Wow, a post! Lookee at that!
Oct. 3rd, 2009 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwAnd something vaguely related to sewing, at that, so it's all public and stuff. *promptly falls over in surprise* Well, I didn't get anywhere near the amount of schoolwork done today that I should have, so why not compound the procrastination with a LJ post? It's too late to concentrate on history textbooks anyway, so I may as well give it up as a lost cause for tonight.
I've been a victim of nearly perpetual waffling on Black Diamonds... at this point it's less than a month to Halloween, and there's still a ton and a half of work to do on it. I swing back and forth between being determined to completely finish at least the corset (I highly doubt the tails will be beaded, by this point in time) because it's going to be AWESOME and SPARKLY even if it's not finished, and completely despairing of the whole thing, wondering what the point is, because it's not going to be totally finished and the rhinestone scallops are wonky anyway and I still need to find a hat but what's the point on pouring money down a rat hole if it's not going to be finished anyway...
Right now I'm on an upswing and have decided it's going to be finished. Not least because now people have actually seen me sewing on it, so I want to be able to show it off!
As for the Tudor Ren Faire gown, I'm still blissfully optimistic about finishing it next weekend, as I have Monday and Tuesday off for fall break. Shh, don't tell me that's totally unachievable; I'm enjoying the delusion!
Also, I may or may not be making a dress for my mother. The choir she's singing in is having a madrigal dinner first weekend in December, and she told me they have some crap for them to wear (really, her word for the costumes they supply, haha), but was hoping maybe I could make her something...? And, because we all know I'm a sucker, I'm probably going to do it -- but only if I'm given a reasonable amount of money to play with. I refuse to use the nasty cheap satin that overpopulates the local Joann's this time of year, for example! That stuff makes me twitch. It won't be a Well-Researched and Period-Correct Garment, but I at least want a plausible style for whatever time period we end up going with...I do not do Simplicity-style "Medieval."
I'm kicking around a couple of ideas already (of course I am!), but I'll wait and see if I get a go-ahead for spending money on things like linen...and if I get the go-ahead for Stupid Hats. We all know I love Stupid Hats, and there were so many of them in the 14th and 15th centuries. In fact, if I don't get the go-ahead for inflicting Stupid Hats on my mother, I might have to add something to my own To-Sew list!
You know...like I need anything else on there. Like I need to buy more fabric for myself. Self-control? What is this self-control you speak of??
Also: ARGH I SMELL A SKUNK BLARGH. I never smelled skunk up here before this semester, now I've smelled it at least three times since we've been here. *choke* Can people stop pissing off the skunks, please?
I've been a victim of nearly perpetual waffling on Black Diamonds... at this point it's less than a month to Halloween, and there's still a ton and a half of work to do on it. I swing back and forth between being determined to completely finish at least the corset (I highly doubt the tails will be beaded, by this point in time) because it's going to be AWESOME and SPARKLY even if it's not finished, and completely despairing of the whole thing, wondering what the point is, because it's not going to be totally finished and the rhinestone scallops are wonky anyway and I still need to find a hat but what's the point on pouring money down a rat hole if it's not going to be finished anyway...
Right now I'm on an upswing and have decided it's going to be finished. Not least because now people have actually seen me sewing on it, so I want to be able to show it off!
As for the Tudor Ren Faire gown, I'm still blissfully optimistic about finishing it next weekend, as I have Monday and Tuesday off for fall break. Shh, don't tell me that's totally unachievable; I'm enjoying the delusion!
Also, I may or may not be making a dress for my mother. The choir she's singing in is having a madrigal dinner first weekend in December, and she told me they have some crap for them to wear (really, her word for the costumes they supply, haha), but was hoping maybe I could make her something...? And, because we all know I'm a sucker, I'm probably going to do it -- but only if I'm given a reasonable amount of money to play with. I refuse to use the nasty cheap satin that overpopulates the local Joann's this time of year, for example! That stuff makes me twitch. It won't be a Well-Researched and Period-Correct Garment, but I at least want a plausible style for whatever time period we end up going with...I do not do Simplicity-style "Medieval."
I'm kicking around a couple of ideas already (of course I am!), but I'll wait and see if I get a go-ahead for spending money on things like linen...and if I get the go-ahead for Stupid Hats. We all know I love Stupid Hats, and there were so many of them in the 14th and 15th centuries. In fact, if I don't get the go-ahead for inflicting Stupid Hats on my mother, I might have to add something to my own To-Sew list!
You know...like I need anything else on there. Like I need to buy more fabric for myself. Self-control? What is this self-control you speak of??
Also: ARGH I SMELL A SKUNK BLARGH. I never smelled skunk up here before this semester, now I've smelled it at least three times since we've been here. *choke* Can people stop pissing off the skunks, please?
