It’s been so busy this past week and I just got to buying the fabric for my dress lining. That, of course, left me little time to sew. Basically I found myself racing to finish the lining at midnight, the night before class. Midnight might be okay for test cramming (okay, maybe not), but there’s a reason why people caution against sewing when you’re tired! You think I would’ve learned my lesson from my 2am sewing session of the Supersized Tokyo Tie Bag (when I sewed wrong side to wrong side and didn’t realize until I finished sewing around the entire bag!) Needless to say, there was a lot of seam ripping.
Back to my dress lining… Somehow I ended up cutting two back pieces and no front piece! Fortunately I bought extra lining fabric and, since I’m only making a lining for the bodice, I didn’t waste too much fabric. I was just a little annoyed because it took me forever to cut the fabric. The stretchy, slippery lining fabric is extra hard to pin and cut accurately.
When I finally got my front and back pieces cut, I thought it looked a little funny. It basically looked like there was a triangle jutting out of the side. For reasons unknown to me now, I cut the triangle off. I decided the slippery fabric must’ve moved, causing me to cut the weird shape. I later realized that the triangle was part of the dart… oh well! I’m hoping that I’ll be able to compensate somehow when I sew it onto the dress.
I’m so busy during the day that I usually find myself sewing at midnight. It seems I can’t avoid it. So drink some coffee and join the midnight sewers club! Of course I don’t drink coffee, but oh well.
On the Grainline 
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