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mandie_rwHad a fabulous Saturday afternoon sewing and night out with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rose_bertin ; I worked on my gaulle and she tackled her stays. Putting on A&E's Pride and Prejudice was an excellent idea, but bad for immediate productivity, as we both eventually started watching the movie more than our sewing. Plus Katy is doing her best to tempt me with the idea of Regency dress-up later in the summer, which has started my brain going on all the lovely Regency frocks I'd like to make. Going out that night was large amounts of fun, what with the fight across the street while we waited for the bus, the time-traveling bus itself (on that bus, it was December 31, 1979, according to the little scrolling thingie), the Whitest Bar in Philly that we ended up going to, dancing, and me telling off a few creepers ("NO THANK YOU, WE DO NOT WANT TO DANCE."). When we got back to University City, we purchased and ate a large amount of McDonalds food (because late-night menu apparently = no mediums or smalls), and talked until three in the morning, about everything from weird freshman roommates to our interesting friends to Keith Richards' liver. Good times!
And I was absolutely determined to get the gaulle into a try-on-able state and post about it tonight...hence the late-night posting.
It's very fluffy because the silk likes to fluff and it's not hemmed. Verdict? Eh, it's all right. I definitely made the waist longer than I meant, especially in the back. I can live with it, though, especially as fixing that would mean taking pretty much the entire thing apart -- and redoing all those nice even little pleats. Yeah, that's totally happening. Not. (I guess it'll be more a 1780s gaulle than a 1790 one? Resounding "whatever".)
Still have a lot to do on this, like sleeves (clearly...and I hate sleeves), a hem, eyelets so I can actually lace the lining (more eyelets! WHY do I do this to myself!), plus a real sash and hello, a hat, but a decent amount of the work's done. Woot.
rose_bertin ; I worked on my gaulle and she tackled her stays. Putting on A&E's Pride and Prejudice was an excellent idea, but bad for immediate productivity, as we both eventually started watching the movie more than our sewing. Plus Katy is doing her best to tempt me with the idea of Regency dress-up later in the summer, which has started my brain going on all the lovely Regency frocks I'd like to make. Going out that night was large amounts of fun, what with the fight across the street while we waited for the bus, the time-traveling bus itself (on that bus, it was December 31, 1979, according to the little scrolling thingie), the Whitest Bar in Philly that we ended up going to, dancing, and me telling off a few creepers ("NO THANK YOU, WE DO NOT WANT TO DANCE."). When we got back to University City, we purchased and ate a large amount of McDonalds food (because late-night menu apparently = no mediums or smalls), and talked until three in the morning, about everything from weird freshman roommates to our interesting friends to Keith Richards' liver. Good times!And I was absolutely determined to get the gaulle into a try-on-able state and post about it tonight...hence the late-night posting.
It's very fluffy because the silk likes to fluff and it's not hemmed. Verdict? Eh, it's all right. I definitely made the waist longer than I meant, especially in the back. I can live with it, though, especially as fixing that would mean taking pretty much the entire thing apart -- and redoing all those nice even little pleats. Yeah, that's totally happening. Not. (I guess it'll be more a 1780s gaulle than a 1790 one? Resounding "whatever".)
Still have a lot to do on this, like sleeves (clearly...and I hate sleeves), a hem, eyelets so I can actually lace the lining (more eyelets! WHY do I do this to myself!), plus a real sash and hello, a hat, but a decent amount of the work's done. Woot.
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Date: 2010-06-14 08:41 am (UTC)If you don't want to make eyelets and have overlap, you can always pin it. It works too. And easy :)
And as an aside, why do bookshelves never seem to be able to support full shelves of books? Annoying how they sag!
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Date: 2010-06-15 03:28 am (UTC)I know! Saggy bookshelves are so annoying - and costuming books are some of the worst culprits for causing them...of course. =D
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