Dangerous thoughts
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liadethorneggeBeing at home, within sight of my newly purchased olive green linen fabric is to play with fire. I get ideas. I take out my patterns, I start calculating, and before I know it I am cutting out a new dress all over the floor.
I managed to stop myself at the calculation stage. But I did measure out neckline and hem-length on my Gothic fitted dress pattern which I had left out before.
The linen is lovely (well, that's just obvious, linen is always lovely) and I have even prewashed it already. I measured it as well and it came in at exactly four metres for 200 SKR, so 50 SKR per metre in the end. Not fantastic, but not bad.
The interesting thing about making up this into a gothic fitted would be that I would be going it with no gores.Straight-up four panels, flared from the waist. A simple day-wear throw it on and get to work type gown. Of course, there is still the lacing to contend with. It really is not just throw it on in a minute and go, it's throw it on, spend five minutes lacing and closing the front, then go. I keep meaning to make something that I -can- just throw on, for example for early morning bathroom runs, but I can't quite make myself do something that isn't pretty. Right now, pretty means non-baggy, which means buttons or lacing.
I suppose I could experiment until I find a size for this pattern where I could wiggle into a fully closed dress, but that requires fabric, patience and time. I'm low on the first two.
Actually, I do have one dress which I can just throw on, a loose green linen dress I made up on the machine for Visby last year. It's got a keyhole neckline (closed by a pennannular brooch) and long sleeves. It's a bit grungy, but it was quite comfortable for wearing in hot weather. My thoughts are that this olive-green linen would make something equally cool, but a bit more flattering with the figure-hugging quality.
And yet again I tell myself I need to learn how to make lacing cord of some description.
I managed to stop myself at the calculation stage. But I did measure out neckline and hem-length on my Gothic fitted dress pattern which I had left out before.
The linen is lovely (well, that's just obvious, linen is always lovely) and I have even prewashed it already. I measured it as well and it came in at exactly four metres for 200 SKR, so 50 SKR per metre in the end. Not fantastic, but not bad.
The interesting thing about making up this into a gothic fitted would be that I would be going it with no gores.Straight-up four panels, flared from the waist. A simple day-wear throw it on and get to work type gown. Of course, there is still the lacing to contend with. It really is not just throw it on in a minute and go, it's throw it on, spend five minutes lacing and closing the front, then go. I keep meaning to make something that I -can- just throw on, for example for early morning bathroom runs, but I can't quite make myself do something that isn't pretty. Right now, pretty means non-baggy, which means buttons or lacing.
I suppose I could experiment until I find a size for this pattern where I could wiggle into a fully closed dress, but that requires fabric, patience and time. I'm low on the first two.
Actually, I do have one dress which I can just throw on, a loose green linen dress I made up on the machine for Visby last year. It's got a keyhole neckline (closed by a pennannular brooch) and long sleeves. It's a bit grungy, but it was quite comfortable for wearing in hot weather. My thoughts are that this olive-green linen would make something equally cool, but a bit more flattering with the figure-hugging quality.
And yet again I tell myself I need to learn how to make lacing cord of some description.
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Date: 2005-06-02 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-02 11:40 am (UTC)Herringbone weave forest green linen - now that sounds quite delightful to my ears.
Actually I got this linen at the remnant section, which you buy per kilo as well, my cut weighed about 1.3 kg plus there was a 20 % off the entire stock so, came out to 200 in the end (actually 202, but who's counting two kronor?)
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Date: 2005-06-02 11:50 am (UTC)And quite agree - there's no such thing as too much white linen.
Lacing Cord
Date: 2005-06-02 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-02 02:16 pm (UTC)Re: Lacing Cord
Date: 2005-06-02 02:24 pm (UTC)I would like a proper lace for my plum wool gothic fitted dress that I was hemming at DW. I'm using a narrow satin tape thingy to lace it now and it's not ideal.
http://swein.campus.luth.se/lia/garb/redwoolGFD/ <-- that would be the dress.
My problem is, I don't know if I know enough to be able to say exactly what I want. I mean, what sort of specifications would you need? Material, thickness, length, colour?
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Date: 2005-06-02 02:30 pm (UTC)I actually have a chemise I made which is a bit tight - it requires some wriggling to get into, but once in it is still too loose to support anything. Maybe I can make this dress up and then try it on without unlacing and see what happens... hmm
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Date: 2005-06-02 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-02 03:04 pm (UTC)We'll see if it works for me. I will not be unhappy with not having to stitch all of those damned eyelets... fifty-two on the plum one.