Jun
11
By this time, I finally have all the information that I need out of the muslin that Leah tried on in the past two fittings. But some of its parts are still useful. I’ve been raiding the muslin so that i can reuse (rather than re-buy) interfacings, horsehair and hem weights.
The interfacing that I chose to use in the ‘bustle’ of this dress was osnaburg. I toyed with the idea of using other lighter weight interfacings (like organza) but eventually settled on osnaburg for several reasons.
1) The dress is all cotton, as is osnaburg.
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10
Well, I guess I am not as good at blogging as I had hoped because there’s been a lot of dressmaking going on since I last posted. One of my main tasks has been adding stay-tape to select seams and edges of the dress.
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