Tickets are paid for, and hotel room is reserved. Now all I need to do is sew a skirt, trim a straw hat, and make a clockwork vest for my brother. In addition to finishing my Leia corset, making a kimono for Davin, and sewing a Halloween costume for my niece this month. The steampunk stuff comes first, though. I've got all day tomorrow, all day ( Read more... )

Cutting out the fabric for my pink Leia corset, and I can't decide what color ribbon to use as trim & lacing. I've found three colors that could work: raspberry pink that matches the starbursts, silvery grey, and basic black.


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A friend just gave me a polonaise that she had started a few years ago for her sister, who no longer wants it. So pretty! Cream & tan striped cotton, scattered with pink flowers (cabbage roses and not quite period gerber daisies). It's taken from the c. 1770-1785 Snowshill Manor pattern in Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion 1, the polonaise with ( Read more... )

Instructions:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with the picture.

( I did edit, but just to crop & rotate )

I love sales at Joann's. $57 worth of sewing notions for just $22 dollars. I few things here & there for projects, but mostly sewing machine needles, including twin needles in two widths ( Read more... )

Maybe it wasn't DragonCon, but AnimeFest was still fun. They did share several things in common, such as two-hour waits in the registration line, people who really do not need to be wearing certain costumes, and the far-reaching smell of the few in desperate need of a shower with soap ( Read more... )

Spend the day making a skirt to complete my steampunk ensemble to wear this weekend, or curl up on the couch and watch movies. Guess which option I chose ( Read more... )

...you decide to sew up "just these last few inches," wonder why nothing happens when you run your fabric through the sewing machine, and finally realize that there is no spool of thread ( Read more... )

It's sad when you go into a store with one project in mind, and walk out with items for a completely different project ( Read more... )

I'm such a bad Star Wars fan.

Thursday night, instead of lining up for a midnight showing of "The Clone Wars" I cut out all but the lining of my Wendy dress. (I'm following the Sense & Sensibility Regency pattern Simplicity put out, instead of the McCall's pattern I originally planned to use. Partly because ferdalump used the S&S pattern for a Wendy ( Read more... )