Jan. 5th, 2019

mandie_rw: (WC market)
I'm being very flighty in my sewing so far...and am letting myself slide a bit, at least for now. I still need to destash like woah, and I think I'll try and make it my goal to get all that online next week. Some to sell, and honestly some "free to good home"! (I'm still trying to keep in mind the whole long-term-moving-in-with-another-hoomin-bean with this destash...he knows we have to have a two-bedroom apartment for it, so I need it to at least be contained in said room! Right now that'd have to be a really big room...)

Still annoyed with the dumb plaid 50s dress, so haven't worked on it any more! I need to rip a couple seams out and that is still just NOPE.

Boy clothes: As mentioned, shirt is finished! It looks, shockingly, very much like a shirt (a mostly-wrinkly shirt, at that.) Made of lightweight linen/cotton blend, and somewhat hand sewn? Anything you can see is hand sewn, anyway.
shirt1 
Shirt and underpants. Yes, underpants )

Besides boring things of white linen, what else? We're going to a Thing at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philly in a couple of weeks, and yesterday I decided that I want something new. "New" here having the meaning of "dress from the UFO bin that I first made in 2011, took apart and partially remade in 2015, and there it sits." Yeah.

I managed to pleat the back of the petticoat in the total wrong direction, but I don't care since it's a petticoat. Also because in the 18thc you find petticoats pleated every which way; I just always do the pleats all facing toward CB since that makes the front and back easy to tell apart! (This one, I just marked with a little F inside the tape lol).
petticoat

And then I kept going, cause I had some more sewing time, and why not? Got half the skirt pleated to the bodice, now hopefully I can make the second half match hurr hurr.
bodice pleating skirt

I need a new 18thc dress like a goddamn hole in the head (especially a fancy one that isn't appropriate for volunteering at the Indian King Tavern), but at this point it's either finish the dress or throw it out! And it's still nice fabric, so...finishing the dress seems like a less wasteful option. I make no such guarantee for the, ahem, three other 18thc dresses that linger in the UFO bin, but...

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