You know how you sometimes think, "Why don't all my people know each other more?!? My friends are the greatest and my family rocks! We like the same things! Costumes! Booze! Adventure! How can we all spend more time doing that stuff together...  I have a brilliant plan!"

And thus CoCo 2013 was born.*

claughter713 and I were lazing around on the interwebz one ( Read more... )

So I played dress up with my tiny 'tailors model' yesterday. I started with a pattern layout based on this:


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Here is the one we are working on...


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Looking back over my prior entries under the 'cloak' tag as I get ready to take this project on again. My thoughts:

1) Loading the images previously provided by mmcnealy here as the original links she provided seem to have died on my prior post (they were in the comments to my first entry on this subject, which went like this:

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For those of you in the know, harmanhay, claughter713 and myself are descending into madness for the THIRD TIME this week.

Care to join us?


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Gala Project Dress is DONE. Time for a White Russian in celebration!

First there were hours of draping. And pinning. And draping some more. And crying. Then pinning myself. And unpinning ALL THE THINGS ( Read more... )

...teaser image!

One of these things will be *very much* like the other. And no, there were no pyrates involved in the making of this gala costume. Not yet anyway...


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These past few months, Death has seems a constant visitor to those I love. Never traveling near enough to crease my own brow, but moving in concentric circles that have touched many of those that I find most dear. When it comes, I often think of the letter below, posted from one friend to another upon the occasion of his beloved wife's passing ( Read more... )

Never ending and obsessive thoughts about sewing methods and patterning prevented most of my sleep last night. What little I did get was interrupted by puppy snoring, toy squeaking, and the fact that I am sharing a bed with my husband and two dogs to both seem to think that they need more space than any single human body would occupy.

I need a nap.
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