Renaissance Skully Bodice Complete!

So I finally finished this bodice:  I ended up cheating and using the sewing machine for one front panel of boning channels, but the rest is hand sewn!  I discovered that I had made the pattern a tad too big so emergency slicing of edges had to occur to make it a couple of inches smaller.  This will allow me to lace it up firmly.  This is when I discovered to my dismay that the yellow silk bodice that I had sewn already would be far too big: I actually thought this white bodice was far too small so made the pattern for the yellow silk larger...whooooooops!  Oh well, all fine now and it fits wonderfully and feels really comfy.  Planning on getting this one ready to wear to the next event at the end of May. 

 

Another side note, in between sewing eyelets I managed to finish my Russian inspired hat :)

 

IRRC3 Pattern Fail and Recovery Attempt

Well, somehow I managed to totally mess up the pattern for the bodice.  I have now unpicked all the bodice pieces and done them again but to the smaller pattern size.  Sigh.  This meant I had to do some creative patching of the yellow silk as I don't have enough to cut pieces again.  Hopefully they will fit this time! 

 

As you can see, there is a bit of a gap from the too big pattern to this version, but it is on the tabs so I used a bit of waste silk (glad I kept all the offcuts) and patched it.  It will be hidden under the skirt anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

So far I've completed the eyelets on the back piece, so now on to the eyelets for the front pieces and cut some bias out of scraps to bind the edges.  The tabs may get a different colour if I run out, but once again, no one will see :)