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For those with fabric addictions - one or two of you may be reading...
A Dress a Day: HOWTO: Buy Fabric
And after a brief scare last night with the first washing*, collar/embroidered neckline came out fine.
* First the fabric leaked blue dye like buggery - it had been hot washed previously but appeared to have issues with drying in the sun and hadn't finished playing silly buggers yet, then after the first washing it looked like the pen had stained the embroidery. But after a second soak in a bucket overnight with laundry det, it appears fine. Thank heavens for that.
Edit: And it is back to being all quiet with Z off into the field at 5:30am this morning - should be back Fri or Sat... So, dance tonight and then lots of sewing. Want to do lots on the bliaut, but will hit the point where need side seams pinned by someone else. Will try and get Z's trousers finished instead. Then there are tent doors and a better fitting oilskin hood for Z - there may be an oilskin hood for sale at Festival. There were intentions of routering wax tablet blanks on Mon evening, but I fell asleep against Z and power tools with sleepy people is not a good combination.
Neckline attachment to body and Buffy I think.
A Dress a Day: HOWTO: Buy Fabric
And after a brief scare last night with the first washing*, collar/embroidered neckline came out fine.
* First the fabric leaked blue dye like buggery - it had been hot washed previously but appeared to have issues with drying in the sun and hadn't finished playing silly buggers yet, then after the first washing it looked like the pen had stained the embroidery. But after a second soak in a bucket overnight with laundry det, it appears fine. Thank heavens for that.
Edit: And it is back to being all quiet with Z off into the field at 5:30am this morning - should be back Fri or Sat... So, dance tonight and then lots of sewing. Want to do lots on the bliaut, but will hit the point where need side seams pinned by someone else. Will try and get Z's trousers finished instead. Then there are tent doors and a better fitting oilskin hood for Z - there may be an oilskin hood for sale at Festival. There were intentions of routering wax tablet blanks on Mon evening, but I fell asleep against Z and power tools with sleepy people is not a good combination.
Neckline attachment to body and Buffy I think.