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The Emporia => The Show Must Go On => Topic started by: DementedFairy on May 21, 2017, 22:00:06 PM
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The story so far:
Blog post #1 :loveit:
https://thedementedfairy.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/clock-this-1/ (https://thedementedfairy.wordpress.com/2017/05/18/clock-this-1/)
Blog post #2 :S :fish: :fish: >< :angry:
https://thedementedfairy.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/clock-blocked-1910s-peplum-skirt-2/ (https://thedementedfairy.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/clock-blocked-1910s-peplum-skirt-2/)
Today's work, blog post #3 :vintage: :cake: :toast:
https://thedementedfairy.wordpress.com/2017/05/21/clocking-in-and-out-1910s-peplum-skirt-3 (https://thedementedfairy.wordpress.com/2017/05/21/clocking-in-and-out-1910s-peplum-skirt-3)
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You did brilliantly well to find two matching pieces - andin all honesty no-one will notice unless you point it out to them.
Have a celebratory :toast: and a slice of :cake:
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Blimey that's a project and a half DF. As usual on your blog posts I enjoy looking at the pictures even if I don't understand the words!
L :vintage:
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even if I don't understand the words!
L :vintage:
Blimey if I've written incoherent claptrap, put me right!
And Brenda P: there are FOUR matches there, all the peplum bits were insanely under-sized. Pattern drafting of the lowest order...
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Blimey if I've written incoherent claptrap, put me right!
The problem is entirely mine DF. I in no way meant to imply that you were at faultl 0_0 0_0 0_0 0_0 Garment making is a dark art to which I've yet to be initiated!
L :vintage:
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Excellent pattern matching! I'm interested to see what they say. Give them a bit ol :fish:
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The saga is almost done. Here's the blog post I wrote the other day, and edited to include the [almost] end of the business.
Blog post #4
https://thedementedfairy.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/click-clock-click-peplum-skirt-4/ (https://thedementedfairy.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/click-clock-click-peplum-skirt-4/)
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Well good on you for standing your ground! I hope you get a satisfactory outcome.
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Aaaaand it's done! Five blog posts, much swearing, money refunded, a review [with all 5 blog posts] on Pattern Review, and I can put this project to bed.
Here are a couple of pics, more on the blog
https://thedementedfairy.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/clocking-off-peplum-skirt-5/ (https://thedementedfairy.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/clocking-off-peplum-skirt-5/)
Pattern review
https://sewing.patternreview.com/review/pattern/136137 (https://sewing.patternreview.com/review/pattern/136137)
(http://i.imgur.com/hzUtihU.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/jCPOs5S.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/OtyJTBo.jpg)
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'Tis magnificent!
:toast: :toast: :toast:
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Yeh, well done.
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Looks fabulous!
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Really like that DF, where do you wear these outfits?
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Tomorrow we're off to the botanical gardens with a group of 50...to hunt dinosaurs. I will be wearing my black Edwardian dominatrix outfit, plus pith helmet. Perfectly normal...
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Wow that's really wonderful DF! <3
L :vintage:
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Wow! That was really worth all the effort DF... it's great :toast:
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Worth persevering, it looks fantastic!
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You really are a superb seamstress, it's beautiful and looks amazing on you.
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*blush*
:P
I bodge it and scarper missus, I assure you. Muv would have kittens if she examined my stuff [that wonky placket for instance, oh deary me]
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This dress is wonderful! Bless you for all the trouble you had to go through.
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That is fabulous; I love that skirt. Glad you got some recompense!
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Love those peplums - did you cut new bigger pieces to reach the centre back seam? I wondered if in the pattern drafting they'd matched the width of the back half with the front half, bearing in mind the fronts only go to the darts not the centre? If that makes sense? Difficult colour to put a blouse with, would need to be a paler shade of the background colour, but the blouse you've put with it works. Super work! :)
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I couldn't re-cut, I had no more fabric, so they got little pieces added at the front [narrower]
The peplum pieces are drafted in one curve, and looking at the original pattern source, you don't really relate it to front/back measurements, just to total waist. My scaled down draft worked out fine form the instructions, no idea what RH did! By all the other errors that either I've found, or others have told me about, she is just crap at drafting and should not be putting these things out untested.
I will continue the search for the perfect blouse match. Someone on my blog suggested blush pink, but I don't really do pink!
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Look at moda grunge fabrics. They are properly beautiful. Textured without being a pattern. I used some in this bargello https://goo.gl/photos/i12MJPboYRktrKmcA nearly all of the plain fabrics are moda grunge and they come in a whole host of shades - I just used the greeny/blue ones. There are a couple of nice "beige" ones iirc.
It's a really impressive skirt, so sorry about all of the hassle you went through, but at least you managed to get a usuable skirt out of it!
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What a satisfactory ending. A lovely skirt, and a refund! :)
Well done on your perseverance!
Jessie
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Someone on my blog suggested blush pink, but I don't really do pink!
What about tea-stained white silk?
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I try to dodge the beige bullet!
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Oh wow, that is just fabulous!!! Well done in all respects. And love the hat, too. :toast: