Now Playing: "Sidehackers" - always an MST3K favorite
Current Mood : Happily in stitches !
Here's the back side of the blank book journal I bought yesterday. Kind of the same as the front, but I liked the description ! What a great idea, Manda ! Anybody wanna give it a go ? I like to give ya'll a nice image to look at while you're reading this disjointed mess, as a sort of reward. Honestly, I have no idea what I'm gonna do with that pretty
Ariel fabric now that the images have been scanned and posted. I mostly got it to share with ya'll ! Maybe I can center one of the Ariels to make a nightgown or something...
Michelle, you are so right about the exercise. I hauled the twig-branches away today, and got two more scratches on my feet - I gotta quit wearin' those old, busted ballerina flats for yard work - but felt great after the blood got moving. I'll probably sleep like a brick tonight !
Got to thinking - look out, Universe ! - about what I wanted to do to keep my mind off things I can't change. Decided I needed a challenge, something I've either never done before or never completed successfully. Ever since mentioning Barbie Collector in yesterday's entry, I kinda wanted to look at the single issue I bought. Hmm...it even has a pattern in it, for a lace-overlay wedding gown. (Autumn 2007 issue)
While I'm not a ‘big dress' kinda girl, I can always use a good bodice. And my one attempt at lace overlay was a disaster ! Somehow that oversized brown lace over faded, worn denim didn't look as funky as my mind saw it ! And I didn't have it pieced together well, since I went after it with the happy ignorance of someone truly clueless of even basic sewing. No photos exist, it was about two years before I started the site or even had access to a digital camera. It was truly ugly, and if I did have a photo, I'd share it, so you'd know not all my efforts are successful - especially back when I was just beginning to sew. I made some real horrors, lemme tell ya !
So, here was something I'd never completed successfully, and never really did before, since that early effort was just a ‘let's sew it together and see what happens' directionless trial. Scanned the pattern, but didn't increase the skirt as directed - I just wanted to try my hand at the bodice first. If that worked, I had a few hundred different things I could do with it, without attaching a big bridal train to it.
Unfortunately, I didn't get beyond cutting out the fabric, lace, and lining, and getting ‘em all Fray-Checked. Beloved Hubby was home today, and I tend to run errands with him and help out when I can at his Shop. With the PILs here, time for just us two - our us three, with Dearest Son - is pretty rare, so I tend to jump on it. We had a nice lunch out, and did a bit of home-improvement window shopping. We both really, really hate our dining area lighting fixture, so it was fun to daydream about other sets.
Back home, I read over directions for the bodice while waiting for Dearest's bus. I used super-thin cotton (it used to be pillow ticking, nearly worn out !) for lining, but the pattern calls for tulle (netting) to reduce bulk. I can understand that, but the thing has four darts. I'd love to see someone mark and sew in darts on tulle.
What I'd really love to do is make a replica of Princess Tutu's costume. It's yer basic romantic tutu, in white. A quick Google image search will show it to you. Wonderful anime - I was in tears several times. How's this for a teaser : Little duck transforms into a clumsy ballet student, who becomes Princess Tutu -to restore the pieces of a prince's broken heart. If this bodice works out, it's about half the costume !
Wish me luck ! Hopefully I'll have an image of the sewn bodice tomorrow !
