Frustrating sewing evening.
Apr. 11th, 2006 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
callistotoniOK, so I haven't updated for a week. My excuse is time constraints, and generally feeling off from the stupid gum surgery. On to the topic at hand:
I'm re-making and designing a standing ruff for my blue linen French dress. This time I'm working on a buckrum base with some boning. Not really a supportesse, because those are later and need to be attached to a high neck back. For the partlet I'm using some gold/light beige checked organza that I got from JIMR.
Gathering the partlet has been *way* more trouble than it needed to be. Tonight I struggled because I think my Viking straight needle just broke--the bobbin thread is all wonky, and I couldn't fix it. That took just as much time as you think. Now I'm considering ripping all the gathers out and re-doing it by hand.
I also haven't quite figured out how to put it all together. It's clear that I need to set the ruff down on the support by about 1/2 inch to support the ruff properly. So I'm deciding if I finish the support, partlet, and ruff all off separately and then tack them together, or do I combine the whole thing and finish it all as one.
I'm pretty sure that in period much reliance was placed on starch, servants, and an assumed indoor environment. But I've got to make this thing robust enough to stand up to outdoor SCA events, and I don't want to have to re-starch every time, so I'm willing to cheat. And I don't have any extant examples, other than pictorial evidence.
I'd be less grumpy if I hadn't spent so much time fussing with my machine. Luckily I also have a Bernina straight needle, so I'm still in business.
Off to a hot shower. Everything will be better in the morning. I believe, I believe...
I'm re-making and designing a standing ruff for my blue linen French dress. This time I'm working on a buckrum base with some boning. Not really a supportesse, because those are later and need to be attached to a high neck back. For the partlet I'm using some gold/light beige checked organza that I got from JIMR.
Gathering the partlet has been *way* more trouble than it needed to be. Tonight I struggled because I think my Viking straight needle just broke--the bobbin thread is all wonky, and I couldn't fix it. That took just as much time as you think. Now I'm considering ripping all the gathers out and re-doing it by hand.
I also haven't quite figured out how to put it all together. It's clear that I need to set the ruff down on the support by about 1/2 inch to support the ruff properly. So I'm deciding if I finish the support, partlet, and ruff all off separately and then tack them together, or do I combine the whole thing and finish it all as one.
I'm pretty sure that in period much reliance was placed on starch, servants, and an assumed indoor environment. But I've got to make this thing robust enough to stand up to outdoor SCA events, and I don't want to have to re-starch every time, so I'm willing to cheat. And I don't have any extant examples, other than pictorial evidence.
I'd be less grumpy if I hadn't spent so much time fussing with my machine. Luckily I also have a Bernina straight needle, so I'm still in business.
Off to a hot shower. Everything will be better in the morning. I believe, I believe...
