Sooo, yeah... I definitely did not finish the Tissot bustle over the weekend. And it's still not done. In fact, it feels like it's moving soooo slowly. Over the weekend, I managed to pleat the 7 or so widths of fabric that make up the skirt hem pleats. I hemmed it all, ran it through the ruffler foot, and then painstakingly had to press all the ( Read more... )

I fixed all the small tweaks on my velvet gown before our shoot on Friday, but during the shoot, a much more glaring problem presented itself - the chemisette is a little on the narrow side, so while it is actually wider than my neckline, it's not by enough. When I move, it untucks itself. I think I'm going to add a little bit of width, and make ( Read more... )

I tried on the velvet gown on Tuesday, and as I suspected, it needs just a couple tweaks. The hem length actually did not seem to be a problem (though I feel like I'm still slightly not trusting that), but I was right about the bodice being a tiny bit large. I will be moving over almost all of the buttons today - I think it needed to come in about ( Read more... )

The velvet dress is sooo close to being done. I have about 1/4 or so of the sash around the skirt to stitch in place, plus I think 8 or so skirt tapes. And that's it. Unfortunately, this sort of thing has to be done on the form, so I wasn't able to bring it with me to the theatre yesterday, despite the fact that I had already finished all my other ( Read more... )

Between naps two days after work this week and zumba two days after work this week, I have not gotten much sewing done. Mostly I've just been feeling super exhausted. I did work more on the chemisette, though - at this point, it just needs the ruffle for the collar gathered down/attached, and the collar facing sewn on. I'm pretty sure I have to ( Read more... )

The velvet dress is not done. The bodice is complete, but the overskirt still needs bustle tapes and the sash. And half the sash still needs to be hemmed on the sides, which I honestly think I might leave for backstage sewing on Friday night. Part of that is because I ran out of velvet ribbon on Friday, and the new spool came Sat night, which was ( Read more... )

The bodice is basically done! I made the cuffs yesterday, which are velvet with canvas inside, with more of the velvet ribbon trim around the top of the cuff. They did make the sleeves a bit tight at the bottom because yikes that is thick. But I think/hope it will still work. And I set the sleeves into the armseyes. Picture here. I hope to try on ( Read more... )

Whoops, I haven't posted since last week, and I actually did a fair amount since then!

I gave up editing that hair tutorial video I was talking about last time. I'll reshoot it at some point, but probably not till at least the end of this month. I did shoot, edit, and post a different video last week, though, which takes you on a tour of one of my ( Read more... )

Sewing is progressing slowly. The overskirt hem is completely sewn, and I've started to sew on the bustle tapes - I think I'm about 1/3 of the way done with those, so I just need to finish them and put the hooks and eyes at the waist, and the overskirt will be done. The underskirt hem is done except for about 20", and then that needs the hooks and ( Read more... )

I'm really glad I had that extra hour of time to work on Tuesday night, because it turns out I really needed it! That said, I did manage to get the underskirt hem all pressed and pinned in place last night, so it's 100% ready for handsewing. The overskirt hem is kind of pressed and pinned. Like, I pressed the actual hem fold, but I need to turn in ( Read more... )