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
I finally finished the quilt for my daughter. I couldn’t take pictures of the entire thing (her room is a disaster zone), but here’s some of the patchwork and the embroidered square I made because I ended up being one short. I did learn that I’m going to need to find a better way to lay out any future quilts that are twin sized or larger, because I had to keep shifting it around the slightly too small area of our basement carpet and the backing ended up getting doubled up in multiple places. By the time I discovered it, I couldn’t bring myself to unpick that much of the quilting, so it’ll have to stay. But I think it’s going to be awhile before I do any more quilts. Between this and the patchwork jeans (which I did end up having to shorten some), I’m feeling burned out on big projects for now. I did cut out a basic knit tee, so hopefully that’ll be enough of a palate cleanser to get me over the lack of motivation to sew that I was feeling by the end of this.
