Humbug

Well bugger. I made a video of Lia playing with the kittens on my phone and then when I tried to upload it it came out all mucked up. It was terribly cute too, the kittens have just hit the bouncy stage and are playing with each other. I'll have to try to take another.

In the meantime, I have progress on Sarah's bodice to show. A pale second to kittens, I know, but at least it's grey.

Having finalized the muslin pattern, I cut it in the bodice fabric, a thick cotton shirting, and in the interlining

and then basted them together for all the pieces.

This is the outside front piece:

All sewn together, inside:

outside front:

and back, with the tail:

I've also added, instead of the collar in the original pattern, a little box pleated ruffle of silk dupion. It's what we would have liked to use for the whole ensemble, had it been in the budget. Yummy stuff.

Next I'll play around with adding a little light plastic boning along the seams and do a final fitting on Sarah to make sure all is perfect and determine the exact placement of the front to fit buttons. Then I'll add a front facing and neck facing, turn up the hem, make sleeves and a lining, add buttons, trim, and probably some more dupion pleats at the cuffs. So... a lot left to do.