The Never Ending Dress!

Dress update. It's slowly becoming something. For last few days I have been inserting sleeves and hand sewing the bodice & lining together. I was able to get both sleeve flounces made and attached. This all sound easy and simple but believe me when I say, "I will never underestimate a task!" The sleeves were confusing at first. Reading the instructions over and over just to make sure I was reading it carefully. Once I got a clear understanding of what I was suppose to do I was able to insert both sleeves with ease. The sleeve flounce...

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Dress Progress

Yesterday when I woke up I got to work. I was in the mood to get stuff done, also I had got the news we were going to have company over this weekend. My supplies and fabrics are all over the living room. I needed to get a move on. After working on the bodice fitting and finally getting it right I decided to cut out my fashion fabric pieces. Eggplant taffeta  fabric putting the pattern pieces in place. I get all the pieces out using pinking shears just to be safe cause taffeta frays and it frays quick. Not much to say...

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Needing a little bit of a push

Well I'm at that point were I just don't have the drive. After two months of non stop work on this project I'm all pooped out. I find myself exhausted after only one hour. For the last two weeks I haven't done much work. I'm ready to start the dress work but I can't muster up the drive. I have the muslin bodice cut out and I have done two fittings. Neither of those were right so I'm still working on that. I wanted to move on to my fashion fabric this weekend but I'm no where near touching it. I feel that my problem is part exhaustion and part nerves. I quiet nervous about starting the dress, I want it to be as close to perfection...

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Petticoats, Petticoats, Petticoats

For the last two weeks I have been working on the next step in my 18th Century project ( I'm still working on a better name), THE PETTICOATS! I knew I wanted to make at least three. I knew I was going to make petticoats to go over my pocket hoops. My dress pattern comes with instructions on how to make petticoats so I read up on them before I got started. Well after reading the instructions three time I was still a bit confused on the first few steps a bit. I think it might have been the wording that was throwing me off. I wasn't taking...

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