I have put on the sleeves!
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I have put on the sleeves! Finished the inside seam with just the overlock stitch on my normal sewing machine, as I'm going to do the buttonholes and buttons by hand, and only have so much elbow. Looks like a blouse, now. The circa 1905 sleeves are so nice. I tried it on and it felt like wearing a cloud, also!
#Sewing #HistoryBounding #Linen
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I've left the buttons for last because I need to concentrate enough to figure out which side of the cuff the button goes on, and decide how I want to space the buttons, and which buttons... Which means a bit of brain, and then just a whole bunch of leisurely and rote fine work that I could do in my sleep, albeit much better while awake.
Anyway. Mostly a blouse, good job me. -
I've managed to make some six buttonholes, and who knows how many I still need to do, I mostly eyeballed the locations on. I also couldn't have gotten all the buttons on today, as I ran out of my favourite ones... So my brain went "Not going to be completed today? Might as well not work on it, then!" and I've had much trouble concentrating.
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I have finished the blouse! I managed to find a couple more buttons (there were some under my keyboard, I choose to blame the cats) and now it has all the buttons, as well as a couple of hooks and bars, slightly adjustable.
A better full view photo in above thread, currently have cat on lap so no new photo like that!
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I love the buttons in pairs! Such a nice touch
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@NilaJones Not only does it look nice, it's also extremely helpful when getting dressed in the morning and not quite awake - you notice if you've offset the buttons very fast compared to when they're even and you have to do the whole thing again since you only noticed when you got to the hem...
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@sinituulia @NilaJones I've never thought about this, and it's *genius*!
