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Sewing babble
No, as a matter of fact, I have not dropped off the face of the planet. (Yeah, I know I've gone longer than this without posting, but it just seems like a long time - probably because I haven't been on the internet at all for a few days.) Have done various unexciting things like unpack (why do I have so much stuff?), which took me forever, but which I eventually had to do because I kept stubbing my toe on the various suitcases in my room; hang out with my At-Home Friends and oh dear god, it has hit me that my dear friend is marrying into a rather hick-ish family...I got to meet them last night and wow , dye my hair again so that my mother could shake her head and various relatives could make snide comments when they came over for my sister's birthday party today, and of course sleep. A lot. Which is very nice. I like my sleep, thanksverymuch.
Oh, and I did sew. I would say that it's nothing picture-worthy, but that would be a lie, so I'll skip right to where I admit that I'm too lazy to take pictures, which you all know already. And not everything I sewed is that exciting that it needs to be photographed!
First, Idicked around with fixed up the Big-Ass (ha. ha.) 1780s rump because I didn't quite like how it looked, and I was feeling all inspired to continue working on the peach stripe polonaise. So I decided to pleat the skirt to the bodice. Bad decision; Pleating = 2, Me = 0. I pleated it all in twice, and it didn't work out either time (damn stripes!). Finally unpinned it all and chucked it on the I Am PIssed Off At You Heap (which has merged with the My Attention Has Wandered To More Interesting Things Pile, and this is a terrifying alliance that threatens to take over my room). In an effort to work on things that were not pleating that skirt to that bodice, I 1) finished the edges on my pocket hoops that have been undone for months (hah, MAHWTMIT Pile, your ranks have been depleted!), 2) made the peach petticoat to go with the polonaise, 3) fixed the waistband and the hem of the petticoat to go over the pocket hoops, and then started looking around for other things I could do besides the evil pleating of the evil skirt to the evil bodice.
So, you know, I decided to make a pet en l'air (which is just the super-special name for a sack back 18thc jacket). I is a leetle crazy. Anyway, I'm basing it on the one on pages 19-20 of Costume In Detail, and it's also in Arnold's PoF 1, but I'm far too lazy to get up and walk three feet across the room to get the book to see what page it's on.
I've had the faric for it for literally years - I saw it in the remnant bin at Jo-ann's in 2006, and it wanted to come home with me and be the pet en l'air in CiD, so I let it Since it's a drapery remnant and 54" wide, and it was about 2 2/3 yards, I figured was it was probably enough for said jacket. (I still figure I'm right...but I haven't gotten to the sleeves yet, heh.)
So, that's what I've been doing for the past two days (sadly not nonstop, as stupid things like annoying relative who hate my hair kept getting in the way of my sewing time, grr!) - sewing this jacket! For some reason, I was bitten by the Crazy Bug, and have been 1) handsewing all of it, and 2) decided to drape my fashion fabric on Mabel. But it's been going uncannily well; I'm actuallly starting to get suspicious that I've done something really stupid, like forget I need fabric for sleeves that are larger than 5" square, or something.
I'll let you know!
Oh, and I did sew. I would say that it's nothing picture-worthy, but that would be a lie, so I'll skip right to where I admit that I'm too lazy to take pictures, which you all know already. And not everything I sewed is that exciting that it needs to be photographed!
First, I
So, you know, I decided to make a pet en l'air (which is just the super-special name for a sack back 18thc jacket). I is a leetle crazy. Anyway, I'm basing it on the one on pages 19-20 of Costume In Detail, and it's also in Arnold's PoF 1, but I'm far too lazy to get up and walk three feet across the room to get the book to see what page it's on.
I've had the faric for it for literally years - I saw it in the remnant bin at Jo-ann's in 2006, and it wanted to come home with me and be the pet en l'air in CiD, so I let it Since it's a drapery remnant and 54" wide, and it was about 2 2/3 yards, I figured was it was probably enough for said jacket. (I still figure I'm right...but I haven't gotten to the sleeves yet, heh.)
So, that's what I've been doing for the past two days (sadly not nonstop, as stupid things like annoying relative who hate my hair kept getting in the way of my sewing time, grr!) - sewing this jacket! For some reason, I was bitten by the Crazy Bug, and have been 1) handsewing all of it, and 2) decided to drape my fashion fabric on Mabel. But it's been going uncannily well; I'm actuallly starting to get suspicious that I've done something really stupid, like forget I need fabric for sleeves that are larger than 5" square, or something.
I'll let you know!