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Aug. 11th, 2004 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
steelweaverI guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. I wasn't happy with how the cotton muslin came out after its dye job. It looked like there was a small percentage of poly in there after all, it ended up with tiny white flecks all over the thing where it didn't take the dye.
So I went to the fabric market with my mother on Monday, and I came home with not the 3/3.5 meters of purple cotton I needed but with three meters of purple cotton, four of 80/20 linen/cotton, two of red/cream paisley stretch denim and two of a beigish mystery fabric with a 3d-ish herringbone print. Mind you, I did end up spending no more than 2 euro on the fabric I really needed (end of roll and he rounded off the total) but I did buy more than I was going to use right away. Just when I was making inroads on the fabric pile.
My neighbour kindly donated a little over three metres of poly/cotton velours and I was just about to cut into that for my split skirt (see http://www.lafnmoon.com/cowgirl.htm view A for the pattern) when I realised I just wasn't happy with my outfit for Xander's brother's wedding. I made some wrap pants, but as I said, my fabric for the entari wasn't up to spec and at first I decided to wear something I already had. But, being me, it irked me that I was letting a perfectly good occasion to dress up go by. So here I am working on entari 2.0 out of a deep purple slightly stretchy cotton.
I'm finding out that the pattern (Folkwear #108) has a few small mistakes in the sleeves. I've already had to narrow them slightly to get everything out of my fabric, but as it turns out, the corners of the edges that will be sewn together are not 90 degree angles, and that makes things even more 'interesting'. I didn't think of that when I cut the sleeve out (hey, they're supposed to do that part of the thinking) so I ended up narrowing my sleeves even more at the ends to get the right angle. They're pretty big sleeves though, so it won't look bad, but it is annoying.
I've sewn up the sleeves now and bound the edges with satin bias tape. And I spent a few hours in front of the TV (BBC daytime tv is pretty good) hand basting all the darts so they wouldn't shift under the sewing machine. I'm not too fond of darts, since they are somewhat complicated to transfer from the pattern to the fabric and require hand basting. I'm debating whether to use the nine buttons they say I will need for this. It's only a small part that will be closed and feel nine buttons may be a bit over the top. I also don't fancy having to sew all of those on.
I hope to get this finished by the end of the day. Upcoming projects include the split skirt and a shitload of chemises (underdresses) to use up the large amounts of thin cotton and linen I have. I've become very interested in historical stuff, undergarments in particular, so there may be a corset and a hoop skirt in my future. I might make a jacket from my paisley denim as well. I'm debating whether to line it or not, the 'wrong' site is also very pretty and it would be cool to have long, slightly belled sleeves where I can turn the cuff back and show the other side of the fabric. But with a red fleece or flannel lining it would be winterproof...hmm, decisions, decisions...
So I went to the fabric market with my mother on Monday, and I came home with not the 3/3.5 meters of purple cotton I needed but with three meters of purple cotton, four of 80/20 linen/cotton, two of red/cream paisley stretch denim and two of a beigish mystery fabric with a 3d-ish herringbone print. Mind you, I did end up spending no more than 2 euro on the fabric I really needed (end of roll and he rounded off the total) but I did buy more than I was going to use right away. Just when I was making inroads on the fabric pile.
My neighbour kindly donated a little over three metres of poly/cotton velours and I was just about to cut into that for my split skirt (see http://www.lafnmoon.com/cowgirl.htm view A for the pattern) when I realised I just wasn't happy with my outfit for Xander's brother's wedding. I made some wrap pants, but as I said, my fabric for the entari wasn't up to spec and at first I decided to wear something I already had. But, being me, it irked me that I was letting a perfectly good occasion to dress up go by. So here I am working on entari 2.0 out of a deep purple slightly stretchy cotton.
I'm finding out that the pattern (Folkwear #108) has a few small mistakes in the sleeves. I've already had to narrow them slightly to get everything out of my fabric, but as it turns out, the corners of the edges that will be sewn together are not 90 degree angles, and that makes things even more 'interesting'. I didn't think of that when I cut the sleeve out (hey, they're supposed to do that part of the thinking) so I ended up narrowing my sleeves even more at the ends to get the right angle. They're pretty big sleeves though, so it won't look bad, but it is annoying.
I've sewn up the sleeves now and bound the edges with satin bias tape. And I spent a few hours in front of the TV (BBC daytime tv is pretty good) hand basting all the darts so they wouldn't shift under the sewing machine. I'm not too fond of darts, since they are somewhat complicated to transfer from the pattern to the fabric and require hand basting. I'm debating whether to use the nine buttons they say I will need for this. It's only a small part that will be closed and feel nine buttons may be a bit over the top. I also don't fancy having to sew all of those on.
I hope to get this finished by the end of the day. Upcoming projects include the split skirt and a shitload of chemises (underdresses) to use up the large amounts of thin cotton and linen I have. I've become very interested in historical stuff, undergarments in particular, so there may be a corset and a hoop skirt in my future. I might make a jacket from my paisley denim as well. I'm debating whether to line it or not, the 'wrong' site is also very pretty and it would be cool to have long, slightly belled sleeves where I can turn the cuff back and show the other side of the fabric. But with a red fleece or flannel lining it would be winterproof...hmm, decisions, decisions...
