Evening Bodice Progress, and Wool Follow-up.

[theladyrebecca]

The bodice is almost done! Last night I fixed the neckline, including re-binding the front and extending the lace. I also finished all the box-pleated trimming, and sewed that all on. And I added a hand-made vintage lace to the sleeve hems. I'm picking up some shorter boning for the CF tonight after work, and will swing by Joanns to get more bias tape, because I am just about completely out of cream or white bias, and the last real work I need to do on the bodice is binding the hem. I mean, I need to sew in all the boning to the seams, too, but I could always wear it without all that if I run out of time. In fact, I'm thinking about attempting to fix the wrinkly bust on the day bodice before I sew the boning in. We'll see. And then tomorrow is Steamposium!

Sneak preview with bad lighting:




Oh, and in other news, it would seem that my FFC wool is in fact not 100%. I did the bleach test yesterday, and there is still fiber in the bleach. It has certainly disintigrated a lot, but there are little shreds of the blue left after 24 hrs, and the black has turned itself into three little rolled up tubes after 10 hrs. Not sure exactly what that means as far as the blends go. Each piece started as about 1"x2". I think I might see if they'll pay the return shipping to take it back, since what they sent wasn't what they advertised.

Here's a couple pics of the bleach results, the color of the blue for nuranar, and the texture of the black if anyone is interested:



Please let me know if you can't see any of the pictures. Flickr kept breaking all my images, so I've gone back to google for todayal Edited: We're going to try dropbox now. Because all the other hosting sites I've tried suck!

Comments

[mala-14.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I can only see one picture, the one of the blue fabric. How annoying that they're not 100% wool!

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

That one picture was from Flickr. How about now? I've switched to Dropbox.

[mala-14.livejournal.com]

I can see them all now. And the new evening bodice is incredibly cute!

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

Yay! And thank you!

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was afraid of that with the wool. I mean, in some cases, a blend is perfectly fine (or it just doesn't matter that much) but to advertise it as 100% and it's not is just not good business.

The bodice, however, is completely adorable! I can't wait to see the final photos.

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

Since it wasn't as advertised, they've agreed to pay for return shipping, so I'm just going to send them back.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pictures! The blue is lovely, but not something I'm particularly drawn to right now. I kind of suspect that it's still 100% wool, though; those tiny bits just look like they're slower to break down. Especially since you don't know what finishes and processing were used on it. They don't look like other fibers that are untouched by the bleach. The black does look like a blend, though, since it disintegrated in a regular way. The effect of the weave looks more like a herringbone or something similar, very suiting-like; not like the tricotines I've had. I understand why you don't want to use it. Bummer! :(

Dropbox is working great, by the way!