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Pinning and cutting
Oct. 9th, 2013 11:36 pmAnd cutting and pinning, to prevent it from getting monotonous! *yawn* This afternoon and evening, I made my paletot paper pattern (say that three times fast!), and cut out and sewed together all three layers of the paletot.
Yes, three - the wool I'm using is dress-weight, not coating weight (because with all that wool in the Stash, I am Not Allowed to buy any more wool for a very long time!), so I'm using my not-period-but-very-handy cheat of interlining with cotton flannel to add a bit more heft! I just backed the wool with the cotton, treating them as one piece. I don't actually know the real construction techniques for paletots in the mid-19th century, so I'm using the common-sense approach...sew together the wool layers so I can trim it, and make the lining separate, putting it in after I do all the trim, so it doesn't get all mucked-up with those trim-attaching stitches! If that makes sense. I'm sleepy and slightly incoherent.
( A few pictures to prove there's been sewing! )
Tomorrow I'll be doing some hand basting (so the cotton and wool don't go wriggling all over the place when I try to stick trim on them!), and that may be all I get to. Possibly start trim-wrangling, but no guarantees of that!
Yes, three - the wool I'm using is dress-weight, not coating weight (because with all that wool in the Stash, I am Not Allowed to buy any more wool for a very long time!), so I'm using my not-period-but-very-handy cheat of interlining with cotton flannel to add a bit more heft! I just backed the wool with the cotton, treating them as one piece. I don't actually know the real construction techniques for paletots in the mid-19th century, so I'm using the common-sense approach...sew together the wool layers so I can trim it, and make the lining separate, putting it in after I do all the trim, so it doesn't get all mucked-up with those trim-attaching stitches! If that makes sense. I'm sleepy and slightly incoherent.
( A few pictures to prove there's been sewing! )
Tomorrow I'll be doing some hand basting (so the cotton and wool don't go wriggling all over the place when I try to stick trim on them!), and that may be all I get to. Possibly start trim-wrangling, but no guarantees of that!
