Eugenie bodice, flatlined inside
Period sewing techniques suck! So insanely slow and looks much more crappy than modern tricks — specifically, only flat-lining instead of flat-lining for strength and bag-lining for tidiness. Gah, the inside of this gown looks like hell and took all day to “finish,” such as it is.
This masquerade costume is full of stuff I’m never, ever doing again. Not bag-lining. Piping. Hand-made eyelets. Never again!!!
At least making the piping went a lot faster, thanks to Bridget’s trick of using spray-basting to hold it together until sewing. Also, finally having an actual piping foot hugely helped. Not gonna do the fancy thing Kendra showed me with the piping half-wider on one side and then folded over on the middle. Too much trouble, not enough time. The seam edges are all raw and simply over-casted by hand. I’ll do the same with the piping edges and they’ll all fray equally (which is to say, a hell of a lot — srsly, why are people so against bag-lining? this is a mess inside! an “accurate” mess, but whatevs).