I had a 4 Day Weekend this past weekend – I had Thursday and Friday off to sew. I didn’t get much of anything done because I’ve had so little to work on.
Today is also the 5th day in a row I’ve woken up with a migraine. I mean, my medicine takes care of it in like 15 minutes, but it’s still a pain. I’ve never had one longer than 3 days, unless it moves to the other side of my head, in which case it’s usually 4. I think my body is just playing catch up since I haven’t had a full on migraine since around May. Really, though, it’s the weather – we had lots of storms over the past few days and the temps dropped, so it’s been super nice out, but those changes are such a migraine trigger for me.
Anyway. We had Kevin this weekend, too, so since I missed out going to the Pink Palace (the Memphis museum) last week with Ash, I took Kevin this Friday. We had a lot of fun, I’ll post some pictures later.
In work news, I have no pictures to show. I re-dyed some things, and worked on my Romana I boots (they’re nearly done). I worked on Chase’s pants for one of his costumes, and some gloves for him.
I did a lot of embroidery too, HBOGo has a lot of great movies on right now so I took advantage of it and started embroidering my corset for the 4th costume. I’m apparently a masochist. Going through all those layers and leather requires a heavy duty thimble and pliers. Why didn’t I do this before I attached the outer layer? I don’t know. But it looks great.
The main thing I did yesterday was to very carefully remove the Batgirl symbol from the bodysuit. It was set too low last year and I kept having to yank the suit up so it would stay “kind of” in place. I took it off and moved it up about an inch-and-a-half, got it all done last night which I’m glad.
See? And that was yanked up, it would inch its way back down so that it was on the underside of my chest after a minute or two. Now it’s fixed.
I also fixed some stupid mistakes I made on the suit last year. I wasn’t thinking when I started putting all of the pieces of the suit together and used a straight stitch. All those straight stitch starting coming apart. I went back last year and zig-zagged what I thought would be the worst ones, but I didn’t mess with the ones along the side for whatever reason. And of course ended up with a hole in my suit at Dragoncon last year. So I went back and fixed the hole and zig-zag stitched all of those pieces. Should be good now.
For Batgirl, Chase is re-doing my gauntlets, and I’m remaking the belt. The belt had all this great stitching on it that completely disappeared in photos, so I’m going to make a new belt out of leather (one that fits a little more flattering, and create the separate pieces so it’s more obvious). I’m excited to have it all fixed, though… after all the work I put into the suit last year I’m going to be excited to have all the pieces up to the same level of pride and get some good photos finally. Going to do a night-time photoshoot, not sure what night at the con yet, but I’m happy!
Today, I’m making a giant to-do list. Trying to put every single thing I can think of on it, and then creating a calendar of what needs to be finished and when. This is the kind of thing I do. I’m a list-maker, I can’t help it.
