I'm having another one of those days where everything is a challenge - for every step forward there was at least one backwards. Every seam has to be picked out and redone a second time - or even a third. And I already had a headache when I woke up. On days like this it's best not to be working on something that really matters, so I'm tackling Adrian's outfit instead of the dusty wine Victorian gown. The sleeves of Adrian's original outfit were too long so they needed shortening - but where? I cut a bit off the shoulder area, then had to reduce the middle section by folding and hand-sewing to make it shorter. The original sleeves were sewn right onto the body, but that isn't an option with clothes that need to be removable. So I added facings along the bottom openings of a thin wine red fabric to match the cuffs. Then it dawned on me that the wine red might leave marks on the boy's resin wrists, so off it all had to come, and I redid everything with a light tan fabric. The lower sleeves will need to lace up, but the edges are way too thick to insert eyelets, so I'm sewing the "eyes" from hooks & eyes along the outside edges. All this redoing of handwork goes very slowly. I'm trying to decide whether or not to insert eyelets into the front edges of the hooded cape-let or leave it as is. I also need to make him a wig, but am not sure if it's wise to even try that today.
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