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Still kicking, just not posting! The first couple weeks after Covid I had just enough extra energy to either sew or post about it, not do both, so I went with the sewing. :)
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Checking in!
Mar. 15th, 2018 01:41 pmHello hello! Long time no post! I do still read (to, ahem, avoid doing other things I ought to be doing, mainly), but my daily minutiae boil down to go to school, go to Rutgers, go to work, make time for Imaginary Boyfriend shenanigans. Repeat repeat repeat.
But! This week I am on Rutgers spring break so I have time to do other things (haha not really. but I'm going to anyway), and I taught my first lesson this morning, so I'm in a good mood. (While definitely not brilliant, it wasn't irredeemably terrible either, so I take it as a win.) So you get a boring update!
In terms of sewing-related things...
- Brown linen transitional stays: still working on those back pieces. I got to the point in the semester where my in-between class time was WELL I NEED TO SKIM THIS READING I DIDN'T ACTUALLY DO, so those have mostly fallen by the wayside! I do still have them out, and sew a line or two when I really just need to hand sew for twenty minutes...but I doubt they'll be done for the picnic-if-it-still-happens. Which is fine! They were never a deadline project.
- Have cut out and started a couple of vintage dresses and skirts (and then wandered away, whoops). Main problem with that is that we've had about five different seasons over the past month, so when it was really cold I cut out a plaid flannel skirt, then it shot up to 70 and I made half of a polka-dot cotton broadcloth dress, and then it got cold but not very cold and I decided I should make a lightweight wool suiting skirt instead...you get the idea. I am super sick of all my school-appropriate winter clothes though, so I'd really like at least a nod to spring again in the weather!
- Related: I have accumulated a TON of fabric for modern dresses that I'm starting to admit I will probably never use. I mean, eventually, maybe? But not much of it is irreplaceable! Not to mention I keep buying rayon challis-type fabrics, and I hardly ever want to make dresses for which rayon challis is appropriate. So at some point I'm going to do a fairly ruthless stash cull and post it here (and maybe facebook later but I hate facebook so it might just get etsy-d at "pays for shipping supplies" prices)! Some more "historical" fabrics, too, although don't get too excited about silks or wools! Some silks...but you can't have my wools. I'm not going out of the hobby, so you can't have my wools! *clutches* ;) Probably not til May when the semester's over, unless I find myself with a chunk of time and nothing to do. (Haaaaaaaa.)
Other than that? Well, I should start a paper before work tonight, but dammit I want a nap...
But! This week I am on Rutgers spring break so I have time to do other things (haha not really. but I'm going to anyway), and I taught my first lesson this morning, so I'm in a good mood. (While definitely not brilliant, it wasn't irredeemably terrible either, so I take it as a win.) So you get a boring update!
In terms of sewing-related things...
- Brown linen transitional stays: still working on those back pieces. I got to the point in the semester where my in-between class time was WELL I NEED TO SKIM THIS READING I DIDN'T ACTUALLY DO, so those have mostly fallen by the wayside! I do still have them out, and sew a line or two when I really just need to hand sew for twenty minutes...but I doubt they'll be done for the picnic-if-it-still-happens. Which is fine! They were never a deadline project.
- Have cut out and started a couple of vintage dresses and skirts (and then wandered away, whoops). Main problem with that is that we've had about five different seasons over the past month, so when it was really cold I cut out a plaid flannel skirt, then it shot up to 70 and I made half of a polka-dot cotton broadcloth dress, and then it got cold but not very cold and I decided I should make a lightweight wool suiting skirt instead...you get the idea. I am super sick of all my school-appropriate winter clothes though, so I'd really like at least a nod to spring again in the weather!
- Related: I have accumulated a TON of fabric for modern dresses that I'm starting to admit I will probably never use. I mean, eventually, maybe? But not much of it is irreplaceable! Not to mention I keep buying rayon challis-type fabrics, and I hardly ever want to make dresses for which rayon challis is appropriate. So at some point I'm going to do a fairly ruthless stash cull and post it here (and maybe facebook later but I hate facebook so it might just get etsy-d at "pays for shipping supplies" prices)! Some more "historical" fabrics, too, although don't get too excited about silks or wools! Some silks...but you can't have my wools. I'm not going out of the hobby, so you can't have my wools! *clutches* ;) Probably not til May when the semester's over, unless I find myself with a chunk of time and nothing to do. (Haaaaaaaa.)
Other than that? Well, I should start a paper before work tonight, but dammit I want a nap...
I don't like winter break classes
Jan. 5th, 2018 01:12 amWell, I don't like this one anyway. Microeconomics is wretched. What sort of score do you think I'll get on the final if I randomly guess at every question?
ETA, a couple of hours later: Well, so this is how my ambitions end; not with a bang but with a whimper. After having taken several quizzes (it's an online class), I can safely say I understand nothing (I passed one quiz), and that since today is the last day to withdraw from winter interim classes, I am doing so.
It's kind of a bummer to not be able to teach because I can't pass micro, though. Classic understatement, that...Yeah, kind of a bummer. Also, a lot of fucking money.
ETA, a couple of hours later: Well, so this is how my ambitions end; not with a bang but with a whimper. After having taken several quizzes (it's an online class), I can safely say I understand nothing (I passed one quiz), and that since today is the last day to withdraw from winter interim classes, I am doing so.
It's kind of a bummer to not be able to teach because I can't pass micro, though. Classic understatement, that...Yeah, kind of a bummer. Also, a lot of fucking money.
back to class
May. 30th, 2017 11:42 pmAll I had to do for class today was post in the "icebreaker discussion" thread - you know the drill, tell us a little bit about yourself, etc etc. Rediscovered that I don't have any normal interests that I can casually mention to my classmates, LOL. I'm very, very involved in my weird hobbies! (Also that I sound like a 65-year-old. "I like classical music and tea...")
Won't get my books from Amazon til tomorrow, so I worked a bit on the pin-dot dress for Reading (Robin's pointed out that only the die-hards will know if I'm not really dressed early '40s, so my fallback plan is my old blue and white striped cotton dress from a 1947 or '48 Butterick Retro pattern). Just basted the lawn lining pieces to the fashion fabric, nothing exciting!
Won't get my books from Amazon til tomorrow, so I worked a bit on the pin-dot dress for Reading (Robin's pointed out that only the die-hards will know if I'm not really dressed early '40s, so my fallback plan is my old blue and white striped cotton dress from a 1947 or '48 Butterick Retro pattern). Just basted the lawn lining pieces to the fashion fabric, nothing exciting!
last day of freeeedommmmmm
May. 29th, 2017 11:45 pmClass starts tomorrow! Online, but still. Will have to refine my habit of dithering time away internet-trawling and costume plotting!
Spent my last day of freedom pining after a stray kitty I met yesterday at Bartram's Garden over in Philly (he wanted to come home with me I just know it! we were instantly best of friends! *wail* I'm seriously contemplating going back for him despite not being allowed a cat here. mom would Not Be Pleased), and finishing off a dress I cut out and halfway made a while ago. A 1957 Vintage Vogue, out of lightweight linen-cotton with a floral print. I'll probably wear it Saturday to a free concert I'm attending with mom, weather permitting, so shall get pics then.
And now I need to go decide what to wear for my First Day of School! (I won't be doing anything besides checking the syllabus on my laptop while sitting at my dining room table, but hey.)
Spent my last day of freedom pining after a stray kitty I met yesterday at Bartram's Garden over in Philly (he wanted to come home with me I just know it! we were instantly best of friends! *wail* I'm seriously contemplating going back for him despite not being allowed a cat here. mom would Not Be Pleased), and finishing off a dress I cut out and halfway made a while ago. A 1957 Vintage Vogue, out of lightweight linen-cotton with a floral print. I'll probably wear it Saturday to a free concert I'm attending with mom, weather permitting, so shall get pics then.
And now I need to go decide what to wear for my First Day of School! (I won't be doing anything besides checking the syllabus on my laptop while sitting at my dining room table, but hey.)
busy weekend
Apr. 24th, 2017 10:52 pmLong time no update! Well, two days feels like a long time when I try to post every day. ;)
Saturday was Accepted Students Day at Rutgers, and then work directly after. I didn't learn a whole lot of new info - look, I've already paid my deposit, I don't need to be convinced to come here...oh god there are so many 17-year-olds here, I am ancient - but I did find out that for one of the required "welcome days" for new students in August, the over-25s have their own version, and it involves wine and cheese. Okay, Rutgers, I am convinced.
Sunday was photoshoot day for Jenny-Rose's new hairpieces; over the weekend she did about a million hours of filming for her tutorials, and I was one of her models. I will say I was treated very well by the production. Tons of food. ;) Playing with my hair is a wonderful way to lull me to sleep, so I'm impressed that I didn't nod off while I was getting my hair did! I can't wait til all the edits are done and I can see how incredibly miserable I look in the video! I wasn't really being tortured, I promise...
Although I was sad when I had to take my awesome hair down. Obviously.
And then today I dug through the18thc bin and tried to decide what to wear Saturday for the dressmaking demo, since the forecast is WAY TOO CLOSE TO 90 for my liking. (WTF, it's April. Bastards.) I wanted to wear something a bit nicer, but I don't want to wear the bird print dress again, and I sort of forgot how crappy the fit is on the white/red cotton sack jacket that's part of the Brunswick. Riiiiight, that would be why I've only worn it twice... Fixable (mostly a problem with the back shoulders, as usual), but I'm not sure I can really be arsed to fix it, and I definitely can't be arsed to fix it in time for the weekend! I'm not all that attached to it so I'm more likely to put it up in the shop for stupid cheap. Anyway! Moral of the story is that I'm probably going to end up in my blue and white stripe linen gown at this point. It's not fancy, but I don't care if I sweat through it. :P
Saturday was Accepted Students Day at Rutgers, and then work directly after. I didn't learn a whole lot of new info - look, I've already paid my deposit, I don't need to be convinced to come here...oh god there are so many 17-year-olds here, I am ancient - but I did find out that for one of the required "welcome days" for new students in August, the over-25s have their own version, and it involves wine and cheese. Okay, Rutgers, I am convinced.
Sunday was photoshoot day for Jenny-Rose's new hairpieces; over the weekend she did about a million hours of filming for her tutorials, and I was one of her models. I will say I was treated very well by the production. Tons of food. ;) Playing with my hair is a wonderful way to lull me to sleep, so I'm impressed that I didn't nod off while I was getting my hair did! I can't wait til all the edits are done and I can see how incredibly miserable I look in the video! I wasn't really being tortured, I promise...
Although I was sad when I had to take my awesome hair down. Obviously.
And then today I dug through the18thc bin and tried to decide what to wear Saturday for the dressmaking demo, since the forecast is WAY TOO CLOSE TO 90 for my liking. (WTF, it's April. Bastards.) I wanted to wear something a bit nicer, but I don't want to wear the bird print dress again, and I sort of forgot how crappy the fit is on the white/red cotton sack jacket that's part of the Brunswick. Riiiiight, that would be why I've only worn it twice... Fixable (mostly a problem with the back shoulders, as usual), but I'm not sure I can really be arsed to fix it, and I definitely can't be arsed to fix it in time for the weekend! I'm not all that attached to it so I'm more likely to put it up in the shop for stupid cheap. Anyway! Moral of the story is that I'm probably going to end up in my blue and white stripe linen gown at this point. It's not fancy, but I don't care if I sweat through it. :P
in the land of the painted petticoats...
Feb. 14th, 2017 11:32 pmGetting very bored with the same userpic all the time over here on DW...I think I'm going have to import my userpics from LJ soon, I just got very used to having a nice variety to choose from!
Sent off the first painted petticoat today, and started the second; it's at least a slightly different color scheme so not another two panels of the exact. same. thing., anyway! I really do like painting petticoats or I wouldn't have put them in the shop for sale, but two right on top of each other is a bit much. Especially as I should have made Taylor's at least a month ago so I really am obligated to get this done ASAP!
If I'm very good at painting the next two days though, I might give myself one day off to sew something for me. Possibly decide what outfit I'm going to wear to the big hat tea, but more likely a modern skirt or start a new dress or something. A small attempt to start getting rid of my starting-to-get-ridiculous stash of "modern" dress fabric! "Modern" here meaning 1940s-60s, of course. But someday I'm going to get rid of the joann's green fugly polo and need actual dress clothes, really!
("Someday" currently depends on whether Rutgers decides I'm a reasonable risk. We shall see - I'll post more about that later if I'm accepted! I thought I wrote a terribly moving essay... *snort* )
Sent off the first painted petticoat today, and started the second; it's at least a slightly different color scheme so not another two panels of the exact. same. thing., anyway! I really do like painting petticoats or I wouldn't have put them in the shop for sale, but two right on top of each other is a bit much. Especially as I should have made Taylor's at least a month ago so I really am obligated to get this done ASAP!
If I'm very good at painting the next two days though, I might give myself one day off to sew something for me. Possibly decide what outfit I'm going to wear to the big hat tea, but more likely a modern skirt or start a new dress or something. A small attempt to start getting rid of my starting-to-get-ridiculous stash of "modern" dress fabric! "Modern" here meaning 1940s-60s, of course. But someday I'm going to get rid of the joann's green fugly polo and need actual dress clothes, really!
("Someday" currently depends on whether Rutgers decides I'm a reasonable risk. We shall see - I'll post more about that later if I'm accepted! I thought I wrote a terribly moving essay... *snort* )
