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.
#Butterick4731
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
Tonight I learned how to do foundation paper piecing (fpp) without sewing through the paper. I've never had any desire to sew through the paper and then have to rip it all off. This was much faster with no ripping required in the end!
I plan to make this Jack Russell Terrier block into a decorative pillow.
#FoundationPaperPiecing #fpp
A client I made a cosplay for a few years ago won tickets to The Kentucky Derby in May and commissioned me to make her outfit! This is going to be a fun build!
Her inspiration is from a dress in Singin' in the Rain, and I found a good starting point pattern to use from Mrs. Depew Patterns that has a similar vibe. It's a repo of a 1920s evening gown.
I printed her size and taped it together this afternoon. It isn't the cleanest draft (lots of pointy curves), but it seems decent enough and I can clean it up. I'll start on a mockup in a few days.
#derbydress
Making lingerie out of scraps again. This is a scrap of Liberty of London lawn (left over from a blouse) and some lingerie lace I bought on Etsy (where it is extremely affordable and available in an nearly-infinite variety of styles/colors). I went with a band of sheer ribbon and matching straps.
This is a pattern I rubbed off a bought nightgown.
