Originally blogged Thursday, 07 April 2005
For the foundation of the crazy I was going to use a light weight, loose weave fabric but I don’t have any and was going to buy some when I went shopping this morning to look at fabric for the rest of the dress…I got to the shops on time but my sister was held up so we had a coffee and decided to leave the fabric shopping till the weekend and I came home…after waiting 40 minutes for the road service to come and unlock my car as I had left the keys in it oops….though while waiting in the car park I found a wallet that turned out to belong to a young guy that my son knew, so he was delighted to get it back and happy that I was there in the car park to find it….all of that to explain that I got home without any loose weave fabric and decided that the good quality, soft calico (muslin in the usa) that I normally use, would do just fine for the foundation.
I drew the stitching and seam allowance lines for the neck hole onto the fabric, then held the fabric against the window and traced the stitching line onto the back side of the fabric so that I can see it when piecing and have it visible on the back for when I stitch the dress together.
I set the ironing board up beside the sewing machine and started piecing…I started with second patch down on the right side, It is a small piece of silk that must have slipped out of the box yesterday and I found it on the floor today, it was all crinkled up but I liked the mottled colour and when I looked at it I liked the crinkles in it so instead of ironing it I left them there letting the crinkles form pleats in the seam and I will stitch beads into the folds (I will try taking a photo tomorrow in sun light without the flash and see if I can get the detail to show you).
I did only get one end done as I had a quilting group meeting to go to tonight and us much as I would like to stay up and finish it I have got to go to bed as soon as I finish here.
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