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
More on the Michael's purchase of JoAnn. "Ever-expanding" plus it went on to say they will be carrying sewing machines, notions, and thread in stores. And there was a 50% off one item coupon - let me know if any of you need that.
I'm kind of surprised I have to sign up for emails (not sure if I want to yet) considering how many companies sell email lists.
I finally finished the patchwork jeans! @SewBrooke , the elastic in the waistband suggestion worked brilliantly. I ended up taking it as close to the button/buttonholes as I could, because the waistband I originally picked had the buttons on the wrong side and I had to piece it together/the second waistband was also collapsed in from wear. I really don’t know why, I checked against all of my jeans and I did put the fly on the correct side! Anyway, it’s done, and I’ll be happy to come up with a project that takes much less time. After I clean up the leftover bits— it looks like I used 7 pairs of jeans/shorts, so I have a lot of tops and leftover leg/waistband scraps!
