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Thank goodness its virtual Friday!!!!
Well, was good and got home with the Benton and had a nice dinner and snuggles. Then I made sure to get the dishwasher loaded and things settled before I hit the sewing. Benton was in bed when I got the sewing machine set up in the living room to watch Dirty Jobs and then he got up to go potty which ended up him using up about 1/4 roll of TP and stopping up the toilet. At least he pooped but I hate plunging toilets...ewww. Oh, well, got him back to bed and then on to ruched trim. I had serged the edges the previous night so I turned the edge to sew it down for pretty...(seriously, who is going to look at my trim and notice the serging but the laurel in me was screaming to not cut corners, so meh). If I had a rolled hem foot this would have been easier but I could just sit and let the machine pull in the fabric and held my hands just right to roll the edge over. The thing is the machine pedal started to overheat. So that was good for breaks. Then I had been talking with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
danabren and she gave me a huge tip for ruching that involved setting up the machine to baste and pins to hold onto the fabric to grab excess thread.
1) turn off your feed dogs
2) turn off the tension to the pressure foot
3) set stitches to the longest and then sew by pushing the fabric through by hand versus the machine doing it. Its free sewing like in quilting.
4) Every yard, place a pin and then pull some extra thread out to help later in the gathering
5) do this the whole length of trim
6), start gathering by pulling the bobbin thread and then wrap the excess as you go on the pins every yard.
So, here is the in progress and finished ruching.
So tonight when I get home I will be attaching ruffles to the underskirt and then the ruching to the overskirt which will then basically leave them with hooks and eyes to be done and the overskirt waistband. Friday will be working on the jacket completely.
My buttons came in and they are AWESOME!!!! OMG!!!!! SO SQUEEFUL!!!!!! And Epaul accidentally overcharged me so now I have $46 in credit with him. Woot!
The To Do List:
Baroness:
2)Make piping
2b) make bias (made some, not sure if I need more????)
3) Make over skirt 85%
3a) Trim on over skirt
3b) waistband
3c) hooks and eyes
5) Ruffles on underskirt 50%
5a)make ruffles May need more....
6) Figure out hair 75%
7)figure out hat 50%
9) Mod parasol
10) make handbag
12) hotglue buttons on spats
13) hook and eyes on bustle 50%
14) Sew riding coat...75%
15)make trim for overskirt
16) make blouse
Kabuki Raven
3) paint front (85% Complete)
7) style wig
8) make chookies for hair
10) get extra cording/belt for yukata
11) Test makeup
Hawkeye Dress
>7) finalize avengers pin
8) make hand bag
Star Wars Dress
3a) figure out hair 75%
3b) Make hair bow. 25%
5) make handbag
Molly
1) shorten sleeves of coat
2) dry clean coat
danabren and she gave me a huge tip for ruching that involved setting up the machine to baste and pins to hold onto the fabric to grab excess thread.1) turn off your feed dogs
2) turn off the tension to the pressure foot
3) set stitches to the longest and then sew by pushing the fabric through by hand versus the machine doing it. Its free sewing like in quilting.
4) Every yard, place a pin and then pull some extra thread out to help later in the gathering
5) do this the whole length of trim
6), start gathering by pulling the bobbin thread and then wrap the excess as you go on the pins every yard.
So, here is the in progress and finished ruching.
So tonight when I get home I will be attaching ruffles to the underskirt and then the ruching to the overskirt which will then basically leave them with hooks and eyes to be done and the overskirt waistband. Friday will be working on the jacket completely.
My buttons came in and they are AWESOME!!!! OMG!!!!! SO SQUEEFUL!!!!!! And Epaul accidentally overcharged me so now I have $46 in credit with him. Woot!
The To Do List:
Baroness:
2)
2b) make bias (made some, not sure if I need more????)
3) Make over skirt 85%
3a) Trim on over skirt
3b) waistband
3c) hooks and eyes
5) Ruffles on underskirt 50%
5a)
6) Figure out hair 75%
7)
9) Mod parasol
10) make handbag
12) hotglue buttons on spats
13) hook and eyes on bustle 50%
14) Sew riding coat...75%
15)
16) make blouse
Kabuki Raven
3) paint front (85% Complete)
7) style wig
8) make chookies for hair
10) get extra cording/belt for yukata
11) Test makeup
Hawkeye Dress
>7) finalize avengers pin
8) make hand bag
Star Wars Dress
3a) figure out hair 75%
3b) Make hair bow. 25%
5) make handbag
Molly
1) shorten sleeves of coat
2) dry clean coat