Halfway through last week, I decided to take take a much needed break from embroidery for a couple of days to get some actual construction done. I cut out the canvas interlining using the embroidered top fabric as pattern pieces to cut the canvas, and then used those pieces to do the final fitting. I spent almost the entire day prancing around the house in my stays and fitting the bodice, but imagine my great delight when I was able to take in a good four inches from the original pattern! For the rest of the night, I cut out the lining and began assembling everything.
The next day I finished up the bodice construction. Everything is now finished except for the grommeting in the back. I ordered a gross of 00 sized grommets from corsetmaking.com, and once they arrive everything will be finished up.
The sleeve took allot more effort than I expected, but that's mostly because I hadn't used any sort of pattern. I took out my favourite paper sleeve pattern and laid the unfinished panes over it, measured everything a dozen times, and then finally cut all the pieces to the sizes I needed. It hurt a bit to have to cut some of the panes down and therefore cut off quite a bit of embroidery, but at least I'll know better for next time. I interlined each pane in canvas and then lined them with cotton. The panes were all hand-stitched into some bias tape made from the cotton lining fabric at the cuff and top.
There are still a few things to be done...the sleeve panes need to be connected at certain points, and I have some hotfix crystals that I'm going to put in the centre of each embroidered flower, but I'm very pleased with the progress so far.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
green taffeta
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