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motorharp ([personal profile] motorharp) wrote2018-06-09 07:30 pm

Circle Dress part 1

I interfaced the entire front bodice of my circle dress based on the example dress I deconstructed. I found that Pellon 865F Bi-Stretch Lite was closest in look and feeling to the interfacing in the RTW dress. 

Also, it did not have the normal sewing industry interfacing instructions - hold the iron on one area for 10-15 seconds. They said to glide the iron across the surface. And I had just read Fashion Incubator's "How to apply interfacing", in which Kathleen Fasanella said basically the same thing, but much more in depth. I used to hate fusing interfacing because it took so long! Just ironing it on is such a relief.

After I figure out whether I need stabilizers on my back darts, I intend to construct the dress using a combination of what I learned from the RTW dress and, again on Fashion Incubator, articles about "A better way to sew linings and facings" part 1 and part 2.

The article "Interfacing, 10 tips" has good info, too.

I sewed the circle dart and the CF seam. The circle seams are 1/4" and the CF seam is 3/8".  Sewing a curved seam with 1/4" SAs is so amazingly easy. I did not have to clip anything and it went together so smoothly. SO SMOOTHLY.

Oh, and I may need to trim the back darts?

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[personal profile] gorthx 2018-06-10 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I want to try some of this interfacing! I didn't even know you could get two-way stretch.