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| the finished cuffs and collar |
After I don't know how many months, I finally finished the gold embroidery on the cuffs and collar, for the blouse/sleeves.
What were my last steps? Basically finishe embroidering the collar and then cut out the white fabric. Of the three, which have about the same area of embroidery, the second cuff was the slowest to embroider. It's usually in the middle of a longer project where I start to procrastinate and don't work much on anything. I think the second cuff ended up being embroidered at about that time where I had a major crafters blank. The embroidery work is also the best in the first cuff, then the collar, and lastly the second cuff. I may have been quicker when I got to the collar, which may be a mixture of speeding up with practice and wanting to get rid of this job entirely. I still love to embroider, but it's a tedious work, and takes a long time. Finally, I applied the UHU glue on the back, of which I should have applied two coats, but I think I only did it on the first cuff, and, cut the white fabric out. This also took a long time, as my fingers would start hurting, using the small embroidery scissors, after a while. I also was much more careless with the second cuff and the collar, which resulted in cutting a few gold threads. This issue results both from lack of patience in the last stretch of the task, and the smaller amount of glue in the back. To correct this, I applied small drops of UHU glue on top, with a silicone brush. These silicone brushes were one of the best purchases for this costume, as they're perfect to apply glues and other messy materials.
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| the completed blouse, with attached cuffs and collar |
After I felt the cuffs and collar were completed, I tacked them to the blouse. I used the same gold embroidery thread, doubled up, and sewed the corners of the cuffs, following the existing embroidery threads. Perfect camouflage! For the collar, as it's thinner and longer, I also tacked it at the shoulder seams and in the middle front. When I patterned this, I didn't take into account that the height of the EVA foam, even if thin (2mm), would make it shorter than the fabric cuffs, and also didn't take into account how the embroidery also would shrink it a bit. So the fabric collar and cuffs underneath are a bit warped, but's not the most noticeable thing. I need to take both these factors into account if making something similar in the future. Lesson learned!
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| the collar |
This blouse is far from perfect and refined as I wanted to. I guess if I would have taken a few weeks, or a month, to work solely on this costume, besides the sewing part likely being completed by this time, the end results would be neater. But I'm happy I have two pieces 100% completed by now, 2/7. Not that bad, I guess...
+ it's completely finished, looks great, and it's pretty. That's much due to my choice of materials and techniques.
- it took too long, mostly because I procrastinated a lot, and I glot sloppy in the end. It' still looks good, so I'm pretty satisfied with the result.
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