I am the world's slowest sempstress, I swear.

[soldiergrrrl]

I read about people putting stuff together in two days and I wonder what the hell I'm doing wrong.  For me, even an easy project is at least a couple of days, and usually weeks. 

However, I did FINALLY get the serger working last night, and get the sleeves put together.  Now, I'm going to put the lining and the body of the cote together and see what it all looks like.  Then, I'll see about making a few more. 

:-)

Not sure what other fabrics I'm going to use, but I'm sure I'll find something.  Cotton twill would be nice and I do have some lovely silk, but I need to make sure that's back with a very very strong lining fabric to take most of the stress off the silk.  The cote is very fitted, and it has to be to support the breasts, but I'm worried that the silk will just shred if it's not back with something very stable.  Not heavy, necessarily, but stable.  Just something very tightly woven.  Probably a cotton sheeting.

If anyone's got any advice for making a very fitted cote from silk (why yes, I am looking at HRH at the moment, but she's really busy, so I'm not looking TOO hard....), would you tell me your solution?
 
The silks are from this post, the one with all the fabric pictures.  :-)  I am trying to avoid buying more silk, like oh...silk twill.  So far, I'm successful.

Comments

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

Compared to the some of the folx on my f-list, I'm a slug.

:-) That's all. Everyone has their own pace, but sometimes I wish mine were faster. Of course, it would be faster if I quit jumping on the internet. ;-)

[deafelis.livejournal.com]

Hehe - just realize that I quit posting about how long it's been taking me to make anything, because it's just depressing. ;) Compared to me, you're a sewing goddess. :)