CRISIS AVERTED
Oct. 6th, 2014 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotAlmost had a total meltdown! When I started the mourning dress, I was planning to use black wool Mom had bought at the shop for something else - she had bought half the piece there and the rest was likely there. When we went to get the rest, there were two black wools with about the same amount in the piece, and she pointed out the one she thought it was. (You can guess the ending already.) Using the new piece, which was out, I cut out and put together the bodice pieces minus sleeves, and then just now I was working on the skirt. The way this pattern is supposed to work, you have two back pieces, one wide one across the front, and then a shorter, loose one on top to go with the wrap front. I'd cut out the front and back pieces and there was just not enough there for the overpiece, so I got out the other fabric.
It's not the same. It's actually nicer, thinner and smoother and lighter, but there's no way I could use the two together.
But there's a solution! The pattern is kooky, constructed more like a costume than pre-WWI dress, and I've already taken some steps to make it more realistic with a layered front opening instead of a side zipper. So it occurs to me that I could just dog-leg the closure, not have any overskirt panel but instead fasten the skirt in the left seam. I might need to put a little placket behind it, but it should work perfectly. I'd started to unpick the bodice in a fit of rage, but fortunately didn't get too far. After I eat I'm going to do all the skirt seams and the bodice one I unpicked.
I may have to make the sleeves a bit shorter, though, depending on how much wool is left.
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I started out finding Halt and Catch Fire pretty meh (and super ugly), but after a couple of episodes I got really hooked. I hope the writers can cope with the - I assume - inevitable success of the Giant and not manufacture things so that the characters are always the underdogs.
I like that meaty, dark, excessively accurate historical dramas are a full-on trend, apparently. Lee Pace is a bit too much of a Don Draper figure (I frequently say to myself "who is Don Draper???" when he's having angst and the presenting-a-successful-surface thing Don does) but it's really good.
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I'm having a problem with the Met's website - found out while trying to see which Doucet images are OASC for next week's blog post. It's giving me the mobile site when I search for some reason. Happening to anyone else? It's pretty obnoxious.
It's not the same. It's actually nicer, thinner and smoother and lighter, but there's no way I could use the two together.
But there's a solution! The pattern is kooky, constructed more like a costume than pre-WWI dress, and I've already taken some steps to make it more realistic with a layered front opening instead of a side zipper. So it occurs to me that I could just dog-leg the closure, not have any overskirt panel but instead fasten the skirt in the left seam. I might need to put a little placket behind it, but it should work perfectly. I'd started to unpick the bodice in a fit of rage, but fortunately didn't get too far. After I eat I'm going to do all the skirt seams and the bodice one I unpicked.
I may have to make the sleeves a bit shorter, though, depending on how much wool is left.
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I started out finding Halt and Catch Fire pretty meh (and super ugly), but after a couple of episodes I got really hooked. I hope the writers can cope with the - I assume - inevitable success of the Giant and not manufacture things so that the characters are always the underdogs.
I like that meaty, dark, excessively accurate historical dramas are a full-on trend, apparently. Lee Pace is a bit too much of a Don Draper figure (I frequently say to myself "who is Don Draper???" when he's having angst and the presenting-a-successful-surface thing Don does) but it's really good.
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I'm having a problem with the Met's website - found out while trying to see which Doucet images are OASC for next week's blog post. It's giving me the mobile site when I search for some reason. Happening to anyone else? It's pretty obnoxious.
