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
Not bad for a first attempt at English paper piecing. I deliberately used a contrast thread so I could see if I needed to do anything differently.
I have a crazy idea in mind and this was just a test sample. It's going to take forever, but this should be the perfect mindless project to keep my hands busy when I'm listening to podcasts with my husband at night.
Triangle is 4" equilateral.
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My husband sent me a "funny clothes" compilation video, and I actually kind of like this one, lol! I'm trying to wrap my head around exactly how to construct this so you could still turn everything! It looks simple but it's actually really complex!
I don't think it has any seams - looks like one giant circle. But to clean finish those holes, you'd have to sew them in steps with some burrito action. Definitely have to sew one and then the other.
I might have to make a half scale version to see if I can.
I made a patriotic 18th Century style skirt for and indie film maker to wear to her documentary premiere. Unfortunately, it has been delayed (she and her husband are still working on the final edit) and won't be out today as originally planned, but she'll have a skirt whenever it comes out later this year!
In true historical style, the skirt back ties around the waist and then the front ties around the back. This creates side openings that allow access to any pockets worn underneath. Modern women are always complaining about small or no pockets - they used to be separate accessories and as big as you wanted! (Example photos of me modeling it over my jeans at work because my coworkers wanted to see it.)
I couldn't help myself and matched the stars on the seams and even managed to hide horizontal tucks on the bottom layer that don't interrupt the stars (it's two layers of skirt). It can be worn with or without a petticoat, and the top layer can be draped with loops of red ribbon I stitched ...
