2020 Plans
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totchipandaPosting something like this on Instagram was FAR too overwhelming, but maybe on here it won't be so bad.
I said to some people on Saturday that I was ready to start sewing again. I started to make a list of WHAT to sew and quickly got overwhelmed. Then, yesterday, I pulled out the English gown I started at the end of 2018 and finally worked on it. Enough that the hem is reset and sewn down, the waist ties finished off, and the dress got its front hems, then its actual hem. My official resolution for 2020 sewing is taking more care in HOW I sew. I had already been thinking about it, vaguely, but I was like fine, I'll try basting up a hem before sewing it. And I'm a convert. I eyeballed the hem instead of meticulously pinning it up and pressing it. I used REALLY BIG basting stitches. Then I just rolled it up and stitched it down. The basting meant the fabric didn't shift, it stayed better, and it was so much easier to make "fine neat" stitches.
Now I am heading into Sleeve Island. Not only am I trying to fix my swallowtail jacket sleeve pattern without recutting the sleeves I made 5 years ago (b/c I don't have enough fabric leftover to cut one-piece sleeves), but i'm about to do sleeves on the English gown. I think I'd like to do long-ish sleeves, like the ones in AD's Italian gown pattern, since I am basically following that guide only with an English gown. And that sleeve looks an awful lot like the jacket sleeve, which in turn looks an awful lot like the riding habit sleeve if it were a one-piece sleeve.
Other Sleeve Islands: two WIP sweaters. Whyyyyy. Why sleeves, why. Sleeves no longer looks like a word.
Usually once a year or so I like to make a big ol' list of my ambitious plans, sorted by era.
18th Century
Regency
Early Victorian
Mid-Victorian
Modern (or quasi-modern)
I said to some people on Saturday that I was ready to start sewing again. I started to make a list of WHAT to sew and quickly got overwhelmed. Then, yesterday, I pulled out the English gown I started at the end of 2018 and finally worked on it. Enough that the hem is reset and sewn down, the waist ties finished off, and the dress got its front hems, then its actual hem. My official resolution for 2020 sewing is taking more care in HOW I sew. I had already been thinking about it, vaguely, but I was like fine, I'll try basting up a hem before sewing it. And I'm a convert. I eyeballed the hem instead of meticulously pinning it up and pressing it. I used REALLY BIG basting stitches. Then I just rolled it up and stitched it down. The basting meant the fabric didn't shift, it stayed better, and it was so much easier to make "fine neat" stitches.
Now I am heading into Sleeve Island. Not only am I trying to fix my swallowtail jacket sleeve pattern without recutting the sleeves I made 5 years ago (b/c I don't have enough fabric leftover to cut one-piece sleeves), but i'm about to do sleeves on the English gown. I think I'd like to do long-ish sleeves, like the ones in AD's Italian gown pattern, since I am basically following that guide only with an English gown. And that sleeve looks an awful lot like the jacket sleeve, which in turn looks an awful lot like the riding habit sleeve if it were a one-piece sleeve.
Other Sleeve Islands: two WIP sweaters. Whyyyyy. Why sleeves, why. Sleeves no longer looks like a word.
Usually once a year or so I like to make a big ol' list of my ambitious plans, sorted by era.
18th Century
- Short sacque and petticoat
- Green sacque
- Wool stays
- Italian gown
- Finish swallowtail jacket
- Narrow quilted petticoat
- Chemise a la reine
- So many accessories. Done "properly". No machine cheats this time.
Regency
- Red wrap dress
- Orange vest
- New short stays?
Early Victorian
- Fix up yellow and pink dress
- Sleeve plumpers
- Thing 2 (bonnet, maybe covered in purple because that sounds fun)
Mid-Victorian
- New corset
- New bustle (but not too oomphy, I want to do more Natural Form stuff)
- Petticoat
- SO MANY GOWNS I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START
- OK I lied, the Watteau back gown has been on my back-back-back burner for a good 3 years
- Trim out my tea gown
- And in keeping with the official goal, spend time doing the stuff like trim, seam finishes, etc.
Modern (or quasi-modern)
- Explore style
- Trousers that fit
- Fit in general. Coming for you, souffle-chest.
- Work-appropriate stuff
- Especially for summer
- The Theme - take more care
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Date: 2020-01-03 10:18 pm (UTC)