Green & fuchsia day dress
Oct. 15th, 2015 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwI had many things I intended to work on today, but the wrists and fingers opined that they would like another day off from hand sewing. Since I have a lot of machine sewing to do, too, I determined we could do that. Sure! Let's work on the day dress instead!
Primary accomplishment for the day: sewing a finger. I know I seem injury-prone lately, but that's actually the first time I've machine-sewed a finger since getting this machine Christmas of '05. So there. ;)
(Not, like, right through the finger, just the side of it. I think I'll survive.)
First off, I added another half-width of fabric to the skirt, because apparently math is hard, and I failed at it while putting the skirt together. Good job, Past Me. Then I had to actually decide how to trim the skirt, which is something I've been waffling over for weeks. I kept going back and forth between vertical bands of fuchsia and some kind of hem cutouts backed with fuchsia. Vertical trimming seems to be a little later in date, though, which would coincide with slightly gored skirts, which I didn't do because gores are annoying. Circus marquee it is!
It doesn't look like much for an entire afternoon's worth of work, but it's a lot of skirt and the flannel was going creepy-creepy over the polished cotton facing (and that's where I sewed my finger). Yes, I could have hand basted it...but, no. That's waaaay too many inches of basting. Basting my silk satin ballgown is one thing, this day dress is quite another. (No.) I thought I mathed my cutouts properly, but apparently didn't, so I ended up with two slightly longer flappy bits on one side. To my credit, they aren't right in the CF.
A flounced band of the fuchsia will go under that, and hang a few inches lower than the marquee edge. (Come on, you KNOW it looks like a tent.) The original plan was to tack the fuchsia flounce onto the skirt itself, but I sewed a few inches of it on, and, nope. Probably because it weighs a ton, the stitches show through really obviously and look mucho terrible. Okaaaaay, guess I'm making a separate underskirt for the flounce! I may actually have to buy fabric for that (boo), since I'm very low on mockup and random don't-need-this-for-anything fabric right now. Hmm. Must go poke the Stash.
Primary accomplishment for the day: sewing a finger. I know I seem injury-prone lately, but that's actually the first time I've machine-sewed a finger since getting this machine Christmas of '05. So there. ;)
(Not, like, right through the finger, just the side of it. I think I'll survive.)
First off, I added another half-width of fabric to the skirt, because apparently math is hard, and I failed at it while putting the skirt together. Good job, Past Me. Then I had to actually decide how to trim the skirt, which is something I've been waffling over for weeks. I kept going back and forth between vertical bands of fuchsia and some kind of hem cutouts backed with fuchsia. Vertical trimming seems to be a little later in date, though, which would coincide with slightly gored skirts, which I didn't do because gores are annoying. Circus marquee it is!
It doesn't look like much for an entire afternoon's worth of work, but it's a lot of skirt and the flannel was going creepy-creepy over the polished cotton facing (and that's where I sewed my finger). Yes, I could have hand basted it...but, no. That's waaaay too many inches of basting. Basting my silk satin ballgown is one thing, this day dress is quite another. (No.) I thought I mathed my cutouts properly, but apparently didn't, so I ended up with two slightly longer flappy bits on one side. To my credit, they aren't right in the CF.
A flounced band of the fuchsia will go under that, and hang a few inches lower than the marquee edge. (Come on, you KNOW it looks like a tent.) The original plan was to tack the fuchsia flounce onto the skirt itself, but I sewed a few inches of it on, and, nope. Probably because it weighs a ton, the stitches show through really obviously and look mucho terrible. Okaaaaay, guess I'm making a separate underskirt for the flounce! I may actually have to buy fabric for that (boo), since I'm very low on mockup and random don't-need-this-for-anything fabric right now. Hmm. Must go poke the Stash.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2015-10-16 05:48 am (UTC)But a fabulous tent!
Only my plaid skirt is gored. Too obnoxious otherwise. But the plaid had to be gored so the pattern would be even more obvious :)
It's a day for minor injuries. I knocked over my coffee filter thing onto my left hand as I was pouring boiling water in it. Ouch. It really limited my sewing tonight!
no subject
Date: 2015-10-18 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-16 07:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-18 05:00 am (UTC)