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I finished cutting and stitching the boning into my bodice today, and got the top and bottom edges basted, so eyelets are up next! Tomorrow will be dedicated to a new quilted petticoat, though - I tried my unders on today and decided I really need more fluff for 1840! Plus the forecast is looking as though I won't mind a quilted petti for warmth on Saturday. Chilly! Won't especially want the warmth for the ball, but...I'm willing to get a bit warm for fluff. ;) I just bought a length of the prefab quilted cotton from the J, and will bind the hem and do the top few inches in plain cotton so it can be gathered easily.
I stitched the ends of the boning channels with green thread, because it's a Christmas dress, geddit? Hurr hurr hurr.
Also...I was exceptionally naughty last week and bought myself a fan to use with my 30th birthday dress. (Yes, that event is still over a year away and barely planned. Erm.) I was just browsing and I found a very good deal! The seller listed it as 1880s; I know basically nothing about fans other than "sure, that looks Victorian", so, sure. (I don't particularly care if it's really 20thc, either, so fan experts feel free to chime in!) I bought it knowing it would need some repair - it's in the happy medium of being in bad enough shape that I don't feel any guilt about taking it apart and fixing what I need to, to be able to use it, but not in bad enough shape that it's not worth the time spent to fix it. And considering the price of completely intact 19thc fans, I'm very happy to do some detail work on it!
I'm going to get some nicer pictures before I start fixing it up (no, not any time soon!) but here's a preview. I was thiiiiiis close to being late for work because I was happily poking at it as soon as I unwrapped the package, right before I needed to leave!
I stitched the ends of the boning channels with green thread, because it's a Christmas dress, geddit? Hurr hurr hurr.
Also...I was exceptionally naughty last week and bought myself a fan to use with my 30th birthday dress. (Yes, that event is still over a year away and barely planned. Erm.) I was just browsing and I found a very good deal! The seller listed it as 1880s; I know basically nothing about fans other than "sure, that looks Victorian", so, sure. (I don't particularly care if it's really 20thc, either, so fan experts feel free to chime in!) I bought it knowing it would need some repair - it's in the happy medium of being in bad enough shape that I don't feel any guilt about taking it apart and fixing what I need to, to be able to use it, but not in bad enough shape that it's not worth the time spent to fix it. And considering the price of completely intact 19thc fans, I'm very happy to do some detail work on it!
I'm going to get some nicer pictures before I start fixing it up (no, not any time soon!) but here's a preview. I was thiiiiiis close to being late for work because I was happily poking at it as soon as I unwrapped the package, right before I needed to leave!
