Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Side Tracked
You could already tell the ""help paint" guitar for my best friend" project was way more involved than I had anticipated, Ten days work! And the object 'd art is waiting to be spray varnished. One good sunny day and we'll take finished project photos. Hopefully that will be before said best friend arrives early next week.
We did manage to get the sewing room clean for about fifteen minutes.
Some members of my family are under the impression that this room is still a dining room. Haahaahaa. Every now and then I do let them eat meals on my cutting table. So maybe that is the reason for their confusion.
And now back to the sewing!! YEAH
Project: embellish "Miss Rosies" rather plain bar girl costume.
After de-constructing skirt , removing the torn sections and pressing, the skirt was taped to cutting table. I did this with blue painters tape so the fabric would not slide around while being measured and chalk marked for multiple rows of ribbon.
Then I used glue stick to hold the ribbon rows in place until they were sewn along both edges with matching embroidery thread. I like the glue stick better than pins, because pins just don't hold as well as the glue stick does and you can place all of the rows at the same time with the glue stick saving lots of time.
Whenever possible try to plan to add your embellishments when your item is still in its "flat" stage. You can always rip a ready made item back to this stage, if you have an item that you really like but it just needs that lil' something extra, but it is easier when flat.
After sewing the ribbon rows, I added rows of matching straight stitches for fill and then made the casings so the skirts "pull up" could be adjusted. I added pre-gathered black lace to the hem and then added the elastic to the waist casing to finish the skirt.
We got completely carried away on the corset. More is More. Right? We added lace, tulle, ribbon, beading, cording and handmade (by Bree) silk ribbon roses. Did I mention carried away... We forgot to take pictures of the process but here is the finished product minus the lace overlay.
The bustle is made of gathered tulle and more silk ribbon roses. It is tucked into the corsets lacing.
"Miss Rosie" lookin' good.
More later
We did manage to get the sewing room clean for about fifteen minutes.
Some members of my family are under the impression that this room is still a dining room. Haahaahaa. Every now and then I do let them eat meals on my cutting table. So maybe that is the reason for their confusion.
And now back to the sewing!! YEAH
Project: embellish "Miss Rosies" rather plain bar girl costume.
After de-constructing skirt , removing the torn sections and pressing, the skirt was taped to cutting table. I did this with blue painters tape so the fabric would not slide around while being measured and chalk marked for multiple rows of ribbon.
Then I used glue stick to hold the ribbon rows in place until they were sewn along both edges with matching embroidery thread. I like the glue stick better than pins, because pins just don't hold as well as the glue stick does and you can place all of the rows at the same time with the glue stick saving lots of time.
Whenever possible try to plan to add your embellishments when your item is still in its "flat" stage. You can always rip a ready made item back to this stage, if you have an item that you really like but it just needs that lil' something extra, but it is easier when flat.
After sewing the ribbon rows, I added rows of matching straight stitches for fill and then made the casings so the skirts "pull up" could be adjusted. I added pre-gathered black lace to the hem and then added the elastic to the waist casing to finish the skirt.
We got completely carried away on the corset. More is More. Right? We added lace, tulle, ribbon, beading, cording and handmade (by Bree) silk ribbon roses. Did I mention carried away... We forgot to take pictures of the process but here is the finished product minus the lace overlay.
The bustle is made of gathered tulle and more silk ribbon roses. It is tucked into the corsets lacing.
"Miss Rosie" lookin' good.
More later
