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I blame the fact that I added youtube to my social media channels for not remembering to keep up with posting here enough.
Because the thing is, I have been sewing. Quite a fair amount, in fact, because it feels good to keep myself busy with productive things. I finished the corset sometime last weekend. I wound up not ordering enough boning ( ( Read more... ) -
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Umm, hi! It's been a month. I caught up on the last two weeks of posts, since that's all I can view, but I think visiting dreamwidth just sort of fell out of my mind, with so much weirdness going on. Especially since, with working at home, I think I actually take less distractions than I do when I'm in the office (reading/posting here being one of ( Read more... ) -
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I started working from home as of yesterday. And yet, both my workdays so far have been sooo absolutely busy and slammed with stuff that I haven't even been able to finish everything each day. Thank goodness I'm not also answering phones while handling everything else (my boss let the other admin person go last week since she was a temp, so I'm ( Read more... ) -
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Wow, for once I actually did the sewing that I planned to do!
So yes, I managed to gather/attach the lace to the middle row of pleats, plus do the velvet ribbon on that row and on the overskirt. In other words, other than the overskirt hooks and bars, the Tissot dress is done! Here's a pic.
Tonight, I'm making a birthday present for my friend, and I ( Read more... ) -
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I haven't done much sewing since my last post nearly a week ago, because I just haven't felt like it. They cancelled VicFest, and once they closed all the restaurants in the state, my friends and I decided not to go up there at all. I'm also still one of those weird people commuting to work, though my commute takes about half the time that it did a ( Read more... ) -
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Last night, I managed to dye my hair, gather and attach the lace for the overskirt, and sew the backs and sides of my velvet evening bodice mockup (aka, hopefully my flatlining pieces) together, but that was it ( Read more... ) -
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I didn't really do what I planned at all yesterday. Instead, I gathered up a bunch of the vintage lace, and attached that and the wide velvet ribbon over the tops of the bottom row of pleats. Then I marked the pleats placement for the overskirt, serged the top edge of that (so that I can potentially cover it with the narrow velvet ribbon) and sewed ( Read more... ) -
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Sooo, yeah... I definitely did not finish the Tissot bustle over the weekend. And it's still not done. In fact, it feels like it's moving soooo slowly. Over the weekend, I managed to pleat the 7 or so widths of fabric that make up the skirt hem pleats. I hemmed it all, ran it through the ruffler foot, and then painstakingly had to press all the ( Read more... ) -
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The bodice is complete! I sewed on the two hooks and bars and the last button yesterday, fixed the trim on the sleeve, and tacked down the ends of the trim around the neckline ( Read more... ) -
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And once again, I was thwarted in my sewing plans. Though to be fair to the Tissot dress, it was not for that project ( Read more... )