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Aug. 21st, 2015 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theladyrebeccaSorry, no new pictures. I didn't get nearly as far as I hoped (surprise surprise) so right now the bodice has a million pins in it and is sitting on my sewing chair. And unfortunately, the one bad thing about 1890s sleeves is that it makes the bodice far too big to be able to sew on the bus. This is especially unfortunate because almost everything I have left is hand sewing.
If I still have energy by the time I get home tonight (I'm seeing a show after work), then I'll work some more on it. I estimate that I can finish it in 2.5-3 hours, if I do everything right the first time (famous last words?). I need to sew the collar to the neckline (it's currently pinned in place), and I need to hand-sew the neck/fill piece in place on one side, and do all the h&es on the other side. Plus I need to hem the sleeves, and I'm going to put some bias or something over the armseye seam, because even when I was just wearing it for fitting stuff last night, that crinoline was painful.
Oh, and I need to make the bows - I've decided to depart a bit from the original fashion plate, because those front bows were just too much. So I'm doing a large white bow on the back of the belt, and I'm doing a smaller white bow on the back of the collar. I kept playing around with whether I should do a plaid collar or a white collar last night, and the plaid finally won out. It's just so much more fun than a plain white collar.
The other thing that took up some of my time last night was trying to figure out which direction I should run the fabric for the CF piece. I had thought I wanted to do it fitted, with the stripes running vertically, but it just looked so plain. So instead, I have done vertical stripes with a gathered front. I think it adds much more visual interest. (I know, why do I need more visual interest? I am wearing a giant plaid dress and will be like 5 ft wide across the shoulders. But still.)
In any case, I stayed up way too late sewing last night, but I really wish I was sewing now, instead of trapped at work for another 8.5 hours... :(
If I still have energy by the time I get home tonight (I'm seeing a show after work), then I'll work some more on it. I estimate that I can finish it in 2.5-3 hours, if I do everything right the first time (famous last words?). I need to sew the collar to the neckline (it's currently pinned in place), and I need to hand-sew the neck/fill piece in place on one side, and do all the h&es on the other side. Plus I need to hem the sleeves, and I'm going to put some bias or something over the armseye seam, because even when I was just wearing it for fitting stuff last night, that crinoline was painful.
Oh, and I need to make the bows - I've decided to depart a bit from the original fashion plate, because those front bows were just too much. So I'm doing a large white bow on the back of the belt, and I'm doing a smaller white bow on the back of the collar. I kept playing around with whether I should do a plaid collar or a white collar last night, and the plaid finally won out. It's just so much more fun than a plain white collar.
The other thing that took up some of my time last night was trying to figure out which direction I should run the fabric for the CF piece. I had thought I wanted to do it fitted, with the stripes running vertically, but it just looked so plain. So instead, I have done vertical stripes with a gathered front. I think it adds much more visual interest. (I know, why do I need more visual interest? I am wearing a giant plaid dress and will be like 5 ft wide across the shoulders. But still.)
In any case, I stayed up way too late sewing last night, but I really wish I was sewing now, instead of trapped at work for another 8.5 hours... :(