overdress seam finishing decision deadline.
Last night the linen overdress got to the halfway point. Excluding seam finishing which won't take long as if I belt it through my 2-thread overlocker. Now I'm thinking of edgestitching the seams, to keep them sitting nicely, and I did think of flat fell seaming it too - which negates the need to overlock. However I'll need to decide which method by tonight, as I'd fell the side front & side back seams before joining the shoulder & side seams. There'll just be too much fabric to comfortably fell those seams when the entire dress is assembled. I want to make sure it fits well in the waist - the underdress is loose there as I didn't return the waist measurement to the original after the munta FBA. So if felling, all taking in would be on the side seams.
I burn tested the poplin I was going to use as bodice lining, and it's poly cotton, emphasis on poly. Far to hot for a Sydney summer, so I'm going to fetch something at lunchtime today, probably a quilters cotton as Burwood Sewing Centre has quilters cottons. I want to be able to preshrink it tonight and sew it tomorrow morning. If I have to go further afield, that couldn't be until tomorrow morning [pfwagh of disgust at dithering this close to a deadline].
The poplin will be fine on a parasol however. I've taken the umbrella covering apart to make a pattern piece. I cut one section along the seamline, and left the other 7 sections together. I'd like to self-line the parasol too ... nothing like making things difficult for myself.
I do have a history of starting with difficult things. When I learned to knit, my very 1st item was 4-ply fingerless gloves, with a cable in the ribbing. And I still have them, perfectly even tension, though I found the cable was an issue so I knitted two left gloves, the first with cabled ribbing the second without. The right glove I did without (cos I did the left first). My 2nd item of knitting was a fair-isle vest. Yep 5 colours and you'd never guess it was only my second knitted item. After both those, knitting anything else was comparatively easy. Lace, more fair isle. Plain knitting very quickly became too boring.
Oh and medical sidebar, the antibiotics I'm on for a week have asthma as one of the possible side effects. Which is vastly amusing (apart from the dry cough I've got from them) because I'm only on the meds in the first because of my asthma induced bronchitis.
Hey, and I'm interested in food again, so instead of chosing high density foods to keep my calorie intake up to weight-loss level, I'm almost at my normal. ie not gain weight, and trying to slowly move back over the line from stout to voluptous.
I burn tested the poplin I was going to use as bodice lining, and it's poly cotton, emphasis on poly. Far to hot for a Sydney summer, so I'm going to fetch something at lunchtime today, probably a quilters cotton as Burwood Sewing Centre has quilters cottons. I want to be able to preshrink it tonight and sew it tomorrow morning. If I have to go further afield, that couldn't be until tomorrow morning [pfwagh of disgust at dithering this close to a deadline].
The poplin will be fine on a parasol however. I've taken the umbrella covering apart to make a pattern piece. I cut one section along the seamline, and left the other 7 sections together. I'd like to self-line the parasol too ... nothing like making things difficult for myself.
I do have a history of starting with difficult things. When I learned to knit, my very 1st item was 4-ply fingerless gloves, with a cable in the ribbing. And I still have them, perfectly even tension, though I found the cable was an issue so I knitted two left gloves, the first with cabled ribbing the second without. The right glove I did without (cos I did the left first). My 2nd item of knitting was a fair-isle vest. Yep 5 colours and you'd never guess it was only my second knitted item. After both those, knitting anything else was comparatively easy. Lace, more fair isle. Plain knitting very quickly became too boring.
Oh and medical sidebar, the antibiotics I'm on for a week have asthma as one of the possible side effects. Which is vastly amusing (apart from the dry cough I've got from them) because I'm only on the meds in the first because of my asthma induced bronchitis.
Hey, and I'm interested in food again, so instead of chosing high density foods to keep my calorie intake up to weight-loss level, I'm almost at my normal. ie not gain weight, and trying to slowly move back over the line from stout to voluptous.