Yesterday was an interesting day. I got to work and the power was out. It was pitch black in my office. It stayed like that for an hour and a half before they got it back on. I spent the time reading on my phone curled up on the couch in the entryway. Then, found out we had visitors coming into the office, and I was not dressed for it. ...
I didn't take pictures of any progress last night. But, I got the bodice taken apart and shortened, and mostly put back together. I didn't put it all back together because I started second guessing where I wanted the skirt to go. I'm hoping to get the skirt pleated and on by tomorrow night. I did also finish all the slashes on my other sleeve. Yay! So I decided to ...
Last night I got the bodice finished up, and finally got to try everything on: Buuut once I had it all on, I realized that the bodice is too long on me, and too pointy. So at lunch today I'm going to take it part, tonight I'll shorten it and put it back together. Hopefully that won't take long; it just depends on it this picky fabric will work with ...
Well my grand plans of finishing Anne and working on all kinds of things over my 3 day weekend went bust. I started out strong on Thursday night, finishing my underskirt with the exception of a hook and eye at the waist. I also discovered the cause of the problem with my old hoopskirt and fixed it. (Basically, when I first got that hoopskirt in 2007 to wear under Belle, it had ...
Last night! Back to work on Anne! I finished getting the underskirt put together, got the front piece cut out and sewn in, and finished the interior edges. Tonight I've got to hem it, then pleat and finish the top edge. Then I can mark that off my list. Friday I'll be all over the place working on different stuff. Will probably start the inner sleeve mock-up - and possibly ...
Had a nice weekend at my grandparent's. Shopped, ate, embroidered, napped, got rained on, fed a stray cat. I bought some decorative stuff for Anne but didn't find trim I liked yet for the top. Bought some fabric, fabric paint, some new scissors, etc. I've decided what to do on the Anne skirt seams. I'm going to redo 3 of them, instead of all - I know I should redo all ...
I've been having trouble with the seams on the skirt puckering. I sewed the skirt seams like I normally do satin and they looked - fine. Not fantastic, but very minimal puckering. Passable. I finished the interior seams same way as I did on the bodice and the puckering went up by about 50%. Now they don't look so good. I tried all kinds of little tricks to help, but nothing ...
UGH! Flickr changed their layout AGAIN and now I can't find everything I use. I hate flickr. Anyway. Didn't get a lot done last night since the girls were over, but I did draw out my guide for my Donna embroidery. (Last weekend I mostly did testing different threads and beads). This is the back side, my guide for doing the embroidery on the front. What I didn't realize while ...
I really dug in to try to finish the skirt last night, but finishing the interior seams took longer than I expected, so that's what I did most of the night - they're still not done, still finishing up a few places. I did cut the pieces for my underskirt, and with what was left over, played with the cape/train piece: Here's the back uncovered before I started messing ...
This is the good kind of drama tho. Like as in, dramatic dresses! I didn't get a lot done last night. Dinner took forever, so didn't even get in my sewing room til 9. I cleaned up, and cut out my new train pieces. Almost messed it up, but thankfully had enough to recut and fix it. As you can see it's so long that I can no longer fit in ...