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2004-11-14 01:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadethorneggeTodays sewing circle was extra-ordinary. Meaning it was an extra meeting not planned for in advance. I got my lacing strips done which now only need stitching into my bodice and that will be all done and I will be able to wear the sleeves with the dress - The Tudor Working Class one that is - Whee!
The eyelets were quickly dispatched actually, I used the same cotton sheeting that makes up the interlining of the gown - and also the same fabric I used for my corset. It's sturdy, and my awl pushes through it beautifully. I am also feeling fairly happy with my eyelet-sewing. As opposed to another Lady at the circle who was most unhappy with her buttonholes. She did not like her results at all as the wool she was using frayed horribly when she cut the slits open and tried to stitch around them with buttonhole stitch. She switched to overcasting the edges and most of us were relieved since her outbursts ceased at that point...
I actually saw nothing to be upset about with her buttonholes, but she and the sewing circle hostess are, in my opinion, much too critical of their own stuff in general, so I suppose I should not be surprised. They turn out the most GORGEOUS outfits but are never pleased. I suppose that's human nature though - we are never quite pleased, there are always things that could have been done better. I know I'm not much better, I have a list a mile long on things I could have done better on all my dresses :)
I took a picture - of the hostesses madness in cutting out a doublet-bodiced ropa with GIGANTIC over-sleeves in a lovely luscious blue wool she had bought earlier in the day. She had four metres of the stuff and started by planning a warm petticoat and jerkin to wear on those colder events. Then she thought about it and decided that four metres would make much more than just a petticoat and a jerkin and then the madness struck. She pulled out the GIGANTIC sleeve pattern and pulled out her other ropa. She got the entire thing cut out, with narrow lace-on sleeves besides the HUGE over-sleeves, and also an attifet hat from those four metres. I was impressed. By the time I left she had begun to stitch together the wool, after having also cut out the lining.
I had originally meant to start pinning and assembling my GFD, but, well, it still seemed too daunting so I just did the lacing strips. Not much to show for the day -really- but I finished them and I feel fairly good about it.
Now if I had just checked out the bus-schedule I wouldn't have had to stand out in the cold for fifteen minutes waiting for the damned bus...
The eyelets were quickly dispatched actually, I used the same cotton sheeting that makes up the interlining of the gown - and also the same fabric I used for my corset. It's sturdy, and my awl pushes through it beautifully. I am also feeling fairly happy with my eyelet-sewing. As opposed to another Lady at the circle who was most unhappy with her buttonholes. She did not like her results at all as the wool she was using frayed horribly when she cut the slits open and tried to stitch around them with buttonhole stitch. She switched to overcasting the edges and most of us were relieved since her outbursts ceased at that point...
I actually saw nothing to be upset about with her buttonholes, but she and the sewing circle hostess are, in my opinion, much too critical of their own stuff in general, so I suppose I should not be surprised. They turn out the most GORGEOUS outfits but are never pleased. I suppose that's human nature though - we are never quite pleased, there are always things that could have been done better. I know I'm not much better, I have a list a mile long on things I could have done better on all my dresses :)
I took a picture - of the hostesses madness in cutting out a doublet-bodiced ropa with GIGANTIC over-sleeves in a lovely luscious blue wool she had bought earlier in the day. She had four metres of the stuff and started by planning a warm petticoat and jerkin to wear on those colder events. Then she thought about it and decided that four metres would make much more than just a petticoat and a jerkin and then the madness struck. She pulled out the GIGANTIC sleeve pattern and pulled out her other ropa. She got the entire thing cut out, with narrow lace-on sleeves besides the HUGE over-sleeves, and also an attifet hat from those four metres. I was impressed. By the time I left she had begun to stitch together the wool, after having also cut out the lining.
I had originally meant to start pinning and assembling my GFD, but, well, it still seemed too daunting so I just did the lacing strips. Not much to show for the day -really- but I finished them and I feel fairly good about it.
Now if I had just checked out the bus-schedule I wouldn't have had to stand out in the cold for fifteen minutes waiting for the damned bus...
