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« Reply #20 on: January 01, 2007, 02:31:58 PM » |
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Me either! You'll be the expert Toile Maker and make us all so happy on January 20!!!!!  GREAT JOB, NONA! B. |
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« Reply #22 on: January 01, 2007, 03:51:35 PM » |
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Looking good. It's all a learning process, but as you do more and more (and on different figures), you'll start seeing all the fixes yourself, and that's the really fun part!
I do have one concern in the front--there seems to be a bit of poofy above your right bust? That might smooth up toward the right shoulder seam easily; or, if your shoulders are rounding forward just a touch and you'll still have a slight bit of excess fabric there, consider adding a very light bit of bust padding to fill in that hollow and erase the poofy.
The purple version is looking very nice. Since you'll be making this a permanent change on your sheer, do make sure you really like the way everything sits and behaves *before* you use your purple template to re-cut the sheer. You're doing a great job!
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« Reply #23 on: January 01, 2007, 04:01:17 PM » |
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All that sounds good! I think I'll plan on getting it all cut out today, and maybe a little sewing.
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« Reply #24 on: January 01, 2007, 06:34:54 PM » |
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To up date you all, I've started sewing up the bodice! I got it almost all done except for the hemming of the back placket, gathering the front, and sewing on the waistband. That was fast! I'll get pictures when the bodice is completely done! Then it'll be onto the tucks... |
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« Reply #25 on: January 01, 2007, 06:37:11 PM » |
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Tucks.. ugggg. I don't like doing tucks at ALL. Some much hand sewing (though I would rather do it by and than machine)!
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« Reply #26 on: January 01, 2007, 07:18:56 PM » |
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Nona, you are a wonder! I'm still surfing Ebay for stupid things I really don't need. My theme tomorrow "How I Wasted my Winter Vacation." LOL, B. |
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« Reply #27 on: January 01, 2007, 07:39:28 PM » |
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I am not a big fan of sewing tucks either, but I love the end result! especially since I can let them out as I grow!
LOL, Your funny Auntie B! I got an extended Vacation unlike all my friends! I spent most of it sleeping and watching TV and being bored to death, so I had to make up for not sewing anything and sew something! lol.
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« Reply #29 on: January 10, 2007, 05:51:01 PM » |
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Eh, leave the length. You'll grow soon enough. You can always add a nice starched petticoat layer to full it out a bit, and that will take up more length, too, but just a smidge. I don't see extra length in the lower bodice--there's still looking like some extra at the top of the shoulder, but that can be pulled out by simply taking off the neckline binding, pinching up the shoulder seam a tad as needed, and sewing the whole lot back down. Or, there may just be some camera weirdness going on.  You just want to make sure the shoulders fit right down on your skin, rather than having extra room to slip a finger in. The lighter blue trim is very pretty with your skin tones! Wear your "new" dress in good health, and have a good polka or two for me! |
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« Reply #30 on: January 10, 2007, 06:11:23 PM » |
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ooo, a Polka.... yes! I LOVE to dance! lol.
There does look like there is alittle bit of fabric over the shoulder bit there. That'd be an easy fix.
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« Reply #31 on: January 10, 2007, 07:59:57 PM » |
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I love the cute little tucks on the skirt! Your dress looks awesome! |
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« Reply #32 on: January 10, 2007, 08:07:33 PM » |
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Very nice, Nona! Have a polka for me also; Don doesn't dance.  Carolann |
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« Reply #33 on: January 11, 2007, 08:25:31 AM » |
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Oooh--Carolann, would we two be a sight? Polkaing our guts out with one another, while David and Don sit in the corner like the peacocks they be, discussing the finer points of top hats and vests? LOL
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« Reply #34 on: January 11, 2007, 10:23:17 AM » |
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Yes - but we'd have a great time! We may kill each other - I'm a klutz on the dance floor also - but we'd die happy. I still haven't figured out how I married a man whose dancing is limited to the Grand March but after 38 years I'm not going to throw him back just for that. Carolann |
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« Reply #35 on: January 11, 2007, 10:48:32 AM » |
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Lottie,
It looks wonderful! The tucks are incredible! I do about three and that's it! I give up! but they look great and I really love how you trimmed the bodice!
~bevin
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« Reply #36 on: January 11, 2007, 11:53:08 AM » |
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Yes - but we'd have a great time! We may kill each other - I'm a klutz on the dance floor also - but we'd die happy. I still haven't figured out how I married a man whose dancing is limited to the Grand March but after 38 years I'm not going to throw him back just for that. Carolann *snicker* DH nor I (37 years) either one had ever danced before last June (at our first CW event), but he has a blast out there and we are slowly learning. |
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« Reply #37 on: January 11, 2007, 12:36:12 PM » |
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Do they make you wear a red armband so other dancers know to stay out of your way? Me, I just wear a full length red dress and do my best to apologize profusely to my partners, the other dancers, the band, etc. LOL, B. |
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« Reply #38 on: January 11, 2007, 12:49:16 PM » |
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... I'm a klutz on the dance floor also
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Oops - I didn't mean to infer Liz was a klutz; I know she's taken many years of dance class. I meant I'm a klutz everywhere in my life - including the dance floor. LOL Barbara - I haven't had to wear a warning flag yet, but there's always that possibility. And the one time I really did do serious damage to myself while dancing wasn't even my fault. I'm better just sitting sedately on the sidelines like Aunt Pittypat - without the vapors. Carolann |
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« Reply #39 on: January 11, 2007, 01:01:09 PM » |
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I'd have to wear a Red Dress of Warning, also, Carolann. Possibly with reflector decals on the back hem. I was put into ballet for all those years Because I'm A Klutz. I do much better with a soundtrack, but falling over is always a possibility. Heck, I fell off my pointe in one ballet class, and ripped my arch. Bandaged and drugged for it, then fell off the other pointe in class the next day, and ripped that one, too. My family BOUGHT crutches, and I took them with me when I left for college. David still finds it vastly amusing that I came to marriage with one suitcase of clothing, 12 or so cases of books, 7 bins of fabric, a sewing machine, a rocking chair, and my own crutches, ankle casts, and wrist braces. |
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