Dress 4016 questions

Oh.. I'm a slow worker on this one :) Sorry about that.

Here I'm testing out my fabric colour on the drawing that came with the pattern. I think this is going to end well :)

As I was colouring the sketch of the dress I started to wonder about some lines in the drawing.

This is the cuff. Am I seing some piping here?

How about these bias band? Do they have some piping? How am I going to do that? Or am I?

There is no patern piece for the bottom part of the dress and that is fine with me. but what are the lines that I see? You have to keep in mind that there are no instructions to this pattern and no one of the other mmakers of this dress have stumbled upon these quiestions. I haven't seen any :)

Never the less I have printed the pattern, made some alterations (added inches) and am ready to go for it.....

And...ta da... my second try for that 1930's swagger is finished. Looking good, hee ;)

Not quite Edwardian

There is a celebration going on all year this year in Norway. It's 200 years since we got our national Constitution. The reason we are celebrating 17th of May each year. 

 So I'm making a full regency outfit......just for the fun of doing so.

This hat is made of a velvet curtain that I bought for 3 US $. I reused some part of the strawhat I used for my Edwardian hat that I remade.

I have to do it right from inside to the outside. These are my short stays.

This is the sheer fabric for my dress.

This is one of the ideas I'm playing with.

I'm having some problems with the collar of my Edwardian brown dress.  Am not pleased with the embroidery and plan to make it over and not quite like what I've seen others do. Stay tuned for that as well :D

Still here in 1912

It's about time I turn my attention back to these fabulous patterns. This dress E 4016 is next despite everything I might have planned earlier. 

This is the top layer, the collar with embroidery. I discovered that there was no easy overlap between the left and right side of the pattern. So as I marked the fabric I added a few circles to match up the pattern. I added a little to the size this way but I was aware of it as I had enlarged the pattern already. 

I'm using a thin chocolate brown linen and an unbleached muslin for the contrasting fabric and collar. These two are a tiny bit see through, but with all the underwear that was used at the time I see no problem with that. I think this dress is going to look great.........on me if I'm lucky :)