mockup, day one
Aug. 31st, 2016 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwI was off today, but there was a lot of being out and about, so I didn't have too much sewing time. I did get some mocking up for the bodice done though...
- I bought Butterick 6400 in the last pattern sale for a dollar or whatever, so I was curious to try it out. I sort of enjoy that they didn't even bother making a sample of it to put on the pattern envelope...not usually a good sign, haha. The double points at the front are more mid-late 80s, but the long tail in the back made me think natural form. And...yup, it's definitely a kind of weird hybrid of the two. Not actually that ill-fitting, surprisingly, but more fussing than I wanted to put into this bodice. (Although the sleeves suck. Don't use the sleeves if you get this pattern...they're straight. GTFO.) I kept the mockup as-is, for the distant point in the future in which I make a late-bustle dress (you know it'll happen someday), just in case, as it would definitely require less futzing for that.
- It did cross my mind to try scaling up one of the patterns from Fashions of the Gilded Age - but then I figured it would probably be easier to just use the pieces from my 1878 dress from last year. Yup! Just drew in butt-pleats somewhat haphazardly, and cut out the rest of it as-is.
- And I ended up getting one side about half-fitted, and the bottom edge trimmed up. Now I have to match the second side to the first, and pull the shoulders up just a tad, which shouldn't be a problem to get done tomorrow. I'm waiting for some German plastic boning in the mail (I wanted to try it out, and this seemed an easier opportunity than an entire pair of stays or corset, haha), which should show up Friday, and then I will be all set to get going on this bodice!
Well, I mean, I can get most of the actual bodice done without the boning, of course. Unless I fall back asleep for another week, though, I shouldn't have a problem getting this done in good time. Famous last words!
- I bought Butterick 6400 in the last pattern sale for a dollar or whatever, so I was curious to try it out. I sort of enjoy that they didn't even bother making a sample of it to put on the pattern envelope...not usually a good sign, haha. The double points at the front are more mid-late 80s, but the long tail in the back made me think natural form. And...yup, it's definitely a kind of weird hybrid of the two. Not actually that ill-fitting, surprisingly, but more fussing than I wanted to put into this bodice. (Although the sleeves suck. Don't use the sleeves if you get this pattern...they're straight. GTFO.) I kept the mockup as-is, for the distant point in the future in which I make a late-bustle dress (you know it'll happen someday), just in case, as it would definitely require less futzing for that.
- It did cross my mind to try scaling up one of the patterns from Fashions of the Gilded Age - but then I figured it would probably be easier to just use the pieces from my 1878 dress from last year. Yup! Just drew in butt-pleats somewhat haphazardly, and cut out the rest of it as-is.
- And I ended up getting one side about half-fitted, and the bottom edge trimmed up. Now I have to match the second side to the first, and pull the shoulders up just a tad, which shouldn't be a problem to get done tomorrow. I'm waiting for some German plastic boning in the mail (I wanted to try it out, and this seemed an easier opportunity than an entire pair of stays or corset, haha), which should show up Friday, and then I will be all set to get going on this bodice!
Well, I mean, I can get most of the actual bodice done without the boning, of course. Unless I fall back asleep for another week, though, I shouldn't have a problem getting this done in good time. Famous last words!
