Another photo from yesterday's photo shoot, of Elin and the porcelain babies
I'm continuing with my Queen of the Night, but am not posting everything here in my Blog. Yesterday I made the bodice, but then I decided the neckline wasn't open enough. So I had to take out all the basting and turn the bodice inside out again (through an armhole). I was disappointed at first that I had to go to all that extra trouble, but in the end it turned out to be a good thing. When I made my test bodice out of a single layer of cotton, the back overlapped just fine for snaps, but with all the layers and thickness of the real bodice fabrics, the back seams barely overlap, so the bodice was going to need eyelets and get laced up the back. That will actually look much better. So when I had the bodice inside out, I also trimmed the seam allowances down on the back edges so it would be easier to insert eyelets. I was also able to solve the problem of how to attach the sleeves neatly. When I had the bodice inside-out again, I clipped the armholes, and basted both the lining and taffeta armhole openings separately. Then when the bodice was back with the good side out, I stitched the lining to the bodice fabric around the sleeve openings. The bodice looked much better with the new adjustments. Like, why bother with a glamour bust if her cleavage isn't even going to show?
I inserted all the eyelets along the back, beaded the bottom edge of the bodice, and the neckline, then touched up the front flower petal with paint and glitter. Also touched up the last five petals.
Now I'm working on the sleeve ruffles. I've beaded the sparkly purple ribbon ruffles and still need to sew the light blue ruffles that are of the same fabric as the front of the underskirt. I'm going to sew all the trims to each sleeve before I stitch the sleeve into the armhole.
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