Cursed petticoat???

[cimorene]

If I weren't using a really pretty piece of antique hand-embroidery on this petticoat, I would probably give up on it now and just start over making a plain one from a different old sheet.

I know all about the theory of making a tiered skirt, and making a ruffle, but unfortunately I found out after a lot of hand sewing that the ruffle was too thick for the machine to sew the way I was trying to attach it, with topstitching through a hand-gathered, rolled hem edge. So the yoke part is now exactly where it was last week, and I've now spent hours and hours unpicking stitches (basting, gathers, and hems) in order to attach the bottom tier differently, with pleats, which I'll have to measure and press tomorrow.

It got pretty warm today though (+2° C), so I should be okay in jeans again tomorrow. Jeans and snow boots, because the snow piles at, for instance, the end of our driveway are like three feet high, so it definitely won't have melted in one day.

My new laptop, Nenya, has been a great comfort in the last couple of weeks of sewing from inside a blanket cocoon, but it distresses me that she's still naked: the stickers I ordered for her apparently got lost in the mail and so they're sending a replacement.

Comments

[anatsuno]

very late reading but <333 and godspeed for the troublesome sewing!! It is so hard to not be disheartened in the face of having to undo work, but it's worth it, usually. I am cheering you on *pompoms*

[cimorene]

Pompoms appreciated, but they might not be enough to make me start making pleats with a ruler. Ironing is just so not fun!! However I tried and failed gathering instead of pleats so now I have no choice.