Regency House Party and sewing update

[madamemodiste]

So last night, quite by accident, I discovered that a local PBS channel has been running Regency House Party on Thursday nights! I missed last week, but I saw most of last night's. I haven't seen it in quite a while as I have no idea where my VHS copy is that I recorded when it originally aired several years ago. Now I'm on a Regency kick and want to make a new gown, but I can't!

In other news, the pocket I attempted to make last week was a failure, so I had to re-cut a new jacket peplum. Yesterday I made the pocket flaps with contrasting piping. If I can't have a pocket, I can still have pocket flaps!

Comments

[madamemodiste.livejournal.com]

Good idea! Thanks for the tip!

Hey, did you have any problems with the neck area? Even in the medium, the immediate neck circumference seems small and I don't think I can button the first two buttons. If I cut the neck bigger, I'd have to re-cut a new collar, and [insert whiney voice] I don't wanna. I know I have to make the armscye bigger, so I'm hoping that will ease up the neck, too.

[bauhausfrau.livejournal.com]

I didn't but I'm a bit of a freak in that while I have normal sized hands and head my wrists and neck run a bit small.

You can also not button the top two though. With the yellow outfit I usually have but I kind of liked the looks of having it unbuttoned a bit for my pink pirate (who's a bit more of a flirt) If you've got the neckline filled in with a frilly jabot it looks fine.

[bauhausfrau.livejournal.com]

Also, as you can see from the icon, the collar doesn't meet exactly at cf. So if you're basing it on the collar, it will run a bit small, as long as the neck opening on the pattern is wide enough you should be fine.