Comments | _tove: You tacky thing, you put them on

_tove

You tacky thing, you put them on

Jun 28, 2005 00:26

The TechHell weekend went by decently. The first show (the semi-professional one) was horrendously adorable. My job for run crew involved keeping a shotgun mic pointed at small children speaking in Russian, which is actually harder than it sounds. I got to work again with the young'un techs; that was pleasant. The other show was mostly ad- ( Read more... )

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shaktool June 28 2005, 08:43:28 UTC

So that's how you spell "paper mache". I was trying to figure it out recently, in order to describe how I made my stormtrooper helmet for Halloween, but my computer's spellchecker was being uncharacteristically unhelpful. Alas, its too late now. Somewhere on the internet is my lame attempt at spelling it, and I can't go back and fix it.

So long. and thanks for all the fish.

damion June 28 2005, 13:07:47 UTC

I am going to be taking a flameworking (glass) class

Woot!

yannaboo June 28 2005, 16:09:29 UTC

corset is Awesome. me likey.

lachocoholic June 28 2005, 22:04:12 UTC

So how long deos it take you to make a corset like that?

_tove June 29 2005, 00:18:15 UTC

This one took me quite a while-- about two weeks, though there were intermittent other projects as mentioned.

However, the things that took stupid long on this were 1) having to go back to the fabric store because I made poor choice on interfacing the first time, 2) taking a while to get over my fear of cutting the brocade, 3) hand embroidering the eyelets, 4) sewing in the lining by hand, and 5) engaging in regular death matches with the PVC. So if it had been in a different fabric (especially something heavier that didn't require interfacing), and I hadn't cared as much about details (leaving the grommets as metal, or lining it a different way), it would have been much quicker. Maybe three days, where a day is defined as a session of a few hours. Or possibly an all-nighter, though mileage varies with caffeine intake.

Why, want to come sew with me? Or perhaps commission me? Though I think a corset might cause some shock at BYU...

lachocoholic June 29 2005, 06:45:03 UTC

hahaha sewing turned out worse than my cooking--which as we all know can be pretty bad...mm I should take a picture of how my purse has turned out haha--I'll do that sometime. my Camara has no batteries.

People actually do wear corsets at BYU, they just wear something over it. Us tricky mormons trying to be all hip. Once a bunch of hard core punk kids from Colorado (freinds with a girl in my floor) came up to BYU and were trying to be all shocking with the clothes (spiky hair, tons of earings and etc, nose peircings, zippers, leather, patches, good San Fran style) and were dissapointed when they didn't get too much attention. But they were happy because a lot of people knew guitar.