In progress pics
Aug. 12th, 2018 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mala_14I have all the machine assembly done on the bodice, which is good because I am thiiiiiiis close to being out of white cotton thread. I need to go to the store tomorrow and pick some up as well as some straight pins that don't have plastic heads. I drafted this bodice to meet edge-to-edge and then use hooks and eyes for the closure, but I'm thinking that because the fabric is a bit stretchier (and I can do slightly smaller seam allowances at the front edge), I might end up pinning it closed. For those of you who have done 18th century, do you have any preference or advice?
I sewed the seams sort of like the jacket seams in Costume Close-Up, but with all the layers being sewn at once (lining layers right sides together and outer fabric right sides together) leaving about an inch open at either end. Then finishing those inch openings with just lining sewn together and just outer fabric sewn together. This allows me to have all the seam allowances enclosed, but also leaves the edges able to turn into each other. Most other methods seem to be based on hand-sewing techniques. There was no way I was hand-sewing this thing, so I jiggered it this way. I also did that cool thing where you sew the sleeve together, lining and outer fabric, all with one seam and then turn it and you magically end up with a lined sleeve with all the seam allowances encased. Did the same weird thing with leaving the hem edge open for an inch, etc. Some pictures of the front, the inside back, and the outside back:
I sewed the seams sort of like the jacket seams in Costume Close-Up, but with all the layers being sewn at once (lining layers right sides together and outer fabric right sides together) leaving about an inch open at either end. Then finishing those inch openings with just lining sewn together and just outer fabric sewn together. This allows me to have all the seam allowances enclosed, but also leaves the edges able to turn into each other. Most other methods seem to be based on hand-sewing techniques. There was no way I was hand-sewing this thing, so I jiggered it this way. I also did that cool thing where you sew the sleeve together, lining and outer fabric, all with one seam and then turn it and you magically end up with a lined sleeve with all the seam allowances encased. Did the same weird thing with leaving the hem edge open for an inch, etc. Some pictures of the front, the inside back, and the outside back:
