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Store-closing loot and things
Feb. 18th, 2014 03:06 pmSunday I spent my day at Jessica's house, helping sew Erin a sack gown. We didn't get it finished, and I was floundering a bit, dealing with adapting the construction of a sack gown to be machine sewn, but we finished the petticoat, and all the main pieces of the dress are sewn together. Just needs the sleeves put in, the back binding put on, and to be hemmed, I think?
Yesterday I had to be up at the unholy hour of 4am to go to a store on the other side of the state. They're closing in early March and opening a new location, so they need help getting all the stuff prepared to pack up or sell off. Thankfully my coworker A offered to drive! We were supposed to go back again today (an hour later thank goodness), but it had started snowing in the wee hours, there was about 3" of snow on the roads, visibility was bad, and as I was on the phone with the closing manager, asking how badly we were really needed, the car was skidding itself in a complete circle...while we were trying to drive around a circle.
Yeah, no. I wouldn't even have tried it, but I wasn't driving. So I've got a day off today! Naturally, now the temperature's shot up, the sky's blue, and the birds are chirping - and the roads are clear! Don't care, want my day off. And much as I like getting essentially ten hours of pay for eight hours of work (they pay driving time), stooping to measure out bolts of fabric for eight hours yesterday was murder on my back. And I had to help cut fabric that wasn't bolted yet for customers, while not being able to sign into the scanners and without them having any cutting slips left that could filled out by hand. It's kind of a clusterfuck, to be honest. Thrilled not to do a repeat performance again today.
(They may want us another day this week, but with any luck it'll be the day I'm going down to the Red Bank battlefield...)
But, onto the inevitable Shopping! There was a bit of wool (a very little bit) and plenty of (horribly slubby not-even-worth-$5-yd) dupioni, but I bought mostly cotton prints since that's more of what I might need at the moment.
Thought the pear-and-apple print would make a cute vintage-style dress sometime, I couldn't resist another piece of the scalloped print, the white twill is always useful, and the other three prints are candidates for first-half-of-the-nineteenth-century dresses. The ostrich-feather trim was wildly unnecessary but at 75% off I couldn't resist...and wouldn't it look nice trimming a fancy 18thc mantle? ;)
Yesterday I had to be up at the unholy hour of 4am to go to a store on the other side of the state. They're closing in early March and opening a new location, so they need help getting all the stuff prepared to pack up or sell off. Thankfully my coworker A offered to drive! We were supposed to go back again today (an hour later thank goodness), but it had started snowing in the wee hours, there was about 3" of snow on the roads, visibility was bad, and as I was on the phone with the closing manager, asking how badly we were really needed, the car was skidding itself in a complete circle...while we were trying to drive around a circle.
Yeah, no. I wouldn't even have tried it, but I wasn't driving. So I've got a day off today! Naturally, now the temperature's shot up, the sky's blue, and the birds are chirping - and the roads are clear! Don't care, want my day off. And much as I like getting essentially ten hours of pay for eight hours of work (they pay driving time), stooping to measure out bolts of fabric for eight hours yesterday was murder on my back. And I had to help cut fabric that wasn't bolted yet for customers, while not being able to sign into the scanners and without them having any cutting slips left that could filled out by hand. It's kind of a clusterfuck, to be honest. Thrilled not to do a repeat performance again today.
(They may want us another day this week, but with any luck it'll be the day I'm going down to the Red Bank battlefield...)
But, onto the inevitable Shopping! There was a bit of wool (a very little bit) and plenty of (horribly slubby not-even-worth-$5-yd) dupioni, but I bought mostly cotton prints since that's more of what I might need at the moment.
Thought the pear-and-apple print would make a cute vintage-style dress sometime, I couldn't resist another piece of the scalloped print, the white twill is always useful, and the other three prints are candidates for first-half-of-the-nineteenth-century dresses. The ostrich-feather trim was wildly unnecessary but at 75% off I couldn't resist...and wouldn't it look nice trimming a fancy 18thc mantle? ;)
