In other words, what do you do, when a day before the event, you realize that you lost enough weight to have the dress you just made a few months ago, hang on you.
I have dealt with weight changes over the last few years, I have quarantined out of my edwardian blouses, and realized that a day before the event as well (yeah, I should check my clothes sooner, I know), I had to turn in the boning and the hooks and eyes on my red dress because last years spring rush of Intermittent fasting was succesful, even if it was not long lasting.
And so it happened that I made my lovely Aidah gown early this year. However, I managed to find a much better doctor (GP) and I did got some help (if not a full diagnose yet) to some of my problems, and some medicine (for my blood-sugar and/ or insulin) problems, and finally loosing some weight. It is still difficult as hell, and I still have issues, but for the first time a long time things look more hopeful.
Anyhow, the topic for today is not my health issues, but the state of my wardrobe, and my quickie solution.
I made a full petticoat to go with my Aidah skirt, made the ruffle and the decoration all around, thinking, I can use it separately too if there will be a need. I also had a piece of green taffeta in my stash. I meantioned that store chain often enough before, called I love Textile. The manager of one of the shop's wrote to me sometime in february I believe, that she got a small piece of taffeta, do I want it? Of course. By small piece she meant that smaller than the usual minimum six meters I buy from these stuff, only about two meters. And it was GREEN. Green is so much NOT my color. I hardy ever had any green clothing... It is not entirely missing from my wardrobe like yellow, but there are ony a piece or two here and there. It was a big step away from my usual safe corner of blue, but it went well with the fabric I made my Aidah gown from.
I also had a piece of cotton, I got it from a friend, thinking, the print would be fine for 18th century, but then it is way too thin for anything than lining, or an underpetticoat. The coloring though went well with the green taffeta, so I had put them away together, to make something of.
Then last week, a day before we went to a baroque/rococo event, I was trying to decide what to wear (my "outlander" stuff... nahh, too hot. My red dress? Naahh, as much as I love it, it looks... with its primary colored printed red cotton, it clashes Nóri's aristocratic mint green dress, and I would loved if the group appears more... more in one style, not all over the place. That is partly I went for the more aristocratic taffeta with the Aidah gown. So I've tried that one, and ... oops, it is waaay to big, and you can see that at the boobs and the neckline...
However, my friday night was more-or less free. I already had the pattern, I made my outlander jacket from it, though I wanted the "other" version the pattern offers, and I needed to make a new mock up to fix the fitting issues caused by my weight loss. (No, I was not going to buy another, smaller pattern. As much as I like the JP RYAN patterns, I resent the fact that they only come in one size).
Unfortunately, it was late, and as usual, I was concentrating on sewing (and doing it fast), so no pictures of the process itself. But here is the finished result
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