The workshops listed below are special add-on limited attendance workshops for Jane Austen Festival Australia ticket holders. Attendees need to have prior sewing knowledge and bring a sewing kit and working sewing machine with them as the intention is to finish the item by the end of the workshop. Please check workshop description for pre-requisites.
Make your own regency short stays
Teacher: Aylwen Gardiner-Garden, ACT
Date: 12-14 March 2016
Venue: The Garden Cottage, Yarralumla
This is a full 3-day workshop using the new Laughing Moon short stays pattern. The corset is made of a sturdy cotton or linen and edged with white bias tape. It laces together in front and is stiffened in front with flexible boning. For fuller busts, gussets are added to give the proper lift needed for this period. Kits will include your pattern, mockup material, boning and instructions. Please bring: fabric to make your corset (advised below), a regency chemise, a recently serviced sewing machine, and the usual sewing equipment (pins, scissors, tape measure, sewing cotton etc)
About your teacher: Aylwen Gardiner-Garden is a historical costume researcher, maker and teacher from Canberra, where she also organises historical dance and costume events, as well as being the Director of Jane Austen Festival Australia since 2008. In 2015 she taught historic costume workshops, did further research on historic clothing in the US and attended Costume College in LA as a scholarship recipient and looks forward to sharing her experience with you in 2016.
Please note: only choose the "without pattern" if you already have a copy of the pattern and can bring it with you. If you attend the workshop without a pattern you will have to purchase a new pattern for an extra $35. If you are attending from interstate and forget your fabric you can purchase from Addicted to Fabric (Phillip, ACT), Lincraft (DFO, Fyshwick or Woden, ACT) or Spotlight (Queanbeyan, NSW). Coutil is best purchased online, allowing plenty of time for shipping, whilst cotton duck can often (but not always) be found in the upholstery/curtain section of a fabric store. Workshop fees are non-refundable for any reason but are transferable up to two weeks before the workshop.
About your teacher: Aylwen Gardiner-Garden is a historical costume researcher, maker and teacher from Canberra, where she also organises historical dance and costume events, as well as being the Director of Jane Austen Festival Australia since 2008. In 2015 she taught historic costume workshops, did further research on historic clothing in the US and attended Costume College in LA as a scholarship recipient and looks forward to sharing her experience with you in 2016.
Please note: If you are attending from interstate and forget your fabric you can purchase from Addicted to Fabric (Phillip, ACT), Lincraft (DFO, Fyshwick or Woden, ACT) or Spotlight (Queanbeyan, NSW). Workshop fees are non-refundable for any reason but are transferable up to two weeks before the workshop.
About your teacher: Adrienne Unger began sewing in her early teens, and has never stopped. With small children at home, she made wedding and bridesmaid dresses and sewed for her family. Later, dancing at Colonial balls inspired her to make her own period gowns, and, keen to learn more, led to her discovery of the TAFE Diploma of Theatre Costume -a four year vocational training course in costume design and construction - from which she graduated with Distinction. Adrienne now runs a small costume business from her home, mostly but not exclusively making Regency wear. Dancing and dressing the part continue to be her great pleasures.
Please note: only choose the "without pattern" if you already have a copy of the pattern and can bring it with you. If you attend the workshop without a pattern you will have to purchase a new pattern for an extra $35. If you are attending from interstate and need some fabric you can purchase from Addicted to Fabric (Phillip, ACT), Lincraft (DFO, Fyshwick or Woden, ACT) or Spotlight (Queanbeyan, NSW). Workshop fees are non-refundable for any reason but are transferable up to four weeks before the workshop.
This is a full 3-day workshop using the new Laughing Moon short stays pattern. The corset is made of a sturdy cotton or linen and edged with white bias tape. It laces together in front and is stiffened in front with flexible boning. For fuller busts, gussets are added to give the proper lift needed for this period. Kits will include your pattern, mockup material, boning and instructions. Please bring: fabric to make your corset (advised below), a regency chemise, a recently serviced sewing machine, and the usual sewing equipment (pins, scissors, tape measure, sewing cotton etc)
- For outer layer: 1m white silk, linen, or cotton.
- For interlining: 1m white coutil, linen or cotton canvas or cotton duck.
- For lining: 1m white linen or cotton.
About your teacher: Aylwen Gardiner-Garden is a historical costume researcher, maker and teacher from Canberra, where she also organises historical dance and costume events, as well as being the Director of Jane Austen Festival Australia since 2008. In 2015 she taught historic costume workshops, did further research on historic clothing in the US and attended Costume College in LA as a scholarship recipient and looks forward to sharing her experience with you in 2016.
Please note: only choose the "without pattern" if you already have a copy of the pattern and can bring it with you. If you attend the workshop without a pattern you will have to purchase a new pattern for an extra $35. If you are attending from interstate and forget your fabric you can purchase from Addicted to Fabric (Phillip, ACT), Lincraft (DFO, Fyshwick or Woden, ACT) or Spotlight (Queanbeyan, NSW). Coutil is best purchased online, allowing plenty of time for shipping, whilst cotton duck can often (but not always) be found in the upholstery/curtain section of a fabric store. Workshop fees are non-refundable for any reason but are transferable up to two weeks before the workshop.
1816 Silk-covered Buckram Bonnet Workshop (two options)
Teacher: Aylwen Gardiner-Garden, ACT 14 April ~ 1-day Workshop: Silk Covered Bonnet $60
Kits containing buckram, taping, wire, mull, needles, hat box, bag and an instruction book will be provided. Please bring:- 1 metre of silk taffeta
- 50cm of your brim fabric
- any ribbons, feathers and flowers you wish to decorate with
- recently purchased or serviced sewing machine
- Sewing Kit with large sharp fabric scissors, seam ripper, seam gauge or tape measure, machine & hand needles, craft scissors (for cutting buckram and paper), straight pins, clear ruler, pencils, eraser, paper (if you choose to copy the original pattern), coordinating thread to match your fashion fabric.
- protective safety glasses
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| Close-up of the inside of a shirred bonnet. |
Laughing Moon Bib Front Dress Workshop
Teacher: Adrienne Unger, NSW Date: Thursday 14 April 2016 Venue: Hyatt Hotel, Commonwealth Ave, Yarralumla.
Pre-requisite: It’s a good idea to come prepared wearing whatever underpinnings you will be using for the dress. Best is shift and stays, (check with Aylwen for resources) or a good, push-up wide strap bra, and a petticoat! The Laughing Moon 126 Bib Front dress has taken the Regency dressing community by storm. It is well researched, with a full range of sizing. It has a range of sleeves, and can be made up to suit from work dresses, to promenade to ball gowns. The instructions are very clearly presented, and it is a dress that has some ‘forgiveness’ built in with its tie and pin fastenings. For those of you with dressmaking experience, it will be a straight forward sewing task, though there are some parts of the instructions that do skim over assumed knowledge. Together let us make you a gown in a day! There will be hand sewing only for visible hems, so you will need to bring your machine, and overlocker if you use one, and all you regular sewing kit, fabric and lining needs and the ‘notions’. Three weeks before the workshop we will send you your pattern so that Adrienne can individually guide you through pattern tracing for your measurements before you get together. Lunch and refreshments are not provided with this workshop as there is a cafe at the Hyatt you can purchase from.
About your teacher: Adrienne Unger began sewing in her early teens, and has never stopped. With small children at home, she made wedding and bridesmaid dresses and sewed for her family. Later, dancing at Colonial balls inspired her to make her own period gowns, and, keen to learn more, led to her discovery of the TAFE Diploma of Theatre Costume -a four year vocational training course in costume design and construction - from which she graduated with Distinction. Adrienne now runs a small costume business from her home, mostly but not exclusively making Regency wear. Dancing and dressing the part continue to be her great pleasures.
Please note: only choose the "without pattern" if you already have a copy of the pattern and can bring it with you. If you attend the workshop without a pattern you will have to purchase a new pattern for an extra $35. If you are attending from interstate and need some fabric you can purchase from Addicted to Fabric (Phillip, ACT), Lincraft (DFO, Fyshwick or Woden, ACT) or Spotlight (Queanbeyan, NSW). Workshop fees are non-refundable for any reason but are transferable up to four weeks before the workshop.
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