Sew Sew-ee with Parchment

Here's what I've been sewing.  I've mastered this skirt pattern, I think.  

The welted pockets were a challenge and I could NOT understand what Burda was trying to explain in their instructions so I took to Youtube and found a tutorial on how to do welt pockets.  It took three tries on samples, but I finally figured it out before jumping into this tan skirt.  

It's not something Maddy will be wearing in Colorado as it's just a smidge too heavy of fabric for summer, but it will be good for fall.

Then I made a second one with the recommended ties, but they haven't been attached yet.  

Maddy sounded gracious and tried to come up with what colors to wear with it.  So... she may not be too keen on my choice of fabric. :)  Oh well.  It does seem shiny with the flash on...  When she's home she can pick out the fabric that she wants and I'll make it again.  I've got a nice thick wool...

TUTORIAL TIME

I've been agonizing over how to attach the lace cutouts onto the skirt of the wedding dress that I'm making.  I've tried various types of fabric glues and even Elmer's glue but they always ended up way too stiff and/or crunchy.  So I went back to JoAnn's and asked for the lightest weight wonder-under type double sided fusible interfacing that they have and explained my project.  They were very helpful and recommended one.  And at this moment, I can't tell you what kind it is.  Ask me later when I've been back upstairs...

So here is the deal.  I had already cut out lots of flowers from the lace and was hoping to not have to trim around the fusing again.  Here is what I did this morning as a sample.

I placed the lace bit on a bit of the fusing.  Placed a sheet of parchment paper over the top and ironed it for 8-10 seconds, counting long.  

Let it cool for a few seconds.  Peeled off the back paper of the fusing and pulled off as much of the excess fusing as possible.  Easy...  This is going to be slick.

Then placed it on the chiffon.  The iron has been burning the chiffon just a bit as it's delicate stuff so I placed a piece of parchment on top of the chiffon with lace bit and then ironed for 8-10 seconds.

The lace bit started coming off a bit so I ironed again for 8-14 seconds.  Parchment paper is my new best friend!  THEN it stuck.  and REALLY good too.  You can't pick that lace bit off at ALL.

And it's still flowy and not stiff one little bit.

YAY!  This part of the project won't be as bad as I thought it might be after all!

Now... just 29 more easy steps until that wedding dress is done.  And it may or may not be at the fair in 2.4 weeks!  But we'll see...  I've got permission to enter it if I can.

SEW on my toes.  I have to be...