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Anne update for today
I’ve been having trouble with the seams on the skirt puckering. I sewed the skirt seams like I normally do satin and they looked – fine. Not fantastic, but very minimal puckering. Passable. I finished the interior seams same way as I did on the bodice and the puckering went up by about 50%. Now they don’t look so good.…
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Thoughts on a short year
Last year I only made 6 costumes. That’s the lowest amount since I started this hobby. Even the year we bought a house and we needed to save money I made more costumes (9). The only years lower are 2000 and 1999 – because I only made 1 each of those years. After realizing this and thinking about it, I…
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UGH
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…
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More Anne stuff
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…
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We know drama
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…
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weekend update
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 –…
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Donna
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…
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FAQ Friday: First Time DragonCon
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…
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Ugh
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…
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Anne work commences
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…
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So much work I can’t even remember it all
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…
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I’m almost there
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…
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Today’s update on Peggy
Doesn’t look all that different from yesterday’s post, but last night was clean up. I cleaned up the inside and pressed some stuff and fixed my dart, and reshaped my collar. Also made the upper collar but haven’t attached it yet. It’s a little big on my dressform, it’s fitting me better – I’ll try to take my next picture…
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Your Daily Update
Didn’t get to work much last night; but I did get the jacket basically put back together. I need to go back in and trim and replace my seams and darts, and also I think I may need to move the left side down – the pockets ended up uneven and I think it’s just because I’ve got it placed…
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An End to the Anne Fabric Debacle
This is part 2 to this post, way back OVER a month ago… So I thought my fabric searches were over and done with. I had that last 4 yards coming in from Murfreesboro and that would give me 14 yards all together, which should be enough. Well time goes by and they never call to say my fabric is…
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Last night…
I got the other side cut out, got my pockets done, darts put back in place and started putting the jacket back together. It looks like a right mess in that photo but I wanted a progress shot. Tonight I’m going to get the darts put back into the lining and get the lining and outer layer reattached. I’m hoping…
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All Peggy, all the time
This weekend I got a LOT done on Peggy. I jumped in and cut out my actual fabric, got the lining put together, and then the front side put together: Another shot: I did a test run of a attempting a double welted pocket. And then a quick test fit of the jacket with the skirt. And then I attempted…
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Jacket mockup
Yall can probably expect me to actually update on costumes on a pretty regular basis this summer; I’ve been in a posty mood and I don’t see it fading. Here’s my 2nd jacket mockup I put together last night. I just put the pieces together and left it – tonight I need to press the seams and play with the…
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Lots of work
So last night I got all of this done Yes, that’s right, I cut out four squares of black fabric and pinned them to my dressform. Man that was a lot of work. Actually I spent most of the evening researching the costume and gathering up my references into one folder, and then I went and cut out the fabric…
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This weekend’s projects…
On Saturday, I jumped in and dyed my wool. Just as reminder, here’s what it looked like originally along with my dye tests: Chase helped me fill up one of our big bins with hot water. Then we took it outside for the actual dyeing: Here it is drying: And then we went to see X-Men, which I enjoyed very…
