I made a few minor adjustments around the bust to make the foundation fit smoother. I decided to use rigilene instead of zipties for boning because it's flatter and I don't know how much bulk will show through the teal outer fabric in the end. (I melted the cut ends of the rigilene with a lighter to keep everything from unraveling.)
I used a scrap of silver lame hook & eye tape to close the back because I had it in my box of things like that. I don't really care if it's all mismatched inside the dress since no one else will see it and I'll probably only wear it once.
Now that the fit of the foundation is correct and I don't have to worry about the dress creeping down (it even passed the sit test without moving up), I can continue on to pattern corrections to the actual dress!
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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.
