Unphotogenic progress is still progress
Jan. 20th, 2013 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mlsdesignsI wish I had some photos to share, but so far all I've got to show for the past few days is a nearly finished habit shirt and two nicely fitted mockups :( One is for the waistcoat for my Brunswick, the other a new lining for the 'jacket' of the Brunswick and to be a base for all my other gowns. I hate this kind of progress!! I know that now I don't have to do any more tedious fittings for dresses, I can just go straight to making up the lining and drape the pleats of a sack or an en fourreau gown, but at the moment it still feels like I've achieved nothing! Oh well, tomorrow is another day :)
Talking of tomorrow, I have big plans for my lunch break, (and my bus ride home!) I'm really hopeful I can finish my habit shirt. The collar is pinned in place, and then I have to gather the sleeve ends and add the cuffs. I think I can manage that, then all I have to do is decide what to make my ruffles from. I really wanted to use a very fine linen, but have completely failed to find any in the UK :( So my options are, the same linen as the shirt, which is pretty nice, but not terribly smart, or cotton lace (the embroidered net type that looks a bit like tamboured net) or, if I have enough, some silk/cotton mix (or Swiss muslin or something else that I use for Regency chemisettes and things) Any suggestions? (The ruffles will be detachable for laundering)
Just before we went to dance practice I cut out the linen lining for the Brunswick waistcoat from some scraps of pale blue linen, (stash busting again!) it's a lovely weight for lining, and the pieces are too small for anything else, in fact, they're so small I've had to piece the fronts :) I love having to piece things, it's so period correct :D I'm using a dark Claret coloured corded silk for the Brunswick, so the waistcoat will look quite funny with it's pale blue back :) And I may end up lining the Brunswick itself with some other equally unlikely colour ;)
Talking of tomorrow, I have big plans for my lunch break, (and my bus ride home!) I'm really hopeful I can finish my habit shirt. The collar is pinned in place, and then I have to gather the sleeve ends and add the cuffs. I think I can manage that, then all I have to do is decide what to make my ruffles from. I really wanted to use a very fine linen, but have completely failed to find any in the UK :( So my options are, the same linen as the shirt, which is pretty nice, but not terribly smart, or cotton lace (the embroidered net type that looks a bit like tamboured net) or, if I have enough, some silk/cotton mix (or Swiss muslin or something else that I use for Regency chemisettes and things) Any suggestions? (The ruffles will be detachable for laundering)
Just before we went to dance practice I cut out the linen lining for the Brunswick waistcoat from some scraps of pale blue linen, (stash busting again!) it's a lovely weight for lining, and the pieces are too small for anything else, in fact, they're so small I've had to piece the fronts :) I love having to piece things, it's so period correct :D I'm using a dark Claret coloured corded silk for the Brunswick, so the waistcoat will look quite funny with it's pale blue back :) And I may end up lining the Brunswick itself with some other equally unlikely colour ;)
