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mellymellYes, those of us who didn't go to Dragon*Con this weekend were forced to entertain ourselves. I had every intention of making great strides on my Angel gown mockup this weekend, but my health had other plans, it seems. I did manage to get a bit done on Saturday, at least. I've got hopefully just one more revision to the fit of the seam at the back zipper and then I can move on to sleeves. I had a realization on the sleeves over the weekend though. The undergown sleeves need to be fitted more at the upper arm. Otherwise, I think the overgown sleeves would look a little bunchy and not lay so flat and smooth over the arm. So, the sleeve pattern I already had cut out and sewn and ready to be set in needs to be altered. Oh well, at least I'm just taking it in, so hopefully I won't have to cut yet another one.
Unfortunately, Sunday and Monday were spent either trying to get the house clean (and despite my efforts it somehow still looks like a mess, I think I give up on cleaning while Chris is home) or recovering from too little sleep from a late night/early morning in the ER. I'm making it my goal for the rest of the month to do at least some sewing everyday until ALEP. I think that's the only way I'm going to get everything done. Of course, Chris is talking about driving to Memphis this weekend to drop off entries for a homebrewing competition, but we'll see. He might just wind up shipping them.
I need to make a run out today to pick up a few things at Joann's (white invisible zipper, more silver DMC floss and silver sequins). I also need to decide if I'm going to mess with dyeing the shantung I have to make bias tape or just use white and trust it's not going to show anyway (this is just for inside seams, I would hem the neckline instead of using bias there). I'm just not really eager to spend $5 shipping on a $4 jar of silver dye from Dharma right now. If I needed other stuff that would make the shipping worth it, I totally would, but I'm just having trouble rationalizing it.
Unfortunately, Sunday and Monday were spent either trying to get the house clean (and despite my efforts it somehow still looks like a mess, I think I give up on cleaning while Chris is home) or recovering from too little sleep from a late night/early morning in the ER. I'm making it my goal for the rest of the month to do at least some sewing everyday until ALEP. I think that's the only way I'm going to get everything done. Of course, Chris is talking about driving to Memphis this weekend to drop off entries for a homebrewing competition, but we'll see. He might just wind up shipping them.
I need to make a run out today to pick up a few things at Joann's (white invisible zipper, more silver DMC floss and silver sequins). I also need to decide if I'm going to mess with dyeing the shantung I have to make bias tape or just use white and trust it's not going to show anyway (this is just for inside seams, I would hem the neckline instead of using bias there). I'm just not really eager to spend $5 shipping on a $4 jar of silver dye from Dharma right now. If I needed other stuff that would make the shipping worth it, I totally would, but I'm just having trouble rationalizing it.
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on 2008-09-09 06:00 am (UTC)I haven't been commenting, but I'm happy to hear the Angel gown plans are coming along. Everything sounds lovely. :)