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Sep. 4th, 2014 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwI decided to finish the kirtle bodice first...because I really wanted to put the skirt on, so if I do the thing I don't want to do first, I'll keep working toward the thing I do want to do. Make sense? :P
Same old song and dance - it's taking longer than I thought it would! First I stitched down the shoulder straps. Then I went around all the bodice edges and tacked them down (up?), because I am so tired of this silk fraying, and I don't trust it with just the one line of stitching that will attach the lining. Then I sewed grosgrain ribbon to the inside of the shoulder straps, to hopefully keep the stretching to a minimum. Now I'm binding the armscye edge - binding because I don't want to lose any more width on the straps. They're already slightly too small for the trim that's going around the neckline, oops.
So now I'm doing a drinky-binding party of one. If it's crooked you'll know why!
Same old song and dance - it's taking longer than I thought it would! First I stitched down the shoulder straps. Then I went around all the bodice edges and tacked them down (up?), because I am so tired of this silk fraying, and I don't trust it with just the one line of stitching that will attach the lining. Then I sewed grosgrain ribbon to the inside of the shoulder straps, to hopefully keep the stretching to a minimum. Now I'm binding the armscye edge - binding because I don't want to lose any more width on the straps. They're already slightly too small for the trim that's going around the neckline, oops.
So now I'm doing a drinky-binding party of one. If it's crooked you'll know why!
