Ballgown week
Nov. 8th, 2015 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwWell...paletot week was sort of a failure - once I got the lace in the mail I kept wandering off from the paletot. I even made a capelet to wear over my ballgown! (From the yard-and-a-bit of my white and yellow taffeta stripe from Belvidere...if I can remember to take pics of it in daylight tomorrow I will.)
At least there's really only a day's worth of work left on the paletot to make it wearable. The front lapel-buttony-thingies that are annoyingly piped will take longer, but as the buttons won't really fasten, they aren't vital to paletot function, and I can put the lining in without regards to them either. And the forecast as it currently stands is too warm for a paletot anyway! (So I'll be really mad if if spend all my sewing time on a coat I won't even be able to wear without melting...)
I had a bunch of stuff to do this weekend, which didn't allow for great chunks of sewing time, but I got the ballgown skirt panels sewn together, and today made the flounce, which has a really low ruffle:skirt ratio and STILL took four solid hours to get to the point of lace-sewing. (Sewing all the lace on by hand, because machine sewing would be really visible, and what's the point of buying delicate expensive cotton English lace if you're going to put clunky machine stitches all over it?)
Any other type of fabric and I'd have just topstitched the hems on the flounce and called it a day, as both of them are getting lace-covered, but this satin wouldn't be happy with that. Because satin is gorgeous and EVIL. So the whole stupid thing is lined in a brown lightweight linen-cotton (ugly poop brown, which wouldn't be my first choice, but since I really can't buy anything else for this dress, even a couple yards of muslin, this was the best Stash option) to prevent it from doing that curly-hem thing satin so loves to do.
One more note: I think I'm going to be pulling a few all-nighters to be able to finish everything I want for Gettysburg, and I've had the brilliant (?) idea to do them this week, rather than the days right before. We'll see how this works out...
At least there's really only a day's worth of work left on the paletot to make it wearable. The front lapel-buttony-thingies that are annoyingly piped will take longer, but as the buttons won't really fasten, they aren't vital to paletot function, and I can put the lining in without regards to them either. And the forecast as it currently stands is too warm for a paletot anyway! (So I'll be really mad if if spend all my sewing time on a coat I won't even be able to wear without melting...)
I had a bunch of stuff to do this weekend, which didn't allow for great chunks of sewing time, but I got the ballgown skirt panels sewn together, and today made the flounce, which has a really low ruffle:skirt ratio and STILL took four solid hours to get to the point of lace-sewing. (Sewing all the lace on by hand, because machine sewing would be really visible, and what's the point of buying delicate expensive cotton English lace if you're going to put clunky machine stitches all over it?)
Any other type of fabric and I'd have just topstitched the hems on the flounce and called it a day, as both of them are getting lace-covered, but this satin wouldn't be happy with that. Because satin is gorgeous and EVIL. So the whole stupid thing is lined in a brown lightweight linen-cotton (ugly poop brown, which wouldn't be my first choice, but since I really can't buy anything else for this dress, even a couple yards of muslin, this was the best Stash option) to prevent it from doing that curly-hem thing satin so loves to do.
One more note: I think I'm going to be pulling a few all-nighters to be able to finish everything I want for Gettysburg, and I've had the brilliant (?) idea to do them this week, rather than the days right before. We'll see how this works out...
