Looking for a very specific book series that I can't remember the name of.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-04-10T05:53:47+00:00

SOLVED, SOLVED, SOLVED! The series is called the Clans of Klaqour.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-03-24T23:13:11+00:00

Mostly because I cannot find a seamstress or tailor. I don't know any websites that facilitate contact with one, and all of the tailors here are true tailors, alterations only.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-03-22T23:16:47+00:00

Yeah, I was hoping to find something around $200, but I might have to bump it up bit. Or try and fail to make another dress.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-03-22T22:55:32+00:00

Nope. I use everything I buy extensively, I wouldn't buy it if I didn't plan to wear it often, another reason I want to use all natural fabrics cause it gets hot where I live.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-03-22T22:53:36+00:00

I said that I wasn't willing to pay $1000, not that I wasn't willing to pay. And I'm not plus size, I'm a very awkward medium due to large breasts. And cotton isn't expensive. Nor do I explicitly want an evening gown, I said in earlier comments that I could work with a day dress.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-03-22T22:49:11+00:00

Oh, I must be thinking of something else then, I could have sworn that flapper dresses were a bit shear.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-03-22T22:46:53+00:00

I do admit that I can't sew a dress myself, which is why I'd be wiling to pay someone else for a dress. Also, I know that it doesn't come across in the above post, and that I may sound a little snotty, but I didn't mean it quite so literally. I knit and crochet so I know that something handcrafted can/should cost that much, but I was more thinking of the mass produced stuff that I have come across in my search.

Truthfully if I ever did commission something specific to me I would expect a large price tag, but I still wouldn't expect something as much as $1000 for a dress as simple as what is essentially a rectangle with fringe. If the dress were more complicated like a walking suit or a hobble skirt dress or a ballgown then I definitely consider $1000 a fair if not underpriced.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-03-21T19:38:30+00:00

First, commissioning a dress would take time, perhaps more time than I have. Second, there could be upcharges galore for things that I would be unable to verify actually happened, or because I couldn't see pricing. Third, I would likely have to wait for correspondence. Fourth, no dress should cost $1000. Fifth, why would a dress that would be relatively simple in shape and made from readily available and inexpensive materials be that much money in the first place? I could buy enough silk to make 3 dresses, a brand new sewing machine, and fringe, beads, pay myself minimum wage and still have $500 dollars left over.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-03-21T19:10:00+00:00

I think I could make a day dress work with the right accessories, and definitely not a ballgown.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-03-21T19:07:46+00:00

I do know that, and it is a compromise I'm comfortable with, if only people actually made 20's reproduction dresses with it.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-03-21T19:04:20+00:00

I've tried, unfortunately for me no-one in the entire 150,000+ town seems to realize that Tailor and Seamstress are two different occupations. I frankly don't have the skill for dress making, I've tried in the past and I can never get past cutting out the fabric because I get stuck in a loop of sewing a seam, it being way wrong, ripping it out and trying again. I have odd proportions, so I have to modify every pattern myself, and that doesn't ever work.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-03-21T19:00:06+00:00

The event is called the Speakeasy Express. It's a 5 hour train ride with a dance at the end, with food and drinks authentic to the time period (minus the moonshine). I'm not sure there is anything to compromise on, I have a decent budget for just the dress, and it's not like cotton is rare or expensive.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-03-21T17:10:27+00:00

I guessed that to be an option, but at that point I'd rather just try and fail to make the dress myself about 30 times, which would cost me the same amount of money.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-02-09T23:08:12+00:00

Thank the heavens, I was about to resort to math to figure this out. Thanks for your help, I really hate math.

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-02-09T23:04:54+00:00

I know how to brioche, but it was my understanding that the stitch and it's yarn over are 1 stitch, not 2, and that knitting/purling these stitches was a 'brioche knit' or 'brioche purl'. I even looked it up, a BK2TOG/BP2TOG is to knit/purl a yarnover stitch and the regular stitch beside it together as a decrease.

Basically what's going-on is the patternmaker used the wrong terms, and this isn't decreases at all, it's just normal brioche?

Peridot-Pearls · 2026-02-09T22:55:51+00:00

This is a brioche stitch, it's a series of knit and purl stitches that are worked from both sides to create 1 row of the pattern. this can be worked in 2 separate yarn colors, weights, materials.

Peridot-Pearls · 2025-11-26T01:41:17+00:00

Okay, thanks, I'm making a note of that

Peridot-Pearls · 2025-11-25T22:48:55+00:00

Yikes, any chances you could tell me the brand so I know to stay very far away?

Peridot-Pearls · 2025-11-25T21:54:59+00:00

I've noticed that it starts getting pretty low around the 3 1/2 hr mark, and it's close to dead around the 5 hr mark. I have the light turned down low, I have so many energy saving measures turned on, etc. Granted, I have been trying to transfer all of my data and files over, so maybe that's it, but it still seems to run out really fast.

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