Well, the lure of the the sewing table called me back. I put Sherlock Holmes followed by League of Extraordinary Gentlemen into the Laptop and got to work.
First, I cut the gored panels for my underskirt. At first the fabric and I did not see eye-to-eye but things settled down when the cloth conceded that I was right and we were doing it my way. While cutting the fabric I decided that I would need to alter my design a bit with the addition of another fabric for the double-breasted jacket pattern I will be drafting out of Garment Patterns of 1889.
After taking a break from pattern matching my panels, I did a test lacing of my bustle, and boy does it now have Junk in the Trunk!! I pinned the lacing in place and I'm letting it sit on the dress form until tonight when the lacing rings get sewn in.
Then it was back to the skirt panels. The fabric was still giving me tr
ouble. Woven into the plaid design were stripes of heavier thread, almost fine cording so once cut the fabric began to fray madly at those stripes. I sent all the panels through my serger, hoping the pattern would not be stretched out too much. It was a wise move since it actually made matching up the plaid a bit easier...though not perfect. I put in my pleating, dropped it over the bustle and realized that I had applied the back pleats to the front of the dress. I'm going to be pulling them out this afternoon. To the right is a picture of the incorrect pleating.... more later.
Looking good!
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