lace crisis (averted)

Pinned the lace onto the skirt to see how far apart I should space them...and IT'S TOO WIDE OH GOD I BOUGHT A HUNDRED DOLLARS WORTH OF LACE I'M NOT GOING TO USE?! *flail*

See, my lace is wider than the lace in my inspirational fashion plate, and while you wouldn't think pretty lace could be too wide...well, in that placement, it is. Clunky and dumb-looking.

Took a deep breath, brought out the card of narrow lace, fussed around with it and the wide lace, and...I fixed it. It'll use more of the narrow lace and only one line of the wide lace instead of two (but then I'll definitely have enough for the bertha, right? HA HA HA), and it's more rows of lace to sew on. And the color difference between the dark ecru narrow lace and the light wide lace will be more obvious now since they're right next to each other - but it doesn't look clunky and stupid, so that's the lesser of the two weevils. I won't be that sad farby person who has more money than taste or sense!

*whew*

I did chew off a fingernail during this not-crisis, though.

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I was off today, and had a bit of trouble getting myself in gear on the sewing (though I did go to the thrift store and picked up some nice glasses for Gettysburg...must have fine glasswear to be boozin' with! Hee). Didn't get started til mid-afternoon. Did manage to make and pipe both the top and bottom bodice edges, and even more importantly (and also necessarily to do the piping), fitted and sewed the shoulder seam. Back closing bodices are super annoying to fit an off-the-shoulder seam on oneself!

Also got the tails cut and mostly put together - though I put them down in disgust about half an hour ago when I turned one, and realized I'd forgotten to ease the lace at the bottom corners, so there's not enough lace there for the thing to lay flat. Derp. Could rip it all apart and do it again (with a new longer piece of lace I don't have?)...or could just snip out the corners.

*snip*

And, picture of how the bodice and skirt currently look. Not, in fact, very impressively displayed, but hey, proof I'm not actually just napping. ;)


Tonight on the docket is a row of narrow lace on the skirt, and then I'm allowed to go to bed, since despite not doing as much as I could have today, I'm still on track with my revised schedule. Sew like the wind!