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Feb. 10th, 2023 08:48 amM requested a pot of chili for dinner, so I swung by the grocery store after work for meat, cornbread mix, and a couple of other things and somehow ended up spending $35 on six items. Yeesh. The chili turned out much better this time - less liquid, more salt! I used five pounds of hamburger to make it, so we'll be having chili for days.
Feeling much improved since I started meds for my colon. The bloating has gone down significantly (for a couple of days I looked like I was a couple of months from giving birth) and the discomfort is passing. Yay for drugs.
The grosgrain fabric was waiting for me when I got home from work! It was neat to see the hand-written invoice in Greek. The fabric is interesting - sort of papery, very stiff like organdy, frays like the dickens, creases fairly easily. I did a burn test and it's acetate and not polyester, which was a pleasant surprise. I'm going to have to cut it carefully along the ribbing to minimize fraying, and serge every cut edge. I wonder if silk grosgrain fabric would behave differently, because this is going to be a pain to work with. I can see the stiffness being a plus for a petticoat, but I can understand why some magazines mentioned that some people didn't like grosgrain petticoats, especially with the creasing.
Been doing research on wrappers trying to figure out a pattern that will work with the pashminas. I don't really want to buy a pattern for a wrapper, so I dug through De Gracieuse to see if i could find one. The only one from the crinoline era was an 1866 fitted wrapper with lapels, which wasn't really what I was looking for. Harrumph. Next step will be draping to see if I can get a pattern I like, but I'll hold off on that until I have all my undies done.
Feeling well enough again that I can return to sewing tonight, hooray! I am pretty sure I can finish up the petticoat tonight and have the tutorial posted in the next couple of days. Hooray for content! Then I can start on the grosgrain petticoat, which I can maybe finish this weekend.
Speaking of undies, I've been lax about working on the 1872 corset, which needs finishing. Next week, I'll focus on getting the last gusset's embroidery wrapped up so I can assemble everything and finish up. There's a three-day weekend coming up, which would be the perfect opportunity to get it done. I'll try and get a mockup done over the next week so I can see if I need to alter my current body pieces, and if I get that done early enough, I should be able to get a new order of coutil in by the weekend. Hell, I might just order the coutil anyway because I still have a couple of corsets planned that will need it if I don't use it for this. (ETA: I did order a yard of coutil.)
Then I can actually start on a dress skirt! Actual clothing! Not another infernal undergarment! I stopped by the storage unit on the way home last night and picked up the red/blue/black plaid taffeta I want to use, as well as a bolt of mystery brocade to make this. I've had the fabric in my stash forever and it's so incredibly close to the dress fabric that it was meant to be.
Feeling much improved since I started meds for my colon. The bloating has gone down significantly (for a couple of days I looked like I was a couple of months from giving birth) and the discomfort is passing. Yay for drugs.
The grosgrain fabric was waiting for me when I got home from work! It was neat to see the hand-written invoice in Greek. The fabric is interesting - sort of papery, very stiff like organdy, frays like the dickens, creases fairly easily. I did a burn test and it's acetate and not polyester, which was a pleasant surprise. I'm going to have to cut it carefully along the ribbing to minimize fraying, and serge every cut edge. I wonder if silk grosgrain fabric would behave differently, because this is going to be a pain to work with. I can see the stiffness being a plus for a petticoat, but I can understand why some magazines mentioned that some people didn't like grosgrain petticoats, especially with the creasing.
Been doing research on wrappers trying to figure out a pattern that will work with the pashminas. I don't really want to buy a pattern for a wrapper, so I dug through De Gracieuse to see if i could find one. The only one from the crinoline era was an 1866 fitted wrapper with lapels, which wasn't really what I was looking for. Harrumph. Next step will be draping to see if I can get a pattern I like, but I'll hold off on that until I have all my undies done.
Feeling well enough again that I can return to sewing tonight, hooray! I am pretty sure I can finish up the petticoat tonight and have the tutorial posted in the next couple of days. Hooray for content! Then I can start on the grosgrain petticoat, which I can maybe finish this weekend.
Speaking of undies, I've been lax about working on the 1872 corset, which needs finishing. Next week, I'll focus on getting the last gusset's embroidery wrapped up so I can assemble everything and finish up. There's a three-day weekend coming up, which would be the perfect opportunity to get it done. I'll try and get a mockup done over the next week so I can see if I need to alter my current body pieces, and if I get that done early enough, I should be able to get a new order of coutil in by the weekend. Hell, I might just order the coutil anyway because I still have a couple of corsets planned that will need it if I don't use it for this. (ETA: I did order a yard of coutil.)
Then I can actually start on a dress skirt! Actual clothing! Not another infernal undergarment! I stopped by the storage unit on the way home last night and picked up the red/blue/black plaid taffeta I want to use, as well as a bolt of mystery brocade to make this. I've had the fabric in my stash forever and it's so incredibly close to the dress fabric that it was meant to be.