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Small progress
Apr. 29th, 2015 02:12 pmWork takes most of my energy, but yesterday I made the collar for my new short coat while having tea with my neighbour Anna and later keeping Maja company before she went to bed, she has a cold and needed her mummy.
It's a for me typical mix of machine and hand sewn. Since the fabric has a tendencey to unravel while you watch it teh pieces are zig-zagged, but it is sewn together by hand, because it is easier to combine with a social life. To make the collar stiff enough it is interlined with a heavy cotton satin and the lining and interlining are padstitched together before the top fabric is added.
Yesterday I also put up an old presentation, from 2011, that I gave at a fashion history conference in Brighton, in my other blog: Clothing and perceptions of gender and body in the medieval an early modern period. You can read it here, if you haven't already.
It's a for me typical mix of machine and hand sewn. Since the fabric has a tendencey to unravel while you watch it teh pieces are zig-zagged, but it is sewn together by hand, because it is easier to combine with a social life. To make the collar stiff enough it is interlined with a heavy cotton satin and the lining and interlining are padstitched together before the top fabric is added.
Yesterday I also put up an old presentation, from 2011, that I gave at a fashion history conference in Brighton, in my other blog: Clothing and perceptions of gender and body in the medieval an early modern period. You can read it here, if you haven't already.