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Seriously, do you guys -know- how much better my life would currently be if I'd chosen a halfways decent senior project? The other day, I was just thinking that I should have done WWII re-enactment... there's hardly a source out there for women's uniforms, it would be HOLY SHIT OMG FUN, it would help me out when applying for costume-related jobs or grad school or whatever, and most importantly I wouldn't currently want to shoot myself in the face!
Fabric would be a bit tricky to find, but at least I wouldn't hate my senior project.
Instead, I decided I wanted to do sweet fuck-all for market research, and chose gothic lolita... ;_; I wish I could go back in time. I mean, I wish this every day, but right now I wish I could go back mere months instead of years, decades or centuries.
Also, I cannot remember what I needed at the fabric store other than piping for my Typhoid Mary skirt, (possibly)netting and bleached muslin for the blouse, senior project fabric, black netting for the totally hilarious 1980s romantigoth getup I'm wearing to Nocturna, stuff to stick on a hat, and a stop along the way at the salvation army to see if I can find a tie for Ben's costume and a halfways decent blouse for me, and perhaps also a fall coat and/or some work clothes. This sounds like a lot already, but last night I was laying in bed contemplating various contraptions I could use to carry enormous amounts of cargo on my bike, so deep in my heart I'm pretty sure there was more. Well, there's also the stuffed typhoid toy from the surgery museum...
... I keep going into trance-like states where all I can think about are pleats. This can't be good.
Edit: ATTN SEWINGDORKS. At burdastyle.com you can print out patterns in pieces on regular paper and tape them all together at full size for free! This combination of open-source and sewing is giving me HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, maybe I should write up the huge thing about fashion and copyright and doujinshi and tv and videogames as modern folklore one of these days.
I am particularly fond of this jumper, this coat. I also like how the site has information about fabrics, walkthroughs for sewing techniques, etc, rather than a hellhole like Craftster where the prevailing opinion seems to be that you can do whatever you want and expecting some sort of technique to it is OMG SNOBBERY.
Fabric would be a bit tricky to find, but at least I wouldn't hate my senior project.
Instead, I decided I wanted to do sweet fuck-all for market research, and chose gothic lolita... ;_; I wish I could go back in time. I mean, I wish this every day, but right now I wish I could go back mere months instead of years, decades or centuries.
Also, I cannot remember what I needed at the fabric store other than piping for my Typhoid Mary skirt, (possibly)netting and bleached muslin for the blouse, senior project fabric, black netting for the totally hilarious 1980s romantigoth getup I'm wearing to Nocturna, stuff to stick on a hat, and a stop along the way at the salvation army to see if I can find a tie for Ben's costume and a halfways decent blouse for me, and perhaps also a fall coat and/or some work clothes. This sounds like a lot already, but last night I was laying in bed contemplating various contraptions I could use to carry enormous amounts of cargo on my bike, so deep in my heart I'm pretty sure there was more. Well, there's also the stuffed typhoid toy from the surgery museum...
... I keep going into trance-like states where all I can think about are pleats. This can't be good.
Edit: ATTN SEWINGDORKS. At burdastyle.com you can print out patterns in pieces on regular paper and tape them all together at full size for free! This combination of open-source and sewing is giving me HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, maybe I should write up the huge thing about fashion and copyright and doujinshi and tv and videogames as modern folklore one of these days.
I am particularly fond of this jumper, this coat. I also like how the site has information about fabrics, walkthroughs for sewing techniques, etc, rather than a hellhole like Craftster where the prevailing opinion seems to be that you can do whatever you want and expecting some sort of technique to it is OMG SNOBBERY.