Busily Sewing!

Hannah and I have been busily sewing away, getting ready for the tea on Saturday! We found a dress that fits her at the fort, so she is going to wear that (we’ll make her her own dress at a later date). Also on Hannah’s list, is a chemise and a pair of drawers. We couldn’t find any her size and we probaby won’t get her any before the tea. But we did find her a A-lady’s corset for about $37. 00 on e-bay! Her size was over-stocked at A-lady and I just happened to look on thier e-bay store. (I see she still has more of the over stocked on her e-bay store).

On Saturday, on our way home from the fort (where we also couldn’t find petticoats to fit Hannah) we got three dust ruffles to make her a quick (and farby) petticoat. We finished it last night, I’ll post pictures later. Dispite it’s farbyness, it’s perfect! Gives Hannah the perfect shape she needed without having to make a million and a half petticoats. We have named it “The watermelon petticoat”, as it looks like a watermelon. *grins*

The skirt on Hannah’s dress was kinda short, but luckily, it had a self hem facing of four inches, so we have taken it out and sewn a new facing on it, all we need now is to hem it. Then we will be done getting ready for the tea! We even got a collar on  Hannah’s dress too!

As for my purple wool dress? I decided that I’m too lazy to finish it before the tea. There’s still alot to do on it, like, sew on the trim, sew the skirt to the waist band, sew the darts, make pipping, pipe the neck and waist, sew the sleeves on, and closers. Oh well, I think I’m going to wear my gray sheer anyway as it’s one of my favorites and is really comfortable. (I think I shall be-ribbon it with some blue silk ribbon too.