Hand sewing

Hand sewing is normally pretty enjoyable and relaxing for me but having to sew seven yards of lace I'm finding it very hard to keep focused. I tried using the sewing machine but it just didn't feel right and was too thick. So I turned to hand sewing it. So in total I'll have to sew fourteen yards of lace by hand. Its going to be a lot of work but I really want this petticoat to turn out how I've pictured it.

I had posted that I was going undo all the hemming I did as well as the lace but I realized if I pulled the gathering it went away so I wont be undoing all my work. I don't like this picture because of how gathered it is but I also forgot the the dress will be covering it since it will be long. A bit of a brain fart on my part.

I am however loving the lace I  chose! I wanted to get a more expensive lace but it wasn't rounded on the bottom and all the pictures show it being rounded. So right when I was going to give up I found this one and got it on sale. I've decided that I want to do two layers of lace.