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Apr. 2nd, 2016 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwSoooo behind on this dress. Tomorrow's my last day off between now and Fonthill, and I'm fairly busy so I don't know how much sewing I'll get in.
I got my darker extensions today, and as predicted they are an even worse match. Well, actually they match the hair on the top of my head very well...but dark-then-light-then-dark-again is an even worse look than your standard ombre, so. I'm gonna be late-Victorian-ombre, bitchez!
...anyway. So I sewed the two "light brown" sets of extensions together (I bought two in each color, because one is all right, but two looks considerably nicer) to at least make sure my hair is ready to wear, even if nothing else is!
On the actual dress, I sewed together the bits of muslin for a facing (all cut out of random muslin remnants, so it's a couple different colors. Good look), and got it about halfway pinned on. Definitely at the "why won't this dress sew itself??" point...there are several things I'd like to be working on, and none of them are this! But it's going to be very fun to wear, I think...so why won't it finish itself!
(I bought fabric yesterday - that is,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hiraimi went and bought an Ikea duvet cover set for me! Well, I really really wanted a white-ground floral print for my 1830 day dress, and if I divide it up into yardage, it comes out to about 6.30-something/yard...much cheaper than any of the Williamsburg prints I was considering!)
I got my darker extensions today, and as predicted they are an even worse match. Well, actually they match the hair on the top of my head very well...but dark-then-light-then-dark-again is an even worse look than your standard ombre, so. I'm gonna be late-Victorian-ombre, bitchez!
...anyway. So I sewed the two "light brown" sets of extensions together (I bought two in each color, because one is all right, but two looks considerably nicer) to at least make sure my hair is ready to wear, even if nothing else is!
On the actual dress, I sewed together the bits of muslin for a facing (all cut out of random muslin remnants, so it's a couple different colors. Good look), and got it about halfway pinned on. Definitely at the "why won't this dress sew itself??" point...there are several things I'd like to be working on, and none of them are this! But it's going to be very fun to wear, I think...so why won't it finish itself!
(I bought fabric yesterday - that is,
hiraimi went and bought an Ikea duvet cover set for me! Well, I really really wanted a white-ground floral print for my 1830 day dress, and if I divide it up into yardage, it comes out to about 6.30-something/yard...much cheaper than any of the Williamsburg prints I was considering!)