some sewing, some organizing
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mandie_rwWe had our staff end-of-year meeting this morning - ew, work on a morning I don't usually have to get up! - but at least it meant I was up and at 'em (so to speak) at a Decent Time.
My original plan was to finish off at least one of the permutations of the sprigged print Regency outfit before moving on, but wearing my new corset around periodically for a few hours during the week to break it in has distracted me from Regency! Le surprise. But I did manage to dig up enough motivation to completely finish the sprigged petticoat, anyway - did all the little finishing bits that you think should take half an hour but somehow end up taking two hours! I was going to try it on for pictures, but was wearing my new corset so...nah. Maybe tomorrow!
Here's the cotton print with the burgundy silk, which wouldn't quite photograph truly, natch. It insisted on coming up brighter in the picture - it's a shade darker in real life. I like it though - I mean, apart from really liking plummy colors like that anyway, I think it'll look nice with the print!
After finishing the petticoat, I felt vaguely motivated to do some organizing of the crap heap that is the sewing room, rather than keep sewing. (Well, actually...I wanted to cut out the pieces for the shirtwaist, but SOMEBODY was sitting on the pattern pieces for HOURS.) Partly because it was only a high of about 70 today so the sewing room wasn't 150 degrees, and partly because Tom's managed to get to a second round of interviews for a position up here, so the possibility of moving is actually seeming more like...a possibility! Sooner or later, either way the crap heap really needed to get binned up, though.
It's not all binned up yet, but progress was made on the organization front. And things were actually thrown out (be amazed); I had some fun completely taking to bits my first natural form dress - I made it in 2015, it wasn't terribly well-made or fitted, and it never wowed me, overall. (I have been known to sell off some of my old dresses, but...this was one of the ones I'd be embarrassed to sell to someone!) I salvaged the silk from the petticoat, the larger skirt pieces from the wool gown, and the buttons, hooks, and bars, ripped out the cotton lining (trash-bound), and chopped up the rest of the dress pieces to chuck in the compost, because apparently wool is quite compostable! Usually I'd have tried to save more of the dress fabric, but princess-cut natural for dresses really aren't good for re-working. The shapes are stupid!
Many bins were relabeled, and many piles were shoved into other bins to be labeled "deal with this later." Still better than a pile on top of the bin, though...
And then finally the Orange Menace moved off the shirtwaist tissue pieces, and I cut them out of a white/blue/black plaid shirting! I had also unearthed the summer-weight late 1890s skirt I'd made in 2019 for boating (we never went boating) while organizing, and it's done (wow, past me didn't screw me over for once), but I want to add a hem binding as it's a wee bit on the long side and I'm sure it will be "artfully" brushing the ground. The skirt is a heathered light blue wool, so...I really would have preferred a natural twill tape for binding, but as I'm not actually a twill tape store and only had white or black...I went with black, as a white hem binding just seems extra-dumb.
Tomorrow...I should at least see if I can get that hem binding sewn on, if not start the shirtwaist as well...but I also want to take some time to play in the dirt (thanks,hiraimi ) as I should take advantage of it NOT being 90 degrees! So, we'll see.
My original plan was to finish off at least one of the permutations of the sprigged print Regency outfit before moving on, but wearing my new corset around periodically for a few hours during the week to break it in has distracted me from Regency! Le surprise. But I did manage to dig up enough motivation to completely finish the sprigged petticoat, anyway - did all the little finishing bits that you think should take half an hour but somehow end up taking two hours! I was going to try it on for pictures, but was wearing my new corset so...nah. Maybe tomorrow!
Here's the cotton print with the burgundy silk, which wouldn't quite photograph truly, natch. It insisted on coming up brighter in the picture - it's a shade darker in real life. I like it though - I mean, apart from really liking plummy colors like that anyway, I think it'll look nice with the print!
After finishing the petticoat, I felt vaguely motivated to do some organizing of the crap heap that is the sewing room, rather than keep sewing. (Well, actually...I wanted to cut out the pieces for the shirtwaist, but SOMEBODY was sitting on the pattern pieces for HOURS.) Partly because it was only a high of about 70 today so the sewing room wasn't 150 degrees, and partly because Tom's managed to get to a second round of interviews for a position up here, so the possibility of moving is actually seeming more like...a possibility! Sooner or later, either way the crap heap really needed to get binned up, though.
It's not all binned up yet, but progress was made on the organization front. And things were actually thrown out (be amazed); I had some fun completely taking to bits my first natural form dress - I made it in 2015, it wasn't terribly well-made or fitted, and it never wowed me, overall. (I have been known to sell off some of my old dresses, but...this was one of the ones I'd be embarrassed to sell to someone!) I salvaged the silk from the petticoat, the larger skirt pieces from the wool gown, and the buttons, hooks, and bars, ripped out the cotton lining (trash-bound), and chopped up the rest of the dress pieces to chuck in the compost, because apparently wool is quite compostable! Usually I'd have tried to save more of the dress fabric, but princess-cut natural for dresses really aren't good for re-working. The shapes are stupid!
Many bins were relabeled, and many piles were shoved into other bins to be labeled "deal with this later." Still better than a pile on top of the bin, though...
And then finally the Orange Menace moved off the shirtwaist tissue pieces, and I cut them out of a white/blue/black plaid shirting! I had also unearthed the summer-weight late 1890s skirt I'd made in 2019 for boating (we never went boating) while organizing, and it's done (wow, past me didn't screw me over for once), but I want to add a hem binding as it's a wee bit on the long side and I'm sure it will be "artfully" brushing the ground. The skirt is a heathered light blue wool, so...I really would have preferred a natural twill tape for binding, but as I'm not actually a twill tape store and only had white or black...I went with black, as a white hem binding just seems extra-dumb.
Tomorrow...I should at least see if I can get that hem binding sewn on, if not start the shirtwaist as well...but I also want to take some time to play in the dirt (thanks,
hiraimi ) as I should take advantage of it NOT being 90 degrees! So, we'll see.
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