OMG I am so tired. Friday I stopped and got more pink thread on my way home, and Friday night I finished sewing the sequins onto all my ruffles. Saturday we had errands to run and Ash came with us down to Joann. I found new TFA Leia underdress fabric. Then we went next door to Toys R Us and I found the Endor Leia Forces of Destiny Doll! OMG. ...
Guess who ruined more fabric with dye and is going to have to go buy more fabric again? I have no idea what happened. This was the weirdest dye experience I've ever had. I'd done tests on this fabric and they'd all turned out fine. I staggered the dyeing -- a few panels of the dress in for 10 minutes, then took those out to dry while I did another set ...
It was a really good work weekend! I got a lot done! Instead of going in order I'm going to go by project... Friday night started off with another round of dye on the TFA Leia linen. Saturday I decided to go one step darker and one step more saturated which really helped. I'm like, 90% happy with it so I let it dry all afternoon and then started putting it ...
Today has been weird. Early this morning somebody in one of the offices in our building was WAILING... came out in the hallway just sobbing. Crying went on for several minutes. It was unsettling and got my hackles up. Obviously something awful happened. I brought a change of clothes with me to work - because I cannot get myself up early enough to dress like an actual functioning human being, ...
I don't have a lot to post about this weekend. Sewing-wise, I was mostly working on a commission if I was in my sewing room and I don't have anything to show of that. I did finally get my linen cut and dyed -- Nice colour fresh out, but it dried much lighter -- but it's a good base so I'll do round 2 this week. Fingers crossed, I'm getting tired ...
I got my Misato pics uploaded! This is now officially the oldest costume we've shot on the white backdrop - beating out Lum by a couple of months. Like I said in the last post, I shot with my natural tone wig first. And then switched to the original purple wig. I decided to wear these black combat boots from the 90s instead of my original brown shoes. I never ...
Hi everybody! I'm back from my four day weekend. Did I do everything on that to-do list? HA. Of course not. The point of a to-do list is to look back and see everything you DIDN'T do. But I'll get to all that. As usual, let's start at the beginning... Friday night I picked up Kevin and we ran to the fabric store. I got the new linen for TFA ...
My to-do list for this (4 day!) weekend: Bespin Leia: -Repleat the front so the front embroidery shows better -take tunic apart, take up, shorten, sewing trim back on Pink thing: -Get bodice lining pieces cut -Get bodice basically put together -Make panniers -Get skirt panels put together -Start piecing out organza Mon Mothma: -Do embroidery floss through braid pieces -play with wig TFA Leia: -Buy new fabric -wash new fabric ...
This weekend is Anime Expo!! And I'm not going so I don't know why that warranted two exclamation points. We went to Anime Expo once, in 2003. The way Ash and I managed that was that we talked our parents into doing it as a family vacation. We flew out to LA on... Wednesday I think? And on Thursday we went to Universal Studios. Why didn't we do Disneyland? Friends on ...
Ugh... so over a year ago -- almost two years ago now -- I voluntarily changed my work schedule so I could be home earlier in the day but it meant getting up earlier. It was hard at first to get up an hour earlier than I normally did, but I figured I'd adjust. I have never adjusted. Every morning is like death. But I won't go back, I like ...