fuagh, shelving the unfinished Lilly Rose
I went to the sewing guild group on Saturday and took my Lilly rose ufo, and the december dress. Yes, it's still unfinished in March! I moved up the 3/4 waist belt and shortened it as marked. the placement is ideal BUT the carpenter's mantra of measure twice, cut once holds true for sewing. As I shortened the waist belt I did think "huh, that's quite a bit" and lo, behold it was far too short. Like 8" gap in the back. What was I thinking? So I need to recut, stitch and re-insert the belt pieces. I bought really narrow bias tape for the sleeve hem, and a slightly wider for the hem itself. Plus need to cut a neck facing - the pattern says to use self bias but I'm not going there. I should finish it this month HAH.
The Lilly Rose is a bust. I did the second side seam and inserted the zip so that I could try it on. Whatever issues I had with cutting it out that resulted in me having to let out skirt seams so the skirt wasn't too narrow for the waist yoke, well it's too tight overall so grabby in the wrong way. The only fix I can think of is to unpic the skirt/yoke seam, lower the top edge of the skirt (so it's wider) and get more contrast fabric to add a border to the hem. And TBH I'm just not feeling the love after all the hassle. I want a pretty new dress that doesn't have so much UGH and potty mouth associated with it.
The January dress hasn't even been touched. I'm staring at the front bodice pieces going umm, full bust alteration how? Need to mock up and finesse that but I'm needing something easier than that right now. No more delayed gratification.
I compared my February dress pattern to a blouse pattern that fits and all I need to do is the FBA and get cracking. Oh and raise the underarm level by half an inch, but not the bodice length cos YAY half sizes!
I also bought another vintage half size pattern on ebay a couple of weeks ago, and it's just as cute. I see it in my future ... if only I can cure my procrastination. but hey, no longer anaemic after that iron injection in my "hip" that for a week after felt like I'd been kicked in the ass by a mule. I even have stash fabric that I can use for it. I've got black contrast for the collar if I want, and can skip the pockets. UGH pockets.
Okay, I've stopped buying fabric so today bought another half size vintage dress pattern ... because half sizes fit and I love vintage cuteness
