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A finished dress!
2013-01-21 09:14 pmTwo summers ago up in Frostheim I started on a new dress made from a blue/gold brocade. I cut it out following the pattern Mistress Mathilde sent to me. It's fully lined in a fairly coarse blue linen, and at the year's first sewing circle on last Saturday, I finished it!
I had only one sleeve to set in, after I finished stitching down the lining over the first and topstitching the seam all around the armscye carefully on the first. Not until I had done these two sewing steps did I realized that I had just very carefully and securely attached the right sleeve in the left armscye. Wrong way round. It was very vexing, and I punished the dress by throwing it to the wall and stomping on it.
Then I had some tea.
Then I ripped out the careful stitching and removed the sleeve from the wrong armscye. Then pinned the sleeves in the right space, checking twice. I finished off the seams, covered the seam allowances with the lining and topstitched for extra strength. The very last thing to do was to measure and cut the sleeves to length and close off those raw edges. And now it is all finished and done and hanging off the back of my door. Tada - and yeah, it's very blingy:
I had only one sleeve to set in, after I finished stitching down the lining over the first and topstitching the seam all around the armscye carefully on the first. Not until I had done these two sewing steps did I realized that I had just very carefully and securely attached the right sleeve in the left armscye. Wrong way round. It was very vexing, and I punished the dress by throwing it to the wall and stomping on it.
Then I had some tea.
Then I ripped out the careful stitching and removed the sleeve from the wrong armscye. Then pinned the sleeves in the right space, checking twice. I finished off the seams, covered the seam allowances with the lining and topstitched for extra strength. The very last thing to do was to measure and cut the sleeves to length and close off those raw edges. And now it is all finished and done and hanging off the back of my door. Tada - and yeah, it's very blingy:
