Sewing, not pictures
Sep. 13th, 2012 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizabeth_mnI've been too focused on the sewing to take many photos, and the few I've taken haven't found their way off the camera, somehow.
I finished the eyelets on L's petticoat bodies and had her over for a fitting. It looked great and so did the gown mock, with a little length taken out at the back. The petticoat bodies now just need a hem. Machine blindstich FTW! I also made the gown bodice and now the next step is to cut & seam the skirt panels and pleat them to the bodice.
My HB's jerkin is nearly done. I gathered the skirting panels instead of pleating, and I hate the way it looks, but he insists he likes it better than the pleat examples I showed him. I don't buy it but I am being lazy. It's already lined so I don't want to re-do it. It just needs the armscyes finished and 3 buttonholes & buttons.
For F, I tried her 18th c gown on her and it still fits because she is such a shrimp. The skirts are short, but the bodice still comfortably goes around, so I can use the same basic pattern from that for her little ren fest gown.
I finished the eyelets on L's petticoat bodies and had her over for a fitting. It looked great and so did the gown mock, with a little length taken out at the back. The petticoat bodies now just need a hem. Machine blindstich FTW! I also made the gown bodice and now the next step is to cut & seam the skirt panels and pleat them to the bodice.
My HB's jerkin is nearly done. I gathered the skirting panels instead of pleating, and I hate the way it looks, but he insists he likes it better than the pleat examples I showed him. I don't buy it but I am being lazy. It's already lined so I don't want to re-do it. It just needs the armscyes finished and 3 buttonholes & buttons.
For F, I tried her 18th c gown on her and it still fits because she is such a shrimp. The skirts are short, but the bodice still comfortably goes around, so I can use the same basic pattern from that for her little ren fest gown.
