gotta find my camera cable.

So I have bound all but two eyelets on the pink linen dress. I then need to do the hem, and it will be done. Except that I need a lacing cord for it, and also I bound two of the eyelets in green and want to go back and do a bit of embroidery at the neckline. Not very much, just maybe a line of decorative stitches. I don't know if it's period, but I can't see why it wouldn't be, so I'm going for it. Maybe. I'll save it until last.
But progress has halted for the moment. Yesterday was a frenzy of housecleaning, and the last two days all my sewing time has been spent on my outfit for tonight.
Tonight?
Tonight is a roller derby bout. I'm not skating in it. I'm setting up the track and will probably be helping with merch and running errands meanwhile. So I figured, why not dress up?
I had been looking up t-shirt surgery anyway, so I decided to try out a technique I read about. I have an old game jersey for an impromptu travel team, which isn't in a color I can really use anymore but has the league logo and my name and number on it. Also it is approximately six inches too wide, even for my fat titties. So I surgeried that up-- lots of slicing, some sewing, and I sewed on some shiny decorations and a bunch of lace. (Incidentally two of the shiny decorations wound up right where my nipples go, so it's extra-classy.)
I was going to put in panels behind where the shirt is now open, but decided to wear it over a corset instead. Fi was home at this point, so I got her OK on it-- it does look hot. So good. (I can never tell whether I look awesome or weird when I dress up, and no matter what it is, if it is anything out of the ordinary, Z will scrunch up his face and say I look weird. But Fi has some capacity for judgment, and proclaimed this a good effort.)
I'm combining it with the skirt I made for Halloween that has a pseudo-bustle on the back, because why not?
I added a bunch of lace to the skirt, gave it some more structural integrity, ruched the sides, and embroidered a large set of brass knuckles on the front. I am bummed, however-- Mom gave me a few skeins of metallic thread for Xmas, and the gold at least is very, very, very difficult to use. I had a spool of gold thread already which is nearly out, and it was hard to use, but this is worse-- it is scratchier, I guess, less even on the surface, which means yes it's more glittery, but it also means that the act of pulling the thread through the fabric begins to strip the gold off the thread and unravel it. So I have to use short threads and rethread the needle often-- which adds the complication that all metallic thread is virtually impossible to tie knots in. So the entire back of the embroidery is intermittent stitches of black thread to hold the gold thread in place.
I outlined some of the logo on the shirt in gold, but I used a laid-and-couched method instead-- just made really really long stitches of the gold, and went over it in black to hold it in place. That worked better-- I may have to use it exclusively with this glittery gold stuff, since it's too fragile and cantankerous to actually get through fabric.
Since I can't find my camera cable, here's a snapshot of the embroidery on the skirt, with my hand for scale.


Anyway-- I have a bit more to do on the costume, but not much. I want to do a few more tacking-down stitches to aid structural integrity, and I'd like to add a bit more lace on the front and ruching in the back. But it's not necessary, which is good because I'm running low on time and keep faffing around on the Internet instead of doing anything. Agh!