Paletot and other 1860s things
Nov. 3rd, 2013 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwReasonably productive today on my day off, although only one thing I worked on was exciting enough to take a picture of...
First, I wired the brim of a bonnet and sewed binding around the edges of all the pieces. (By machine! With mismatched bobbin thread! No, you don't get a picture of that.) So they're all ready to be sewn together into something that hopefully resembles a bonnet, whenever I feel like sewing though buckram.
...so, never, then?
Then I made all the rest of the velveteen stripes for the paletot - and it was just total dumb luck that I made enough. No measuring or anything, but I ended up with about three inches leftover. Hooray dumb luck! And yes, that means I finished sewing the stripes onto the paletot, that's how I know there were three inches of stripe to spare.
And I tried it on Mabel over the hoop, and I don't love how it looks, to be completely honest! I should've probably taken a bit more fulness out of the skirt back when I was fitting the mockup. All the velveteen makes the skirt a bit stiff, and it stands out kind of weirdly. But I don't absolutely hate it, and there's no way to fix it without a completely ridiculous amount of work that I wouldn't want to do even if I had the time for it. So it is what it is!
And for some reason, after that I wanted a break from hand sewing and paletots, so I ripped panels for a chemise. I keep forgetting to put it on my list, but I really need one with the correct neckline for my ball gown. I sewed a sleeve gusset on the wrong way twice before I decided it was time to pack it up for the night...
First, I wired the brim of a bonnet and sewed binding around the edges of all the pieces. (By machine! With mismatched bobbin thread! No, you don't get a picture of that.) So they're all ready to be sewn together into something that hopefully resembles a bonnet, whenever I feel like sewing though buckram.
...so, never, then?
Then I made all the rest of the velveteen stripes for the paletot - and it was just total dumb luck that I made enough. No measuring or anything, but I ended up with about three inches leftover. Hooray dumb luck! And yes, that means I finished sewing the stripes onto the paletot, that's how I know there were three inches of stripe to spare.
And I tried it on Mabel over the hoop, and I don't love how it looks, to be completely honest! I should've probably taken a bit more fulness out of the skirt back when I was fitting the mockup. All the velveteen makes the skirt a bit stiff, and it stands out kind of weirdly. But I don't absolutely hate it, and there's no way to fix it without a completely ridiculous amount of work that I wouldn't want to do even if I had the time for it. So it is what it is!
And for some reason, after that I wanted a break from hand sewing and paletots, so I ripped panels for a chemise. I keep forgetting to put it on my list, but I really need one with the correct neckline for my ball gown. I sewed a sleeve gusset on the wrong way twice before I decided it was time to pack it up for the night...
