I got a text this evening to the effect that the frock arrived and is perfect. Since I am paranoid, this is good news indeed. It’s a bit far to go to make last minute changes.
The paranoia comes from a couple of incidents – one where I took a tiny bit out of a bodice foundation, and that meant the difference between it doing up and it doing nothing of the sort. The other was finishing the tie for a bodice on a very last-minute dress, and finding that it was just too wide to fit through the loops. I had to turn it back the other way and make it smaller, then re-turn it. This was (and I said it was last-minute) the morning of the wedding, and i hadn’t changed the clock in the sewing room to daylight savings. I sweated bullets until I realised i had another hour.
It was done and I dropped it off early. But I almost had a heart attack for about half an hour and now persistent paranoia.
My next project is in modification stage at the moment. I have done a fitting and marked where the various style lines are to go. Next I make a pattern, cut the underbodice and do a fitting of that. Then I get brave enough to cut out the fabric. There’s lots of it. The skirt is a full circle. That should be fun.
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