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Hahahaha! Pictures? Let me tell you what doesn't photograph well: piles of wobbly, diaphanous voile! Also, the pieces of regency gowns aren't terribly interesting- enormous rectangles and teeeeeeny little bodice bits! The voile is as irritating to work with as I anticipated. It frays like a sumbitch and it is so delicate that it feels like I am sewing nothing- very hard to get the tension I need to get nice, even handstitches. Ah well!
Progress marches on! I've decided to make it a two layer dress. I'm not entirely sure how the one in the painting works- it is a separate underdress and overdress? For simplicity sake, I've just sandwiched them together. Still two dresses but they will be made together as one. So far I have the bodice mostly done- both linen and voile. I've got them half-stitched half-pinned together now and I am busy sewing down a self bias binding on the neckline of the voile to hold all of my gathers in place. I wasn't planning on doing that first, by the determination of the voile to unravel all over my living room rushed that process along.
tomorrow: SLEEEEEEEEVIL.
(Oh, and I broke down and ordered some blue silk ribbon.)
Progress marches on! I've decided to make it a two layer dress. I'm not entirely sure how the one in the painting works- it is a separate underdress and overdress? For simplicity sake, I've just sandwiched them together. Still two dresses but they will be made together as one. So far I have the bodice mostly done- both linen and voile. I've got them half-stitched half-pinned together now and I am busy sewing down a self bias binding on the neckline of the voile to hold all of my gathers in place. I wasn't planning on doing that first, by the determination of the voile to unravel all over my living room rushed that process along.
tomorrow: SLEEEEEEEEVIL.
(Oh, and I broke down and ordered some blue silk ribbon.)