Whoops

I don't know what I was thinking before, when I thought I only had two embroidery motifs left to do. Apparently I'm blind and/or crazy. Somehow, I must have gotten it into my head that it was a three panel skirt, which it most definitely is not. So the good thing is, my embroideries are not going to overlap. The not so good thing is that I still have three motifs (plus probably the little filler in the CB, plus probably those half motifs at the tops of the CFs) left to go. I only got one motif done last night, because my friend had a lovely spur-of-the-moment birthday party, which was much fun. So basically, there is no chance that the skirt will be coming with me to LA for hand-work.

On the plus side, I did finally decide on my boning for the bodice. I'm going with flat steels everywhere except under the arm, where I'm using the spirals. I sewed off the ends of the boning channels (breaking two needles in the process, of course), and machine-sewed the piping to the bottom of the bodice. If I have time tonight, I'd like to make the "faux blouse" section that goes in the top of the back, because sewing that in is more hand-sewing. That way I'll have one side of piping, two sides of lace, and the filler to be able to work on during the trip.


No pictures today, sorry. Though can anyone else tell me if they can see the picture from yesterday? Apparently it was visible, and as of last night, it wasn't. Clearly I'm going to have to figure out a different photo host than google.