Getting things right: my foundations pledge
Update: Please do read this post and comment on it, because it’s interesting and pretty and important, but don’t leave your links to your HSF/M Foundations challenge blog posts on this one, because that’s not what it’s for! They belong on yesterdays post. 🙂 Five years ago I made this ca. 1800 dress, inspired by two portraits of Madame Recamier: I managed to make it in one day, even though it is predominantly hand-sewn. Unfortunately, in the rush to make it, I didn’t double-check Janet Arnold, and I made a rather big mistake. Can you see it? It’s the front-skirt to bodice join. I gathered my entire front skirt to the apron bodice, where there should have been almost no gathering, and the sides of the skirts should have hung over, and wrapped around the back, thus eliminating that enormous fold running down the side of the skirt, and the weird gathered-front but flat sides effect. I realised the mistake almost as soon as the dress was done, but didn’t fix it. Every time …