Yet another warning that it doesn’t fit my dressform. Like, at all. I need to adjust the settings on it! I got the belt made on my lunch hour yesterday, and got the beads sewn on last night. Tonight I’ll stitch it into place. I got the cape piece made last night and did the decorative stitching around the edges.…

It’s wearable! Ignore the ironing board and call-of-duty-playing husband! It looks a little too long in the photo but it’s just the angle – the bottom hem hits me right below the knee. I had a frustrating time installing the lining but I got it in and finished and top stitched. After this picture I pressed the lower hem. Didn’t…

Well the front is. I finished it last night! I finished the upper bar – which took a little longer than I expected – and got the diamond shape beads attached. (I ended up having to buy crystal beads for those pieces because I couldn’t find anything in gold/brass, and Chase painted them for me. They’re a little longer and…

I REALLY buckled down and dug into the Donna dress over the weekend. Thursday night I got the last of the beading and embroidery on the “middle” part finished (the lower skirt half above the big triangles). Friday I tackled the big triangles. I broke out the “light table” again (using a light underneath our glass coffee table) and with…

I’m plowing through this. I’d say I’d be done with that main section tonight but Chase wants to go see a movie!! So tomorrow, I guess. I’m going to try an experiment with some leftover gold material and see if I can just get away with sewing it behind this black material – maybe at certain angles and with a…

Went home early with my migraine yesterday and laid down for a bit; then woke up and did some beading. Pinned it on the dressform for a better pic but I didn’t pin it as well as I did last time, so it’s not a very good pic. (I need to fix the size settings on the new dressform, too.)

I finally finished the beading on the top (except for the upper band)! I got to move on to the lower half last night. I decided to pin it onto my dressform this morning for a better picture. My dressform is currently at the lowest measurements for getting things off and on easier, so she’s a little (ok a lot)…

I allllllmost got the top finished last night. I probably won’t be able to work on it much tonight (taking Kev out for his bday!) but hopefully can have it finished it up tomorrow (except for the upper band, of course – haven’t really touched that) Luna discovered I have fun things in my work box. I throw empty spools…

I’m alllllllllllmost done with the top section. I think if I really push tonight I could have it pretty much done. I need to finish doing the circles on the right (hate doing those), bead them, finish that one middle piece on the right, do the beading along the top edge and the rest of the large beads.

Monday I focused on getting the bottom half of the dress patterned out. Chase printed it for me Tuesday — but we had to go help with moving some stuff at my grandma’s that night, so by the time we got home i was too tired to do anything with it. So yesterday I got my quasi-light table set up…

Saw Jurassic World twice this weekend and now I am a velociraptor. Chase was out of town Friday and Saturday and I tried to get a lot done but I didn’t really. I started on the circles underneath the points. Not crazy about how the beaded ones looked so I stopped beading them and just focused on getting the basic…

Crap, I had a long-ass post written out about crazy stuff last night and Donna progress and wordpress just had an error when I went to post and didn’t even save the draft. WTF :\ So, short version: 1. Bad migraine day yesterday 2. Cath came over and we made a bunch of capes for her summer camp 3. Chase…

Didn’t get to do a lot on the Donna stuff over the weekend, so finally got to jump in again last night. I started doing some of the light purple points. Got all but one done on one side – didn’t feel like rethreading because I wanted to go to bed LOL The interior of my new car gets HOT!…