Back to sewing
Mar. 25th, 2019 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI went to cut out another slip from the crepe today, only to find there wasn't enough! I ordered 3yds, like I did for the charmeuse, but the latter must have been a 60" width because I got a full slip, a half slip, and French knickers out of that. I did manage to get a half slip with only a little piecing out of it. Now I just have to put the pieces together.
Picked up this 1940s dress project (view 1) again - I want to be able to wear it in Italy! The fabric is one of the heavier/coarser quilting cottons, printed with like ... balls of abstract flowers, each ball all in red, orange, light blue, or teal, and kind of black dandelions ... I will have to share a photo on Insta at some point, it's hard to describe. I cut out all of the pieces near the end of last summer, and pinned the darts, but then I hit the "it's too hard to make myself get to the sewing machine" wall. And now I'm getting around that by hand-sewing it! I think it'll be cute.
My to-do list is never set in stone because my work is always determined by my whims, and I expect that by the time I finish this I'll be looking to make something Haslam again. But if I do not, I think I will make Butterick 6282, a reprint of a shirtdress from 1941. For a long time I thought wartime 1940s wouldn't work on me because the fashion figures are so elongated and narrow, but then I made that ensemble for my concert last spring and it looked pretty cute. If I do go back to Haslam for a change, I might give one of the bra patterns a shot. (I need new bras, so I threw caution to the wind and bought a bullet bra from What Katie Did - it costs only slightly more than a usual bra for me, so why not - but unfortunately it's at least a full size too small in the band and cup. Ugh. Guess I will exchange and hope for the best.)
Stays pattern is up! Look at how pretty it is! My pattern, I mean; the stays themselves are so dull and brown.
Picked up this 1940s dress project (view 1) again - I want to be able to wear it in Italy! The fabric is one of the heavier/coarser quilting cottons, printed with like ... balls of abstract flowers, each ball all in red, orange, light blue, or teal, and kind of black dandelions ... I will have to share a photo on Insta at some point, it's hard to describe. I cut out all of the pieces near the end of last summer, and pinned the darts, but then I hit the "it's too hard to make myself get to the sewing machine" wall. And now I'm getting around that by hand-sewing it! I think it'll be cute.
My to-do list is never set in stone because my work is always determined by my whims, and I expect that by the time I finish this I'll be looking to make something Haslam again. But if I do not, I think I will make Butterick 6282, a reprint of a shirtdress from 1941. For a long time I thought wartime 1940s wouldn't work on me because the fashion figures are so elongated and narrow, but then I made that ensemble for my concert last spring and it looked pretty cute. If I do go back to Haslam for a change, I might give one of the bra patterns a shot. (I need new bras, so I threw caution to the wind and bought a bullet bra from What Katie Did - it costs only slightly more than a usual bra for me, so why not - but unfortunately it's at least a full size too small in the band and cup. Ugh. Guess I will exchange and hope for the best.)
Stays pattern is up! Look at how pretty it is! My pattern, I mean; the stays themselves are so dull and brown.
