The bustle petticoat is almost done! All it needs is a waistband and a hem. The rolled hem on the bottom two ruffles came out so nicely that I'm tempted to do it on the rest of the hem, too. (If I have another chance to do it at work, that is, since the Babylock Imagine does a way better rolled hem than my Brother serger.)

I love the look of the ( Read more... )

I think I've gotten out of my sewing slump. My mom's jacket is just about done - all it needs is the binding hand-sewn down around the edges. And I've been working on the petticoat for my Ravenclaw bustle gown. Soooo many ruffles! I finished cutting out the pieces to be ruffled tonight, and it's over 10 yds. Tomorrow I hope to gather everything up ( Read more... )

The bustle had to be put on hold for a while, since apparently, Joanns does not sell cotton twill tape! I ordered it online, and it arrived yesterday, so I was finally able to put the ties on the bustle. At this point it's just awaiting a waistband, probably a ruffle, and some sort of finishing for the edges. At the same time, though, I know I ( Read more... )

Happy Independence Day!! My parents and I are celebrating right now with our usual tradition of watching 1776. And tonight we're going to go to Lake Union and watch fireworks! I hope everyone else is having a great day, too ( Read more... )

Here is my entry into the latest HSF challenge - the Regency petticoat that I finished a couple weeks ago! Of course, I still haven't taken any better pictures, so you get to suffer through with my ugly mirror pictures from right after I finished it.


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When I got home tonight, I started on my Regency petticoat. I'm doing the underbust kind, and it's made out of one big 90" wide piece of muslin (I think it was nearly two yards long to begin with, but Joanns does not cut on the grain, so that wasted at least a good 5").

It has one back seam, which is left undone 10" from the top. The bottom has 8 ( Read more... )

Today, I worked from 9:30am-6pm, returned a bunch of stuff to Target, went grocery shopping, came home and unpacked everything, rode my bike to the Ballard Locks and back again (meeting a large family of Canada geese en route), made dinner (I never cook - but I made fish, for the second time ever!), finished my Regency corset, uploaded pictures to ( Read more... )

The binding is done! No new pictures yet, though. And I've decided to look through some of the stitches on the machines at work, so the decorative stitches should be done by tomorrow evening. And then all I'd have to do are the eyelets on the straps. Maybe it will even convince me to do the eyelets on the 1780s stays straps too ( Read more... )

Skipping yesterday's photo in favor of the ones I took today! At this point, the binding is about 1/3 done on the top (and not at all on the bottom), but that's pretty much all that's left to do. I also am putting decorative stitches in the gaps in the cording on the front, but I haven't decided on what stitch (I might do it on one of the machines ( Read more... )

Maybe the picture will work today? Of course, this is yesterday's picture, and I have since done all the boning channels (and got my boning!), and done a little over 1/3 of the cording channels. Next, I'm going to insert the cording on the channels I have finished, to make sure everything works, before doing the rest of the channels. And the ( Read more... )