I did a little bit of construction on my dress before dinner tonight.
Last weekend, I copied the foundation pieces on my printer/copier, measured and did a few flat alterations (I'm short-waisted, so I had already folded out an inch when I copied the pieces), and removed the seam allowances.
Without the seam allowances on the paper pieces, it was much easier to determine if I had seams hitting me in the correct places. I ended up removing 1.5" from the center front to put the princess seams where they belong on my bust. That is a huge amount to need to remove for a foundation that is supposed to be tight enough to hold the weight of the entire dress in the end!
I traced the pieces onto coutil and added seam allowance directly on the fabric. I decided to add an inch extra at the top because I wanted to make sure it covered my bra band all the way around.
I stitched it up on my marked stitchlines. Good thing I added that extra at the top because I was right that I needed about half an inch more than the pattern allowed for!
The foundation still needs a little tweaking, but I think it's good to move forward with and to base the outer dress pieces on it for flat alterations. I plan to use some zipties for boning.
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I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
Nice slow Saturday moving triangles from one pile to another after voting this morning. I have pumpkin pies to make later for tomorrow's church potluck (Octoberfest/Reformation day celebration).
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Bernadette has a "tips for buying fabric online" vid (and a previous vid on fabric weights from last week) up. The excel sheet she's put up looks useful.
IME - you get what you pay for. Every time I've bought a "bargain" fabric online I have regretted it.
I went drooling online yday and now I feel a need to go to BBlacks&Son in person but I will need a bodyguard. -sigh- They have (or, at least they used to have) a lot of fabrics that don't get on their website. Yummy, historic store... anyway, I digress.
I’m trying to figure out if I should do something to jazz up this very grandpa-looking cardigan I’m currently sewing. Maybe this was the wrong fabric to do a tie front/shawl collar with! But since this fabric came from my last year’s birthday mystery bundle, I want to try to see this through. The options I’ve played with so far are some kind of embellishment from my huge vintage button stash (I think the white ones are too ivory-yellow tone to work, but the darker ones could be interesting if I can figure out a better configuration), or trim (picture 3), or some kind of embroidery or scrap denim flowers or something? (no sample). Or I could take the collar off entirely? I need to figure out the edge finishing either way, because I forgot to cut the facing pieces (thanks Big 4) and I’m piecing together scraps to see what I can come up with. I also had to piece the collar and back it with a piece of jersey because I really did not have enough yardage to make anything useful to ...
