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Pelisse make it STOP

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Oh boy!  Laughing Moon #137 pelisse, OMG will it never end?

I have been sewing away forever and I don’t feel like there’s much to show for it…I have to console myself that bar some handsewing [quite a lot] and some lonnnnnng machine seams [still quite a few] this can still come together in time for Thursday.

Surely?

So I’d prepped all the bloody piping [why didn’t I just skip it?  Why?] Today I ‘just’ pinned and basted it on, then sandwiched and pinned/and/or/basted again, then stitched.  Several times.

1] collar [which is supposed to stand but is floppy…may have to utilise my Edwardian collar stays…]

2] back side seams

3] shoulder seams

4] HUGELY LONG [because I is a fatty innit] belt

I also sewed the side seams and the four bands that go round the forearm.

I tackled the puffed & ‘slashed’ oversleeves, and the 6 little bows and their bands.

  I sewed bias binding onto the facing, and faffed with that. Decided that pinking the seams will have to do as I cannot be arsed to do any other finish.

The main fabric has that slight velvety nap, and a tiny bit of crepe-like stretch..everything needs top stitching or understitching as the main fabric stretchiness fights a good pressing.  The damn satin remnant I’m using for the lining stretches QUITE A LOT…if I hadn’t steamed the fook out of the belt, that stretch fabric would have made it twist like  a bloody corkscrew…

Still to do:

All the inside hand stitching on the bodice facing and little sleeves

Insert small puffed sleeves

sew up skirt panels AND lining

assemble long sleeves

Insert long sleeves, finish cuff edge

Add 4 fore-arm bands over long sleeves [more hand stitching]

Attach skirt to bodice

hem and fastenings [more hand stitching]

That’s all right then

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14 thoughts on “Pelisse make it STOP”

  1. Take a deep breath have a sip/chug of a wet beverage of your choice & carry on. It doesn’t have to be perfect just done. No one else will notice any flubs, goof ups or the inside seams. I know it will be beautiful & finished in the nick of time. Now go ahead & have another sip kiss the misses & get back at it.

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  2. Imagine we’re there, holding your hand, patting it and saying, absent mindedly: ‘There there, my dear, there there’.
    Feel free to slap us, and get a glass of something. This isn’t the hottest water you’ve swam in. It will be great.
    There there- OW!

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    2. I did a little more after posting last night so all those looonnnng skirt seams are now done and pressed. now it’s just sleeves into bodice, skirt onto bodice, hand finishing [makes the list sound shorter lol]

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  4. So tempted to say, “Be glad you have a sewing machine and don’t have to sew the whole thing by hand.” but I won’t. Instead I’ll say, “Oh, it’s gonna be Wicked Cool when you’re done and all the trouble will be worth it.” Because we all know that to be true!

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    1. lol I don’t actually mind hand sewing…it’s so often easier to assemble complicated things when you aren’t trying to push them through a machine tbh…but yeah, no time for that nonsense!

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  6. Love the post. Truly an accurate ramble through any complicated project that we just work away at until it’s complete! You had me laughing out loud, I could so relate!

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