Battle of the Sleeve Flounces, Day 1
Jun. 11th, 2009 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwLike I said before (yesterday...?), I wanted to make some flounces for the sleeves of the pet en l'air, preferably before I put it away in the Bin of Costumes, because then I'll forget about it.
So. I went digging in the Stash for some linen to make said flounces out of, and was disheartened to only find a little bit of my nice light weight white linen left (am I going to have to buy more of that? Probably. *sigh*), but it turned out to be enough for a double flounce, like the ones in PoF 1, which is what I vaguely based them on.
Ah, but it was only enough linen if I pieced the lower flounce. MOAR PIECING ARRGH. I sat there for a couple of minutes and glared at the fabric, willing it to grow enough so that I wouldn't have to piece it, because I am so damn tired of piecing, I can't even express it properly. When that didn't work, I heaved a sigh from the very depths of my soul, and set about piecing the wretched thing.
After the piecing fun, I decided to put the gathering stitches in by machine, because my gathering stitches done by hand look like crap. I then proceeded to sew the right upper flounce to the left lower flounce, and vice versa. *curse, unpick, unpick, curse* (At that point, I was very glad I hadn't sewn the gathering by hand, because I would have been really annoyed then.)
After the proper left and right pieces were joined together, I sewed the band to the right cuff and hemmed the flounces, in hopes of getting at least one sewed to the pet en l'air tonight, so I could take a picture of it. Oh, I got it sewn on, all right. Crooked.
And at that point, I've decided the sleeve flounces have won the battle, but not the war! I will conquor them tomorrow! (Well, not tomorrow actually, as I'm going day tripping to Cape May with A.) The day after tomorrow, then!
So. I went digging in the Stash for some linen to make said flounces out of, and was disheartened to only find a little bit of my nice light weight white linen left (am I going to have to buy more of that? Probably. *sigh*), but it turned out to be enough for a double flounce, like the ones in PoF 1, which is what I vaguely based them on.
Ah, but it was only enough linen if I pieced the lower flounce. MOAR PIECING ARRGH. I sat there for a couple of minutes and glared at the fabric, willing it to grow enough so that I wouldn't have to piece it, because I am so damn tired of piecing, I can't even express it properly. When that didn't work, I heaved a sigh from the very depths of my soul, and set about piecing the wretched thing.
After the piecing fun, I decided to put the gathering stitches in by machine, because my gathering stitches done by hand look like crap. I then proceeded to sew the right upper flounce to the left lower flounce, and vice versa. *curse, unpick, unpick, curse* (At that point, I was very glad I hadn't sewn the gathering by hand, because I would have been really annoyed then.)
After the proper left and right pieces were joined together, I sewed the band to the right cuff and hemmed the flounces, in hopes of getting at least one sewed to the pet en l'air tonight, so I could take a picture of it. Oh, I got it sewn on, all right. Crooked.
And at that point, I've decided the sleeve flounces have won the battle, but not the war! I will conquor them tomorrow! (Well, not tomorrow actually, as I'm going day tripping to Cape May with A.) The day after tomorrow, then!
