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Dec. 15th, 2014 08:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotTaro's had some kind of a stroke, and his right side is all floppy. :( The internet says Shibas generally live from 12-20 which, since he's 11, seems kind of encouraging? But he's really not well and I'm very worried. He can kind of walk, but he needs help getting up.
Last night my throat was hurting a lot and this morning it's hurting all the way up to my ears, plus my nose is now stuffy, so I'm drinking some hot water-lemon-honey.
So last night! Tableaux vivants at Clermont; I was Cornelia Livingston in 1843 in my Cranford dress.
I sat in a chair and pretended to sew while a 13yo I thought was 17 "read" from A Christmas Carol (actually a history of the Union Club).
Around nine that morning I realized the bodice of the dress was actually in pieces - I had the side seams tucked way in, about 1.5" on each side, and the sleeves were out. Had a moment of panic but sat down and fixed it all up, pleating the sleeve a bit to fit the smaller armscye. Now it fits through the waist, but there are still things I need to fix:
- I think my original intent in shrinking the sides was to cut the armscyes in more in the front - there's a lot of excess fabric there
- Also I need to start using thin pads in my bodices at the sides of the bust, that's part of the excess fabric issue, it's meant to have them (I need to make some so I can fit my mockup properly, too)
- Boning! Erinn pinned the point down to my skirt because it wants to flip up.
- The lower edge really needs to have like an inch cut off. I keep forgetting. It's hard to make bodices the right length because the right length always looks ludicrously short when it's not on, I just don't believe it.
Learning from the last time I wore it, I put on more than two petticoats: my striped underpetticoat and blue 18th century petticoat, plus my hastily-sewn muslin petticoat and wired crinoline/buckram (technically Joann's calls it buckram but June called it crinoline so ????) one - the latter two I made for dressing mannequins but they were pretty perfect. I also wore my flat bustle pad because you do want a bit of back thrust in the 1840s, but that was a little too much. Just the petticoats would have been fine. I was really happy with the shape overall.
Last night my throat was hurting a lot and this morning it's hurting all the way up to my ears, plus my nose is now stuffy, so I'm drinking some hot water-lemon-honey.
So last night! Tableaux vivants at Clermont; I was Cornelia Livingston in 1843 in my Cranford dress.
I sat in a chair and pretended to sew while a 13yo I thought was 17 "read" from A Christmas Carol (actually a history of the Union Club).
Around nine that morning I realized the bodice of the dress was actually in pieces - I had the side seams tucked way in, about 1.5" on each side, and the sleeves were out. Had a moment of panic but sat down and fixed it all up, pleating the sleeve a bit to fit the smaller armscye. Now it fits through the waist, but there are still things I need to fix:
- I think my original intent in shrinking the sides was to cut the armscyes in more in the front - there's a lot of excess fabric there
- Also I need to start using thin pads in my bodices at the sides of the bust, that's part of the excess fabric issue, it's meant to have them (I need to make some so I can fit my mockup properly, too)
- Boning! Erinn pinned the point down to my skirt because it wants to flip up.
- The lower edge really needs to have like an inch cut off. I keep forgetting. It's hard to make bodices the right length because the right length always looks ludicrously short when it's not on, I just don't believe it.
Learning from the last time I wore it, I put on more than two petticoats: my striped underpetticoat and blue 18th century petticoat, plus my hastily-sewn muslin petticoat and wired crinoline/buckram (technically Joann's calls it buckram but June called it crinoline so ????) one - the latter two I made for dressing mannequins but they were pretty perfect. I also wore my flat bustle pad because you do want a bit of back thrust in the 1840s, but that was a little too much. Just the petticoats would have been fine. I was really happy with the shape overall.
