Fiddly

[liadethornegge]

Main Entry: fid·dly
Pronunciation: 'fi-d^&l-E
Function: adjective
chiefly British : requiring close attention to detail : FUSSY; especially : requiring an annoying amount of close attention.

That is the perfect word to describe what it is like to stitch on the gathered ruff onto my gathered partlet. Particularily the last, special, definition.

I am forced to hold down the uneven gathers with my thumb; I am getting bit by pins and my own needle; the thread keeps getting tangled with the pleats of my ruff and in pins and I keep having to untangle it before I can pull each stitch tight; I must make sure to take the stitches along the same line that I used to fold in the extra fabric of the embroidered collar.

I'm not even sure if I can keep my stitching away from the gathering thread. May have to leave it in, but I guess that's fine. I'm unsure if my single seam will be enough to hold the ruff there. I may want to whip around the lower edge of the ruff. Then of course I will cover it with the inside of the collar too, and I must stitch that down securely.

It may be a bit stupid of me to stitch the ruff directly to the collar, I may have been better served to do it "the right way", using a separate band. Well, I'm not undoing it now.

I think I shall have to do a proper suit of ruffs for the English fitted gown in any case, so I shall soon have the experience.

On the illness front: I went to the store today and came back all exhausted - blech - I thought I would've fared much better, bugger it all. Usually when I get a cold it plays itself out over the course of a handful of days at most. I'm still hacking up half a lung.