Heirloom Update

Between other sewing jobs and mundane housework my heirloom project is coming along slowly yet surely. I am working on the collar pieces.  I have decided to work on the pieces of the dress that involve handwork first before tackling the construction of the dress as a whole...if I'm making sense.

Both the collar and sleeves have faggoting stitches that attach the main piece to some bias trim.  Both the collar and sleeves are piped as well.  I made some piping out of royal blue baby check gingham.

Below I'm posting some pictures of the progress on the collar pieces:

 Here I'm making the piping.

 I snipped close to where the piping cord is sandwiched between the fabric to allow the piping trim to lay neatly around the collar and stitched with my piping foot.

 Here the trim and the main collar piece are pinned to some tracing paper ready for the faggoting stitch.

 I am new to this stitch but starting to get the hang of it. :)

Here is the first collar piece with the faggoting stitches completed.  Now on to the other collar piece!

Thanks for reading my blog,

Marla