linebacker

 
So here's where I'm at halfway through the weekend. The dress engineer says I look "imposing" in this. I'm going to go ahead and assume he means well. There's no lining, no edging, no hem, no gussying up of the collar, and I've only put about half of the various velvet bits on here, but you get the idea. It's big. It's dark. It's....imposing, I guess?

 
Here's a close-up of how I'm couching satin cord and lots of cat hair onto the velvet strips. I don't apparently sew any straighter by hand than I do on the machine, but from a little further away than this the effect is kind of nice.