Polonaise progress
Jun. 19th, 2009 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwI think I may only have broken down and worked on the polonaise today because I can't get any further on the Tudor without finishing pleating the skirt and sewing it to the bodice...and that is even less fun than sewing hooks and eyes, so I chose the lesser of the two evils.
I even put on my stays etc so I could try the thing on once I'd sewn on all the hooks and eyes. Impressed? I am.
Yay, gown with sleeves! See, I'm thrilled. ;) (Plz to be noting hanging pointe shoes, towel, Beatles calander, pile of records, purse, and rightmost side of Giant Pile of Crap. I really really need to overhaul my room...But I'm keeping the calander and the records. :P)
There ended up being a bit of gapping between the hooks in the front in one place - didn't care, because I decided I was going to put trim over it. Trim hides a multitude of sins. Like how I said I'd probably end up putting a drawstring in the neckline? Didn't. Took a couple of weird tucks instead - I don't know why the shoulder straps ended up so damn long. Anyway, weird tucks - because I decided I was going to put trim around the neckline as well.
Why I could not, for the life of me, make this whole thing fit properly, I do not know. Fitting fail. *scowl* I made the pet en l'air fit! ...except for that sleeve fun. Hmmph. Well, I have been known, on occasion, to actually be able to make garments fit, promise.
Then I realized I'd finally gotten to the fun part...I could trim it! I like trimming, which is good, considering that between this and the 1870s dress, I think I'll be sewing on about ten miles of trim! Well, all right, I'm not a huge fan of the inevitable punctured fingers that pinning and sewing trim produces. Owie. *nurses wounded fingers* At least I didn't leave any blood spots on this outfit. Yet.
Trim as it stands now, around the neck and down the CF. Both are knife pleated - the trim at the neck is two stripes wide and the one down the CF is one stripe wide on each side of the opening.
Fear not, there shall be more! Bwahaha. I'm going to trim the hell out of this dress. Just so you know. XD I will stop trimming when I run out of fabric! *cue nore evil laughter*
I even put on my stays etc so I could try the thing on once I'd sewn on all the hooks and eyes. Impressed? I am.
Yay, gown with sleeves! See, I'm thrilled. ;) (Plz to be noting hanging pointe shoes, towel, Beatles calander, pile of records, purse, and rightmost side of Giant Pile of Crap. I really really need to overhaul my room...But I'm keeping the calander and the records. :P)
There ended up being a bit of gapping between the hooks in the front in one place - didn't care, because I decided I was going to put trim over it. Trim hides a multitude of sins. Like how I said I'd probably end up putting a drawstring in the neckline? Didn't. Took a couple of weird tucks instead - I don't know why the shoulder straps ended up so damn long. Anyway, weird tucks - because I decided I was going to put trim around the neckline as well.
Why I could not, for the life of me, make this whole thing fit properly, I do not know. Fitting fail. *scowl* I made the pet en l'air fit! ...except for that sleeve fun. Hmmph. Well, I have been known, on occasion, to actually be able to make garments fit, promise.
Then I realized I'd finally gotten to the fun part...I could trim it! I like trimming, which is good, considering that between this and the 1870s dress, I think I'll be sewing on about ten miles of trim! Well, all right, I'm not a huge fan of the inevitable punctured fingers that pinning and sewing trim produces. Owie. *nurses wounded fingers* At least I didn't leave any blood spots on this outfit. Yet.
Trim as it stands now, around the neck and down the CF. Both are knife pleated - the trim at the neck is two stripes wide and the one down the CF is one stripe wide on each side of the opening.
Fear not, there shall be more! Bwahaha. I'm going to trim the hell out of this dress. Just so you know. XD I will stop trimming when I run out of fabric! *cue nore evil laughter*
