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Dec. 25th, 2016 03:03 amI spent about five hours sewing today, and I feel like I have hardly anything to show for it. I picked up black matte poly satin from Joanns today, and cut out the lining pieces for the overskirt. The front panel is close-ish to done - the satin is attached, it's pleated at the waist, and the fur trim is attached on one side - I just have to turn the fur over and stitch down the other side by hand. Of course, I had to attach the fur twice, because the first time I sewed it, I had the fur on the top layer, and it wound up gathering the skirt pieces to the fur. It looked so horrible, so I picked it out and re-sewed it, flipping it so the fur was the bottom layer being fed through the machine. It turned out that it had gathered a total of eight inches the first time!
The back piece has been giving me even more trouble, though. I think it's because I had already trimmed it last night, which probably caused the outer skirt fabric to gather a little, and plus wool can be kind of stretchy (even though this piece is not on the bias). But somehow, the wool piece has wound up off a bit from the satin piece, with the satin both longer and wider at the hem. So I cut off a couple inches, only to find once I was actually sewing it, that the machine was stretching the wool back out to fit the satin, and it would have been just about fine had I not cut that excess off. Sigh... I'm hoping the fur will hide everything once I put that on tomorrow.
I'm also trying to figure out what to do for the ribbon trim. In the original, the fur is kind of greyish. Mine is much more tan, with some black and white hairs mixed in. Joanns has wide ribbon in very limited colors, and nothing in the tan family. I tried seeing what grey would look like (and it just reads white), and I tried black (which just reads as boring). I think I want either a very deep slate gray, or a tan-ish color to match the fur, but have no idea where locally might have 2-3" wide ribbon (and preferably cheaply, since I need a ton of it), and it's so hard to color match online (plus I want it now). I guess I might have to settle for the grey or black, though I'm tempted to cut strips of satin and melt the edges to make my own ribbon. Has anyone ever tried that before?
No pictures yet, because it's 3am, and I should really go to sleep.
Oh yeah, and Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah!
The back piece has been giving me even more trouble, though. I think it's because I had already trimmed it last night, which probably caused the outer skirt fabric to gather a little, and plus wool can be kind of stretchy (even though this piece is not on the bias). But somehow, the wool piece has wound up off a bit from the satin piece, with the satin both longer and wider at the hem. So I cut off a couple inches, only to find once I was actually sewing it, that the machine was stretching the wool back out to fit the satin, and it would have been just about fine had I not cut that excess off. Sigh... I'm hoping the fur will hide everything once I put that on tomorrow.
I'm also trying to figure out what to do for the ribbon trim. In the original, the fur is kind of greyish. Mine is much more tan, with some black and white hairs mixed in. Joanns has wide ribbon in very limited colors, and nothing in the tan family. I tried seeing what grey would look like (and it just reads white), and I tried black (which just reads as boring). I think I want either a very deep slate gray, or a tan-ish color to match the fur, but have no idea where locally might have 2-3" wide ribbon (and preferably cheaply, since I need a ton of it), and it's so hard to color match online (plus I want it now). I guess I might have to settle for the grey or black, though I'm tempted to cut strips of satin and melt the edges to make my own ribbon. Has anyone ever tried that before?
No pictures yet, because it's 3am, and I should really go to sleep.
Oh yeah, and Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah!