A Dedicated Follower of Fashion

On Saturday, I went down with my local peeps to the Annual Pumpkin Tea, hosted by sadievale and her mom. As always, they're wonderful hostesses and put out a really good spread!

A fair summation of this event could amount to: We came, we saw, we ate. :D We didn't even go out to the pub for a late dinner as we usually do; instead a platter of Chick-fil-A nuggets, champagne, tiaras, and jammies sounded like a really good way to spend the evening. While laughing ourselves sick while watching Austenland, because that just seemed the most appropriate.

This is my favorite picture anyone took, I think...Regency wedgie shot! (With a bonus Maggie, hee hee.)


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Just sewed the last of the pompom trim to the spencer, which means this sucker is DONE.

If Lil' Sis is available tomorrow morning, I'll have her take pictures of me and the spencer in a field or somewhere else...autumn-y. (Since I think I've decided it's probably in the best interests of my finances and sewing time to skip the Pumpkin Tea this year - gas! tolls! still so much to do for Gettysburg! eep - so I don't know when this outfit will get worn to an actual event.)

Ehhh...I'm going to regret not having got more sewing done today! But somehow things to do come up on your day off, you know?

I did cut and sew the hem facing on today, which I had to do before I put any trim on, because Reasons. And I figured out the widths of the trim, even if I didn't cut it yet!

And I finished sewing the other sleeve onto the pompom spencer last night, so now I just have to sew lots more pompoms on it...

Spencer progress: Right sleeve is now attached. Woo.

(And I'm copying this from my public blog, that's how lazy I am!)

Time is really getting away from me - this spencer really is such a simple little garment, it should have been completed the beginning of this week, at the latest. But the early fall weather has just been so enjoyable these last two weeks, that every time I have a good chunk of time to devote to sewing, I've been going outside for a walk in local parks and nature preserves instead! I'm terribly not-outdoorsy, so be impressed.

I still have to make and fit a sleeve mockup, but since I'll always put off sleeves as long as I possibly can, I'm working on the trim now.

Pompoms!!

So far I've only got it sewn to the bottom edge of the spencer, but, you know, better than nothing, right?


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I thought I'd finished sewing the body of the spencer together last night - but then I realized I'd forgotten the darts. Which I originally misspelled as "drats" Which is appropriate. I sewed them tonight and they look a little drunk. Moving on!

Victorian Party tomorrow, so don't expect much sewing, though you may expect one or two pictures...

Because now I'm friends with The Cool People and get to go to these things. *happy wriggle* Drove down to VA with Robin, Kat, and Jess for sadievale's Pumpkin Tea this weekend. Many many thanks to her and her mom for having us all! There was good company and lots of good food...also a lot of costume scheming! More on that in a little bit...



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Rest of my photos plus my faves from others here, feel free to take any that aren't horribly crappy, if you find any!

I probably should have finished draping and fitting the muslin for the spencer, but I wanted to work on something that would be easy to continue on if the power went out, so I worked on the shirt instead. And have nothing exciting to show for it yet! I hate these kinds of posts...

Don't know why it's taking so long, it's just a stupid shirt! I've even sewn half the seams on the machine! (Making flat-felled seams, I sew the first line on the machine and finish it by hand.) Oh, and a note on this linen? It sucks. The weave is pretty loose, making it fiddly to sew by hand (you should see my rolled hem on the neck ruffle up close - it's awful) and for some reason it likes to snag on the machine. It's a new needle so I don't know WTF this thing's problem is. Not too fussed, though, as you won't see most of it!

Stupid things I realized I've done on the shirt so far: mislabeled the pieces, so I ended up using the body pieces for the sleeves & vice versa...I didn't realize I'd done that til they were all sewn together. Hah, too late! Just means my sleeves are a little unnecessarily wide... Also realized I hemmed it inside out. That I will unpick and redo.

Might be able to get a little more done tomorrow - possibly even another full day of sewing, since trains are definitely still not running tomorrow AM. Might be able to go in tomorrow afternoon, but I'll wait & see how the weather is. I'm not going out if it's still gale force winds, even if trains are back up. So there. :P

Edit! I've realized at least two seams of the shirt are on the wrong side! Yay! So...I'm not even going to bother unpicking the hem. As long as the CF seam is on the right side (which it is), I don't even care.

And watching Pride & Prejudice for the thousandth time while doing so! Got a very respectable amount done on the pompom outfit; all I have left to to on the basic dress is attach/hem the drop-front piece and then hem the thing.

And put on the pompoms, of course!

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