October Mending

This month saw a fair amount of activity. Getting ready for Ft. Nisqually's candlelight tours, I ended up re-fitting my blue wool extensively. It was too tight through the bodice and upper sleeves, so I:

1. Took the skirt off the bodice.
2. Removed most of the waist piping.
3. Removed the sleeves and jockeys.
   
4. Opened the side seams of the bodice.
5. Spent way too long agonizing about the fit.
   
6. Pieced in new material at the bodice sides.
   
7. Pieced the waist piping and reattached it.
8. Added a watch pocket during step 7.
   
9. Removed the skirt from the scrap waistband.
10. Ran new gathering threads where they had broken on the skirt.
11. Gauged the skirt directly to the bodice this time.
12. Adjusted the seams on the sleeves.
13. Opened the seams on the jockeys.
14. Re-attached the sleeves, jockeys, and piping to the armhole.
15. Basted along the center front to try and keep the lining from peeking out.
    

After all this, naturally, the sleeves decided to work their way loose. Again. It took two nights this time, which is an improvement over the usual rate of tearing out part of both sleeves every time I wear this dress.

I also managed to fix a section of stroked gathering which had worked out on my diagonal-tuck petticoat.