I misspelled embroidery in the title and it was "broidery" which I think is the manly bro version of embroidery. So I finished a couple of other art things recently, in that Star Wars series I've been doing. First up is Luke I'm pretty happy with how he turned out. And then Han Pretty happy with this one, too. I think next week I'm going to revisit Leia - she ...
Trying to think of another post title that's not "monday again" or something and I typed the first thing that came to mind. "I am a train." OK. (I'm pretty certain that's due to having Arlo Guthrie's "The City of New Orleans" stuck in my head the past couple of days thanks to it playing in the grocery store on Saturday.) So anyway what's been happening since my last post? ...
So this morning I realized I did some of my Bespin Leia stuff in the wrong colour over the weekend. I dunno if I'll be able to fix it since the needle leaves holes in the fabric. I guess I can try to unpick the wrong part (some of the interior petals within the flowers) and put the needle back through the same holes with the right colour. This just ...
Originally I named this post "work work work" but then the permalink came up as "work-work-work-5" which means I've named 4 other posts at some time or another "work work work" so I changed it to Sewing McSewerson. Even though I didn't actually do any sewing this weekend but I did a lot of embroidery so that counts. We stayed in pretty much all weekend. Got out Saturday morning and ran ...
We had to buy a new printer. Ours kicked the bucket. Boo! I've got a ton of stuff to print for VisionCon so we ordered a new one and it should arrive tomorrow. Yay. I got two nice 8x10 display portfolios for Christmas that I'm going to print off a lot of my costume photos to display on my table at VisionCon. I thought it would be a nice way ...
So Friday we got snow! Not a lot but it was enough to make driving a little scary. Unfortunately we didn't get a snow day :( I worked all day, Chase most of the day. So besides that I have two sets of costume updates - Bespin Leia (AKA the bad) and Dolores (AKA the good). Which do I start with? I'll start with Bespin. So I was making really good ...
Back at work and with my first migraine of 2017... UGH. In fact it was so bad that I typed that first sentence... sat here and stared at it, then just closed the window and saved it as a draft. Couldn't wrap my head around actually typing out everything it was so bad. Went home for lunch, took some more medicine, ate, slept for 10 minutes and came back feeling better. Or ...
more like Rogue FUN! First up, finished up Glinda and got it sent off, it fit perfectly, yay! Now I REALLY need my dressform back from mom. I finally made a little bit of progress on Bespin Leia. I really wanted to transfer one of my patterns over to some junk fabric so I could see how the spacing was going to look before I did it on my expensive ...
I got my main fabric last week, and over the weekend I pulled it out and tested to see how it was going to look, opacity-wise. It's going to be a little less see-through than I'd like if I want to not have so much of the red chiffon lining show through it, but it'll work. I got my embroidery guide printed and taped together, and here it is pinned ...
Last night I sat down, turned on netflix, got my tablet plugged in, ready to finish up my Bespin embroidery design... but I opened and realized it was pretty much done. Hooray! So since I was already there, I did some rough sketchy drawings of Leia and Rey. Added some colour. I'd like to do some more like this. They were fun and quick. In more bespin Leia news, I ...