Heee, I'm good !
Feb. 19th, 2011 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_marthai finished the flowers and vines on the first panel of the skirt. I still have to cut the thread ends, and then figure out how dense I want the diamond pattern above them to be.
I was browsing the web for some quilted petticoat references, and was happily surprised to come accross this. You see, the intercrossing wave pattern I have chosen for the bottom of the petticoat I got from a mid-19th century quilted petticoat, so seeing a similar pattern on an 18th century one ? Awesome !
A few notes as I go :
- I'm working with one layer cotton lining, one layer polyester lining( not that there's much else available around here *rolls eyes*), one layer cotton-something satiny mix
- I pinned everything in place together using a LOT of quilting safety pins (I suppose they're called this way because you can buy them in bigger boxes than regular safety pins ? didn' tnotive any other difference)
- before pinning together, I transfered the desing to the lining by putting the lining fabric over the printed and drawn design and going over the lines in pencil. It doesn't rub off faster than I work, and it's barely visible once it's sewn. Plus, it's inside anyway.
- I'll make the skirt in two 1m40 wide panels. I'm working on each panel separately and plan to connect the design repats at the joint after the seaming is done. Should be fun. Especially since I tweaked the design so that it worked on my 1m50-wide lining only to discover afterwards my fashion fabric was only 1m40 wide.
Holy cow, working on this is taxing ! In some ways, it would be easier to do this by hand, but I don't have the time right now. Someday though, I *will* make myself a proper, handquilted one. I'd like to, at least. I'm struggling to yank the fabric layers back and forth under the presser foot. I can't use an embroidery hoop as it wouldn't feet under the machine foot, and the fabric wants to bunch up and make pleats over itself. My back and arms are sore from today's work !
And to top it off, I'm incredibly stressed aobut the outcome. Which is stupid, but this thing IS stressing me out. Damn you, perfectionnism !
If anyone is reading some french *and* is interested, I'm also rambling over there on my french blog. Pretty layout is still optional.
I was browsing the web for some quilted petticoat references, and was happily surprised to come accross this. You see, the intercrossing wave pattern I have chosen for the bottom of the petticoat I got from a mid-19th century quilted petticoat, so seeing a similar pattern on an 18th century one ? Awesome !
A few notes as I go :
- I'm working with one layer cotton lining, one layer polyester lining( not that there's much else available around here *rolls eyes*), one layer cotton-something satiny mix
- I pinned everything in place together using a LOT of quilting safety pins (I suppose they're called this way because you can buy them in bigger boxes than regular safety pins ? didn' tnotive any other difference)
- before pinning together, I transfered the desing to the lining by putting the lining fabric over the printed and drawn design and going over the lines in pencil. It doesn't rub off faster than I work, and it's barely visible once it's sewn. Plus, it's inside anyway.
- I'll make the skirt in two 1m40 wide panels. I'm working on each panel separately and plan to connect the design repats at the joint after the seaming is done. Should be fun. Especially since I tweaked the design so that it worked on my 1m50-wide lining only to discover afterwards my fashion fabric was only 1m40 wide.
Holy cow, working on this is taxing ! In some ways, it would be easier to do this by hand, but I don't have the time right now. Someday though, I *will* make myself a proper, handquilted one. I'd like to, at least. I'm struggling to yank the fabric layers back and forth under the presser foot. I can't use an embroidery hoop as it wouldn't feet under the machine foot, and the fabric wants to bunch up and make pleats over itself. My back and arms are sore from today's work !
And to top it off, I'm incredibly stressed aobut the outcome. Which is stupid, but this thing IS stressing me out. Damn you, perfectionnism !
If anyone is reading some french *and* is interested, I'm also rambling over there on my french blog. Pretty layout is still optional.
