It's left me in a bit of a panic... our Halloween party is now only 20 odd days away. We have so much to sort for the party; I have the 10yr old's costume to make; the Dinner Jacket has me sufficiently nervous that I keep putting it off, but I don't have enough time left to do that any more; and the LBD may not have made it to one party, but I have the Charity Ball on the 15th for which it would be good and it is now so firmly on my internal to do list, it will be a distraction till it's done.
So, tonight I got busy... randomly so, but I'm going with something being better than nothing! :o)
I have taken the skirt off of the LBD; it is now back to a bodice and I have more fabric to play with.
I then moved on to the Dinner Jacket. Taking measurements from the mock-up I have placed an order for the boning and some white boning tape. Hopefully this will be with me mid-week.
I amended, and trimmed, the necessary pieces from the Dinner Jacket, based on the pinned mock-up that the lovely Mrs B and I produced.
I then cut out the lining pieces, I've picked a cream cotton; the same colour as the twill skirt.
After the lining was all cut, I started to mark out the pieces on the interlining. I am using the left-over canvas from the Corset project. I am marking out the pieces as the top fabric will be basted to it before I start to construct the jacket and as the canvas will be the main structure of the jacket, I want this to be as accurate as possible.
Finally, I decided on a name for Dolly - who sits by the sewing machine happily watching me fuss - she is called Fryda, from "fryd" the Norwegian for "joy".
At 9.30pm I called it a day. More tomorrow.
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