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  As it turns out, using the netty prom fabric worked really well for a dangling trim around the neck, and not super for the trim around the bottom. It might have been faster to just embroider that pattern around the edge of the cloak, because the open weave had to be sewed down in many, many places, and loose ends wound up or covered with beads and sequins. Glitter glue dimensional paint might have been just as good and quicker, especially since the underlying fabric is a good tight weave. (You can see when it comes to dolls I think like a costumer and not a tailor ;) But it's all packed up and ready to go, and now I can finish up another commission.    The cat helped by staying out of the way for the last bit of beading:

It's actually for Chalyss ' Aaloriel, who is a Cedarheart Lillian head on a 72 resinsoul body. Poor Blue here gets to be the stand-in for height and shape, as I wrestle with the cloak--it started life out as some kind of flower girl? Baby Prom? dress and Chalyss recut it to more or less it's current shape. While the fabric is polyester, it's soft enough and silky enough to be pleasant to work with and the machine only has a little trouble keeping it moving through the feed dogs. My biggest problem was self-inflicted--I forgot to check what was in the bobbin when I made the casing for the drawstring, so the stitching is really obvious around the neck: So to cover that up I am going to work some of that wild coral-like prom dress fabric over the stitching--not enough to make the gathering gum up, but hopefully enough to make the stitches less obvious: Also it should work with the trim around the bottom of the cloak, which is the same stuff. Here is a side view of...