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[chocolatepot]

I feel so stupid. I spent weeks making dress forms and even dressed one before realizing that the house/period rooms are no place to display antique textiles, since there are bright shining windows everywhere and the front door is opened at least twice a day! So I got to see my pride and joy on display for a day, and tomorrow I'm bringing my Cranford dress in to put on the form. The other one I will just put in collections storage for the next time I can include clothing in an upstairs, gallery-space exhibition. FFS.

(My pride and joy doesn't actually fit on the form. I made it so small so that it would fit as many dresses as possible, but this dress has dimensions of roughly 26" in the bust and 22" in the waist. So not only did I make a huge, obvious error in not thinking through where I was going to put these dress forms, I made a huge, obvious error in not measuring the gown that I was thinking of dressing in the first place. Blerg.)

Not sewing tonight - I've put the bones of the bodice together and need a breather. Tomorrow I'll cut out sleeves of the proper size and make them up; hopefully will also set them in. In theory I'm writing fiction tonight instead, but so far that's ... not happening.

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[starlightmasque]

Aw man! I'm so sorry.

[chocolatepot]

Ah well, it was nice to see the gown dressed for a bit, anyway! And the Cranford dress looks pretty decent pinned way, way in to sort of fit the dress form. At the next staff meeting I might propose making something specifically for the museum that I could make during work hours, a repro of something in the collection. I spend nothing when putting on exhibitions, so there must be something in the budget to buy accurate fabric. An 1847 mourning dress! (The man of the house died in 1847.)