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Jun. 3rd, 2015 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwAfter the WOE-I-must-take-out-my-tuck experience, I considered ditching tucks and doing two little flounces instead. While I considered, I mocked up and mostly sewed the bodice. I finished the top edge today, so all it really needs is fastenings (apart from the top drawstring). Which I need to put the skirt on to do. Which I need to figure out what I'm doing with the skirt to do!
...alright fine, tucks. I've scribbled all over the skirt with supposedly water-soluble graphite, but at least that's better than the neon purple marker if it doesn't, in fact, wash out. (And I only actually marked the under-side of the tuck, so "scribbled all over" may in fact be an exaggeration.) So, one tuck is sewn (again!) and I'm in the process of marking the second one.
Naturally this has thrown my nice sewing schedule all out of whack.
In other news, I went to the thrift store today for a basket to hold my sewing things for Saturday, and came home with a basket...and a blue willow sugar bowl...and a stoneware Williamsburg mug (also for Saturday, so I can have a more appropriate drink container than a plastic water bottle!)...and a silver-plate small box, also from Williamsburg, that will work very nicely for a tea caddy...and a pretty English teapot that, according to the Google, can be no newer than 1978. I love my thrift store.
...alright fine, tucks. I've scribbled all over the skirt with supposedly water-soluble graphite, but at least that's better than the neon purple marker if it doesn't, in fact, wash out. (And I only actually marked the under-side of the tuck, so "scribbled all over" may in fact be an exaggeration.) So, one tuck is sewn (again!) and I'm in the process of marking the second one.
Naturally this has thrown my nice sewing schedule all out of whack.
In other news, I went to the thrift store today for a basket to hold my sewing things for Saturday, and came home with a basket...and a blue willow sugar bowl...and a stoneware Williamsburg mug (also for Saturday, so I can have a more appropriate drink container than a plastic water bottle!)...and a silver-plate small box, also from Williamsburg, that will work very nicely for a tea caddy...and a pretty English teapot that, according to the Google, can be no newer than 1978. I love my thrift store.
