today’s pick me up. i wouldn’t mind feeling blue if i could look like this 😆
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glamour challenge: embroidery
so my “craft add” hit today and instead of working on more of the pattern, i started designing the fabric. (how can i make the pattern until i know what the fabric is like? :lol:) i haven’t figured out how to put pictures from my screen up on flickr, so nothing to show here for all my work today. i’ve got a couple of embroidery patterns made to test out and hopefully one of them will fit the picture in my mind. i’m planning to embroider thin silk hankies over the silk and then cut out the bodice pieces from the resulting sandwich, we’ll see how it goes.
glamor challenge: starting to fit
the challenge is now officially started, so today we started sewing. ember is going to be the model for this challenge, since she will be representing meldilorn manor at a charity ball at the end of the month. chloe usually dresses in a casual style, but for this event she needs a very formal dress.
the first fitting shows lots of changes are needed to the original draft.
the second fit looks much better but still needs some adjustment. also the top is not working out as we had hoped in this stiff fabric so a reworking of the design is called for. the black shows where the pattern will be split.
a miscalculation in cutting off the side back will be an easy fix. the fit is good. those little wrinkles should disappear when the seams are clipped.
we had to make a small adjustment at the top to snug it up but overall it looks good. chloe now wants a shorter dress from the pattern as well, but she’ll have to wait till the formal one is finished 🙂