Hi folks... I've finally gotten the brown kirtle pretty much done. Yay me! I tried it on for a final fitting the other night to get the hem dealt with, and I'll be, it fit. It actually fit very, very well. And it did what I wanted it to do.
The problem, as you will see in the photo is the sleeves. It seems that I have taken a) too long to sew this dress together and b) that my weight training regime really is working. In short, my arms are too large for the sleeves. I do have a couple of ideas of how to fix that, but I thought I would ask here, just in case someone else has a better idea before I get started. The armhole is fine, the problem is that I have increased the size of my biceps by a full inch, and also increased the size of my forearm by about 1/2". And the dress was cut with skin tight arms, with the buttons placed on the outer edge of the opening. And one other note, I have learned that when you are experimenting, for goodness sake don't hand-sew. Save the 100% hand-sewn love and attention for things that are *not* experiments. You would think I would know that by now, you would think I would know that by now. There is a photo up, it can give you an idea of the problem, but not much more. http://evilapprentice.livejournal.com/ Suggestions? Thanks, Mari _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
