I ran out of thread for the Ewok dress Tuesday night, so I pulled out the Padme steel blue nightgown again. I finally hemmed the other wing (which was starting to fray pretty badly after just laying around in a box since October), and got them pinned on to the back of the dress…. only to decide I didn’t like how they looked hemmed like that.
So last night I went to the fabric store and got some lining, cut the hem off the wings (they were a little too large, anyway – on top of that, picking the hem out left nasty holes. This fabric doesn’t like being jabbed by needles!), and lined them and reattached them. MUCH better.
The sewing machine got taken to the “doctor” today to be cleaned. Hopefully we’ll get it back tomorrow, but regardless, tonight I’m going to cut up the front of the dress, and start doing the heirloom stitches.