As with my brown 1860s this is a post mostly about templates and measuring. Fun!  I actually really enjoy the measuring-and-mathing part of sewing, so figuring out how to divide x space into y repetitions of the design is one of my favorite parts. It's complicated by the fact that panels don't usually end up a width that fits into whole integers - ( Read more... )

I unexpectedly was scheduled to have a 4-day weekend and I had approximately nothing to do -- since I have completely forgotten How to Weekend -- so I called my mom and asked if she wanted any help cleaning or gardening or anything and of course the answer was yes; I hauled my butt over to their place and I'm here until Tuesday, I guess. I tried ( Read more... )

and other tales.
Seriously, there was way too much delicious food at jennylafleur's Birthday Extravaganza. Way too much. So many things were so tasty that one wanted to keep eating them... but with how many things there were, it was physically impossible. It was definitely an exercise - my first, I realize - in eating a large meal-or-three while in stays. The ( Read more... )

And fell down the rabbit hole of the internet, oops! I was looking for....something....and discovered Starz' show "Camelot" and decided to give it a shot. After the first 10 min or so I was DONE. So silly. Morgan was made completely unlikeable in the first scene, which is silly - if you're going to have a known-to-be-a-villain, at least make them a ( Read more... )

So I got the stays pieces all cut and basted and boned and stuff, and was whipping them together, and at the point where I'd attached one of the side backs to the front and side fronts I 'tried it on'... and it was clear it was going to be WAY TOO SMALL. Since as I made it I was remembering how the mockup was way too big in the waist, even after I ( Read more... )

So she has this waistcoat thing. I'm loving the chevrons, even though there must be SO MANY PIECES OMG. Looked like the direction changed every 4" or so, blech. But I can't figure out what's going on with the front... wrap front? What is it?  Also the flask? Awesomesauce. I've never been sold on big hip-rolls, but if they allow one to hide a bulky ( Read more... )

Because I've been feeling pretty overwhelmed recently. The fuss of trying to shop for a new car in between snowstorms (not helped AT ALL by my tendency to put things off like a pro), I need new pants for work, a new phone, new shoes for work so my knees don't ache every day, probably a new computer some time soon, also my sister just had a baby and ( Read more... )

( Because FB isn't appropriate for this, somehow... )

( So I thought I'd put these on Teh Interwebz? Or something. >.> )

Was alerted yesterday that my parents were going to be home (as they have not been at Easter for several years) and were welcoming me to dinner. So today, after getting up at a reasonably late hour, I finally had the urge to sew... I haven't felt like working on sewing for over a week, I think. Embroidery, yes, but I can't do that until I have a ( Read more... )