Enablers in our midst...
2005-06-05 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadethorneggePosting about my sewing ponderings sometimes helps, talking to others about them also helps. Myra's encouragement to go with linen or silk thread when I'm going to be handstitching anyway helped, talking to Filippa on the phone also helped and she also had some black linen thread at home! She invited me over - it's only four houses from here to there - and I promptly bought a spool of black linen thread which I will use to handsew my green linen cotte! Huzza!
I haven't gotten started on it yet though, had to shop for picknick food for tomorrow and then I had to eat, and now I'm sucking down a cup of coffee. Besides, it does involve ripping out seams and everybody hates that. I'm also starting to think that now, since I'll be ripping the seams anyway, I ought to line the dress. Question is, do I have the fabric, and do I have enough? Also, will it not end up being too warm for hot summer events anyway?
I actually have some dark blue linen in my stash, just under 4 metres, in two cuts, which I could use I suppose. But lined in blue? Wierd. Maybe if I made it so that I could turn it inside out. But I've thought that before, haven't I? And how well has that worked out? Not very.
I have some light blue linen as well, but I'm not sure I have enough to line the entire dress in that. According to my notes I only have 1.6 + 1.15 metres of the light blue. More suitable for lining perhaps, but not enough. Maybe if I only line the sleeves and torso...
I haven't gotten started on it yet though, had to shop for picknick food for tomorrow and then I had to eat, and now I'm sucking down a cup of coffee. Besides, it does involve ripping out seams and everybody hates that. I'm also starting to think that now, since I'll be ripping the seams anyway, I ought to line the dress. Question is, do I have the fabric, and do I have enough? Also, will it not end up being too warm for hot summer events anyway?
I actually have some dark blue linen in my stash, just under 4 metres, in two cuts, which I could use I suppose. But lined in blue? Wierd. Maybe if I made it so that I could turn it inside out. But I've thought that before, haven't I? And how well has that worked out? Not very.
I have some light blue linen as well, but I'm not sure I have enough to line the entire dress in that. According to my notes I only have 1.6 + 1.15 metres of the light blue. More suitable for lining perhaps, but not enough. Maybe if I only line the sleeves and torso...
