WHEN DID MY ARMS GET FAT
Jul. 9th, 2021 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwUgh, today has just been One of Those Days, I tell you what.
(Only in sewing/costuming-related things; outside of that there haven't been any crises!)
Sewed up most of the WH '30s top last night and tried it on this morning, just needs closures. It would fit if I had a second set of breasts slung very low on my ribs! Great look. Two-piece tops that are bag lined don't allow too many opportunities to fix them while the thing's in progress... Should be fairly fixable with a vertical dart, but hello annoying.
Decided to pivot back to historical stuff, as it occurred to me this week that this is my last sewing weekend before the Virginia trip (busy next weekend!). Pulled out an ollllllld UFO 1790s open robe that didn't actually need much work, just finishing the sleeves and the CF band to close it. 1790s round gown for day and add the open robe for evening, easy peasy! Well, the sleeves were in fact dog shit, so off they came (WHO thought they fit three years ago? Fire that person. They were wrinkly and awful and too small in the front shoulder. No), which was fine because there are plenty of sleeveless open robes, and I remember being on the fence about sleeves for this anyway. So, picked off the sleeves and hemmed up the armholes, and suited up to try it on so I could mark and cut that CF band.
Oh but wait! My fat arms don't fit in my 1790s round gown any more. That's fun. Also the round gown is grody, like somebody left it out on the back deck for two weeks and it just got dirty. That's fun, too.
ALSO I noticed that the open robe has a stain on the back of the neck...probably from sitting on top of a bin under the shitty leaky roof. Even more fun!
So...I took the round gown (and my 1780s chemise gown, because that's also grody, and I have an event to wear it to in the fall) and chucked it in the sink to soak for a while. If it gets wearably less gross, I'll piece in a little wedge into each sleeve seam...probably with some other fabric because I don't think I have any more of that white stripe! Have to check the scrap bin.
If it doesn't get less gross...well, I will just be very cranky and either wear the print morning dress to dinner, or the 1780s chemise dress (THOSE SLEEVES FIT BTW) with a sash hitched up real high, as there's no waist drawstring!
I may spend the rest of my evening just grumpily eating takeout (yes, that'll help my arms get less fat!) and internetting, because the creative gods are against me today!
(Only in sewing/costuming-related things; outside of that there haven't been any crises!)
Sewed up most of the WH '30s top last night and tried it on this morning, just needs closures. It would fit if I had a second set of breasts slung very low on my ribs! Great look. Two-piece tops that are bag lined don't allow too many opportunities to fix them while the thing's in progress... Should be fairly fixable with a vertical dart, but hello annoying.
Decided to pivot back to historical stuff, as it occurred to me this week that this is my last sewing weekend before the Virginia trip (busy next weekend!). Pulled out an ollllllld UFO 1790s open robe that didn't actually need much work, just finishing the sleeves and the CF band to close it. 1790s round gown for day and add the open robe for evening, easy peasy! Well, the sleeves were in fact dog shit, so off they came (WHO thought they fit three years ago? Fire that person. They were wrinkly and awful and too small in the front shoulder. No), which was fine because there are plenty of sleeveless open robes, and I remember being on the fence about sleeves for this anyway. So, picked off the sleeves and hemmed up the armholes, and suited up to try it on so I could mark and cut that CF band.
Oh but wait! My fat arms don't fit in my 1790s round gown any more. That's fun. Also the round gown is grody, like somebody left it out on the back deck for two weeks and it just got dirty. That's fun, too.
ALSO I noticed that the open robe has a stain on the back of the neck...probably from sitting on top of a bin under the shitty leaky roof. Even more fun!
So...I took the round gown (and my 1780s chemise gown, because that's also grody, and I have an event to wear it to in the fall) and chucked it in the sink to soak for a while. If it gets wearably less gross, I'll piece in a little wedge into each sleeve seam...probably with some other fabric because I don't think I have any more of that white stripe! Have to check the scrap bin.
If it doesn't get less gross...well, I will just be very cranky and either wear the print morning dress to dinner, or the 1780s chemise dress (THOSE SLEEVES FIT BTW) with a sash hitched up real high, as there's no waist drawstring!
I may spend the rest of my evening just grumpily eating takeout (yes, that'll help my arms get less fat!) and internetting, because the creative gods are against me today!
