Anyway:

I need more bear (chocolate Lindt). Also Eddie Izzard is on our tv so I am in a weird place. Happy but weird.
No; that’s Shredded Wheat.

Obnoxious Bart Mode enabled. I need a pan for a hat and one for a drum to shout “I am the greatest, everybody loves me, I am the greatest” because I freaking ombre dyed fully sequinned fabric and I so deserve it!
Recipe is equal parts Kelley Green and Turquoise but in a very dilute bath and a bare skant amount of colour enhancer.
But baby that is ombre dyed and while the hem and bodice are very different, it’s very hard to find where they merge.

Booyah!

This whole different programs thing sucks. Also the lighting is difficult to work with.

My posts are a bit backlogged due to file size- updated WordPress and that setting seemed to change.
Anyway. Back to original plan. Pinning the shell layers and removing the stitching guide.
The shell layers are stretchier than the lining which is why I wanted to use it to hold the layers in place, but three or four layers of sequins is too much bulk at the waist seam.

Seam guide in dark blue sewing from the top with a locking stitch to pull and lay the two layers together.

Whoops ahead of myself, first pic was finding where I left off 🙂
Now thread emerges out of skirt layer one sequin width to the left, pick up bodice fabric one sequin to the right. The natural twist and resistance of the thread means this is not a messy as it sounds.
Gutermann quilting cotton colour 6217.

Unpicking the fabric guides. Dark blue stitching line, pale blue to hold the skirt shell to the edge of the bodice lining.
Pins have to old everything! So I’ll do this section by section.

The waist is free, I repeat the waist is free! Now to work out if I need to machine or hand sew. I need to clip that point though!