Rejoicing with the Truth

It's been a blah sort of week. It might be a reaction from all the energy I spent last weekend, between my very active Friday (including the Hair Drama) and a hard sewing Saturday and Sunday.

I did get the red wool Regency mostly put together. It took a long time to figure out how to put the skirt on the bodice. I kept stopping and looking at pictures for ideas! You have no idea how rare pleats are.  Of the gowns on my Pinterest, with visible backs, I found no more than 5 examples with pleated-only skirts. Gathering straight across is by far the most typical.

I still have plenty left to do, like some tweaking of the short sleeves, lengthening of the long sleeves (they're too short to hide under the short sleeves), and the pleated front. And the trim!

I did start making fringe, though. To go twice around the hem it's about 380 inches. Plus what I'm doing for the sleeves. That's a lot!! It's relatively fast, but there are a good few hours left.  I need to concentrate to finish this in time for HSF #4, Embellish.


Also, I did the majority of work on HSF #3, Underneath It All.  Like Jen, I'm also doing pockets.  (Incidentally, I must have totally misread the scaling on whatever pattern I used for my first pocket - they're all pretty big.)  It was a fun project, totally out of the stash, and cute.  The front fabric is leftover from my first 18th century gown, the blue/green on white indienne print.  The lining and back of the pockets are the never-ending light green linen. I still have about a yard and a half of it!  For binding, I'm using navy twill tape, with ties of gray twill tape. They're pretty cute. :)


And I'm still loving my hair. Although I verified again that my 5-minute walk into work, when the wind is humid and 15-20 mph, will blow out about 85% of all curl. Whoops!