Well, I have pictures, but I didn’t get a thing done last night, except for trying it on, realizing my back panel didn’t fit right and needs to be remade, getting my undersleeves pinned into place, and discovering I hate my corset. Onto pics! So yeah, the dress fits me MUCH differently than the dressform, so the back panel I…

It’s been a shitty past couple of days. That being said, I’m beyond frustrated with a couple of sellers. I bought two things on June 30th – some appliques from an ebay seller for the neckline on Anne, which you’ve all seen me complain about lately, and then also some buttons from an etsy seller on the same day. I…

I spent pretty much the entire weekend on the sleeves. I cut off the old pearls, and went back and reinforced each slash with some extra stabilizer. Then I started on the pearls. I watched a LOT of netflix. Last night, I threw it back on the undersleeve and pinned it on to see how it was looking: There’s still…

Yesterday I had a dr’s appt, which took TWO HOURS just for a freaking refill and pretty much wasted me for the rest of the day. But, I did get a little bit done. I dyed my undersleeve fabric: I really like how it turned out. I just put it in a tiny bit of “pearl grey.” Some of my…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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 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…

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…