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More Progress
Feb. 14th, 2009 02:16 pmHappy Valentine’s Day!
I’ve been rather bad about commenting and posting here lately. I’ve just felt more like sewing than talking so I’ve been acting like a hermit. ^_^;; Haven’t hung out with anyone for a long time either since I skipped NYCC last weekend and I’m obviously not at Katsucon now (like a good chunk of my friends list seems to be ^_^;).
Anyway, I submitted a proposal to try out my seam finishes panel at Anime Boston. I might submit it for AnimeNext, too, when their panel info goes up. (Anyone know when that usually is? I didn’t pay attention in past years since I never did a panel before. ^_^;)
I finished the sewing on my 18th century corset; it just needs laces and ribbons for the straps now. ^_^ I might have to leave the laces extra long since it’s a weird lacing scheme that has one end of the lace fastened at the top and the other at the bottom instead of the normal tying the ends together. I don’t think I can put it on myself unless I leave a long tail and wrap it around my waist to tie it in the front.
I’ve gotten a pattern for pocket hoops drafted from the sketches and directions on this page and it seems to have worked out. I might have to get new fabric and redo it though. :-/ I was hoping to not have to go buy new fabric for these so as a test I did one in white poplin that I had; while the pattern worked out pretty well, the fabric itself had a bit of stretch so it distorted somewhat when I put the steel hoop boning in.
Then, I found I had just enough white linen leftover from a really old sewing project to make a pair of the hoops (plus linen is a good fabric for the period) so I made them in the linen. I finished the main sewing on both but there are two problems now. I realized I should have bought plastic ends to put over the cut edges of the steel boning so that it doesn’t poke through the fabric. So, I had to place another order at Farthingales and pay another round of shipping. -_-; And with the boning in, the linen version seems much more wobbly than the poplin one so I’m thinking it might be better in a stiffer fabric. (The linen I had was rather soft.) So, I might have to remake them. -_-; Bah.
I’ll try to get new fabric if my family goes shopping on Sunday; I still have a JoAnn’s gift card that I got from a friend for Christmas. But otherwise, I think I’m going to take a break from working on the panniers for the weekend and pattern the cape for Count D’s vampire outfit instead.
I’ve been rather bad about commenting and posting here lately. I’ve just felt more like sewing than talking so I’ve been acting like a hermit. ^_^;; Haven’t hung out with anyone for a long time either since I skipped NYCC last weekend and I’m obviously not at Katsucon now (like a good chunk of my friends list seems to be ^_^;).
Anyway, I submitted a proposal to try out my seam finishes panel at Anime Boston. I might submit it for AnimeNext, too, when their panel info goes up. (Anyone know when that usually is? I didn’t pay attention in past years since I never did a panel before. ^_^;)
I finished the sewing on my 18th century corset; it just needs laces and ribbons for the straps now. ^_^ I might have to leave the laces extra long since it’s a weird lacing scheme that has one end of the lace fastened at the top and the other at the bottom instead of the normal tying the ends together. I don’t think I can put it on myself unless I leave a long tail and wrap it around my waist to tie it in the front.
I’ve gotten a pattern for pocket hoops drafted from the sketches and directions on this page and it seems to have worked out. I might have to get new fabric and redo it though. :-/ I was hoping to not have to go buy new fabric for these so as a test I did one in white poplin that I had; while the pattern worked out pretty well, the fabric itself had a bit of stretch so it distorted somewhat when I put the steel hoop boning in.
Then, I found I had just enough white linen leftover from a really old sewing project to make a pair of the hoops (plus linen is a good fabric for the period) so I made them in the linen. I finished the main sewing on both but there are two problems now. I realized I should have bought plastic ends to put over the cut edges of the steel boning so that it doesn’t poke through the fabric. So, I had to place another order at Farthingales and pay another round of shipping. -_-; And with the boning in, the linen version seems much more wobbly than the poplin one so I’m thinking it might be better in a stiffer fabric. (The linen I had was rather soft.) So, I might have to remake them. -_-; Bah.
I’ll try to get new fabric if my family goes shopping on Sunday; I still have a JoAnn’s gift card that I got from a friend for Christmas. But otherwise, I think I’m going to take a break from working on the panniers for the weekend and pattern the cape for Count D’s vampire outfit instead.
