A happy Monday for a change!

[mlsdesigns]

(And it's not just because Monday is Gleeday!) I had a nicely productive day at work, kept busy all day wit real sewing, not just tidying! I'm remaking another hideous '80s ballgown into a dress for Mabel from An Ideal husband, I had a fitting of the bodice lining and I've been putting the skirt together from gores cut from the ballgown skirt and some fabric I bought, the ballgown is a buttercup yellow moire something, and I found a yellowy cream moire polyester that goes nicely with it, so the skirt is alternate colours and the bodice will be the cream with the original yellow sleeves and a yellow frill around a yoke line. Hopefully it'll look nice when I'm done, and hopefully I'll get some pictures too :)
During my lunch break I finished sewing the petticoat to the waist tapes and sewed up the second sleeve and hemmed it. Then this evening I patterned and cut out the sleeve flounces - 3 per sleeve, with pinked scallops (boy did that take forever and hurt my hands! not looking forward to the yards of ruching I have to cut!) and they will have braid sewn in a curving zigzag to reflect the shape of the scallops. So that's my job for tomorrow's lunch break, sleeve flounces :)
Tomorrow evening I want to get onto the decoration, I think I'll start with the frill on the petticoat, then I'll do the curvy flounces for the skirts, these 2 are the bits I really don't want to skimp on, then Ill cut all the ruches from what I have left, keep your fingers crossed that I have enough :(