Annapolis holiday tea

I organized a holiday tea at Reynold's Tavern in Annapolis this past weekend.  We missed those of you who couldn't make it, but the 6 of us who did, had a lovely time!  The food was delicious, the company was good (I don't think we stopped chatting the whole time and it flew by!), we had a Yankee Swap gift exchange where everyone kept the gift they picked...  It was so fun! Here are some pictures!

(Costumes were "Georgian" so we could have people wear regency or 18th century.)

"Gothic" 18th century dress

Sorry the lighting in these isn't the greatest!

But I at least got a few pictures of myself in the "gothic" 18th century gown I made a few months ago. I wore it to a Georgian holiday tea that I organized. I'll have pictures from that in a bit too.

I need to alter the back pieces of my pattern because it's a little big for me now. I think I've done that on my curtain-along gown. I might try to take it in a bit.

"Gothic" Navy and gold anglaise

This was an experimental project in a few ways. It's the first anglaise I've made without an en forreau back. Which for some reason was scary. But the pattern I came up with for the back worked for a little jacket I made, so I figured it would work here! I also tried to do a good job matching the pattern - fortunately I had enough fabric to do that. I didn't have a ton of fabric which was one reason I did the anglaise this way. I know this is not very 18th century fabric, but I think it's kind of fun (and I have very tenuous historical back-up of gold florals on solid backgrounds which I'll detail at the end of the post).  I'm just going to think of it as more of a movie 18th century costume a la Plunkett and Macleane or Sleepy Hollow than historical! :-)  I used vintage rhinestone buttons on it and the rest of my pleated trim from M&J. I just need to put in some hook and eyes and it's done! Here are some photos: