I'm a weird kind of lazy
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mandie_rwI'm too lazy to take off the green thread that's on my machine right now for the stays, wind a bobbin and rethread in the pinkish color I need for the kirtle, and then rethread with the green to finish off the machine sewing for the stays...so I decided to bone the fronts and sew the stays together this afternoon, so I don't need the green thread in the machine any more!
Not pictured: the shoulder straps that I temporarily forgot were a thing. They are also sewn now, so I really am good to get rid of the green! (I'm hardly a neurotic thread-matcher, but the idea of that shade of green on a pinkish-red was a bit much for me...)
Kirtle progress: I'm getting close to done? ish? the pad-stitching on the kirtle bodice, and I finally remembered to pick up cotton Gutermann from work that matches it, so I don't have to use the only-sort-of-matching pink all-purpose poly thread for topstitching and hems and things! Really I should have waited for the matching thread before doing all the pad-stitching, especially on the front of the bodice...as this particular length of linen has weird irregularities in the weight of the thread that makes it up, so it's slightly see-through in some places. Also a few really excessively large slubs. Which is mildly annoying but I'll live. None of the rest of the linen is like that, and if I had a lot of time I would have considered sending it back...but my time is limited and I really wanted that color! So, big weird slubs and irregularities it is.
There's still a week and a half left in school, but since finals are next week, I don't anticipate too many sub jobs coming my way before they let out for summer! Which is fine, because I do want to have a wearable outfit for this event next weekend. ;)
(This would probably be helped by not also working on other projects at the same time, but....shhhh.)
Not pictured: the shoulder straps that I temporarily forgot were a thing. They are also sewn now, so I really am good to get rid of the green! (I'm hardly a neurotic thread-matcher, but the idea of that shade of green on a pinkish-red was a bit much for me...)
Kirtle progress: I'm getting close to done? ish? the pad-stitching on the kirtle bodice, and I finally remembered to pick up cotton Gutermann from work that matches it, so I don't have to use the only-sort-of-matching pink all-purpose poly thread for topstitching and hems and things! Really I should have waited for the matching thread before doing all the pad-stitching, especially on the front of the bodice...as this particular length of linen has weird irregularities in the weight of the thread that makes it up, so it's slightly see-through in some places. Also a few really excessively large slubs. Which is mildly annoying but I'll live. None of the rest of the linen is like that, and if I had a lot of time I would have considered sending it back...but my time is limited and I really wanted that color! So, big weird slubs and irregularities it is.
There's still a week and a half left in school, but since finals are next week, I don't anticipate too many sub jobs coming my way before they let out for summer! Which is fine, because I do want to have a wearable outfit for this event next weekend. ;)
(This would probably be helped by not also working on other projects at the same time, but....shhhh.)
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