Bodice done...

[sakon76]

Wonderful Husband put on October Project this evening to listen to while he caught up with the dishes. Lovely stuff, and somehow always reminiscent to me of LotR.

I'm very happy that my RSI seems to've gone away, given how much hand-sewing I've been doing on this project. I realized I had an additional step to the ones I listed earlier, that of topstitching the bodice so it wouldn't roll. Unfortunately it's enough layers at the seam that my machine would have thrown a fit, so hand-sewing it was. And since I had to do it anyway, I dragged out beads and sequins and made each pickstitch sparkly.

As I was later listening to the music and catching down the facing on the interior, I thought about skill levels. In particular, about how once you reach a certain level of skill, it's hard to half-ass things. I'm not the world's best sewer by any means, but I am far above where I was when I started cosplaying. And even then, as hoshikage can attest, I was horrified by certain things. (Most memorably, sashes that weren't even hemmed and were actively fraying, and ribbon trim stapled on to the costume. These were two separate groups, BTW.) And as I've gotten better, it's gotten hard to go back to the way I did things when I didn't know a better way.

Which is basically to say that the inside of this costume is very clean, and that it is late enough that my thoughts aren't coming out with any grace. 'Night, all.

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[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Eee, October Project! So wonderful. :P