two steps forward...

[robinsnest]

I was all chugging along on my stupidly easy bodice. It's two pieces of the same white muslin! How ridiculously easy and impossible to mess up right?....you don't know me well...

My pattern is a back piece and a front piece, I sewed the side back seams (yay princess seams) and figured once I cruised past the easing part I was golden. I sewed the shoulder seams, easy peasy. I ironed up the seam allowance along the neckline edge and put the two pieces wrong sides together and neatly hand hemmed around the edge. I was quite chuffed with how it looked. I was blissfully pondering my skirt construction method...

aaaand then I realized it...I twisted one bodice front before sewing the shoulder seam...cue UN PICKING all of one front, one shoulder seam, re-sewing the shoulder seam and now I'm sitting here trying to talk myself into RE SEWING the front edge.

And while I was in there I looked at my fabric, it looks like I have EXACTLY enough to make the skirt..which would be awesome if I had already cut out the sleeves..or the bib front...I can piece together one set of sleeves...but I don't have enough fabric left for a self lining...(what if I didn't line them how bad would that look?) and I could cut the Bib front on the straight of grain but I read it's better on the bias...It's not that I don't want to buy another two yards of fabric it's just muslin. The problem is Joann's carries like seven kinds of muslin and I don't remember which one this was! oy!

Comments

[quincy134.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Darn!

Are you talking about lining the sleeves? You don't necessarily need to line them. I usually don't line my regency sleeves.

I also usually cut my bibs on the straight, without issues.

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

I cut the bibs straight and add darts or gather along the bottom edge if necessary. Actually, with the red dress, the bib isn't lined.

As for sleeves, no, lining isn't necessary. If you want to, you can always use different scraps for the lining of the sleeves rather than running out to the store, if you have large enough scraps around.

[blackcat452.livejournal.com]

D'oh! I get dressed like that sometimes. And I think it will be fine on the straight of grain. And I don't line my regency sleeves either.

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Argh! No fun!

And I'll agree with everybody else - more of my Regency dresses have unlined sleeves than those that do, and both my bib-front dresses have the bib cut on the straight of grain without a problem. Of course I also have no boobs for the bib to have to fit over...