Note to self: Never, ever sew anything with more than one ruffle ever again.
The ruffled skirt is killing me. Hemming and trimming the ruffles was a piece o’ frickin’ cake compared to actually gathering and attaching the ruffles. All nine goddamned rows of ruffles.
I used to think it’d be neat to someday make a can-can skirt or flamenco dress with rows upon rows of ruffles. How hard could that be? It’s all straight sewing. Sure, it must be a little tedious, but nothing that difficult.
Yeah, but the tedium will drive me out of my tiny little mind. Actually, it’s not tedious. Hand-sewing on trim is tedious, and in comparison, I enjoy that lots. But gathering and attaching all the bloody ruffles is just so frickin’ fussy and bothersome. I’ve never liked adjusting gathers. It’s a major pain in the ass. Why did I forget this? Why didn’t I just leave it with a plain, unruffled red skirt? Because I had this silly idea about the ruffles edged w/black and all that pouf and texture. Me and my great ideas.
Thrift-store hat, waiting to be trimmed
I’m two-thirds of the way thru. Hopefully tomorrow I can get the last three ruffles done. These are the only ones that go all the way around the skirt too. So they’re the longest and most bothersome. Goody.
But I’m so close! Three rows of ruffles, then I can hem the skirt. Then the dress itself is done, and I get to play with the hat! Last weekend at the thrift store, I found a red felt, saucer-shaped child’s hat that will be a great base for a frou-frou Victorian hat trimmed in ruched black tulle and sushi erasers. Feathers would be nice too, if I have any in the Stash.
Sushi purse
Finished the purse today too. It’s a pointed drawstring bag half in red sushi print and half in solid red with red ribbon handles and a black tassel at the bottom with four of the large sushi beads, stacked two on two, between the head of the tassel and the purse itself. Quite freakishly cute, if I do say so m’self. Hope the hat turns out somewhere as good.