hello hi I actually have content today.
I got to be Merida at a medieval feast!
And also brought green Anne to display on the dressform.
On the way home stopped at lambert’s for dinner:
I have not been here since the 90s? We used to stop on our family St Louis vacations, and it was always so much fun, it’s the place where they throw the giant rolls to people.
Got real worried when we pulled in to a half empty place full of old folks. I apologized to Chase in advance in case it sucked LOL But it was actually pretty good except they didn’t have coke and the pepsi they gave me tasted like cherry. I had to send it back and get a tea.
Saturday afternoon I got my Leia chiffon dyed:
And Sunday I dyed it again Actually twice more. And actually both of those pics above are from Sunday because I forgot to take pics Saturday.
I also got the basic dress for the lining put together.
The pattern I used as a base for the silk lining I cut a little bit bigger than the pattern was cut to. Because I seemed to remember last time I used it it was too small. But I ended up with something WAY too big LOL.
Here it is with the chiffon draped over – with flash.
Tonight I plan to finish taking in the lining and then focus on the corsetlet. Is that a word? corselet? LOL Anyway, I’ve decided to make the dress as 2 pieces – a dress and a small waist cincher worn over the top to create that hard seam right underneath the bust. Lower seam will be hidden by the “belt” which will be permanently sewn on.
The only thing I haven’t really decided on/figured out yet is how I want to do the trim on the edges and also exactly how I want to introduce the green/gold lace fabric I’m using for the motif in the back. Originally I was going to do it as an interior layer between the lining and the chiffon. but now I’m feeling like it disappears too much underneath the chiffon so I may cut it from its netting and do it as an applique on top. Tying into that is the trim – i want something that looks like the green/gold design on the back and isn’t overwhelming. Or too expensive LOL
Anyway this week is family vacay, I’m very much looking forward to it and plan to do nothing for a few days. I’ll get back to Leia next week.
In other news, we did something VERY GROWN-UP yesterday… we went and bought a new mattress. I’m so flipping excited. We don’t get it til next month so we are counting down the days..