A Dedicated Follower of Fashion

They are here! And they were taken with the self-timer and still managed to be phenomenally bad! Yaay! *applauds self* Hey, at least they're here, 'kay? And I cropped them, and you don't even get to see the bizarre faces I made while wondering "Oh damn, lost count, when is the camera going to- oh. Well, bet that'll be an interesting shot..."

( Because LJ cuts are fun. )
It was kind of in interesting change to go from my usual, corseted and highly supported with lots of underwear (one reason I can never finish anything!) to this drapey, more loose-fitting costume with minimal underclothes. I made that shift-type-thing to wear under the underdress, but you can't see it (which is kind of the point), and it's not very exciting; just white cotton with two more layers in the bodice front.

Unf. I am dead tired, but I figured I might as well report on how the late-night sewing went...

While messing about with the wool gown's sleeves, I discovered (o the cleverness of me!) that I cut out the sleeves so that the hem was on the selvage. That meant that I didn't have to hem the sleeves for today if I didn't have time. Which, no, I really didn't. (Those things have 2 yards of fabric in them!) Regardless of the sleeve hem elimination, I was still up til 3.30. It's okay, I watched Beatles movies. For a really long time.

And had to get up at 7.30 for setup for Feast at 8...then it transpired we didn't need to be there until 10, so I went back to sleep for an hour and a half. Setting up for Feast took literally all day, from 10 until I decided I needed to get dressed, around 5.10, because it started at 6. Good food, good times (when I'm slightly more coherent I may actually explain what Feast is), but then we had to clean up. Which I got back from around 11.45. Of course we had all this leftover crap that the members of OGL had to either take home or throw out, so I'm now the proud owner of three bags of almonds and a leetle tiny jack-o-lantern. He's sitting on my windowsill, and I think I shall have to name him. George, I think. Heh.

I, having no working camera, obviously did not get any pictures of myself, but I think other people did, and I'll try to steal them later if I can. If not, you'll have to wait til I take the whole getup home over winter break and I can get nice piccies then. (Except we all know I am something less than a phenomenal photographer, so they may not be so nice...)

Okay, done posting while practically not-sober from sleepiness!

The green linen medieval dress thing is hemmed. Took longer than it should have, really. It is Friday night, and I am bored. Need to sew more, so probably will.

That is all.

Zzzzzzz.

Edit: Because I am bored, you all get a quiz I've seen making the rounds. i can haz gud english? (yes, according to this quiz and my perfect score on the verbal SAT portion four years ago, I can. *brags*) Ok, back to being bored.

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I seem to have run out of green thread to match my linen.

LAME.

That is all.

Thing the First: Watched the debate last night. I know the purpose of my journal on here is not so much the political, and probably not what you all read it for, but I've seen this linked to on a couple of my friends' journals, thought it was very apt, and so shall link to it as well. Also...Palin, "nuclear" is a word. "Nuculear" is not. (Even spell-check on LJ says so!)

Thing the Second: I hemmed the medieval smocky thing. And one gore. Not today...I don't actually remember if it was yesterday or the day before. Whatever.

Thing the Third: One of my floormates has people over, and they are drinking, playing loud horrible music, and are currently engaged in yelling at each other over a game of Trivial Pursuit. Sigh. First, at least shut the damn door, so that if the CAs come around on rove, all of us don't get in trouble for underage drinking! Second, midterms are this coming week, and I'm trying to do schoolwork. Yeah, on a Friday night; lame, I know, but we did go out to the football game, and now I want to get a little more work done! Third, that music is really terrible- it's some sort of loud scream-y stuff. Do not want. Am listening to Beatles with headphones on in an attempt to counteract this.

Thing the Fourth: As I mentioned, I went to our college football game tonight (which we lost, boo), and it was cold. Like, 50-55 degrees cold. Which I like, but nobody else seems to. Hmm, should have brought my wool coat up to school with me when I went home last weekend! (Also, our team played Kean, and my friend Kat and I could not figure out what they were cheering for, i.e. their mascot. We decided it was either Bluejays or Bluebirds. Imagine my surprise when I got back from the game and looked up Kean's mascot, only to find out that they are in fact the Cougars. Huh.)

Really, I did; I sewed stuff. No picture proof, as I still have a crap camera, and it's not really all that exciting. (I warn you, in almost every book I read on medieval costume, they called garments different things, so I shall blissfully forge ahead with very-possibly-incorrect and possibly-made-up terminology. I know what I mean. I think.) I need all this done for...errm...sometime in November for a feast the OGL (the aforementioned medieval reeanctment group) will be having; shouldn't be too much of a problem, even handsewing most of it.

Saturday night, I stayed up obscenely late and sewed, because I was home for the night. My machine and I had lovely bonding time. I draped the muslin for my Fairly Generic Medieval Dress/Garment/Thinger- very much needed, as a fair amount of time was spent going, "Oh, is this how gores work? Cool!" So the kinks (hopefully) were worked out, and I'm using the muslin as a Smock/Undergarment-Ish Piece of Clothing. (Didn't do the sleeves, though. I hate sleeves and will put them off as long as possible.)

...Okay, it felt like a lot more work done than it looks all typed out...