Enablers in our midst...

[liadethornegge]

Posting 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...

Comments

[myralea.livejournal.com]

i'd say line sleeves and torso, down to hips or mid-thigh or something like that... personally i am not too fond of fully lined bulky skirts. akward to pack too are they, take so much space ;)

/myra

-who finally conquered plotting scattered graphs in exel.
(yes, i was stupid enough not to distinguish between line graphs and scattered graphs! anyhow, 6 hours later finally my graphs work almost the way i want them! now i just have to come to terms with the finer technicalities concerning the titration with a polyprotic weak acid. wish me luck...)

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

A Yoda complex have you? :)

I've never tried the half-lined version before. Maybe it's time I do that! With regards to that, I have some questions.

Should I just decide on a point, say mid-thigh where I end my lining? Do I finish the lower edge in any particular way? Do I just attach it to the shell fabric at the body seams? Or do I need to do something else spiffy? What if I want to pull the dress on without unlacing it, won't the half-lining wrinkle and bunch up awfully? How would I prevent that?

[myralea.livejournal.com]

flat lining? -like treating both layers as one

one could also do a small running stitch through both layers (small stiches on the outer side and slightly larger on the interior).
if one colourmatch (!) the thread, i dont think it would show. in particular no on linen, if sewing along the weft threads...
one could possibly pick out threads from the fabric for this purpose and sew with them?
if one is picky that is.
myself, i'm very free with seams showing on the front, as long as they are neatly done handsewn seams!

/m