It’s been a while since an update but with good reason. The last few weeks have been spent cutting the strips for each tier to width, folding their edges over in order to iron them to the correct width, hand basting twenty-two strips to each tier then top-stitching each one. I’m not quite finished basting the strips to the bottom tier, but today I need to construct the bodice.
I’m not really looking forward to putting the bodice together. I’ve been waiting because I need to put the zip in as I construct it and the zip extends past the lower edge into the top couple inches of the first tier.
Hopefully I can insert a lapped zip. In order to do a lapped zip I have to leave the bodice in pieces until after the zip is in. Sort of. Kind of. Argh, I’m getting a headache just thinking about it.
