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Jul. 2nd, 2019 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theladyrebeccaThe ruffles are going sooo slowly. Or at least, that's what it feels like. For the bottom silk organza ruffle, I had to rip nine 8.5" tall strips of the organza, join them all together, press them in half the long way, run them through the ruffler foot, and apply vintage lace to the bottom edge with about a 1/8" or less overlap, press the whole thing so they'd look more like messy pleats, and then serge the top edge. The three taffeta ruffles are the same, minus the lace application (plus they're only 5 pieces joined together, since the fabric is wider). And then of course, I have to mark where the ruffles are going on the skirt, and sew them onto it.
All this to say that I have the bottom two ruffles currently sewn to the skirt, and the third ruffle is half pressed. I'm glad that I haven't ripped the silk for the top ruffle yet, because I think I actually want it to be narrower. The three bottom ruffles are just sewn flat on top of the skirt and overlap each other quite a bit, but the top will have its ruffled edge flipped under, with nothing overlapping on top of it. So I'll have to check my measurements for that one.
Anyway, I decided that today is going to be a handsewing day, not ruffling. I have tap class tonight, and it's north of my work, and I live south of my work. So I'm just going to stay at the office for like 2.5 hours after I get off work and do some handsewing, so that I don't have to waste an hour of that on driving. I have the hem facing, 25 hooks and bars, and some pleat tacking on the CF section that I can do - I don't think I'll make it through all of it, but I'm excited to knock most of it out, because that would pretty much just leave lace application for the only other hand-sewing.
All this to say that I have the bottom two ruffles currently sewn to the skirt, and the third ruffle is half pressed. I'm glad that I haven't ripped the silk for the top ruffle yet, because I think I actually want it to be narrower. The three bottom ruffles are just sewn flat on top of the skirt and overlap each other quite a bit, but the top will have its ruffled edge flipped under, with nothing overlapping on top of it. So I'll have to check my measurements for that one.
Anyway, I decided that today is going to be a handsewing day, not ruffling. I have tap class tonight, and it's north of my work, and I live south of my work. So I'm just going to stay at the office for like 2.5 hours after I get off work and do some handsewing, so that I don't have to waste an hour of that on driving. I have the hem facing, 25 hooks and bars, and some pleat tacking on the CF section that I can do - I don't think I'll make it through all of it, but I'm excited to knock most of it out, because that would pretty much just leave lace application for the only other hand-sewing.