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Project of the Day -- the piecing of the Pet en l'air
Well, first it was sewing up the other sleeve of the pet en l'air and putting it in, which was not without its drama, of course. Somehow (no idea how, really; I must be very talented) I managed to make the left armscye considerably larger than the right, which meant that the teeny-weeny pleat in the sleeve head on that side didn't match the other one at all, which was a reasonable size. There was so much sleeve-cursing, it's a good thing no one else was home. I ended up putting in a triangular gore into the sleeve, so the pleats would be reasonably close to matching. So now there is a lovely enormous and pretty stupid-looking piece at the top of the left sleeve. Ugh, I don't even care. Sleeves can go to hell.
While I was sewing the sleeve together (before all the Sleevetacular!Drama), I watched the film Amazing Grace, which I took out from the library because I'd never seen it, though it's a few years old now - but costume movies never get old, in my opinion. (Unless the costumes suck.) I'd been wanting to see it for a while, because, hello late 18th century! We know I have an unnatural love for those costumes, and I'm quite fond of the ones in this film; they're very good. There aren't a whole lot of girlie dresses, as a decent amount of the story unfolds in Parliament, but I've never had any objection to men in 18thc clothes...*grin* And Ioan Gruffudd is some nice eye candy, imo. I'm quite fond of him. (No, really...he was in Titanic way back when...he was that officer that took the lifeboat back to save people...and when all my preeteen friends were drooling over Leo DiCaprio, I was like, yeah, he's okay, but I think I like the looks of that guy with that unpronouncable Welsh name a lot better...*grin*)
Anyway, after the fun of watching a good costume movie and the un-fun of piecing the Evil Sleeve, it was time for more piecing fun. I'm getting seriously short on fabric, which is never fun when it comes to something the size of and shaped like a sleeve flounce. I eyeballed the pattern of the flounce in Janet Arnold and then freehanded a paper pattern. I actually only finished one flounce because I had to do so much piecing, and I'd just had enough for now. The one I have done now is made up of...*counts* seven pieces. Oy.
While I was sewing the sleeve together (before all the Sleevetacular!Drama), I watched the film Amazing Grace, which I took out from the library because I'd never seen it, though it's a few years old now - but costume movies never get old, in my opinion. (Unless the costumes suck.) I'd been wanting to see it for a while, because, hello late 18th century! We know I have an unnatural love for those costumes, and I'm quite fond of the ones in this film; they're very good. There aren't a whole lot of girlie dresses, as a decent amount of the story unfolds in Parliament, but I've never had any objection to men in 18thc clothes...*grin* And Ioan Gruffudd is some nice eye candy, imo. I'm quite fond of him. (No, really...he was in Titanic way back when...he was that officer that took the lifeboat back to save people...and when all my preeteen friends were drooling over Leo DiCaprio, I was like, yeah, he's okay, but I think I like the looks of that guy with that unpronouncable Welsh name a lot better...*grin*)
Anyway, after the fun of watching a good costume movie and the un-fun of piecing the Evil Sleeve, it was time for more piecing fun. I'm getting seriously short on fabric, which is never fun when it comes to something the size of and shaped like a sleeve flounce. I eyeballed the pattern of the flounce in Janet Arnold and then freehanded a paper pattern. I actually only finished one flounce because I had to do so much piecing, and I'd just had enough for now. The one I have done now is made up of...*counts* seven pieces. Oy.