Today was too short
Apr. 15th, 2011 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_marthaHeileen came over but she's gone again now ! It was so good geeking over costumes all day, and seeing her parents again, though, and Heimlich had a fabulous time - though a "carrots are poisonous" one*.
I did get some quilting progress ! I finished assembling the body of the caraco (I did most of the work in the hospital waiting room yesterday, a mitigated "yay" to doctors being one hour and a half late) and tonight after she was gone I finished quilting over the panel joint. Yes, the two petticoat panels are now sewn together. I changed a few things from my original assembly plan. For the caraco, I ended up backstitching the outer shell together, and then adding the lining one piece after another, as everything else would have involved to much bulk. For the petticoat, I had to give up on machine-stitching the two panels together, it wasn't precise enough to allow me to match the quilted pattern repeats, so I used small running stitches both on the inside and outside (I meant to only do so on the inside - I know I'm not going 100% historically accurate on this, but time is an issue). Wrangling the fabric under the sewing foot was quite a challenge, as usual, I expect it to get worse for the other joint, as the fabric will form a tube by then...
*two weeks ago green beans were of the devil, and carrots came from Heaven. Today it was ALL about green beans. Kids...
I did get some quilting progress ! I finished assembling the body of the caraco (I did most of the work in the hospital waiting room yesterday, a mitigated "yay" to doctors being one hour and a half late) and tonight after she was gone I finished quilting over the panel joint. Yes, the two petticoat panels are now sewn together. I changed a few things from my original assembly plan. For the caraco, I ended up backstitching the outer shell together, and then adding the lining one piece after another, as everything else would have involved to much bulk. For the petticoat, I had to give up on machine-stitching the two panels together, it wasn't precise enough to allow me to match the quilted pattern repeats, so I used small running stitches both on the inside and outside (I meant to only do so on the inside - I know I'm not going 100% historically accurate on this, but time is an issue). Wrangling the fabric under the sewing foot was quite a challenge, as usual, I expect it to get worse for the other joint, as the fabric will form a tube by then...
*two weeks ago green beans were of the devil, and carrots came from Heaven. Today it was ALL about green beans. Kids...
