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Who's going to be there? 

AMAZINGLY, the date for the Open Day has been announced 5 months in advance!  Incredibly useful, as we can book flights and hotels at an affordable rate, and try to bags decent theatre seats too ( Read more... )

Wow.  So.  Seems so long ago already, but it really was just yesterday ( Read more... )

Today was Wicked day! I hope you all celebrated in a suitably verdant manner? no? nevermind...
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After hardly sleeping all night, only lightly dozing, I got round to Goldhawk Road, on the underground, and got the fabric for the Glinda skirt.  4 metres was *JUST* enough, literally about 5" spare. I then dragged myself into Uni, and made this fabric into the skirt for Glinda, it's a base for the attachment of bubbles.  Proper petersham waistband ( Read more... )

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All week I have been working flat-out, sewing til midnight, yet nothing seems to be getting DONE.  Nothing's finished.  Arrrrghhhhhh!!!!!!

GLINDA:
Underskirt - done bar fastening.
Bodice - panels cut in drille, satin and organza.  Boning cut to length, doubled for strength, capped with binding at the ends to stop them digging in.  Tape channels sewn onto drille layer to encase binding. Drille, Satin and Organza layers flat-tacked together.

Next: Overlock round the panels to stop them ( Read more... )

I fail at keeping track of what I've been up to!  So I'm just gonna list where I've got to now.  It'll be dull, don't bother reading...

Right.  As of today:

GLINDA: 
SO FAR:  Underskirt done, bar a fastening.  Needs fitting.
 Bodice initial toile fitted.  But now, with more reference pics and the underskirt made, I need to re-make the back of the toile ( Read more... )

http://www.bellesdomain.co.uk/open05.html

yeah. says it all, really!

Tho please, if anyone can tell me what's wrong with my code, I NEED to know! A lot of people tell me they're seeing black text on black, but it shows up as white text fine for me...


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