WiP - Cross Marian - Frilly Shirt
After some research I decided to add the frilly shirt to the sewing pile as Cross not only has two cassocks (hell no I won't sew both, he has even more but i am only willing to do a certain amount to get the most recent outfit or the one I like the most done) but two shirts and he wears the red lined cassock with both of them. Well long story short: here is the progress of the frilly shirt.
As the shirt has pintucks on one side I had to test how they are made, I never made pintucks but was willing to learn how to do them. I learned making them "backwards" is smarter and that I need to calculate in more fabric when doing them.
The button row was added, I had thought about adding real buttons but decided against it as Cross has this weird inbetween scale and they would add too much bulk for the overall shirt.
The sleeves got their ruffles, a bit more toned down as in the original and hey I managed to not make them 2m too long for the doll.
Next up was adding the collar and the ruffles for it. of course I tested like a million times .. you know me and my luck with collars.
As mentioned I learned I need to add more fabric when doing pintucks as the shirt was too small now, or let's phrase it different: the closure was in the middle and the shirt is supposed to be closed slightly off to one side.
Sewing in sleeves, closing seams, adding snap buttons and we are almost done!
In the end I corrected one pintuck that somehow didn't get caught by the thread and added pearls as visible "buttons", which give the shirt a much finer look than buttons would have.
We do ignore i messed up the posting order and this was done before the cassock :')
