{"id":1386,"date":"2011-10-14T21:12:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T04:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2015-08-01T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T16:41:11","slug":"three-day-assiut-challenge-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/three-day-assiut-challenge-day-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Day Assiut Challenge – Day Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Friends in Dance and Costuming,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At the end of day three of this assiut challenge, and what have I got done?\u00a0 Well, most of the bra and a pinned together skirt. Today, I spent quite a bit of time fiddling with the numerous darts.\u00a0 Usually, when I’m covering a bra, I use one or two darts.\u00a0 But in this case, I was attempting to divide the darts, spreading out excess fabric, so that under each strip is a mini dart.\u00a0 I started with the top three strips at the tops of each cup and adjusted and fiddled with each subsequent stripe, trying to make the right side match.\u00a0 Moving from one side to the other\u00a0 ensures that the stripes are as symmetrical as I can get them. I invested quite a bit of time positioning each stripe and dart, nearly three hours!\u00a0 And boy, did I used a LOT of those whimsical (yet dull) pins!<\/p>\n

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Each stripe had to be carefully pinned into place one at a time to create good symmetry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I always pin and look Pin and look. Pin and Look. At one point, I actually made sure all the little tips were buried and tried it on!\u00a0 When I was satisfied with the position of the stripes, I then\u00a0 and made sure that the darts were all carefully folded and tucked.<\/p>\n

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Here you can see me slipping a finger into one of these numerous small darts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And then I sewed like mad!<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Hours later, several cups of coffee and a lot of TV.\u00a0 (Yeah Project Runway, Chopped, and Engineering an Empire to name a few who kept me company while my head was down and my needle was up!)<\/p>\n

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Assiut Bra Cups – Nearly done!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sadly, I did all this stitching in black thread, so it’s difficult to see the details, but here’s the best shot I could get.<\/p>\n

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Detail of the right ceenter of Assiut Bra. You can really see how many little darts I pinned into place to get those radiating lines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And I’m done for day three.\u00a0 What’s left to do?\u00a0\u00a0 First, I need to come up with a solution to make the center front of the bra beautiful and finished.\u00a0 In the photo above, you can see the thickness of the pleated fabric.\u00a0 I’m going to the show tomorrow, and I will search the dealer’s room tables for a piece of jewelry.\u00a0 Alternately, I can place a fabric applique over the exposed triangle of bra.<\/p>\n

Tonight, I’m packing my sewing kit up, the scraps of assiut, my books, patterns and heading over to the show tomorrow morning.\u00a0\u00a0 If you’re in San Diego, stop by Bedouin Bazaar<\/a>, drop by my booth and say “HI,”<\/p>\n

I’ll work on that center front panel tomorrow!\u00a0 ~ Dawn Devine ~ Davina<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>

Hello Friends in Dance and Costuming, At the end of day three of this assiut challenge, and what have I got done?\u00a0 Well, most of the bra and a pinned together skirt. Today, I spent quite a bit of time fiddling with the numerous darts.\u00a0 Usually, when I’m covering a bra, I use one or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[45,8,10,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assiut-assuit","category-belly-dance","category-belly-dance-costuming","category-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/AssiutBra-12.jpg?fit=504%2C378&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YZtR-mm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}