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Sep. 9th, 2014 07:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotMy leg hurts even worse today, probably because I did very little for it yesterday and then went for my usual 1.5 mile walk. :( Now instead of just a muscle in my hip, it's also a muscle in my calf and another in my foot.
Yesterday I took the opportunity to finish off my stays à la paresseuse (apart from the hook and eye). They work okay and I'm going to use them for a good while, but there's something awkward/insecure-feeling about them. I think there's not enough pull-back on the shoulders, but also some gusset issues. I didn't cut the slits quite deep enough, and I ALWAYS make the gussets the wrong shape, too triangular, too wide at the top and not wide enough at the bottom. But this is still way better than my terrible thesis stays.
So now I can finally think about dresses! Yes, I could shrinkify my ugly pink striped dress, and I may very well do that once I'm past my shame and horror of it, but for now it's best for me to start fresh. I'm kinda feeling like this could be my moment for trying out silk! 1805-1807 is what I'm looking at as I want to make a sheer round apron/apron dress to go over it, so maybe a medium blue with some kind of narrow trim on the bottom. I'd like to an applied ribbon channel, the precursor to the wadded hem, but I'm not totally sure how to do it.
Yesterday I took the opportunity to finish off my stays à la paresseuse (apart from the hook and eye). They work okay and I'm going to use them for a good while, but there's something awkward/insecure-feeling about them. I think there's not enough pull-back on the shoulders, but also some gusset issues. I didn't cut the slits quite deep enough, and I ALWAYS make the gussets the wrong shape, too triangular, too wide at the top and not wide enough at the bottom. But this is still way better than my terrible thesis stays.
So now I can finally think about dresses! Yes, I could shrinkify my ugly pink striped dress, and I may very well do that once I'm past my shame and horror of it, but for now it's best for me to start fresh. I'm kinda feeling like this could be my moment for trying out silk! 1805-1807 is what I'm looking at as I want to make a sheer round apron/apron dress to go over it, so maybe a medium blue with some kind of narrow trim on the bottom. I'd like to an applied ribbon channel, the precursor to the wadded hem, but I'm not totally sure how to do it.
