*grumble*

[robinsnest]

well the plaid dress is in the naughty pile, the lining and the bodice are refusing to play nice. so I started trying things on for Sunday. Lets see brown jacket is hooooooorible. And it never really closed so shocking it still doesn't really fit. I could make a stomacher for it and just poke through the fabric and lace over that....or I could do what I'm doing and be taking the sleeves out of the evil teal anglaise for what the 3rd? 4th? time. evil. Looking at it with fresh eyes I definitely need to shift the sleeve fullness forward, take a dart in the strap to change the angle (it will look like it has a seperate strap piece) cut new sleeves with more width for my chubby arms and scoop the armscyes lower.  I have no idea if all that is doable by close of business Saturday. But if it's not I'll just wear the brown jacket open with a giant fichu. I wish I thought short gowns weren't hideous.

step 1...pick, pick, pick.

Comments

[miss-philomena.livejournal.com]

What are you lining with? I've always found plain cotton the easiest thing to use with taffeta myself, rather than a standard lining fabric.

[sewloud.livejournal.com]

just a cotton muslin, I don't think I've used real "lining" since the one time we were forced to in costume construction as an exercise by Linda to make us realize it was evil. lol

[miss-philomena.livejournal.com]

Are you bag lining or flat lining?

[madamekat.livejournal.com]

Mine's not lined. Can you skip the lining maybe?

[hiraimi.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about the plaid dress, but it sounds like you have a good lineup of 'this needs to happen' for the teal anglaise, such that you will be able to successfully perfect it. Go girl go!