I'm home from my travels and working on projects. The green lace dress is coming along beautifully. I have a few more hand stitches to take in the lace overdress and am starting on the underdress. The scallop is all sewed on and looks like it was born there. My goal is to have nothing but hand sewing left by tonight. Which begs the question "what the H E Double Hockey Sticks are you doing blogging"? What can I say, I'm a procrastinator.
I ordered the silk charmeuse for the underdress from a fabric store in Denver. I called and asked specifically "is it SILK"? Yes, I was told. Okay, DF needs to show their employees the difference between silk and 100% cheap polyester. This stuff drapes about as well as gunnysacking. But there's nothing to do about it now except be grateful it's under the lace. And, when I was pressing it to get it ready for the cutting table, my iron spit at it. Guess what? It left black dye on my ironing board. So I had to hand wash it and give it a good soak to get the excess dye out of it. It spent the night in my shower getting dry. Ordering fabric online is not something I do often as I'm a very tactile person and need to touch. The times I have done it the results have been pretty good. But this experience has me doubting whether I'll ever do it again. The real pisser is that I called to confirm it was silk and got bad information. Lesson learned? Doubt it.
All that said, the lace part of the dress is looking gorgeous. And I'm going to put this computer on the desk and get to work right now! But first you have to see a picture of Lily Grace in her University of Saskatchewan Bunny Hug. She is so hugable in it. She'w wearing my hat but she has such a huge head it almost fits her!
