Another "quick" project

Among the many textile things the friend brought over the summer were many pieces of partially dis-assembled clothing, including a purple tiered skirt with the waistband cut off.

  I had it stuffed in with my fabric for a while, and finally decided to make a quick bodice to sew it  to, to make another under dress.

Of course things didn't go as quick as they could have.



I used New Look 6068 again for the bodice--and remembered to take a picture of the pattern envelope this time:

View D was chosen again, and with a little pivot at the side again, but this time cropped at the waist "lengthen/shorten here" line.  Also, the even bigger deviation: finishing the neckline and arm openings with visible bands instead of facings. (I honestly can't remember if I had the thought to do that on my own after dealing with the facings on the last version, or if it was while looking at all the knit tops on the Thornberry sewing blog around that time that I realized...oh.  right.  bands instead of facings.)

 (colors have been adjusted to try to show the proper purple, but now my closet doors look pink.)

So, yeah--the bands!

 Finished with my usual two rows of top stitching, although I tried making the second row closer than usual this time,and it worked well everywhere but the lower curve of the neckline up there.  I had no inclination to pick it out and sew it again, because...

well...

Since I was creating the bands on my own, I made the neckl line band too long to begin with, which I kind of realized so cut it shorter before seaming and sewing, and then it was till too long.  And.  Me being me, I thought, "Oh, surely it's just floppy because I haven't stitched sown the seam allowance yet!" so I did all my usual top stitching before admitting that...yeah. it was too long.  Now, I probably could have just carefully cut everything off along the stitching and cut a new (and shorter!) band, but, again: it's me.  So I picked out all three rows of stitching, cut a lot of inches off of the band, and sewed it again.  Much better that time.

And then I used my new "it must be significantly shorter" knowledge to cut several inches off of the arm opening bands and sewed those on with no problems.

  I once again and set the band seam, as well as the top stitching starts and stops, in the back center, since there were no notches to align and I was working purely off of matching centers.  All the back stitching isn't too noticeable.

(I also have no memory of how I acquired this cloth, which is a nice interlock that's possibly more charcoal than black, and had obviously been used for some other project before.)

 I gathered the skirt a bit and stretched the bodice a bit and the junction isn't beautiful, but that's OK, since this is meant to wear under other things.  (It doesn't have pockets, so I may or may not wear it alone.)  That waist seam is the only one I serged.

(and now I see the bad gather spot.  Probably not worth picking out and re-sewing--because this is meant to go under things!--no matter how much it offends me technically and aesthetically.)

Obligatory back view

I wore this as a layer yesterday, and it mainly highlighted how many more long-sleeved shirts and tunics I should make...