I got quite a bit of stuff done this weekend, including the start of the sad dismantling of the first completely sleeve. I finally decided that it was too fat for my arms and that I'd look really stupid with a form fitting body area and really bigass sleeves. In a shocking turn of events, I could not find my seam ripper. I do this a lot; I put ( Read more... )

I'd previously hand stitched the red flannel onto the white because I thought that it would just scrinch and get crooked, etc, but I was feeling all droopy last night thinking of all the hand stitching again to be done on this so I just said screw it and went with the machine and it came out rather well. I was very happy with the result:


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Today is October 4th, which means that I now have only 42 days left to finish up my White Mage AF costume. After doing that one sleeve and realizing it was a bit too fat and that I'd probably have to rip out most of my hand stitches to make it more form fitting, I really burnt out of the costume in general. However, with the fall TV season starting ( Read more... )

Last night was one bigass night of tv for us with UFC 75 and the Hawaii vs. LA Tech game to watch after the kids went to sleep at around 9 pm. I was doing a lot of work on my sleeve while we were watching and unfortunately this meant a lot of replaying when I was looking down during a big hit on someone. I'm not a Matt Hamil fan, but he got fucking ( Read more... )

As you will soon be able to tell from my pictures, I only just recently took up embroidery. By recently I mean a few days ago. I had no idea what to put onto the sleeve strip so I just started out making random shapes and from there I tried to write P I K O P O T S in runes but apparently I should have just stuck with random figures because it ( Read more... )

I've been trying to think of something useful to enter here in my LJ since it looks pretty blank with nothing in it. I'd joined with the account so that I could join bento communities but the emptiness bothers me. I finally decided last night that I'll use this journal to document my progress on my White Mage AF costume that I'm working on for the ( Read more... )