Tien’s blog

I am still wading through my photos - I expect to completely reconfigure my site with a separate section for AIDS Lifecycle by the time I’m through posting everything - but thought I would share the best tutu photos with you now.  So, here they are: seven days of fabulousness!
Day 1, at ride-out:

Day Two, with [...]

The last tutu has been finished! and packed carefully away in my giant duffel.  Packing, re-re-repacking, and finally I managed to stuff the last of my items into my duffel.  I actually travel pretty light, except for the tutus - I have no other choice since one giant box of tutus takes up most of [...]

After two more hours of work today, I have FINALLY finished feathering the peacock bodice front! I have it pinned to the bodice but still need to baste it on (it doesn’t get permanently sewn to the bodice because it will be removed for laundering). It is gorgeous. Here is a photo:

The [...]

I was looking gloomily at a VERY boring white silk tutu - interesting design, sure, but executed all in white it turned into a big fluffy nightgown. I was trying to figure out how to embellish it and give it some shape and/or color interest while keeping the design lines, and drawing blank after [...]

I have finished the Elizabethan tutu! and my, it is gorgeous. Almost exactly as I’d hoped it would be. I’d like to have done it with a little less slapdash style - doing a proper muslin first, then sewing it with the care that kind of pattern rates - but that would have [...]