Impending Con!
My energy levels continued to fluctuate for the rest of Friday, but at least my tummy settled down over the weekend. And remembered my vitamins, so headaches have been mild this week.
Did not get around to all of teh projects, but I did complete most of my chores. After putting together my weekly outfits, I went into my closet to see if I could also do my DCon outfits without doing the laundry first. Yes, apparently, tho I'll still need to do laundry *this* weekend before con for some easy-to-dry items.
Managed to work on some long-neglected jewelry projects, fixing one necklace to make it less fall-apart-y at the clasp, and restringing my Coyote necklace which has been too short to wear since before the CF hit me. Luckily I still had more of that turquoise in my stash, and again beading-wire-with-crimps instead of plastic filament seems to work OK.
I also sewed up the lining of the Doom Coat, and I may have actually altered the pattern right the first time. OMG. After that it was tough deciding whether or not I should go ahead and cut out the pattern pieces. Eventually my brain voted 'yay', and following were many hours of "WTF was I thinking?"
10 yards of black velveteen, even at just 45" wide, is very annoying to wrangle, iron, fold over itself, etc. And it wasn't just "fold in half and line up the outer edges" I had to cut the fabric at the bolt's halfway point and line it all back up to make sure the nap matched. Ugh. So instead of doubling the fabric and cutting through both layers at once, I just did one layer at a time, and then reversed the pattern pieces on the second round, ironing the velveteen as I went. I used a towel for the steaming/ironing, and it didn't crush the fuzziness entirely, but the weave is a bit more obvious now. Not sure if that will go away or can be steamed out, but it wasn't super expensive velveteen to begin with at least. The pattern took longer to cut out, but with less drama I think.
I forgot one facing piece and then had to put it together out of half-pieces, but its a facing and I can get away with it. Of course, after I finished cutting everything out, I saw I had almost 3 yards leftover. *headdesk* The pattern said I needed 9 & 1/4 yards, I ordered 10 in case of badness, and now I'm worried that I've missed cutting out something else. Meh.
The fabric cutting was all Saturday night, and I'm pretty sure that counts as lots of exercise b/c I f'ing say so. Sunday I put on the markings, but I can't start sewing it up until I add the interfacing. And I'm not sure if the interfacing is heavy enough. May double the interfacing, but then I'm not sure if I have enough to do that.
However, the lining came together really quickly (albeit without facings) because its a relatively simple coat. Its just that all of the pieces are really long. Not sure how long the sewing will take, but luckily I don't need it for DCon. Tho I am a bit worried about not having enough time after that for the Regency coat, at least I'm pretty sure the lining-first trick will work even better for that pattern, so I don't actually need a full muslin.
Of course, with DCon coming up I had another idea for a sewing project, which went from "Y'know that shirt dress you made with linen that turned out to be too transparent? Why not use some kind of Star Wars fabric with it? Or dupioni silk b/c you're addicted to it? The pattern wasn't that hard to follow, you were just burnt out and brainfogged and kept screwing it up :-D" This can easily be put on the backburner of my mind until January. At which point I may leave it on the backburner in favor of budgets and more interesting costumey things. The whole 'licensed cotton' dress thing is getting a bit played out, and while I like it on other ppl, I prefer to wear solids. Not to mention I still have the Washu costume to make, and all the materials already purchased. Silly sewing brain.
Still planning to use that orphaned black corduroy on a copy of my purple coat, but now that I know how I *should* alter my jacket patterns I'm wondering if I should muslin it again with the knowledge that my waistline is higher up than they think it is. It goes down to just over my hips, so when the largest size in the packet didn't work I added a sway-back hack. But then the rest of the blazer was so big I had to add a second button to close up the very empty bust area, and the shoulders are just too wide. At this rate, it'll be in the hopper until after the November wedding, at which point it won't be really wearable until spring, but I don't mind that.
This week I've actually had better energy than usual, but I'm not entirely sure why.
On one hand, its almost DragonCon, and the scheduling grids came out yesterday and I started piecing together my own plans and YAY! Tho I've put those aside for now b/c I need to coordinate cosplay stuff with other ppl too. But YAAAAAY CON!!!
But also I've changed my lunch boxes up a bit to include moar protein, with less rice & veg. Not doing so well with splitting my lunch in half b/c I've been spoiled by having a full 90 minute lunch break, but will try again when the fall schedule starts.
And speaking of scheduling, its summer intercession, so this week I'm at work 10-6 every day, instead of most days with 1-9pm on Monday. So my sleep schedule was that much more regular.
Well... sortof. Monday night suprise plans cropped up with a fellow geeky friend, and we hung out, had dinner and tea, and chatted and gossiped for a while. Then we walked from 4th and Mercer to 8th and 16th, and when I got on the E train after that I didn't pass out like last time. I think I got on the train later than I would have if I'd worked that evening. So... this too.
Is it one of the things? More than one? All the things? Or is it just that the dog days of summer are over and my brain can brain again? I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
Therapy was on Tuesday afterwork instead of Monday morning this week, and we went over how planning-ahead in my life is helping me, but when planning turns into worrying/anxiety, that is bad. Still having trouble with that line in between, but at least I think I'm zeroing in on another problem? Although worrying about my health in the first place may be adding to my health probs. Blah.
Tonight I have an allergy shot, the rest of the week I'll slowly put together my DCon stuff. Shopping lists (omg bpal), supplies, budgets (lol). I realized I shouldn't blow all my well-saved DCon cash that weekend, I should reserve enough for a desposit on next year's hotel room, b/c that reservation will probly have to be made in September. B/c Dragoncon. *shrugs*
When I'm unable to work on DragonCon stuff, I may just stay home and work on the Doom Coat. NYC socializing gets kindof random in August, even without CF, but I'm over on my Rx budget and given that con is next week I'd like to keep the extras spending to a minimum for the rest of the month. And while I'm planning to do a FMG order next month, I'm not planning it now. Ima chill out.
<3 Chrysilla
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, http://chrysilla.dreamwidth.org/
Did not get around to all of teh projects, but I did complete most of my chores. After putting together my weekly outfits, I went into my closet to see if I could also do my DCon outfits without doing the laundry first. Yes, apparently, tho I'll still need to do laundry *this* weekend before con for some easy-to-dry items.
Managed to work on some long-neglected jewelry projects, fixing one necklace to make it less fall-apart-y at the clasp, and restringing my Coyote necklace which has been too short to wear since before the CF hit me. Luckily I still had more of that turquoise in my stash, and again beading-wire-with-crimps instead of plastic filament seems to work OK.
I also sewed up the lining of the Doom Coat, and I may have actually altered the pattern right the first time. OMG. After that it was tough deciding whether or not I should go ahead and cut out the pattern pieces. Eventually my brain voted 'yay', and following were many hours of "WTF was I thinking?"
10 yards of black velveteen, even at just 45" wide, is very annoying to wrangle, iron, fold over itself, etc. And it wasn't just "fold in half and line up the outer edges" I had to cut the fabric at the bolt's halfway point and line it all back up to make sure the nap matched. Ugh. So instead of doubling the fabric and cutting through both layers at once, I just did one layer at a time, and then reversed the pattern pieces on the second round, ironing the velveteen as I went. I used a towel for the steaming/ironing, and it didn't crush the fuzziness entirely, but the weave is a bit more obvious now. Not sure if that will go away or can be steamed out, but it wasn't super expensive velveteen to begin with at least. The pattern took longer to cut out, but with less drama I think.
I forgot one facing piece and then had to put it together out of half-pieces, but its a facing and I can get away with it. Of course, after I finished cutting everything out, I saw I had almost 3 yards leftover. *headdesk* The pattern said I needed 9 & 1/4 yards, I ordered 10 in case of badness, and now I'm worried that I've missed cutting out something else. Meh.
The fabric cutting was all Saturday night, and I'm pretty sure that counts as lots of exercise b/c I f'ing say so. Sunday I put on the markings, but I can't start sewing it up until I add the interfacing. And I'm not sure if the interfacing is heavy enough. May double the interfacing, but then I'm not sure if I have enough to do that.
However, the lining came together really quickly (albeit without facings) because its a relatively simple coat. Its just that all of the pieces are really long. Not sure how long the sewing will take, but luckily I don't need it for DCon. Tho I am a bit worried about not having enough time after that for the Regency coat, at least I'm pretty sure the lining-first trick will work even better for that pattern, so I don't actually need a full muslin.
Of course, with DCon coming up I had another idea for a sewing project, which went from "Y'know that shirt dress you made with linen that turned out to be too transparent? Why not use some kind of Star Wars fabric with it? Or dupioni silk b/c you're addicted to it? The pattern wasn't that hard to follow, you were just burnt out and brainfogged and kept screwing it up :-D" This can easily be put on the backburner of my mind until January. At which point I may leave it on the backburner in favor of budgets and more interesting costumey things. The whole 'licensed cotton' dress thing is getting a bit played out, and while I like it on other ppl, I prefer to wear solids. Not to mention I still have the Washu costume to make, and all the materials already purchased. Silly sewing brain.
Still planning to use that orphaned black corduroy on a copy of my purple coat, but now that I know how I *should* alter my jacket patterns I'm wondering if I should muslin it again with the knowledge that my waistline is higher up than they think it is. It goes down to just over my hips, so when the largest size in the packet didn't work I added a sway-back hack. But then the rest of the blazer was so big I had to add a second button to close up the very empty bust area, and the shoulders are just too wide. At this rate, it'll be in the hopper until after the November wedding, at which point it won't be really wearable until spring, but I don't mind that.
This week I've actually had better energy than usual, but I'm not entirely sure why.
On one hand, its almost DragonCon, and the scheduling grids came out yesterday and I started piecing together my own plans and YAY! Tho I've put those aside for now b/c I need to coordinate cosplay stuff with other ppl too. But YAAAAAY CON!!!
But also I've changed my lunch boxes up a bit to include moar protein, with less rice & veg. Not doing so well with splitting my lunch in half b/c I've been spoiled by having a full 90 minute lunch break, but will try again when the fall schedule starts.
And speaking of scheduling, its summer intercession, so this week I'm at work 10-6 every day, instead of most days with 1-9pm on Monday. So my sleep schedule was that much more regular.
Well... sortof. Monday night suprise plans cropped up with a fellow geeky friend, and we hung out, had dinner and tea, and chatted and gossiped for a while. Then we walked from 4th and Mercer to 8th and 16th, and when I got on the E train after that I didn't pass out like last time. I think I got on the train later than I would have if I'd worked that evening. So... this too.
Is it one of the things? More than one? All the things? Or is it just that the dog days of summer are over and my brain can brain again? I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
Therapy was on Tuesday afterwork instead of Monday morning this week, and we went over how planning-ahead in my life is helping me, but when planning turns into worrying/anxiety, that is bad. Still having trouble with that line in between, but at least I think I'm zeroing in on another problem? Although worrying about my health in the first place may be adding to my health probs. Blah.
Tonight I have an allergy shot, the rest of the week I'll slowly put together my DCon stuff. Shopping lists (omg bpal), supplies, budgets (lol). I realized I shouldn't blow all my well-saved DCon cash that weekend, I should reserve enough for a desposit on next year's hotel room, b/c that reservation will probly have to be made in September. B/c Dragoncon. *shrugs*
When I'm unable to work on DragonCon stuff, I may just stay home and work on the Doom Coat. NYC socializing gets kindof random in August, even without CF, but I'm over on my Rx budget and given that con is next week I'd like to keep the extras spending to a minimum for the rest of the month. And while I'm planning to do a FMG order next month, I'm not planning it now. Ima chill out.
<3 Chrysilla
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, http://chrysilla.dreamwidth.org/