With the Bridgerton Queens call coming up (we are doing the 4/2 one in DC). I have been working on an open robe to go over my gown. Let me show you the mock up first!
Now y’all know that I love me a good upcycle. That gorgeous brown pseudo-taffeta silk was a curtain! Only $3 or something like that!
Anyway, mock-ups are IMPORTANT. I use to hate doing them, because my brain always wanted to start a project and be done with it. But hey, if you want it to look good, you gotta put in the time. So with the mock-up, I realized I had to change a couple of things. One, being the piece of fabric that goes under the bust to close. It originally had about a 4 inch gap in the center, so I had to add an extra piece of fabric on top of that so that the closure goes across the underbust and can be pinned closed.
Also, can we talk about the back seams of regency fashion? For some reason my brain got stuck on how to sew the back seam pieces together. I still don’t know if I did it right. But this is how I did it:
I cut two out (one of lining fabric-not pictured and one out of fashion fabric ). For the side/front piece, cut four. I then sewed the lining and fashion fabric of each piece together-so you have one back piece and the two side/front pieces. Now the thing that got me stuck was sewing the pieces together with right sides together. It just was NOT computing the regular way. So I had to place the back piece overlapping the two side pieces and sew that down. It came out pretty well though!
Now I need to fold under the bottom to make it pretty and start gathering the skirt fabric to the bodice. I’m also adding the same rose and pearl beaded trim that’s around the neckline to the hemline of the marigold yellow gown.
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