Now I know why my heart sang at the sight of the fabric at FFC.  It's because of this cloak at the Met and FFC's 25510

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I got my spotlight catalogue in the mail a couple of weeks ago and although they rarely have costume friendly fabric it does come along every now and then ... my open robe is spottie cotton.  The snippets are so tiny you can never be sure until you see it For Realz (tm).  I got there this week and decided to get what was left of the roll - only 3. ( Read more... )

Colour me a little slow, but it just occurred to me to look in the Manchester Galleries online collection to see if the original cloak - patterned by Jean Hunnisett  - is listed.

The one I made at the end of May. http://sewaddicted.livejournal.com/287171.html


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Well I'm dodging sewing - came to the corner shop to get milk for my breakfast coffee & can't resist the internets. The sun has come out, which is great! But not productive.

I'm not going to get my stays finished, so I'm forced to think of a way to cover the corner of my bra which will show. What I'm going to do is add a 1" strip of lawn around the ( Read more... )

I got home from seeing Star Trek movie last night and knew where my pin dish was.  I ironed my skirt & shirt for work and lo, that damned dish is missing.

I can't see it anywhere, and it's not like there's 50 squillion pins on the floor. So it's a reprise of the great pin shortage of 2008 all over again.  So at lunchtime today I got the bus up to ( Read more... )

Friday night was spent mostly on a crying jag, which should teach me to cry more often so it's not stockpiled. But the realty is that I'll get more stress acne and other skin problems, and not cry as often as I ought.  I really need to see a 3 hanky weeper, but there aren't that many films fitting that description these days.

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Yesterday morning I got up early enough to get my hair cut, drop a fabric donation to ( Read more... )

I was doing really well in my "fabric in Vs fabric out" for 2009.  I was at the used 2 for every 1 metre acquired.

Well in the past month that's no longer true.  With the 5.5m of fabric I originally bought for my Trek, the 4m I ended up using, the 8.5m of pale pink lawn and another 5m of pink for lingerie, along with a couple more pieces, well I'm ( Read more... )