I don't think I mentioned it in my last blog post, but my great-uncle passed away last weekend. He was 102! I didn't post yesterday because we had his funeral. It was a long day. But we'll get to that later. I got as much done on Nadja as possible while awaiting my next fabric shipment. The upper skirt is assembled except the one back panel I'm missing. I also got ...
I had an instagram story memory pop up yesterday that this time last year I said "dragoncon season is officially starting for me today." That made me feel really good because I have a huge head start this year compared to last. Rebels Leia is nearly done, and I've got a good chunk of Nadja done now too! So yeah I had a very fruitful sewing weekend. Chase was gone ...
I'm just going to start at the beginning of my photos from the last week and work my way through them. First up - my Nadja swatch arrived and looked good finally! I think I finally got the stripe sizing good. So I got my yardage ordered and hooray it was on sale - it was $50 cheaper than I had budgeted for. It's arriving tomorrow so fingers crossed it looks ...
It's dad's bday today! We went out for dinner Saturday night to a new korean bbq place. It was ok. Not like the one we had in NYC. I don't have a lot of costume progress to show this week. I'll chat about it at the end. New pin for the collection! A friend gave us some irises back in 2021 - this is the first year one has bloomed! Hooray! ...
Ok now that Huntsville is behind us, it's time to focus on Dragoncon and the costume progress I've made in the last week. So let's get back to Rebels Leia... Got the sleeves on, and a neckline facing added. Pants time! Decided to do the same thing I did with Wanda last year and use the lower half of a bodysuit pattern so there's no crotch seam. It fit really ...
Yall Picard season 3 is SO DANG GOOD I don't care if it's fan service. It the perfect kind of reunion nostalgia we should have gotten with the Star Wars sequel movies and now we can never have because Carrie is gone :( Anyway. last week I worked on the Nadja mock-up: I felt like the sleeve and upper bodice looked good, but the skirt wasn't quite there. Not the right silhouette. ...
So my white stretch suede for Rebels Leia came and I am... not enthused. It's actually a really beautiful fabric with a nice drape. Just waaaay thinner than I thought it would be. Just sticking it in the stash for something else in the future. I'm being soo picky about Rebels Leia fabric because I really haven't worn anything skintight like this in ages and I'm definitely not the shape ...
I've had Eyes Without a Face stuck in my head all morning and I have no idea why. Before I dive into sewing news let's talk about the generic life stuff. Ice storm last week, again. Fun. Saturday things were cleared up and warmer so we went out to run some errands and also checked out some places we've never been. Also discovered this: This was by the dumpster at ...