Iron: 2, Marianne: 0

So I lost another argument with my iron yesterday. I wanted to iron the bodice pieces after interfacing and sewing them all together. The iron was set a wee bit too high and wanted to scorch my interfacing. *sighs* I didn't have enough interfacing to cut a new panel either. SO! This morning before I go in to work I'll be making a quick little stop to get new interfacing- one with a cotton instead of poly fiber content.

But I suppose blessings come is disguise sometimes. I was having trouble sleeping last night and didn't manage to fall asleep until about 3am. (another one of those 'blessings' I guess) But in the process, I decided I wanted to add a bit of embellishment to the bodice anyways. So I'll be grabbing some beads this morning as well. Should be fun. I haven't done any beading since my 40K project.



Here's this morning's progress picture. The skirt is just pinned onto the dummy, so it'll definately lay a better once it's sewn up properly, but as you can see, the shantung is no where near as shiny as the tafetta- it photographs much better. And the fabric is nice to work with too! No real slipping to speak of, doesn't wrinkle badly at all, etc, etc, praise, praise. Now I'm happy I bought almost two yards extra :D Well, one and a half once I correct my mistake with the bodice, but still! I can make something else to match or something. A purse or a sash for the dress or something. We'll see how it goes.

As for the background of the blog, I'll get around to changing it when I've got a free day later this week. It took me an entire afternoon to figure it out and since I didn't think I'd be changing it any time soon I didn't bother to try to remember how I did it so it'll take me an entire afternoon again. In any case, I don't have any problem reading it! I get a nice shiny white background upon which to type. :p