Finishing Touches

I'm waiting on better photos of this jacket from its owner. I"m actually hoping for some from the show itself. We'll see. It was extremely dark when I took this one and even used a filter to try and brighten it. Silly me for forgetting to take a new one in day light.

We added a satin hat at the last minute, with veil and other decorations.

I also ended up crocheting a snood to help contain the long wig hair. I covered the barrette with leftover satin tube from decorating the hat.

Now I get to see about altering a dress for myself for the April show. Fingers crossed the pattern isn't terribly irritating to enlarge in the bust area.

See you next weekend!

Whoops!

It's still Sunday if I haven't slept yet, right? Probably not.

Anyway, I'm done with all of the sewing I needed to do for to upcoming burlesque show.

Sadly my sewing machine is broken. It died on Saturday and I'm less than thrilled. I brought the old machine out of retirement and had a heck of a time getting the simplest things done in a timely fashion. I don't think I'll get much sewing for myself done now.

To add to the frustration, I don't have any really good pictures of what I was working on, so yoully have to make do with these until I get better ones.

I don't have puctupic of the skirt, the tearaway pants, or the bra I modified. The vest thing got red added to it. The jacket in the too dark photos it what I've been working on for a while. Better pics will happen soon. The jacket and skirt are on stage this Friday.

I need to get some sleep so I can take my sewing machine in for repairs.

Progress

I've got two piles. Outside of the jacket and the lining.

I'll be fusing the interfacing in place and marking the black pieces next. I'm looking forward to being done.

See you next weekend!

Straws

I reached the last one with the leather nonsense that was supposed to be FuzzyHusband's part of the project. It just wasn't turning out the way it needed to look. This is what's left of one section after I cannibalized it for parts. Patent leather doesn't like to be made into piping. And it certainly doesn't like to be stretched around tight curves. And no fabric that I could find looked good as a piping option.

It's on himself now and we figured out what direction he needed to take.

I've reclaimed the dining room table to do pattern layout and will be getting back to the fabric portion of things in the morning. I hope to have things done by mid week. Tonight is for Netflix, junk food, and kitty snuggles.

Sewing Leather

I've been stuck learning to sew with leather on the fly for several weeks. When FuzzyHusband and I agreed to take this project on, the original plan was for the items to be made in vegetable tanned leather. However our client had other ideas and thus it became my problem. I really do need to teach Himself how to sew so next time I'm not doing the lion's share of the work.

Said commission consists of many leather straps, some hardware, and three larger chunks of leather. It's rather mature in nature, so I shan't be showing the final product here. Let's just say it's for a burlesque show in an extremely specialized venue and leave it at that.

What I can show are pictures of the unassembled straps that are waiting for me to finish the larger chunks.

The lighter leather is chromium tanned. Quite lovely and soft. Someday I'll make myself a gorgeous purse out of scraps in different colors. The darker gray is patent leather. Patent leather has become a pain in my backside and Himself owes me big time for having to pull off the miracles I'm making with it.

I shall be spending the rest of my Sunday trying to finish those chunks so I can wash my hands of the mess and get back to finishing the fabric portions of the project. I don't mind learning by trial and error, but when I'm working with expensive material that someone else has paid for and have a timeline, I'm less fine with it. Once I'm done with the fabric portion, FH and I will start his sewing lessons.

I shall leave you with adorable distractions. They're so much fun to watch together. Victor adores Ellie. Ellie is intrigued by Victor, but beyond that she's still figuring things out.