Hello, Internet. How are you? I've been okay. And fairly busy. I made some things! Want to see them?

So the thing about my job is that I have a lot of time for stuff. Not much going on at night. This means I have hours and hours every week to knit my heart out. I'm also getting some good reading done-I'm in the middle of NK Jemisin's Inheritance ( Read more... )

Internets, let me tell you a sad story. A story of woe. A story of despair. A story without a happy ending. It's also kinda long.

Once upon a time, I decided to make a pair of pants. They were going to be very nice pants (or trousers, if you prefer.) I bought some lovely dark blue linen/rayon that had a nice hand, didn't wrinkle too much, very ( Read more... )

Mostly, recently, I've been working on pants. Which is not very exciting, I must admit. There's a lot of fit shenanigans. I started with the tissue-fit method detailed in Pants for Real People (I really truly almost wrote "Pains for Real People") and have now moved on to a muslin. The book says with their method you don't need a muslin, but for my ( Read more... )

Please actually read the number on the packages you deliver. If, in fact, you did read the number and just didn't feel like coming up one flight of stairs to deliver it to me instead of my downstairs neighbors, it may be that package delivery is not an appropriate job for you.

No love,

Carrie

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On the plus side, my neighbors are nice people and were ( Read more... )

It was, in fact, done on time-finished before last Friday night, so I could wear it for graduation. (Honestly I'm not sure why I picked that event, since I was wearing my graduation robes/gown/thing most of the time.) I have now worn it twice and have Thoughts on its construction and ideas for future projects. I also finally have adequate photos.

( Many, many photos! )

I don't have all the photos I would like of the graduation dress yet, so you'll have to make do with this. It's a dress I made over two years ago. I had made it with the intention of wearing it to Hawaii on family vacation. When I got there, I decided it looked silly on me, and I never wore it. (Two major factors went into this: I wear dresses ( Read more... )

 Not much going on this week-it's getting close to finals and I've been writing a lot of papers, alas. I have less than a week of class remaining in my current college career and all I can think of is how tired I am. Blah.

Sewing: at the moment this is my main focus. I really want to get this dress done by graduation. I might have to put in a lot of ( Read more... )

Yesterday my cousin and I went to check out a little fabric shop in town, Yellow Bird Fabrics. Fantastic little store. It also happened to coincide with my registering for another Craftsy class, "Sew Retro: The Starlet Suit Jacket" (classes are 50% off this week!). Less because I'm into vintage or vintage-inspired patterns and more because I want ( Read more... )

Okay, so, I have 2 weeks of classes left and then finals. First of all, lots of assignments due, therefore stress. Second of all, it's spring! So I want to be outside and stuff. Third, I'll be graduating soon, eep! And I'm so swamped by "I can't wait for this semester to be over" because of 1 and 2 that I can't appreciate that I'll be moving on to ( Read more... )

 Went to Joann today to hit up their Simplicity pattern sale. Apparently I'm back on a sewing kick; I've recently decided that once school's out and I'm full-time job searching, I'm also going to sew myself some nice office-appropriate clothes, in the hopes that I will have a chance to wear them in an actual job. I'm still working on the graduation ( Read more... )