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mala_14

I'm a weirdo

Feb 04, 2016 20:43

I actually like doing handsewn buttonholes! (But for some reason I don't like doing eyelets.) I got all 5 buttonholes done on my corset cover this past week. The corset cover is now on hold, to be finished when I'm back home. There's going to be a sewing day with my living history group when I'm there, so I'm going to take that along to sew on the ( Read more... )

1895 tailor made, 1890 corset cover

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tigerweave February 5 2016, 11:51:39 UTC

That's a very nice-looking skirt pattern. Love to see it made up. The curve of the waistband creating the width needed over the hips, and the bias adding in to it. I cut out a skirt (modern everyday wear!) where I was trying to get a similar kind of effect. I went about it totally different though.

That's the long way round to say I'll be really interested in the end skirt. Does it have a pattern? A stripey one would be divine I think!

mala_14 February 5 2016, 20:41:17 UTC

I have a suiting that has a subtle plaid. You can see it on this post: http://mala-14.livejournal.com/191116.html I agree, a stripe would look stunning!

tigerweave February 6 2016, 08:05:54 UTC

Oooh nice! I think you will get a great effect with that one too, though :-)

mala_14 February 6 2016, 20:06:23 UTC

Thanks! Going to try some pattern matching for the first time too. Should be interesting.

tigerweave February 7 2016, 02:36:01 UTC

Oh wow, first time! Yeah, fun times :-P

Seriously though it's just finicky. One of those things where the more perfectionist you are, the better the outcome. But having said that, if it's not sewn perfectly matched, like out by 1mm, stand back and see if it looks bad enough to resew.
Oh, my hint is pin LOTS!

mala_14 February 7 2016, 02:40:50 UTC

Well, I'm only going to try to pattern match horizontally. I specifically picked this pattern because it had so few seams. ;)

tigerweave February 7 2016, 02:45:23 UTC

Oh right, yeah that makes a lot of sense!

I have a dress pattern I could pattern match (I was using 1cm gingham) for only about a foot down the sides, then the seams were on too different an angle to be able to match beyond that. The seaming was similar to this skirt actually. But it's the difference in angle between the two seams that dictated how much matching. Hopefully this one will be better!

Anyway I just had to make judicious decisions, about where I wanted the matching to happen so I did it along the top part of the sides. If anyone was looking at the bottom bit, too bad coz it just couldn't match.
I got heaps of compliments on that dress so I figure it was ok in the end :-P

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