First I'd like to say that your work is beautiful. Second. When a person has sloped shoulders, having a seam at the shoulders of the facing/decorative piece to match the base garment shoulder seams helps things to lay flatter.
That means a bit more work when doing the planning for the embroidery. You have to know what the ground clothing will be, and cut the neck holes out on the dress/tunic and trace it for the facing at the same time. Then you shape the shoulders together just as you described, sew a seam for the tunic and then trace that same angle for the embroidery. You will end up with two pieces to embroider with angles where they will be sewn together at the top of the shoulder. Leave them uncut so you can use frame or hoop. Next, do the embroidery. Then cut out the two pieces and sew them together. Plan to do a bit of finishing embroidery after sewing the seams to connect lines and such things. I find that allowing a TON of seam allowance at neck and outside edge makes this easier. Then attach to the garment. I have done this sort of neck and find that unless the person is seriously buff, there is always a bit of a pucker. You can either ignore it, button the hole closed, or slope the shoulders appropriately. That last requires that the trim/decoration have the same slope in a seam in the same place. Good luck, and here's the one I did for the coronation (SCA) for the King of Ansteorra a year or so ago. Genie http://www.justinanimator.com/genie/sca/coronationTunic_hrafn/arm.jpg http://www.justinanimator.com/genie/sca/coronationTunic_hrafn/crowningQueen.jpg http://www.justinanimator.com/genie/sca/coronationTunic_hrafn/hrafn.jpg http://www.justinanimator.com/genie/sca/coronationTunic_hrafn/neck.jpg http://www.justinanimator.com/genie/sca/coronationTunic_hrafn/tunic.jpg On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Pixel, Goddess and Queen < pi...@hundred-acre-wood.com> wrote: > > But apparently I have to be special. My shoulders slope pretty > dramatically--I have lovely Victorian champagne-bottle shoulders--which > means that to fit smoothly my gowns get a little more tailoring. > Specifically, I sew the two body panels together straight, do the neckline > with a keyhole facing and then re-cut the panels (starting from the seam on > the neck facing) down at an angle out to the point of the shoulder. The > result is that it drops the point of the shoulder down about 1 1/2", but > then when it comes time to attach the embroidery to the gown there is more > embroidery than there is gown and it won't lie flat. > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
