Yesterday I drafted a test pattern for a princess seamed short chemise, or camisole. It's really quite a thing to finagle all desired design elements into one garment! Needs to be...
Adjustable to change size because I want to wear it for 10 years at the minimum, efficient to cut out with little waste, a functional garment, work in both cold and warm seasons, nice looking, easy to don & doff, easy to iron after washing, usable under corsets but also not...
It's quite a lot of specs!
But if you're going through the effort of using some nice fabric to do a thing, it makes sense to do it properly. I'm not a minimalist by any means, I just hate having more silly useless things cluttering up the place, because I sure do have a wealth of silly things cluttering up the place already...
Sure, I'll make a frilly lace-adorned little top! But then I'll also wear it until it falls apart! You can be frivolous with intention if you really try!
Yesterday's sewing! The fabric is so sheer I decided I wanted to do the tiniest flat felled seams. I also put on the very last scrap of this linen lace I had so I can thread a ribbon in it and it won't be entirely plain, and did use a natural white instead of pure white thread, too, to match the hue of the lace and the future buttons. 🤔
Oh yeah, I also finished the chemise. Camisole? This. Just did a tiny hem by hand, it was the least amount of thinking and I could do it while listening to a podcast slash radio play. 😄
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