green_martha

I dreamt I suddenly decided to go, took some days off (like I could do that, he !), and flew over the Atlantic. Funnily enough, my main worry weren't the costumes, but the fact that I had previously booked said weekend to see my parents. Weird.

Another funny for today : due to cutting down the bra under the arm, I need a little more binding there. And I've already put the fabric into storage... I've fished some scraps out of the fabric bin and hope it'll be enough.

Disaster averted, methinks.

The original design for the bra requires you to let one end of the it go through a slit on the other side. The slit looks not tooo big in the design. Except on my bra it would need to be at least 10cm long, taking up nearly all of the fabric's width at that point (save 4cm). A slit, perpendicular to the traction that needs to be exerted in order to flattent he boobs. Methiks that would not work THAT great, right ? So I'm ditching the slit and will have simple buttonholes, and one side of the bra wrapping over the other one. Yay for thess handwork, by the way !

On the other sewing front, after much pinning (see below), the Kitty's corset now has a finished binding and half of the needed handsewn eyelets. Because metal eyelets in this size are just impossible to find...


In the breaks I had to make between the eyelets to straighten up my back, I copied a mile-long text on tailor suits and straight dresses in 1923 into my website. But now I really can't read any other line by the Baronness de Clessy, I ened some fresh air, so I'm going to go clean that darn balcony, at last !

Both projects I'm working on right now (the Goth Kitty and the 1920's bra*) require handsewing binding. And I'm tired of handsewing. I want to do something a tad more creative. Instant gratification, where can I find it ?

*Yes, I finished the few alteratiosn needed on the mantle. No, I still haven't got any pictures to prove it.

Editor's note : given, what I REALLY want to do right now is paint my future kitchen a pale mint green. Except we haven't yet signed for the house (next Thursday !) and won't move in before June...