Nearing the end of the Petal Perfect Meringue Skirt
Hello again,
Its another week & I feel rather satisfied with it. This is good after the set-back from last week.
I more or less made Sunday another "Sewing" Sunday, but it kinda works for me. At least for the time being. The main focus of this was to take of my hem mess up.
I had made new scalloped templates for the front & back of the skirt using the facing cut-out as the basis. Using these & my white marking pencil, I transferred my "follow me" line onto the proper fabric. With this completed I then proceeded to sew to the line. Needless to say it went a lot easier this time. One lesson learned from this is that contrary to what I may think from time to time, I do not always know better than the instruction directions. That and that shortcuts aren't really shortcuts. With the new bottom hem stitched up, I then began clipping the curves so the entire hem will lay flat. Naturally I made sure that there was no possiblity that I was going to clip the fabric above again.
According to the book the next part of the skirt was to hand stitch the hem facing to the skirt proper using a catch-stitch. But I took a small detour. I turned the skirt right-side out, and very carefully I stitched within the side seams to keep the facings from folding whichever way they wanted, especially for the Waist Facing since there is no catch-stitch to keep it in place.
Out of the detour I have been taking the skirt to hand-stitch during my breaks at work. I have been treating the serger-stitch that I used to finish off the top of the hem facing as a guide for my catch-stitch, so that it will be consistent. Currently about 1/4 of the skirt is left to be done. I'm hoping that it will be done in time for when I hit the town this weekend... well my version of hit the town.
Because I am able to do the hand-stitching at work I decided to begin tackling the Hawthorne top for this ensemble. The first part was to readjust Dolly since I have unfortunately gained weight since I last used her. Once this was completed I pulled out the Muslin top that I had begun the last time that I attempted to make this. Using the information from Chapter 4 "A Fantastic Fit" from The Colette Sewing Handbook, I attempted to adjust the muslin to better suit me. I did this for a couple of days. Then I came to the realization that a pattern that Colette determined is around an intermediate level, especially one that is a button front top, is not the best project to cut my teeth on pattern customization. So yet again this top is going to the side lines, but just for a little while. I will return again to this top once I've had some practice on pattern manipulations with a couple of simpler patterns. I'll probably bring it back around the time that I do an artist salon this summer.
So next time I'll be beginning on the Pastille Dress, which goes with the chapter that I just finished. I haven't locked into a name for this project just yet. I'm bouncing back and forth between "Hello Sunshine", "Spring Fling", and "Peach Blossom."
Well that does it for me this week. Until next time...
Its another week & I feel rather satisfied with it. This is good after the set-back from last week.
I more or less made Sunday another "Sewing" Sunday, but it kinda works for me. At least for the time being. The main focus of this was to take of my hem mess up.
I had made new scalloped templates for the front & back of the skirt using the facing cut-out as the basis. Using these & my white marking pencil, I transferred my "follow me" line onto the proper fabric. With this completed I then proceeded to sew to the line. Needless to say it went a lot easier this time. One lesson learned from this is that contrary to what I may think from time to time, I do not always know better than the instruction directions. That and that shortcuts aren't really shortcuts. With the new bottom hem stitched up, I then began clipping the curves so the entire hem will lay flat. Naturally I made sure that there was no possiblity that I was going to clip the fabric above again.
According to the book the next part of the skirt was to hand stitch the hem facing to the skirt proper using a catch-stitch. But I took a small detour. I turned the skirt right-side out, and very carefully I stitched within the side seams to keep the facings from folding whichever way they wanted, especially for the Waist Facing since there is no catch-stitch to keep it in place.
Out of the detour I have been taking the skirt to hand-stitch during my breaks at work. I have been treating the serger-stitch that I used to finish off the top of the hem facing as a guide for my catch-stitch, so that it will be consistent. Currently about 1/4 of the skirt is left to be done. I'm hoping that it will be done in time for when I hit the town this weekend... well my version of hit the town.
Because I am able to do the hand-stitching at work I decided to begin tackling the Hawthorne top for this ensemble. The first part was to readjust Dolly since I have unfortunately gained weight since I last used her. Once this was completed I pulled out the Muslin top that I had begun the last time that I attempted to make this. Using the information from Chapter 4 "A Fantastic Fit" from The Colette Sewing Handbook, I attempted to adjust the muslin to better suit me. I did this for a couple of days. Then I came to the realization that a pattern that Colette determined is around an intermediate level, especially one that is a button front top, is not the best project to cut my teeth on pattern customization. So yet again this top is going to the side lines, but just for a little while. I will return again to this top once I've had some practice on pattern manipulations with a couple of simpler patterns. I'll probably bring it back around the time that I do an artist salon this summer.
So next time I'll be beginning on the Pastille Dress, which goes with the chapter that I just finished. I haven't locked into a name for this project just yet. I'm bouncing back and forth between "Hello Sunshine", "Spring Fling", and "Peach Blossom."
Well that does it for me this week. Until next time...
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