I spent the morning cutting my dress to wear to my cousin's wedding. The fabric is weird - it's slippery & drapey yet stiff, and it has some mechanical stretch because of the crinkled texture. It's a weave of shiny teal plastic strands with a cross-grain of black threads (probably poly).
It presses okay but isn't necessarily going to stay flat without help. I've decided to flatline it (instead of a drop-in lining) with another layer of itself so I can cross-stitch the seam allowances down to control bulk and keep it from being puffy along the seams.
I traced the stitchlines on the right side of the fabric, added seam allowance, cut out the pieces, and then pinned & hand-basted to the yardage. Then I cut again.
There isn't really a nap but the cross-grain definitely has a different color, so I changed the grainline on the back flounce pieces to keep everything going more or less the same direction down the dress.
Now I can sew it and see if I altered the pattern well enough not to need to recut anything.
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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.
