2 questions...

[lovetriangle]

1) I'm gettin' ready to get to work on the PDSvN dress again and I'm squeaking by on barely enough fabric for some parts so I can't screw it up. I am leery of pinking and slashing the lining of the pendant sleeves because I'm using dupioni. Any tips? I want to avoid using something like a fusabel interfacing just because I'm not sure I want to add that much stiffness or weight. I don't know... Exacto? Chisel? Pizza dough poker wheel? Any ideas?

2) The new/used laptop looks like it may actually become mine this week and I want to revamp my website - I have some to update on the individual dress diaries. What do y'all want to see? What would make it useful/enteratining/not want to gouge you own eyes out?

Comments

[sewphisticate.livejournal.com]

If it's dupioni, I'd use one of the crimped-edge hammer-blades that one would usually use for 18th c ruffle edges, and then instead of a straight slash I'd futz it more like this: () (because those blades are mostly curved.) Although there's always the careful application of Fray Check, which might solve the problem. But DooD! Dupioni!

[love3angle.livejournal.com]

Alas, fray check permanently darkens the edges of thin silk like dupioni or taffetta. :-(

hmmmmmmm, curved chisel... I see it...

At my old job I was near to a Sally's fabrics in a really horrible mall (Fox Hills) that carried almost nothing but cheap yarn and african prints, but they always had a silk remnants table for $4-$6/yd (almost always dupioni - never taffetta). I always had the best/weirdest luck finding really odd colors of stuff since these would be the bolt ends of what they carried - mustard yellows, oranges, hot pinks, and really odd greens. I've got a collection of odd greens in this dress and I think it will turn out very pretty. It may end up being a little too matchy-matchy but I think the silver braid will offset that. I hope.

[lizcostumes.livejournal.com]

I use a thicker glue like "jewel-it" (used for rhinestones) because its so thick it sits at the surface of the fabric, wont bleed through, and dries clear anyway.