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Sewing update - 19th and 12th centuries
Oct. 19th, 2005 09:45 amYou're not going to believe this, but yesterday I actually took up working on my 1850s wardrobe again. I cut (well, tore) the pieces for a petticoat with four flounces. I managed to sew one together and hem it and that's it. The sewing machine is in our sleeping room so after Maja has been put to bed only hand sewing can be done. I'm not really enthusiastic about the project, so it's okay that I can't sew more. But I want to finish at least one 19th c. outfit. The former, an 1850s summer dress in printed cotton is currently on hold, because I can't get the d-mn pleated bodice to work. So now I'm going to make another dress, that better fits the season too, from brown rayon twill. It both looks and feels very much like my silk twill so I have no problems using it. In fact I plan to use the same fabric for my Tudor dress, which BTW is way more tempting. But I'm definitely going to make the petticoats and a corset cover before I even start thinking about making a Tudor. The other ongoing projects are Rickard's tunicella, which proceeds nicely and a beret I'm knitting on occasionally. I have smocked and sewn in one side gore on the tunicella and am currently working on the smocking on the other. I was going to fell seams yesterday while watching ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
armillary's The Lion in Winter, but I needed to press the seams first and guess where the ironing board is? So instead I started on the smocking of the second gore. And I love that "film" (I guess it's not technically a film since it's two episodes). It's very much filmed theatre, but the dialouge is wonderful and the acting, especially the interaction between Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close.
Oh, and a strange thing: I have gained two kilos since summer (I have my period so some of it could be water, but not all), but I still can almost close my 1860s corset, which I couldn't when I made it a year ago, as can be seen from these pictures. When I close it completely it has too little room for the bust though, which it actually had also when I took those pictures. That is a constant problem with corsets for me, they compress the bust too much. Because the bust is so soft and can be squished a lot and when you tighten your corset it of course tightens most where it's easiest. I probably should make a new Lavinia Foy corset that is bigger over the bust and a little bigger over the lover ribcage and smaller in the waist.
armillary's The Lion in Winter, but I needed to press the seams first and guess where the ironing board is? So instead I started on the smocking of the second gore. And I love that "film" (I guess it's not technically a film since it's two episodes). It's very much filmed theatre, but the dialouge is wonderful and the acting, especially the interaction between Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close.Oh, and a strange thing: I have gained two kilos since summer (I have my period so some of it could be water, but not all), but I still can almost close my 1860s corset, which I couldn't when I made it a year ago, as can be seen from these pictures. When I close it completely it has too little room for the bust though, which it actually had also when I took those pictures. That is a constant problem with corsets for me, they compress the bust too much. Because the bust is so soft and can be squished a lot and when you tighten your corset it of course tightens most where it's easiest. I probably should make a new Lavinia Foy corset that is bigger over the bust and a little bigger over the lover ribcage and smaller in the waist.
