Sewing talk
Mar. 7th, 2018 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotJust finished everything on my silky drawers save the button and buttonhole! These things are enormous when I lay them out flat but I've got to accept that turning my three dimensions into two makes for something that is not dainty. It'll be interesting to see how they wear - I think I noted before how my fuller slip has formed weird ripples in the weave where it sometimes catches between my legs, and both slips have certain places where they look a bit like they're fraying near seams, but they've been like this forever and it seems like the silk warp/weft are generally strong enough to hold up even when they're being pushed around.
But I want to get some crêpe-de-chine and try making some underthings out of that to see if it just works better - it's certainly the traditional weave (according to various stories in my Dorothy Parker collection, probably also some of the Needlework magazines I have in a box and have never finished going through). But Dharma only sells it in white (boring, impractical) and all the options at FFC are dull colors, probably for fall/winter, and various pinks. I want light blue! I would make do with a pink but I really want light blue.
Next try at drawers will also be set on an elastic waistband, maybe.
I'm also trying to figure out what to make for the spring concert. I think we're really going with the pastel on top, black on the bottom rule that's always printed on the schedule - in previous springs we've worn sixties clothes to go with the theme of the music, but I can't imagine he's going to ask people to dress 1930s-1940s because nobody but me would be prepared for that. Still, I want to do it! Technically some of the music goes later, but it's mostly '40s, so I want to do that instead of my usual '50s.
On the one hand, I'm thinking of making a skirt based on this dress and then one of these blouses - not sure which one, but probably D as those high necklines just look like they'd be so unflattering on me. I have these patterns and I've even made that dress (so I know that the skirt yoke is a pain in the ass).
On the other, I'm looking at actually paying for an e-copy of a Haslam book - this 1940s one has a bunch of separates. Edit: And I just found a handful of antique '40s patterns I was given, one of which has a perfect plain A-line skirt. I'd need to make the waist ... a bit bigger, though.
Still not quite brave enough to try 1930s! My hair is more 1940s anyway.
But I want to get some crêpe-de-chine and try making some underthings out of that to see if it just works better - it's certainly the traditional weave (according to various stories in my Dorothy Parker collection, probably also some of the Needlework magazines I have in a box and have never finished going through). But Dharma only sells it in white (boring, impractical) and all the options at FFC are dull colors, probably for fall/winter, and various pinks. I want light blue! I would make do with a pink but I really want light blue.
Next try at drawers will also be set on an elastic waistband, maybe.
I'm also trying to figure out what to make for the spring concert. I think we're really going with the pastel on top, black on the bottom rule that's always printed on the schedule - in previous springs we've worn sixties clothes to go with the theme of the music, but I can't imagine he's going to ask people to dress 1930s-1940s because nobody but me would be prepared for that. Still, I want to do it! Technically some of the music goes later, but it's mostly '40s, so I want to do that instead of my usual '50s.
On the one hand, I'm thinking of making a skirt based on this dress and then one of these blouses - not sure which one, but probably D as those high necklines just look like they'd be so unflattering on me. I have these patterns and I've even made that dress (so I know that the skirt yoke is a pain in the ass).
On the other, I'm looking at actually paying for an e-copy of a Haslam book - this 1940s one has a bunch of separates. Edit: And I just found a handful of antique '40s patterns I was given, one of which has a perfect plain A-line skirt. I'd need to make the waist ... a bit bigger, though.
Still not quite brave enough to try 1930s! My hair is more 1940s anyway.
