of upholstery trims again.  Around the neck, sleeves and hem of the dress ( hard to see in these photos sorry).  Very grateful for my friend who gave me 8 totes of upholstery trim at the beginning of the school year perfect timeing for this project.

I forgot to take a Epictetus of the petticoat with this dress it has wide blue lace on it and antique blue and white striped rick rack. I will try and remember when I take pictures of the new neckline when I get it done.

update remade neckline to not be so wide.  It was difficult to sew through 16 layers of fabric and trims with two trims being thick upholstery trim and one being heavily gathered lace ...  So it did not come out exactly as pictured in my head but I must go forward to other dresses and this will do for now. In case you are wondering those are called prairie points.

The witch's gown...for the play within the play

There is a play with in the play of little Women.  In that scene Meg is a witch, Amy is a princess, and Jo is Rodrigo the hero.  This is the outfit for Meg to wear in that part of the play.  The costuming description for this out fit said " long black cambric witch's cloak with gold paper trimming -- black peaked hat of same".  Very vague description so this is what I came up with.

The gown my middle daughter wore at thanksgiving time as part of a pilgrim costume for school.  The hat and cape I made yesterday.  I did not like the lack of durability of gold paper trim, so gold la-may and gold braid are employed.  I also used a scrap of checkerboard like fabric for the hat to add texture to the outfit.  The gown is opaque but the cape is actually pretty sheer hard to  see in these photos.

I wanted the hat to have the feel of an over sized dunce cap that was popular to use in schools back then. The core of the hat is poster-board.  The hat is fully lined with the same fabric I made the cape out of.

Sorry for the bad lighting.