Sewing Progress
Dec. 28th, 2010 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isabelladangeloI've decided *gulp* to make a robe à la française in the 1770's style out of the green silk and use the red/green trim around the neckline and sleeve edges. Y'all have no idea how long it took me to decide between française and anglaise but I figured I'd suck it up and make a française no matter how much I think it will be difficult and terrifying. If nothing else, I do have the pink polonaise as a back up option.
So, the first thing I need to do is finish up working on my new stays to replace the now torn apart ugly stays. They are cut out (I have witnesses!) and I actually sewed the boning channels for the front today in hot pink thread...on the sewing machine. The new stays will be a lovely dark turquoise with hot pink silk binding. After the ugly stays, I needed something that I at least will think is pretty.
Tomorrow, I should be able to finish up the boning channels and then start the binding. I'm reusing the old boning ("modern whaleboning" as Dad calls it. Duct ties as most people call it) and burning the remains of the ugly stays along with a few other older projects that have outlived their usefulness....
So, the first thing I need to do is finish up working on my new stays to replace the now torn apart ugly stays. They are cut out (I have witnesses!) and I actually sewed the boning channels for the front today in hot pink thread...on the sewing machine. The new stays will be a lovely dark turquoise with hot pink silk binding. After the ugly stays, I needed something that I at least will think is pretty.
Tomorrow, I should be able to finish up the boning channels and then start the binding. I'm reusing the old boning ("modern whaleboning" as Dad calls it. Duct ties as most people call it) and burning the remains of the ugly stays along with a few other older projects that have outlived their usefulness....