Picking projects
Well, I’ve redone most of my cosplay.com gallery now so maybe I’ll actually catch up with posting photos there soon. Still have a couple of albums and costumes to add plus a bunch of older photos that I never got around to uploading like nearly all of the PSOH group stuff from AB. ^_^;
Had a business appointment in the city yesterday so I also picked up some black fabric to use with the stained glass fabric for the fairy costume. Haven’t started it yet; I figure even if I did finish it by Halloween, it’d likely be too chilly to wear it out, and I don’t have any parties to go to so I can just work on it when I feel like it.
I also picked up some new crochet hooks because I just got a huge stack of crochet doll clothes patterns on closeout from Annie’s Attic a few days ago. Back in the 90s, I got their bed doll society patterns for a couple of years. It was basically a pattern club where you got a pair of doll patterns in the mail every two months and each year’s worth of patterns would be based on a certain historical period or theme. I had the Edwardian and Gems of the South collections. I also wanted some of the older collections pictured on the back of the patterns but there didn’t seem to be any way to actually order them directly. (I eventually bought a couple more of the collections on eBay several years later.)
It seems that the bed doll society finally ended and all of the leftover patterns were put on closeout for $2 apiece so I took the opportunity to fill in the holes in the sets I already had and buy what I could from the other sets I wanted. ^_^
So, I’m trying to decide what I want to make now. (Although I played around with these patterns a lot in the old days, I was always jumping between things and never did complete any of the dresses. ^_^;;) Checking through the crochet thread I had stashed away, there was a ton of pink, enough for one or two of these if I got white thread to go with it:
Not sure. I’m leaning a bit towards the one in the middle. While the first one is pretty and looks like it would be fun to make, there were others in that set I liked a lot more so don’t know if I want to do that one. I also have enough of the main color for both of these:
But I don’t have any of the other colors. I actually kind of like this one over the other pink gowns but the pattern calls for rayon thread for some of the parts and I’m so out of the crochet loop, I’m not even sure where I could order it these days. :-/ Need to review my crochet stitches, too. I haven't done anything more complicated than a fuzzy yarn scarf for years. ^_^;;
Oh, and I also picked up Volume 3 of Petshop of Horrors: Tokyo yesterday. The little summary page for Volume 4 says it's not coming out until May 2009! T_T Argh! Tokyopop and their slow releases!
Had a business appointment in the city yesterday so I also picked up some black fabric to use with the stained glass fabric for the fairy costume. Haven’t started it yet; I figure even if I did finish it by Halloween, it’d likely be too chilly to wear it out, and I don’t have any parties to go to so I can just work on it when I feel like it.
I also picked up some new crochet hooks because I just got a huge stack of crochet doll clothes patterns on closeout from Annie’s Attic a few days ago. Back in the 90s, I got their bed doll society patterns for a couple of years. It was basically a pattern club where you got a pair of doll patterns in the mail every two months and each year’s worth of patterns would be based on a certain historical period or theme. I had the Edwardian and Gems of the South collections. I also wanted some of the older collections pictured on the back of the patterns but there didn’t seem to be any way to actually order them directly. (I eventually bought a couple more of the collections on eBay several years later.)
It seems that the bed doll society finally ended and all of the leftover patterns were put on closeout for $2 apiece so I took the opportunity to fill in the holes in the sets I already had and buy what I could from the other sets I wanted. ^_^
So, I’m trying to decide what I want to make now. (Although I played around with these patterns a lot in the old days, I was always jumping between things and never did complete any of the dresses. ^_^;;) Checking through the crochet thread I had stashed away, there was a ton of pink, enough for one or two of these if I got white thread to go with it:
Not sure. I’m leaning a bit towards the one in the middle. While the first one is pretty and looks like it would be fun to make, there were others in that set I liked a lot more so don’t know if I want to do that one. I also have enough of the main color for both of these:
But I don’t have any of the other colors. I actually kind of like this one over the other pink gowns but the pattern calls for rayon thread for some of the parts and I’m so out of the crochet loop, I’m not even sure where I could order it these days. :-/ Need to review my crochet stitches, too. I haven't done anything more complicated than a fuzzy yarn scarf for years. ^_^;;
Oh, and I also picked up Volume 3 of Petshop of Horrors: Tokyo yesterday. The little summary page for Volume 4 says it's not coming out until May 2009! T_T Argh! Tokyopop and their slow releases!