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Sep. 5th, 2016 12:08 amI'm choosing to ignore any ultimate resolution of the fit issue as of yet - I'll probably end up putting a small piece in the CF on the underlap side, to make sure I have enough edge to put hooks and bars on, but I don't want to deal with it yet.
Instead, today I made the sleeves. Mercifully, the ones from the 1878 wool dress I made fit on this with only a very little bit of easing at the back of the armscye (and not too long after the date of this dress, you start seeing just a little bit of gathering at the top of sleeve heads, so I'm calling it Legit Enough). I was first of the opinion that this annoying-ass bodice didn't even deserve sleeve cuffs, but then a cursory glance through my books confirmed that just about every day dress bodice in existence had at least a basic cuff of some sort. Ugh, fine.
So I looked for the absolute simplest fake-cuff I could find, and one in the background of a Harpers Bazaar plate looked good enough: a couple of pleats horizontally witha little ruffle at the top. Yeah, sure. I didn't even shape it ahead of time, just sewed it onto the end of the sleeve and futzed til it looked acceptable. Took the time to pleat the white voile ruffle at the top, since I want a set of pleated collar and cuffs, plus this dress is all about pleats rather than gathers!
So: finished the sleeves, put them in, tacked down some seam allowances, and now I want to see if I can get the boning put in tonight. Doubtful, as it's sooo boring...I like flossing the ends of the casings for about 1.5 pieces of boning, and then realize I have WAY too many more to do, and it's not fun any more. Currently only the back piece is sewn in...
Instead, today I made the sleeves. Mercifully, the ones from the 1878 wool dress I made fit on this with only a very little bit of easing at the back of the armscye (and not too long after the date of this dress, you start seeing just a little bit of gathering at the top of sleeve heads, so I'm calling it Legit Enough). I was first of the opinion that this annoying-ass bodice didn't even deserve sleeve cuffs, but then a cursory glance through my books confirmed that just about every day dress bodice in existence had at least a basic cuff of some sort. Ugh, fine.
So I looked for the absolute simplest fake-cuff I could find, and one in the background of a Harpers Bazaar plate looked good enough: a couple of pleats horizontally witha little ruffle at the top. Yeah, sure. I didn't even shape it ahead of time, just sewed it onto the end of the sleeve and futzed til it looked acceptable. Took the time to pleat the white voile ruffle at the top, since I want a set of pleated collar and cuffs, plus this dress is all about pleats rather than gathers!
So: finished the sleeves, put them in, tacked down some seam allowances, and now I want to see if I can get the boning put in tonight. Doubtful, as it's sooo boring...I like flossing the ends of the casings for about 1.5 pieces of boning, and then realize I have WAY too many more to do, and it's not fun any more. Currently only the back piece is sewn in...
