Project Blah-g (alteration-foo)

[threadwalker]

It worked. Yay! Operation "alter silk bodice" was a success

I refit the creamy bodice that no one will see. Crazy, but there it is.

I cut out the lacing holes, rebound the edges, and put on rings.

The shoulders never did anything wonky because I never got around to putting them in because I self-draped (this project is one of those unplanned "Must do it now" projects, so that's the direction I took at the time). So my shoulder straps (what to call the bit between the top of the neck and the front of the neck? hmmm) will be separately made and whipped in. Which made this alteration INCREDIBLY easy because I just repinned my mock up shoulders and nothing got distorted.

And then I machine constructed the skirt. I'm whapping myself on the nose to keep from hand finishing the seams on the skirt since (once again, I remind myself) no one will see anything but the slice of the front.

yay.

Comments

[callistotoni.livejournal.com]

Go you!

I'd like to see how you sewed in the rings. I've never used them before. But I've got a bunch of bodice/skirt combo's in my to-do pile for tourney wear and undergarments and the thought of doing eyelets on *all* of them is daunting to my time-crunched self. :-/

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

err... (blushingi) I do it by machine.

I mark the fabric, hold the ring in place w/ finger and machine foot, and then do a 0-length stitch w/ appropriate zig-zag. I slide the fabric up to the next ring w/o cutting threads. When I'm done I cut the threads on the top-side of the fabric (the "between ring" threads that look like large jumps) and leave the lining-side alone.

It's very "anti-handwork" and I feel so dirty when I do it(!!!)... but it gets the job done fast and it holds very well if you do enough stitches and you don't cut that lining side thread since that helps anchor the threads.

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

Can you teach people how to do this? I mean, those of us who can't figure out how to transfer what you said to our own sewing machines. :-> :->

[catagon3.livejournal.com]

Gah, put reply in the wrong place. See my comment on the original post, falzalot.

[catagon3.livejournal.com]

I can show you what she's doing this evening if you have it set up.

I, who would never in a million years consider hand finishing the inside of an underskirt, do my rings by hand. :P

Yay for forging away on the projects!

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

I could set up the sewing machine, but I don't have any rings, so I'm not sure how much good that will do. :->