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| Slow progress on this 1790s gown, but it’ll {eventually} come together in time for JA Fest in July. |
Jane Austen Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, is 10 weeks away and I got nothin’.
I’ve got a part of a thing. It’s a thing in progress, but with a grand total of, like, 5 sewing hours per week, I need to pull it together!
The nice thing about 1790s gowns is that they go together relatively quickly. I have all my pieces ready to assemble, at least. I just have to…assemble them.
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| The bodice is assembled, awaiting the front treatment (gathered pieces), skirt, and sleeves. |
The skirt is seamed, shaped, and hemmed, it’s just not whipped to the bodice yet. The bodice front treatment is patterned, cut, and the drawstrings applied; the sleeves are patterned, seamed, and ready to be set in. There’s probably one good day’s worth of work in this only, which is comforting.
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| Draping the bodice front treatment. Something I love about 1790s bodices is you can just apply any design to the front that you like – gathered, bib front, surplice, etc. |
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| Prepping the bodice front treatment for the drawstrings – all edges basted. |
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| Carefully hemming the neckline edge up over the drawstring. |
Then a quick petticoat, and thankfully we have a great many accessories already hanging around (chemisettes, caps, reticules, shoes), so that’ll be that.
It just feels so… slow! My goal is to finish this up this weekend, then. It’s a good goal. Let’s see if it happens (lol.)
