Project Runway: Home Edition
I seriously wish Tim Gunn would've stopped by to check on the progress with sewing my 1940's dame costume...perhaps he might have pointed out that I was doing it completely wrong.
o_O
Grrrr...I always skim the step-by-step instructions but generally just get started from what I see in the pictures. I finished the entire bodice and then realized I sewed the wrong style, which basically effed up the process of inserting a lining (which is basically just another damn bodice turned inside out, what a pain in the ass to have to sew two). Ironically, my mistake probably saved me hours of frustration trying to make the lining sit right (they never seem to match just so), so I trashed the plan of putting in a lining and totally started faking it from there, I even managed to omit a zipper! I planned ahead when cutting and made sure the stretch went across (not up/down) so there's give and it just slips on. :)
Apparently people who don't know how to cut a pattern with the grain/stretch can even make it to Project Runway (*eyeballs that one chick who always used chiffon and couldn't cut a damn pattern right*)...
All I really have left to do is attach the skirt, finish the raw edges on the bodice, hem the skirt (I hate hemming), and sew on the appliques, trim and add whatever other *BLiNg* catches my eye in my stash (the trim at the waist might go...but it's my backup in case the waistline is bulky once I sew it on). The appliques were only 50-cents each at the swap meet, what a score. At a fabric store each one would probably cost $5 each, but at some swap meets around here there are vendors who bring fabric & notions from the garment district downtown and sell it for pennies (literally...I bought some anchor patches for 25-cents each!). I also picked up elastic on the cheap, and they had tulle for Celine's costume for only $1.00 a yard. I even bought a yard of Oz-Doll-size silver linked chain for $2 (I don't know why, it was shiny and calling my name). If Keller!Doll and Beecher Doll ever want to play "dungeon", they're set...and if I had a BillCompton!Doll, I'd totally wrap him in it and watch him *siZZle*.
A work in progress, as modeled by my dress form, Sally O'Malley...
o_O
Grrrr...I always skim the step-by-step instructions but generally just get started from what I see in the pictures. I finished the entire bodice and then realized I sewed the wrong style, which basically effed up the process of inserting a lining (which is basically just another damn bodice turned inside out, what a pain in the ass to have to sew two). Ironically, my mistake probably saved me hours of frustration trying to make the lining sit right (they never seem to match just so), so I trashed the plan of putting in a lining and totally started faking it from there, I even managed to omit a zipper! I planned ahead when cutting and made sure the stretch went across (not up/down) so there's give and it just slips on. :)
Apparently people who don't know how to cut a pattern with the grain/stretch can even make it to Project Runway (*eyeballs that one chick who always used chiffon and couldn't cut a damn pattern right*)...
All I really have left to do is attach the skirt, finish the raw edges on the bodice, hem the skirt (I hate hemming), and sew on the appliques, trim and add whatever other *BLiNg* catches my eye in my stash (the trim at the waist might go...but it's my backup in case the waistline is bulky once I sew it on). The appliques were only 50-cents each at the swap meet, what a score. At a fabric store each one would probably cost $5 each, but at some swap meets around here there are vendors who bring fabric & notions from the garment district downtown and sell it for pennies (literally...I bought some anchor patches for 25-cents each!). I also picked up elastic on the cheap, and they had tulle for Celine's costume for only $1.00 a yard. I even bought a yard of Oz-Doll-size silver linked chain for $2 (I don't know why, it was shiny and calling my name). If Keller!Doll and Beecher Doll ever want to play "dungeon", they're set...and if I had a BillCompton!Doll, I'd totally wrap him in it and watch him *siZZle*.
A work in progress, as modeled by my dress form, Sally O'Malley...