More proof of my industry
May. 8th, 2017 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepot
(From Instagram.)It was actually much simpler than I feared - it did take roughly all day, but that was just because of volume and distractions. I originally intended to slip-stitch both sides of the binding, but after about two stitches on the first one I realized that was silly and did big running stitches on the reverse. The triangles were very fast; it's the inner corners on the cuff trim pieces that took the longest, all of the points were pretty simple. I didn't try to miter them or anything, just folded the silk over. (Technically this cotton is riding the line in terms of the appropriateness of mixing it with silk - the original dress was a sheer silk and this is a semi-sheer madras check, but then, the silk trim here is a very cheap habotai anyway.)
As I sit here sewing the piping to the strips that will, overlapping at the shoulders, make up the neckline, I begin to think that this dress really will be, dare I say it, Katherine/Sabine-tier. Mm-hm, yes, indeed.
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Date: 2017-05-09 11:22 am (UTC)So, you've done 1830s. And this is technically earlier, but it's related. Do you think I should be significantly adding to the size of the sleeve for proportion reasons, or are full sleeves generally one-size-fits-all?
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