Kris went out to his car yesterday and found a golf ball between mine and his car. Yikes. Scary to think that I could have come out to my car this morning, to find it with a broken windshield. I keep toying with getting a garage... but I hate to dish out extra money for that ( Read more... )

Lydia came by last night and threaded my serger for me. I need to remember to take some pictures of it and seriously study it so that when she's not available, I can fix it myself. She also made some cute hems on my Steampunk pants while I worked on the blouse. I was a serging fool and I really can appreciate what it does to garments (and I still ( Read more... )

Wow, so I've had the worst luck with fabric as of late. I was finally bought on the idea of making my steampunk jacket out of the gray moleskin I had originally bought for the bustle (since I couldn't find a material I liked). I had around 2 1/4 yards of the fabric, so I hit JoAnns to pick up a couple more yards. I brought the gray moleskin home ( Read more... )

Lydia popped over last night to give me some suggestions and help me look for some material for my steampunk costume. I decided the maroon fabric that had been giving me headaches for the past week would look really cute as a corset instead a full jacket. Problem being, I would need to replace the material for the jacket and didn't really have ( Read more... )

I spent the bulk of the weekend trying to work on the jacket I started before AWA. I hate to think how many hours I have spent on this and still haven't gotten to do step 1. I'm having to sew this flimsy, stretchy fabric I like to a thicker fabric. The problem come up that the fabric stretches and then when I try to attach it to that thicker fabric ( Read more... )