A huge range of fancy trims I used on the SWAP collection. I’ve NEVER spent so much time on making something fancy [other than the wedding dress beading] and I was surprised to find that I really enjoyed it. I made pleating boards, I hand-sewed fancy ribbon trim, I layered up different purchased trims, [and did some serious damage to my fingers, thimble notwithstanding!] I even pinked bias strips AND pleated them. Unbelievable. Here are some reminders of the pretties.
Once upon a time, I only made very plain things, but no longer! More recent makes, not all steampunk, include these delights.
Still to come…
thedementedfairy 
I am in awe with your trimming skills. I don’t think that I would ever have the patience to make all those gorgeous trims. You can never have too many though, especially on Victorian stuff. Love them. Xx
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I never thought I’D have the patience! I actually quite enjoyed it. Just not too often lol
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Could you point me towards the post you did for Dawn’s green dress that you made last year. I bought some of that fabric and really fancy doing some ribbon work on it.
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There were a few posts, on Simplicity 1008. The final reveal was in a post called ‘Wife of Wives’. I’ll try to find one of them, but the in-Blog search thingy is quite good on WordPress
https://thedementedfairy.wordpress.com/2016/08/08/tipping-the-scales/
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AMAZING work, makes me feel very humble, thank you for sharing your beautiful makes.
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No humility required- I’m very amateur, and learned these as I went along. They’re not difficult, or I wouldn’t have succeeded I assure you. I DO have talent at hiding my cock-ups though!
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In love with these beautiful trimmings! I especially like the first one with the violet ribbon. That’s a trim, I’d like to try myself one day.
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They all turned out to be easier than I thought, and not all that time consuming to make. Sewing them on, on the other hand, took ages!
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Oh my goodness that soutache! These are all gorgeous but that black braid on green velvet…yum!
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I think it’s my favourite one to wear [with pith helmet of course!] It was very time consuming though. I pinched the wolf design from an Urban Threads GoT design of course
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