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

[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.