I have been so lazy today it's amazing I got anything done at all. But, I did manage to cut and fit the muslin for my Dickens dress bodice. Hurray! If you read my earlier post about this, there's 9 inches of ease (WTF?!) in the bust of this dress. So, I cut out a size 8 front and a size 12 back, and low and behold, it fit! Quite well actually. The darts needed a little fiddling, but that's always the case, especially if you are wearing a corset and your boobs don't sit in a perfectly straight line under your chin. There's a little ripping in the shoulders, but I think once I have it done out of the right fabric and have the neck trimmed down, it'll be fine and nice and smooth. I certainly can't get it to be much better on my own.
So a part from the freakish amount of ease in the bust, this is a pretty easy to deal with pattern. The pieces all fit together well, the instructions make sense, and it fits nicely. The trick is to look at the finished measurements on the pattern. For me, it worked out to pick the front with the right bust measurement and the back with the right waist measurement. The other pieces are all very straight forward, so it should all go together nice and quick. Hurray!
The plan for the rest of the day is to loaf around, knit the socks, watch some girlie movies, and maybe cut out the dress pieces if I can get up enough energy to vacuum the floor first. I can't believe how tired I am. Getting through exams took the last little bits of energy I had. Thanksgiving feels like it was a hundred years ago.
Anyway, I'll post pictures when I have something worthwhile to show off. In the mean time, if anyone has suggestions about a hoop or petticoat that I can fit into a suitcase along with a weeks worth of cloths, Christmas gifts, and the dress, do let me know. Can you get inflatable hoops? A small petticoat should smoosh into my bag ok...we'll see how the ones I have with me work. I think the one that would be best under the dress is at my parents house back in CA for some reason which surely made sense to me at the time...
3 comments:
I have a 120" hoop you are welcome to borrow, but it is black.
I have a slightly larger white cotton one as well.
I also have misc scary OES crinolines, and a few cotton petticoats you are more than welcome to borrow.
And you *must* see my state dress, hideous doesn't even begin to describe it.
Or, you could ship your Dickens stuff out to me, and I can ship it back when your vacation is over.
Hmmm. I think borrowing petticoats/hoops will work. It's kind of an earlier style dress, so it dosn't have to be huge.
I thought about shipping...the only problem is the dress won't be done till probably Monday or Tuesday at best, and I don't trust UPS or the USPS to get it to your house from here by Friday. To say that people here don't move with the same sense of urgency is a bit of an understatement.
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