As someone who deals fairly regularly with textiles, and as the daughter of someone who has worked a fair amount with textiles, I find that people sometimes ask me for advice on washing and care instructions on clothing. I've had many conversations like the following examples ( Read more... )

Last year, I said, "I'm stuck doing my thesis this year, but next year I'll have graduated and I can write for fun. I'll definitely do NaNoWriMo ( Read more... )

An' belook yerself at th' photos o' a shipwreckt trio o' a crew o' salty dogs, left high an' dry on th' Isle o' Wintar, what be bein' in Salem, Massachusetts.

( Ahoy! Thar be pictures o' a Pirate Faire behind yon cut! )

At the risk of sounding like a fountain of self-actualization assistance book boilerplate, life is one of those things best spent learning new things about yourself, a journey of self-discovery. For everyone, this happens to the greatest degree in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, but throughout an entire lifetime, there will always be ( Read more... )

This was a jolly good weekend, starting with Pirate Night at X-Mortis at tt the bears in Cambridge. Yes, a pirate goth night. Hee. It was a large crowd, and a big crowd of us that went - myself, Jim in his Captain Jack costume (natch), Judy, Jess, Shellie, and Jess and Brian, followed by Joe later that night. Jim drove over with Jess and Brian ( Read more... )

I would not call myself a fashionista in any sense of the word, or even a designer. What I know about fashion wouldn't be enough to fill a thimble. Not, that is, that I even own a thimble that could be filled, but the sentiment and the imagry is what matters. I'm a seamstress, pure and simple: a working girl, only not "working girl" in the sense ( Read more... )

I need to do some artificial aging to Jim's new pirate waistcoat to make it look less new and more worn.

This is seriously nerve-wracking. I've been reading sites online about distressing fabric to make it look theatrically old, but everytime I look at the waistcoat - which looks AWESOME, if I may say so myself, and I do - I get this internal ( Read more... )

I didn't watch the first two seasons of this, but Wednesday night, as I sat in my apartment - which looks a bit like (1) a craft store vomited all over it, and (2) a bit like the designers' apartments AFTER the first challenge of "dismantle your apartment and make an outfit out of it" - working on some costumes, I had Project Runway on. ( Read more... )