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a break for machine sewing
Sep. 11th, 2015 12:10 amSo as to avoid any funny business with my poor old burnt fingers, I did zero hand sewing today. I think they'll be fine tomorrow (provided I wrap them up when I go to work, because that place is FILTHY and every time I get cut there, I half-suspect I'm going to get blood poisoning), but oh well, I managed to survive a day without hand sewing. You'll be surprised, I'm sure. Last night I did some Lovecraft re-reading, and tonight watched The Civil War on PBS.
And today before work I finished tucking my white hoop petticoat (hopefully now it won't hang out under my skirts, thanks. and now I can wear it Sunday if I wear the fluffy beast to Belvidere. Also good), and miracle of miracles, actually started on something for Gettysburg. Cut and sewed the panels for the seafoam flannel day dress skirt - 2.5 widths, since it's so helpfully 63" wide. Then I brought out the candy stripe plaid dress bodice pattern. And thought about a mockup, and then decided to live dangerously by just cutting the CF to come to a small point instead of rounded off. I've decided to do the false-bolero-with-contrast-waistcoat-front sort of look, because the fuchsia is so very contrasty and I think it needs to be as obnoxious as possible. Something vaguely similar to this purple-and-white, at least in bodice type. (She looks surprisingly early-bustley-skirt-trimmed, doesn't she?) Actually I like the skirt too, but think it might make me look like some fool who's wandered in from 1870 because she didn't know any better...
Bodice! And I think I even cut all the pieces with the grain of the flannel going the right way...didn't even sew one skirt panel upside down. Always improving! ;)
And today before work I finished tucking my white hoop petticoat (hopefully now it won't hang out under my skirts, thanks. and now I can wear it Sunday if I wear the fluffy beast to Belvidere. Also good), and miracle of miracles, actually started on something for Gettysburg. Cut and sewed the panels for the seafoam flannel day dress skirt - 2.5 widths, since it's so helpfully 63" wide. Then I brought out the candy stripe plaid dress bodice pattern. And thought about a mockup, and then decided to live dangerously by just cutting the CF to come to a small point instead of rounded off. I've decided to do the false-bolero-with-contrast-waistcoat-front sort of look, because the fuchsia is so very contrasty and I think it needs to be as obnoxious as possible. Something vaguely similar to this purple-and-white, at least in bodice type. (She looks surprisingly early-bustley-skirt-trimmed, doesn't she?) Actually I like the skirt too, but think it might make me look like some fool who's wandered in from 1870 because she didn't know any better...
Bodice! And I think I even cut all the pieces with the grain of the flannel going the right way...didn't even sew one skirt panel upside down. Always improving! ;)
