mandie_rw: (regency)
mandie_rw ([personal profile] mandie_rw) wrote2013-09-18 11:44 pm

And taking a right turn into the Regency...

Had a day off today, so I thought I ought to work on something. And so I did!

I dug out my mockup of the pompom spencer, since I think that's what I'd like to wear for the Pumpkin Tea (and since the original plan was to finish it for the Pumpkin Tea last year, it's a good thing to get out of the UFO bin!). I've been finding spencer mockups all over the place...I seem to have made two others before the most recent one. I don't even know. I'm usually pretty organized with mockups &tc, so no idea how that happened.

Anyway, futzed with that all afternoon because there was one nasty wrinkle that refused to go away. I was getting very angry with it, when I accidentally ripped the side I wasn't fitting, while wrestling it on for the seventeenth time. And that fixed 90% of the problem. Whaddya know. Talk about dumb luck. And I got the collar fitted too, with only a little bit of angst. No sleeves yet, but I'm going to mock those up after I sew the bodice together (as usual).

Got all the pieces cut out and pinned together tonight, and I think I might try and put this together before the Gettysburg stuff, since the Pumpkin Tea is first. Or at least work on it at the same time, when I want some hand sewing - since most Gettysburg things will be machine sewn!

[identity profile] starlightmasque.livejournal.com 2013-09-19 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Glad you worked it out! I've been Forrest Gumping my way through my latest project, too. Can't wait to see it all done! The Pumpkin Tea just sounds so charming!

[identity profile] isabelladangelo.livejournal.com 2013-09-19 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Sewing Machines are totally period for the CW. :-)


Which is why mine will be heavily employed. ;-)
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[identity profile] mandie-rw.livejournal.com 2013-09-20 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Forrest Gumping...haha, I love that way of putting it; it's all too true! And I love the Pumpkin Tea - so many wonderful pumpkin things! Enough food to sink us, really. Thank goodness for short stays, lol.
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[identity profile] mandie-rw.livejournal.com 2013-09-20 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
I know, isn't it great? (I tend to take my cue from Janet Arnold, and have my machine sewing cutoff at 1861. :D ) No more long tedious skirt seams! Though I'm always amazed at the amount of hand sewing a machine sewn outfit can take...