Oh. Hmm. Well then.
Jan. 3rd, 2009 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwI was trying to buy my books for next semester, but the entire damn school website is down. That's okay, I shall console myself with a bit of LJ and wireless internet.
Remember those stays I mentioned weeks ago, the ones I said I'd make for my friend that's newly interested in 18thc costuming? Yeah, well, I didn't remember them, apparently. When I got home from school, all enthusiastic, I cut out all the pieces, sewed half the boning channels, put it all on top of my Box of Stash...and promptly forgot about them. Until yesterday. The party's tomorrow. Yeah, um, those are not going to be finished! I did make nice progress on them yesterday when I found them while excavating things and freaked out a little.
But there's no way I can bind 75% of a pair of stays, make 33 more hand-bound eyelets (they're front and back-lacing), and sew the lining on in less than twenty-four hours. I'm good, but not that good. Plan B: promise a completed pair of stays when we go back to school for spring semester, buy her The Duchess on DVD (since that movie is what got her interested in the first place), and call it a day. She won't care...she doesn't even know that she was supposed to get them tomorrow!
This is proof I ought to clean up my sewing more often, I think. Either that or I'm getting prematurely senile. *eyeroll*
In other sewing news, the cruise-dress-sewings are going fairly well...I've decided to just wait til they're all done and take pictures and give you all a little write-up then. See, I've got the laptop connected to the Internet, now I just need a camera that doesn't suck massively and eat batteries like there's no tomorrow. One step at a time!
Anyway, one dress, a red semi-formal, is completely finished, hemmed and all (which was a big pain in the butt, as it's 1950s style with a circular skirt...giant bias stretch + an eight thousand inch hem = two days to hem); the other three are in various stages of being not-finishedand hiding more important things like OTHER PEOPLE'S STAYS around my room.
Okay, going to try to order books again...if all else fails I can just stay on LJ and refresh my friends page endlessly. (Or, you know, sew. Like, those stays? Oh yeah, I could do that.)
Remember those stays I mentioned weeks ago, the ones I said I'd make for my friend that's newly interested in 18thc costuming? Yeah, well, I didn't remember them, apparently. When I got home from school, all enthusiastic, I cut out all the pieces, sewed half the boning channels, put it all on top of my Box of Stash...and promptly forgot about them. Until yesterday. The party's tomorrow. Yeah, um, those are not going to be finished! I did make nice progress on them yesterday when I found them while excavating things and freaked out a little.
But there's no way I can bind 75% of a pair of stays, make 33 more hand-bound eyelets (they're front and back-lacing), and sew the lining on in less than twenty-four hours. I'm good, but not that good. Plan B: promise a completed pair of stays when we go back to school for spring semester, buy her The Duchess on DVD (since that movie is what got her interested in the first place), and call it a day. She won't care...she doesn't even know that she was supposed to get them tomorrow!
This is proof I ought to clean up my sewing more often, I think. Either that or I'm getting prematurely senile. *eyeroll*
In other sewing news, the cruise-dress-sewings are going fairly well...I've decided to just wait til they're all done and take pictures and give you all a little write-up then. See, I've got the laptop connected to the Internet, now I just need a camera that doesn't suck massively and eat batteries like there's no tomorrow. One step at a time!
Anyway, one dress, a red semi-formal, is completely finished, hemmed and all (which was a big pain in the butt, as it's 1950s style with a circular skirt...giant bias stretch + an eight thousand inch hem = two days to hem); the other three are in various stages of being not-finished
Okay, going to try to order books again...if all else fails I can just stay on LJ and refresh my friends page endlessly. (Or, you know, sew. Like, those stays? Oh yeah, I could do that.)
