whooooooooa

Hi! First up is the great news that my international shipment of stuff for the Pink Thing IS IN THE US!! It went through customs yesterday!! The projected delivery date was 8/8-8/22 and 8/22 was pushing it WAY too late so I'm so relieved that it's here in the states and hopefully will start moving my way later today/tomorrow. I wouldn't have had this problem if anybody in the US ...

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get to work

So I had a long weekend; had friday off. Wednesday and Thursday I finished up my Bespin updates. Thankfully it ended up being easier (and quicker) than I expected. I took the trim off the tunic, opened it up at the back seam, flipped it and cut off three inches. Flipped back around, pressed it, tried it on - I had intitally been also planning to take up the side ...

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in which I think about dragoncon

Didn't get a whole lot done last night. Well maybe kinda. Finished painting my shoes, got the lowest ruffle sewn on. Got the sequins sewn onto the straps and got the first line of sequins sewn across the top of the bodice. Had to handsew those so it took a little longer - I have to do one more line of them tonight. Also finish hand-sewing the top ruffle, and ...

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this week

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 ...

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productive weekend was productive

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 ...

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what’s up

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 ...

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To-Do List

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 ...

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wigs and dye and spider

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 ...

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Sunday

This is also some non-Sunday stuff, but it's mostly Sunday. I spent the morning being lazy because I was so tired (and sore) from Saturday. Chase actually got out and did some yard work. Then we went and had lunch, picked up stuff for dinner, ran some of dad's equipment out to him (we loaded up in both our cars the night before). Then I came to do the 3rd ...

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A giant art post

Yes it's a huge art dump. Well huge by today's standards, not so much by like... me circa 2001 standards. First up is a Amidala picture I've been working on for a while... I got bored after I finished the face so I'd do just a little bit each day because I didn't really feel like doing the rest LOL but I pushed through and it's finally done. It's a re-do ...

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