UGH! Flickr changed their layout AGAIN and now I can't find everything I use. I hate flickr. Anyway. Didn't get a lot done last night since the girls were over, but I did draw out my guide for my Donna embroidery. (Last weekend I mostly did testing different threads and beads). This is the back side, my guide for doing the embroidery on the front. What I didn't realize while ...
I really dug in to try to finish the skirt last night, but finishing the interior seams took longer than I expected, so that's what I did most of the night - they're still not done, still finishing up a few places. I did cut the pieces for my underskirt, and with what was left over, played with the cape/train piece: Here's the back uncovered before I started messing ...
This is the good kind of drama tho. Like as in, dramatic dresses! I didn't get a lot done last night. Dinner took forever, so didn't even get in my sewing room til 9. I cleaned up, and cut out my new train pieces. Almost messed it up, but thankfully had enough to recut and fix it. As you can see it's so long that I can no longer fit in ...
Friday night I went to see Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the Orpheum (part of their summer movie series!) with dad. It was a lot of fun; we sat in the first row of the big balcony and people had coconuts they were banging together so it echoed all over the theater LOL Saturday morning I embroidered - Saturday night I sewed. Sunday morning I embroidered - Sunday ...
So I finally started my embroidery last night. I drew up my patterns for the main front piece Wednesday night,and yesterday I transferred that to the back side of my fabric. I did a few test runs to see which thread I liked better (I had a non-metallic gold, and a metallic gold to choose from), and which bead size I liked better. Then I started on the front. ...
Today's question is... I'm going to DragonCon for the first time this year! What do I need to know?? I actually answered this over here but it turned into more of a generic DragonCon tips rather than specifically for newbies, so here's some thoughts geared more towards that! 1. Start Planning Early If you decide to go to DragonCon in August, you could probably do it - but you're not going ...
So I went to spend some quality time in my office last night. I went to grab the bodice pieces out of my pattern bag - they were already cut since this is the same pattern I used for my previous Anne in 2009 - only to discover they were not in the bag. I grabbed my two versions of the underpinning patterns, figure they probably got stuck in one of ...
Part of the reason I was rushing on Peggy was so that I could get everything finished and the fabric scraps put away so I could have a clean office to start on Anne. Because Anne is seriously taking up some room. I got the skirt pieces cut last night and sewn together quickly. I pleated it just to see how it was looking. I don't feel like my back ...
I REALLY dug in on Peggy this weekend. Chase was gone Friday-Saturday evening, so I attacked it with everything I had. Worked until about 1AM Friday night/Sat morning, got up, had breakfast, ran to the store, and then back at it until Chase got home around 5. I was kinda in a rush because I REALLY wanted to take it and show it to my grandfather yesterday on Father's Day. ...
Shirt & tie are just stand-ins! Needed to see the jacket with something similar on underneath. Last night I top-stitched the front, got the collar put in and started on the epaulets. I'm going to have to take the collar back off because it's slightly too big and I need to put a couple of darts in so the whole thing lays right - in the photo above I've got ...