Friday's child is semi full of fail
Jul. 18th, 2009 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melaniesuzanne(Huh, yeah... the intarwebs say I was born on a Friday; all this time I've thought it was a Monday.)
Anyway, I wound up being super busy with work yesterday. Thank goodness I was at home or it would have been another shattering day. I seriously need some vacation time. Obviously, there was no illicit garment finishing while on the clock. Once I was off the clock, however, I got to work on drafting a cioppa (another style of Italian overdress) pattern and building a cioppa out of the oh-so-stretchy fuschia gabardine. The bodice pattern sort of worked, but when I used the wool, the stretch of the gab plus the stretch of the bias cut caused all sorts of ugliness. When I get another chance to try making this garment, I'm going to use the same v-neck method Cynthia Virtue recommends for houppelandes. It certainly worked on my purple houppe; we'll see if cutting an on-grain line and then pulling the shoulders apart from each other give a better looking v-neck. And then we'll see if I can keep those shoulders pulled apart rather than trying to snap back towards my neck. Thankfully, I have enough fuschia gab to make a new bodice. We'll see if I have the endurance left in me to make the dress.
In not-fail news, I have striped the major seams of the pavilion roof and am halfway through painting the seam near the top of the roof. Tomorrow, I'll finish that seam and paint the seam along the top of the valance and then I'm done painting the pavilion for this year. I hope it looks as good in one whole piece as it has looked as individual parts on my sewing table. Tonight, I started the handwork on the yellow gamurra. Still have the hem and eyelets to go. I managed to finish the hems of all my breeches (by machine, guh) and sewed the bedskirt panels which needed extra length.
To do: finish the stack of gamurra sleeves (ugh), build a couple of cuffia (coifs), sew another giornea or two (at least those are easy and can be mostly machine-sewn) and... is that it? Yeah, I guess that's it. Oh, and then pack for Pennsic. This time next week, Hubbyfink and I'll be sawing those proverbial logs in our pavilion.
Anyway, I wound up being super busy with work yesterday. Thank goodness I was at home or it would have been another shattering day. I seriously need some vacation time. Obviously, there was no illicit garment finishing while on the clock. Once I was off the clock, however, I got to work on drafting a cioppa (another style of Italian overdress) pattern and building a cioppa out of the oh-so-stretchy fuschia gabardine. The bodice pattern sort of worked, but when I used the wool, the stretch of the gab plus the stretch of the bias cut caused all sorts of ugliness. When I get another chance to try making this garment, I'm going to use the same v-neck method Cynthia Virtue recommends for houppelandes. It certainly worked on my purple houppe; we'll see if cutting an on-grain line and then pulling the shoulders apart from each other give a better looking v-neck. And then we'll see if I can keep those shoulders pulled apart rather than trying to snap back towards my neck. Thankfully, I have enough fuschia gab to make a new bodice. We'll see if I have the endurance left in me to make the dress.
In not-fail news, I have striped the major seams of the pavilion roof and am halfway through painting the seam near the top of the roof. Tomorrow, I'll finish that seam and paint the seam along the top of the valance and then I'm done painting the pavilion for this year. I hope it looks as good in one whole piece as it has looked as individual parts on my sewing table. Tonight, I started the handwork on the yellow gamurra. Still have the hem and eyelets to go. I managed to finish the hems of all my breeches (by machine, guh) and sewed the bedskirt panels which needed extra length.
To do: finish the stack of gamurra sleeves (ugh), build a couple of cuffia (coifs), sew another giornea or two (at least those are easy and can be mostly machine-sewn) and... is that it? Yeah, I guess that's it. Oh, and then pack for Pennsic. This time next week, Hubbyfink and I'll be sawing those proverbial logs in our pavilion.
