Sini Tuulia

5 mesi fa

Sini Tuulia
5 mesi fa

Trying to continue with the fitting of the bodice and the sleeve basic blocks, Edwardian edition. Sure, it's one thing to take off Autumn indoor clothes, put on the mock-up, then go stare at it and maybe put some pins or chalk in, take it off, put on actual shirt again, make some adjustments... But jesus fucking christ it's not made any easier with a clingy orange cat that demands to lounge in my lap between every step! I love him, but good heavens

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Sini Tuulia

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Making the wrist bigger, not because I need more room for my wrist, but because my sleeve board isn't narrow enough to fit inside the sleeve if I go by my own actual measurements...

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Sini Tuulia

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Am not enjoying the sleeve fitting. Am seriously beginning to consider if the person who drafted and fitted sleeves before was some kind of cognitively superior clone of me whose memories I just vaguely have. 😶

It's really horrible to spend hours upon hours trudging through a Process That Could Be Optimised, but the way it could be optimised is if you had a live-in seamstress to do it on you

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Sini Tuulia

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The sleeve mock-up and thus its pattern finally looks like it could be my sleeve. I've trimmed all the excess off and if I can set it and try it on once, and it's even close, then I'll be done for the day and try to relax by doing literally anything else.
It's funny how my mind goes less back to the fitting and pattern drafting classes at school, and more to what the bodice sleeves looked like when I did a lot more Victorian sewing. Promenade ensembles, ball gowns and such, instead of the more wearable things I make now.

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Sini Tuulia

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#sewing #patternDrafting

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Sini Tuulia

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My Victorian tailoring manual for making fitting adjustments: "These wrinkles form when the front [of sleeve] is too high and the back [of sleeve] is too deep. Anyone can easily see how to make these alterations."
Me, staring at said manual with disdain and frustration: Can anyone my arse, you dead little shit! Just tell me how to do it!

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Sini Tuulia

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Anyway, I'm getting annoyed at dead white men making assumptions in books from over a 100 years ago, time to stop sewing for the day I think!

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stephaniepixie 🏳️‍🌈

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This last statement could apply to so many scenarios beyond sewing. What a legacy of frustration 😝

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Sini Tuulia

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@stephaniepixie 😆 I mean... Yes.

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Sini Tuulia

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The two piece sleeve block is slowly driving me up a wall. Sure, everything I do is incrementally better and I'll likely never actually make a closely fitted sleeve as I prefer mine puffy and big, but it makes sense to make it as close and as fitting as possible, so I have a good base to work off of... But it's so tedious! So tedious! And my fitting knowledge reliably tells me when something isn't fitting quite right, but not always why, so it's not a very streamlined process.

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Sini Tuulia

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I'm tracing all the changes to the original pattern I drafted and it sure is different, and some part of my brain is translating the 2D lines and shapes as what I visually remember my 3D shoulder and arm looking like, so it's getting closer... But fucking hell, I know why I procrastinated doing this again for some 15 years since the last time I did. 🫠

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Sini Tuulia

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#sewing #patternDrafting

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Aliceonboard

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wonderful sleeve fitting

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Sini Tuulia

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@aliceonboard Thank you, it has taken me ages!

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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective

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'concentrating on not making any accidental hate signs' 😂😭

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Sini Tuulia

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@sindarina "Wave your hands in the air" also has a different ring to it these days, keep those arms down you bastards!

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Anna Miriamsdochter

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it looks magnificent!

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Sini Tuulia

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@venite Thank you!

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Sini Tuulia

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Did do multiple more small adjustments, but am too tired to do another fitting, and it's very cold so it's bedtime for me. I hope tomorrow I'll have made another incremental betterment, I think I'm pretty close to getting it as good as I care to but who can say, perhaps tomorrow the madness (perfectionism) takes me again 😶

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Sini Tuulia

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The sleeve is really really close, and I might get away with just adjusting the rotation a bit... But holy fuck when I put the bodice mock-up on my left side was like "yeah we've done this too much, here's a dozen tiny cramps all at once" so I guess I'm just doing that rotation and then leaving the fitting process for later. 😅

Don't get chronically ill kids, it's not good for productivity!

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John McChesney-Young

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My mother (b.1928) told me that one of her textbooks, I think either chemistry or physics, explained something with a comment, "as is obvious to the meanest intelligence."

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friendica (DFRN) - Collegamento all'originale

Elena ``of Valhalla''

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@Sini Tuulia I use my tailor's sausage for ironing sleeves because the sleeve board is way too big, but 100% relatable!

(also, the sausage needs to be put in from the armscye side, because one end is too big to fit in the sleeves anyway)

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@NilaJones Adding more fabric in is entirely feasible, though not necessarily necessary! There's still pretty hefty seam allowances, just clipped, and I'm emotionally prepared to make a couple of sleeve mock-ups and maybe a fourth bodice mock-up if I feel like it... But there's definitely a couple of nudges I need to make based on just these clips.
Staring at looping video is often more enlightening than staring at a mirror while pinned in 😅

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@artcollisions Thank you! It's almost there! Well, the top part, there's still plenty of things to do about the rotation and position of the bits below the elbow, but those are theoretically not as complicated as the whole shoulder bit 😆

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Unknown parent 5 mesi fa

@artcollisions I ran out of the red bedsheet 😅 It's helpful in making out the shape of the two sleeve parts, though

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@NilaJones It's not been easy or enjoyable, but it's so much better than what I started with!

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