also known as quick and dirty costuming: dancing dress edition.

basically, i made myself a dress tonight to wear while doing the somewhat more ballet oriented herr drosselmeyer's doll. which, now that i think about it, i am actually thinking of wearing for something. that kind of changes whether or not i leave it the way it is, since i am not ( Read more... )

my first challenge with this skirt is using what i have to make what i want. i don't have much suitable fabric with me, and it isn't particularly easy for me to acquire more. interestingly though, i don't really have a clear idea in my head of what i want. i think i may have even more than one skirt swimming through my brain, pretending to be all ( Read more... )

wooo back to school. (i'm so over taking classes - someone give me a degree so i can get a fucking job.) in any case that means a lot of studying and not much sewing, which by extension means a lot less livejournal. i have several projects lined up for the next several months but i'm not sure i'm actually going to get around to them. they include ( Read more... )

actually, i have two feet. also, the keys on my keyboard are in italics.

wooo my day of chemo arrives! delight. i think i'm gonna read through the sam and fuzzy archives again. i also want to work on crocheting some trim for a dress i'm making, and since my iv is in my hand instead of my elbow, i'll actually be able to do it (whether or not i can ( Read more... )

Like my skin and my bathtub.

I'm making a circle skirt for dancing, and my mom is making an Irish dress for the PyrateDaze festival on the Queen Mary next month. I decided I wanted something that looked dirty and aged. At Costume College this year I took a class on fabric manipulation, and the teacher talked about dyeing fabric with rusty objects, ( Read more... )

so in my infinite rage that just wouldn't quit yesterday, i finally decided that the only thing that was going to make me any less enraged was sewing the skirt i've been thinking of. so before dinner i cut it out (i had to use two different fabrics cause i didn't have enough of the first) and after dinner i explored rust dyeing.

wow it was a weird ( Read more... )

can't find...
a) my sewing kit
b) my mouse
c) my mind
d) waldo

hey remember my little back dress from way back when? i convinced my aunt to hem it for me and she just brought it back, all pretty and finished. she even offered the GREAT suggestion that instead of making bands to gather the sleeves, i should just buy some sort of clip for it (actually she ( Read more... )

my mother's birthday and my guy-set deadline for the fencing club project apparently have come at an exceptionally convenient time, because i've now figured out what to do for my mother, provided i can finish it.

yesterday my mom and i went out and bought me scrapbooking software, and i think i'm going to make her a scrapbook page (or pages) of ( Read more... )

i'm very happy with today. the fabric sorting process is wrapping down, and almost all of it is back in the garage where it belongs. the ramifications are of course that my previously occupied sewing space in the living room has been cleaned out and set up with its proper inhabitants (my sewing stuff). :) i've barely begun to work on things and i ( Read more... )

(not really.) i'm celebrating because i finished my elizabethan corset, which isn't actually true. BUT IT'S FUCKING CLOSE ENOUGH. arg. i have to sew the binding on the armholes. it's only an hour or two of work, but i don't think it's going to be finished before costume college because i have other things to do.

i also drew a preliminary design for ( Read more... )