Angelica~ E-LIIIII-za!
Aug. 15th, 2022 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaAKA: the refrain that runs through my head constantly since I got this pattern lol.
Suit is very temporarily on hold as I wait for the tailoring book to arrive (due tomorrow). I decided to get it new from a local chain rather than used, because by the time I factored in shipping and exchange rates, the price difference was a couple of (Canadian) dollars. I totally could have assembled the pattern and cut a mock-up already, and I plan to make at least one version before tackling the wool to make sure of fit but... New projects are more fun! Right?
Speaking of books: HumbleBundle has the book I JUST ordered and several others available as a collection, for less than I paid for a physical copy. A physical copy will be more useful to me and I didn't pay for it out of my own pocket (besides splitting $7.57 across three books, anyway), but there's a few others in the pack I'm interested in. I'm considering it.
Anyway, I tried on the Angelica mock-up again, this time WHILE wearing all the bits, and I take back what I said about the back waist. Yes, it's loose, because it needs room to go over all of the badonkadonk! I can put a waist tie in later if needed. I made a couple small changes (added width to the side waist, and widened the side panel at the back; moved the front armhole forward half an inch; shortened the strap, which I'm not sure was precisely needed, or at least not the way I did it) and moved right on to the good fabric.
Y'all. It hurt a little. It's one of my coveted pieces, Wavy Floral, very much not easily replaceable, purchased via a local friend when she was doing an internship at CW at a staff discount. I've been saving it for just such a project since 2017! And even though it hurt a little bit, I dove right in and cut all my pieces. I had enough to cut the fronts in separate panels (to make sure I got a very full skirt) and fussy-cut the bodices pieces, PLUS the one-piece sleeves that were included in the pattern (which I have not cut yet because I will fit those later). PHEW. And then I started stitching, because why work on one project when you can work on 18?
Currently I have the backs 3/4 done. Starting to think I maybe should have cut the fronts sliiiightly bigger because I forgot how those delicious back seams are just ever so slightly more than a given seam allowance. Or I should have made them slightly smaller to allow for that. Alas! They look soooooo good though. And as I said to my discord group, that's what the fitting is for, right? XD
Suit is very temporarily on hold as I wait for the tailoring book to arrive (due tomorrow). I decided to get it new from a local chain rather than used, because by the time I factored in shipping and exchange rates, the price difference was a couple of (Canadian) dollars. I totally could have assembled the pattern and cut a mock-up already, and I plan to make at least one version before tackling the wool to make sure of fit but... New projects are more fun! Right?
Speaking of books: HumbleBundle has the book I JUST ordered and several others available as a collection, for less than I paid for a physical copy. A physical copy will be more useful to me and I didn't pay for it out of my own pocket (besides splitting $7.57 across three books, anyway), but there's a few others in the pack I'm interested in. I'm considering it.
Anyway, I tried on the Angelica mock-up again, this time WHILE wearing all the bits, and I take back what I said about the back waist. Yes, it's loose, because it needs room to go over all of the badonkadonk! I can put a waist tie in later if needed. I made a couple small changes (added width to the side waist, and widened the side panel at the back; moved the front armhole forward half an inch; shortened the strap, which I'm not sure was precisely needed, or at least not the way I did it) and moved right on to the good fabric.
Y'all. It hurt a little. It's one of my coveted pieces, Wavy Floral, very much not easily replaceable, purchased via a local friend when she was doing an internship at CW at a staff discount. I've been saving it for just such a project since 2017! And even though it hurt a little bit, I dove right in and cut all my pieces. I had enough to cut the fronts in separate panels (to make sure I got a very full skirt) and fussy-cut the bodices pieces, PLUS the one-piece sleeves that were included in the pattern (which I have not cut yet because I will fit those later). PHEW. And then I started stitching, because why work on one project when you can work on 18?
Currently I have the backs 3/4 done. Starting to think I maybe should have cut the fronts sliiiightly bigger because I forgot how those delicious back seams are just ever so slightly more than a given seam allowance. Or I should have made them slightly smaller to allow for that. Alas! They look soooooo good though. And as I said to my discord group, that's what the fitting is for, right? XD
