Finishing the Frilly Edwardian Underwear - Wearing History 1910s Combinations

And then I'll go down to Bogey. Because Bogey's very excited about it. Such a cutie. I want to be in the video, Mama! Put me in the video! And scratch my butt! Never forget about the butt. I'm feeling a bit hungover after the cape. And what do you do when you feel hungover? You drink mimosas. Being hungover could mean that you're dehydrated. Please don't drink more alcohol. Drink water instead. This has been a PSA from your friendly sewist. No, but seriously. After the cape and the corset, I need an easy project. Hopefully these combinations don't give me too much trouble. Let's do this thing. Well, this is bigger than I thought it would be. I finally got pattern weights so I don't have to use random things like decks of cards and sewing machine feet. Look at how cute they are! From what I can gather from the instructions, we are creating a small little pin tuck along these lines here. Once I sew this one down, I'll fold this back and then sew a pin tuck here catching this edge to finish it. I think that's what it's saying. Let's try it and find out. I stitched the line here on the outside and then I folded back the facing. There you go. And folded under the raw edge to catch on this little tuck that I made for the second one. Let's see, let me zoom out. Okay, there we go. And then I will sew here, hopefully catching that facing and hopefully that's right. I ended up sewing two lines of stitches to make sure that I caught everything and then I sewed another line of stitching over here and now it's decorative. And then the left side is easy just hemming it down like a regular hem. Super easy. Now let's find buttons. This past Christmas I participated in the Reddit gift exchange and I ended up getting like a million and one buttons. So it's always fun going through my button box because I don't actually know what's in there. Um, but I think I'm gonna go with one of these three. I just haven't quite figured out which one. I love these teeny tiny little buttons. I just love everything that's tiny. These are just like the smallest. Ooh, I think they're so cute! Can buttons be cute? Okay, front and back are sewn together at the shoulders and at the side seams. I also added gathering stitches down at the bottom. Um, I think I'm going to, instead of doing the gathering at the top, I'm going to add bias tape around there and make a casing. Let's try it! I slept on it and decided I don't like it. So I'm gonna unpick this front part here and add in those gathering stitches and do it the way it says to do it. It'll look better. Yeah, I like that much better. I think it was wishful thinking on my part thinking I needed adjustability in the bust. These babies aren't gonna grow. This is perfectly fine. Darts are sewn up on the shorts. I also sewed up the back seam. Now it's time to deal with this little box pleat. Gorgeous. I sewed a narrow hem on all the openings and now it's time to sew these legs up and I guess sew it to the top and figure out what looks pretty now. Does this happen to anyone else? No matter how careful I am with my lipstick it somehow gets everywhere. Luckily it's on the inside so nobody will see it but this is what I'm thinking now. I've got some beading and edging lace here that I think I'm gonna put at the collar and then the same edging lace around the sleeve. I can't decide if I want this insertion lace or if I just want beading at the waist. I'm not sure. I'll save that till last. And then I've got oh it's terribly pinned on but I've got this hanging lace thing that I have gathered terribly. I'll do a better job once I actually go to sew it. And then this lace at the top. So I have a full night ahead of me of just sewing on all this lace. Okay I've got the lace sewn on to one leg. Basically what I did was I took an 80 inch length of lace and gathered it down to 40 inches and then sewed along the line that was marked on the pattern for the ruffle. And then I cut off the large portion of this. I've left about this much that I will probably end up hemming but I'm gonna put the other lace on top first. So yeah. And you've worked hard and you've sewn on all the lace and then you realize you ran out of bobbin thread at the very beginning. I got the lace sewn on to the bottom and oh my gosh it looks so good! And I've changed I've changed what I wanted to do I think I'm gonna do the insertion lace at the waist. We'll see. And then at the top let me just move this closer the top I was thinking now of maybe just doing this beading and then the edging lace just at the sleeves I don't know. It'll probably change tomorrow. I ended up going with this insertion lace. So what I ended up doing was sewing the insertion lace down unpicking the seam that I had already done in the waist and now I'm just gonna trim this up and you know hem it so it's nice and clean and finished on the inside and that's how you do insertion lace. I got that all sewed down. I also just ended up adding just this edging lace to the top and to the sleeves. I thought it looked really nice and simple. No need to complicate things. And then added two hooks and bars at the waist to hold it closed and we're done. These combinations were actually quite easy to make. I think the hardest part was figuring out which lace I wanted to use where but I think they turned out perfect. I think maybe they might be slightly long in the legs but I mean I'm wearing it over the corset so it doesn't really matter. Um and yeah I just I think they're beautiful. I'm super excited about it. And I'm excited to start more sewing projects now that I'm done with the underwear I can actually make the pretty things. Unfortunately I have to wait for my fabric to come in and it's snowing outside. So who knows when that will happen. What do you do when you're super excited to sew but you don't have anything to sew? I guess I could start on my mending pile but that's no fun. Now that I'm done with all the undergarments I got a little curious. I was wondering what some of my Edwardian outfits that I had previously made would look like with the proper undergarments because up until now I haven't had those. Like this video like and subscribe and I will be back in two weeks with another video. Who knows what? Who knows when my fabric's coming in? We'll see.