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Kariginu again and pre-Estrella thoughts.
Dec. 30th, 2007 02:20 pmRan out to Beverly's Overpriced Fabrics and Crap. I don't like Beverly's, but it's closer than anything else. It seems I had a mathematical brain fart when I bought lacing for the kariginu sleeves and I'd underestimated.
Yesterday I spent way too much time attempting to make frogging cord out of the kariginu fabric and didn't like the result. If it was a smooth weave, it probably would work, but this is a jacquard with metallic threads and it just did NOT want to lie nicely. I was hoping for some smooth silk cord, but the only smooth cord they had was either too narrow or in uncongenial colors. I did find a braided purple cord that worked beautifully. I nailed the button knot on the first go, working along with the video.
Sleeves are attached and laced - the nice thing about the pattern on this fabric is that I was able to use the repeats to calculate where I needed to put the loop slits.
As soon as I have some lunch I shall do battle with the collar.
Edit: Instead of putting paper or boning in to stiffen the collar, I decided to use that previously-frustrating-not-lying-right feature of the fabric to my advantage and cut the collar strip about 5" wide. I basted that to the front edges of the collar hole, tacked the frog to the middle of the width with a couple of stitches and rolled the excess around it and blind-stitched it into place.
I'll try to snap some detail pics tomorrow. (It's starting to get dark here in the garret and I'd rather shoot by natural light than flash if I can.)
Yesterday I spent way too much time attempting to make frogging cord out of the kariginu fabric and didn't like the result. If it was a smooth weave, it probably would work, but this is a jacquard with metallic threads and it just did NOT want to lie nicely. I was hoping for some smooth silk cord, but the only smooth cord they had was either too narrow or in uncongenial colors. I did find a braided purple cord that worked beautifully. I nailed the button knot on the first go, working along with the video.
Sleeves are attached and laced - the nice thing about the pattern on this fabric is that I was able to use the repeats to calculate where I needed to put the loop slits.
As soon as I have some lunch I shall do battle with the collar.
Edit: Instead of putting paper or boning in to stiffen the collar, I decided to use that previously-frustrating-not-lying-right feature of the fabric to my advantage and cut the collar strip about 5" wide. I basted that to the front edges of the collar hole, tacked the frog to the middle of the width with a couple of stitches and rolled the excess around it and blind-stitched it into place.
I'll try to snap some detail pics tomorrow. (It's starting to get dark here in the garret and I'd rather shoot by natural light than flash if I can.)
