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Aug. 28th, 2017 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotSo I've decided to work on making a shirtwaist dress. I'd already graded up/FBA'd the bodice pieces, so last night I made a full bodice mockup (minus sleeves) to check fit; ended up taking it up a bit over the bust in front and back to raise the bottom of the armscye - I have a fairly high bust relative to my shoulders, too - and shaving off the top edge of the armscye as well. And of course cut off quite a bit of the lower edge of the bodice. The body might still be the slightest bit tight, and I'm not sure if I should just sew the sides with 1/2" seams instead of 5/8" to add just a little more ease, or to actually add a bit more fabric.
Most of the fabrics in my stash are too short to make a dress, even one with a fairly narrow skirt like this (because I always go shopping at JoAnn and there's never enough on the bolt! why??), but I do have a light green cotton broadcloth that's juuuust long enough. It's hard to make myself work with anything warmer right now. :| Also not sure if I should do sleeveless, short sleeves, or 3/4 length. Probably the last one, I don't have much clothing that's good for intermediate temperatures, but at the same time, how often is it really an intermediate temperature? It's always hot or cold.
I do also have two lengths of wool that could work for a second version of the dress, one a kind of black and white pinstripe and the other a light brown twill with fairly long floats. (The latter I'm thinking could work for a kirtle, although the weave is not terribly period - but it's "tawny".) The stripe might do, but I'm also looking at this interesting wool from FFC. Wool is hard to buy from them, though; nearly all of it is suiting. At the same time, it costs half as much as the wool at Renaissance Fabrics and Wm Booth, and much much less than the wool in regular fabric stores. B&T seems to have pretty decent prices, though, on the cassimere.
Most of the fabrics in my stash are too short to make a dress, even one with a fairly narrow skirt like this (because I always go shopping at JoAnn and there's never enough on the bolt! why??), but I do have a light green cotton broadcloth that's juuuust long enough. It's hard to make myself work with anything warmer right now. :| Also not sure if I should do sleeveless, short sleeves, or 3/4 length. Probably the last one, I don't have much clothing that's good for intermediate temperatures, but at the same time, how often is it really an intermediate temperature? It's always hot or cold.
I do also have two lengths of wool that could work for a second version of the dress, one a kind of black and white pinstripe and the other a light brown twill with fairly long floats. (The latter I'm thinking could work for a kirtle, although the weave is not terribly period - but it's "tawny".) The stripe might do, but I'm also looking at this interesting wool from FFC. Wool is hard to buy from them, though; nearly all of it is suiting. At the same time, it costs half as much as the wool at Renaissance Fabrics and Wm Booth, and much much less than the wool in regular fabric stores. B&T seems to have pretty decent prices, though, on the cassimere.
