skirt assembly day

[mandie_rw]

Since trying on the bodice mockup for the voile print dress seemed like sooooo much work!

I sewed together the voile print skirt lining (white Bemberg rayon, which I love for linings but is UGH so squeedgy) and the air show pin-dot dress skirt (which, as I mentioned, will be lined in lawn, but I didn't intend to flatline it, so might as well make the skirt now) - and since I like to finish the seams on my mid-century clothes, that was twice the seaming and hemming. Flat-felled the pin-dot, French seamed the lining, mostly to check and see if I still hate French seams as much as I used to. (Yes? Still stupid? Indeed. Okay, good, let's move on.)

I'm using V8812 for my WWII air show dress, and the pin-dot is a very lightweight cotton shirting. Yes - it's a 1940 pattern, no, this country was not involved in the war in 1940, if you want to be technical about it. I do not care to be technical about it. (I have a really hard time finding strictly 1941-45 styles that I like enough to sew; they're just not my Thing, and of course I'll wear this as civvies after the event! So I wanted something I actually would wear. I tend to be much more of a New Look-1950s kind of girl, so I had to do some digging!)

And I cut and started assembling the voile print skirt itself - and promptly decided to hand-sew it all. I half-sewed one seam three times, and the fabric was completely uninterested in not being gathered and horrible, no matter what I did. Not entirely surprised by this, considering how wifty it is. I could probably buy lighter weight machine needles or tissue paper to sandwich in the middle...but I have neither of those things on hand, and I've always got needles and thread. ;) It's six gored panels in the skirt so it'll take just a leeetle bit longer than planned! Although I was going to flat-fell the seams by hand anyway...

(And I think I managed to cut the pieces with the print all going in the same direction. Amazing!)

Comments

[brickhousewench]

Ooo, I love your fabric!

[mandie_rw]

Thank you! :)

[mala_14]

Pretty fabrics! Also, I think that being really technical about the dotty dress, you might say that if the pattern came out in 1940, you might have bought it in 1940 but not gotten around to making up the dress until 1941 (or '42 or '43 or, if you're me, '46 ;p). Lots of pattern catalogues of the era do show repeats from previous years too, so it might have originally come out in 1940 but continued to be advertised until '41-'42. Regardless, it's a super pretty pattern and I look forward to seeing how it looks made up!

[mandie_rw]

Hah! That's a very good point...especially considering the amount of patterns I've stashed over the years for quite that long! *shifty eyes* That's what I'll tell anyone if they recognize the pattern, hehehe.

(And there's about a .0001% chance of that. This is very much a boys-and-their-toys event; they know if there's a button out of place on someone's 1942 whatever-uniform, but probably wouldn't notice if I showed up in a WWI dress instead of WWII!)