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Jan. 20th, 2008 12:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwJust a quicky-quick update before I go to sleep, since I haven't been on for the past few days, and I should be taking advantage of my last few days of free time.
A. never came over to try on her stays (raz@234fgyhGcG!!!!)...so I suppose the completion of those will have to wait until spring break (hopefully not summer break...). Saw Sweeney Todd earlier this week and decided I NEED a Mrs. Lovett costume (I will elaborate, hopefully, more later)...I dunnno, these things just happen sometimes... :) So I started making a pair of mitts...I made one, it sucked, made the other, it was much better, found I couldn't take the first one apart without ripping it to shreds, got fed up, and the got totally distracted by making another pair of mitts for me to wear around the house (out of froggy flannel I found in the scrap bin) because my hands and wrists are always cold. Then I got distracted from the original mitts again because I got some DVDs from Amazon, and just had to watch A Clockwork Orange right then...but I felt guilty not doing any sewing...so I finished doing the eyelets on my stays that I started recovering last summer and only just finished yesterday.
So since my stays were finally done, I started toiling the bodice for the block print polonaise today, which actually went remarkably smoothly, so I got up to cutting out and pinning together all the layers of all the pieces before my family and I left to see RAIN: The Beatles Experience, which, for the record, I thought was fabulous (though I'm no hardcore fan to notice and whine about how "but that wasn't RIGHT WAHHH!" ).
So, really, moral of the story is that instead of finishing things, I just started more projects and left them half-finished too, as per usual. (And I bought more fabric at Joann's...but it's okay, they have a definite, to be-used-soon-in-the-future purpose...and I had a gift card, so I technically only spent $5.)
I did finish the froggy mitts though. :) And I luvz them.
A. never came over to try on her stays (raz@234fgyhGcG!!!!)...so I suppose the completion of those will have to wait until spring break (hopefully not summer break...). Saw Sweeney Todd earlier this week and decided I NEED a Mrs. Lovett costume (I will elaborate, hopefully, more later)...I dunnno, these things just happen sometimes... :) So I started making a pair of mitts...I made one, it sucked, made the other, it was much better, found I couldn't take the first one apart without ripping it to shreds, got fed up, and the got totally distracted by making another pair of mitts for me to wear around the house (out of froggy flannel I found in the scrap bin) because my hands and wrists are always cold. Then I got distracted from the original mitts again because I got some DVDs from Amazon, and just had to watch A Clockwork Orange right then...but I felt guilty not doing any sewing...so I finished doing the eyelets on my stays that I started recovering last summer and only just finished yesterday.
So since my stays were finally done, I started toiling the bodice for the block print polonaise today, which actually went remarkably smoothly, so I got up to cutting out and pinning together all the layers of all the pieces before my family and I left to see RAIN: The Beatles Experience, which, for the record, I thought was fabulous (though I'm no hardcore fan to notice and whine about how "but that wasn't RIGHT WAHHH!" ).
So, really, moral of the story is that instead of finishing things, I just started more projects and left them half-finished too, as per usual. (And I bought more fabric at Joann's...but it's okay, they have a definite, to be-used-soon-in-the-future purpose...and I had a gift card, so I technically only spent $5.)
I did finish the froggy mitts though. :) And I luvz them.
