I was very very bad yesterday. I bought fabric even though I don't need it yet! I blame Gloria, Jenni and Sarah! After the dance Friday night I've had visions of dresses dancing in my head! I really should have stayed home to sew and clean but I've been searching online for fabric for the red archery dress unsuccesfully. So I decided I needed to try Freddy Farkle and Sewfisticated again and maybe start looking for other color options. Well, I hit the jackpot at FF! Beautifully perfect pink and taupe stripe for $4 a yard!! So it's not red, but the size of the stripe is perfect, and I really love the color, I think it will look good with my coloring. I'm just hoping it won't be too heavy. I will prob have to use steel in my bustle just in case!
So after that find I went to Sewfisticated and found a great cotton print for a polonaise, taffeta for the box pleats around the bottom of the archery dress and some gorgeous velevt that I don't even know what I'm going to do with but it was too pretty and cheap to pass up! I'm thinking something Edwardian, like the Dreamstress' Luna moth dress. I also bought lace for the neckline of the archery dress, but they didn't have any nice linen for the jacket, so it was on to Joanns from there for linen and ticking for a bum roll.
So! I have fabric for three new dresses now! Four actually, the Cold Mountain day dress, the Archery Bustle dress, the cotton polonaise and a velvet Edwardian dres! So that means I need to get going on some projects and stop slacking! I didn't do half of the sewing I wanted to do over the Christmas break. So when I got home I finished organizing my sewing table because it was inhibiting my work and then I finished my first corset mock up!
I made the Dore corset in left-over brown cordory from my Spencer. I made it just one layer with purple ribbon for the boning chanels so it's also reversible, plain brown cordory on one side and brown and purple on the other! It works perfectly for my Strampunk outfit, which is great since there's a dance in two weeks! I think it's too strechy which is why it meets in the back when I lace it up. I thought it was too big at first but then I realized the grain is probably the wrong dirrection. So I'm making the Silverado in the same size but in white Jean with pink faux dupioni and I think it should fit better this time. I'm going to do a fitting half way to make sure but I'm confident I won't have to tweak it much.
Here's a dark and blurry iphone pic of my steampunk outfit and the corset (I haven't bound the top and bottom yet).
When that's done I can move on to the Cold Mountian day dress! Lots to do but I'm super excited and motivated so I'm going to try to keep up the momentum!
I'll have to post some pics of the fabric and better pics if the corset when I can get my camera working again.
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