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Today I hand-sewed the bodice seams with waxed linen thread.
I have a big old chunk of beeswax I bought at the farmer's market, that I use for embroidery-- waxing the ends of the thread makes it way easier to thread multiple plies of floss through fine needles. I carry this thing with me like everywhere I go.
Of course I can't find it.
...
Fortunately, I bought some beeswax candles at the same time, and haven't burned them yet. So I'm sitting here with a little votive candle rubbing thread on the bottom. If it's not worth doing like a spaz, it's not worth doing at all, should be my life motto. I might get that tattooed across my gut, like where rappers get THUG LIFE tattooed, because my gut is that much bigger, so I can fit the whole motto in Gothic script.
Or I'll do it in ogham down my leg. Because that would be bad ass.
Anyway.
Got the bodice sewn together, racing like a fool to finish it before I had to go shovel the driveway so I could leave for practice. Then I safety-pinned that sucka on to check the fit. It was a tense moment; I'd checked it against the pattern once I had the panels sewn, and it had seemed to me like maybe, maybe it was a bit big, but I wasn't sure. So I just sewed it straight on. If it was too big I'd be out a few hours' sewing, but I could pick it out and start over and make it smaller pretty easily.
It fits!!! Incredibly, despite having been slightly too big when I started, it's somehow slightly small now-- but not so small I can't get it on and tightened down. I just have to.... make all the eyelets now, sew up the front seam, and finish hand-sewing the upper skirt area which has lots of bits left loose where I was in a hurry to check the fit of the bodice.
The real moment of truth, of course, will be seeing if it really truly supports me. But it fits properly, so if it doesn't really support me then it's the fault of the materials, and I'll just have to add another layer of interlining in the bust area.
This means that I need to get me some more materials to make another one in wool, of course. ;)
I'm so excited, I may stay up obscenely late binding eyelets...
I have a big old chunk of beeswax I bought at the farmer's market, that I use for embroidery-- waxing the ends of the thread makes it way easier to thread multiple plies of floss through fine needles. I carry this thing with me like everywhere I go.
Of course I can't find it.
...
Fortunately, I bought some beeswax candles at the same time, and haven't burned them yet. So I'm sitting here with a little votive candle rubbing thread on the bottom. If it's not worth doing like a spaz, it's not worth doing at all, should be my life motto. I might get that tattooed across my gut, like where rappers get THUG LIFE tattooed, because my gut is that much bigger, so I can fit the whole motto in Gothic script.
Or I'll do it in ogham down my leg. Because that would be bad ass.
Anyway.
Got the bodice sewn together, racing like a fool to finish it before I had to go shovel the driveway so I could leave for practice. Then I safety-pinned that sucka on to check the fit. It was a tense moment; I'd checked it against the pattern once I had the panels sewn, and it had seemed to me like maybe, maybe it was a bit big, but I wasn't sure. So I just sewed it straight on. If it was too big I'd be out a few hours' sewing, but I could pick it out and start over and make it smaller pretty easily.
It fits!!! Incredibly, despite having been slightly too big when I started, it's somehow slightly small now-- but not so small I can't get it on and tightened down. I just have to.... make all the eyelets now, sew up the front seam, and finish hand-sewing the upper skirt area which has lots of bits left loose where I was in a hurry to check the fit of the bodice.
The real moment of truth, of course, will be seeing if it really truly supports me. But it fits properly, so if it doesn't really support me then it's the fault of the materials, and I'll just have to add another layer of interlining in the bust area.
This means that I need to get me some more materials to make another one in wool, of course. ;)
I'm so excited, I may stay up obscenely late binding eyelets...
