I hates me some eyelets

[isabelladangelo]

Yes, the dress is still not completely done. It will be done tomorrow before I leave to go to 12th night. I will be there by noonish, I hope. I just really really hate eyelets...and I have no idea as to why. Applique on a couple of dozen [insert heraldic symbol here]? Not a problem. Embroider the cape for the dog? Sure! Hand sew the inside of a bunch of different gowns? Lovin' it. Sew just 10 eyelets? I will so run away screaming in pain. The gold dress is so getting lacing rings. I'm doing an Italian dress. They had lacing rings. I refuse to even think of eyelets. Ignore that I just did 12 on the black velvet dress and it somehow took well over two hours.

Cut and sew on a couple of pairs of red satin wings? Ten minutes. Hand stitch the neckline? 8, maybe. But 12 eyelets? Agh! The torture! I must make myself sew so incredibly painfully slowly to drag out the misery known as eyelets for no known reason. It's like chewing broccoli. You hate the taste so much but you keep chewing the horrible little acidic tree for what seems like forever until you finally are able to gulp it down. You don't mean to prolong the misery. It just happens that way.


...I'm going to go sleep now and hopefully not have nightmares about eyelets needing to be sewn....

Comments

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

You could insert metal grommets, and handsew them with a fabric-matching thread later on?

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

I did try that once. But then I realized I am a very lazy creature that loves to procrastinate and, because the metal grommets made it "done enough to wear", the eyelets never got finished. :-)

[estela-dufrayse.livejournal.com]

If you did sew 12 eyelets in a little over 2 hours, thats only a little over 10minutes per...not too bad. Sometimes it takes me around 15, if I am distracted, or not using wool.

That's the ticket eh. Some fabrics are better at acceptingeyelets than others, if you've been using brocade, it's a bitch!

Have fun at 12th Night, please have someone take some pictures of your new dress!

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

I don't think I got any full length pictures of me in my dress. Sorry! I will post pictures later today of the dress itself.

This was one velveteen backed to cotton muslin so it wasn't bad. Acetate brocade is the very worst. I think the problem with me is I know I can do an eyelet in 2 minutes if I'm totally not distracted and I'm really trying to get it done. The first four I got done in under 10 minutes. After that it slowed a lot because I was "sewing" and "singing" with the radio; turned that off and watched the TV, petted the dog...you get the idea. In between all of this was actual stitches being put in place. But I'm really really easy to distract. ;-)