borders madness

[jennylafleur]

Ack! Stupid dress! It was going to so well too.

I got the tunic sewn on yesterday and tried it on. B and I decided following the line of the under dress didn’t work, it dips down too much under the arm. The tunic needed more of a straight line. Should have taken pics. Oh well.

I played around with the height of the tunic skirt, even putting on my shoes, jewelry and playing with my hat. Oh this outfit is going to be uber cute at CC! No pics, on purpose this time – you have to wait! *hee hee*

Anyway ripped out the stitching, took the tunic off and stitched it back on, higher this time (did I mention this was all by hand?). Collapsed unto bed. Then I started thinking. When I sewed up the back seam, all nicely with a hand hemmed opening for the zipper, going into a French seam, I totally forgot that I had to cut the tunic to make it shorter. My plan had been to cut it and make a seam right under the belt, the hide it and still give me a border at the top and bottom. *sigh* This is the real reason I hate French seams, once you do them (especially if you trim them) that’s it.

I’ve been agonizing over it most of the morning but I think rather than mess with my perfect back seams (hours and hours of fiddly work) or cut and create a seam right above the border (possibly ruining the flow of the tunic also enter hours of fiddly work) that I am just going to cut the bottom border off and hem it. It wasn’t my original design but then neither was using the border on the sleeves or using so much of the end border on the underskirt. It’s a different look with out the tunic border, simpler but perhaps simpler will be better after all. Usually is on me.

If I hate it can always sew the border back on (creating that iffy seam there) I guess.

Oh I just had a thought… I have tons of fabric left. I could just cut a new tunic and start from scratch on that, making it the right length and then finishing the seams. Oh dear, now I’m undecided again. I think I’ll work on the belt and ponder…

What do you think? (when looking at the pics, the pic with the lower tunic border is the correct length of the tunic)

[Poll #769590]

Comments

[lmcbeth.livejournal.com]

Uh--I think I voted for the look I like...

I really, really, really like the look for the first picture, is that "no border" and "just cut it off"?

I like the other look too, but the first pic I clicked on I said outloud, "Wow, that looks really good" so, I guess I like that one!

[girliegirl32786.livejournal.com]

I would say do which is best for your sanity. It looks fine both ways (more than fine actually, beautiful). It really is looking fabulous. :)

[elegant-musings.livejournal.com]

It seems I'm in the minority here, but I voted that it doesn't look right without the border. To my eye it just looks off or unfinished. Of course, you only have so much time, so in the interest of keeping your sanity (remember that discussion we had about you not stressing yourself too much over CC?!), I'd just go without. You can always redo it later, right??

[suededsilk.livejournal.com]

I voted for the border; I think, with all the borders on everything (sleeves, underskirt, etc.) that it looks better. *However*, View A does look very beautiful too, and I know I wouldn't want to mess with back seams.
If you do cut the border off, you can always sew it on again later if you really don't like it, too.