Current Mood : Drowzy, but craft-happy.
Well, there it is, the Aileen's Petite Fashions pattern #43, Pak Silk Sheath. Very busy fabric - now I know why the Mattel ones were sold in solid colors only. I get a little dizzy looking at it. Modeling is a headless straight-leg vintage body, too badly damaged and too dirty to use any other way. It's nice to use as a fitting dummy, since it's the original body, and it's all harder vinyl, clothes slide off and on easily, once I get ‘em past her sharp fingers and over her missing pinky. The photo flatters the dress, since you can't see the weird fabric bulges by the bustline.
Didn't get out much, but we did actually leave, for a late lunch and to pick up a few things. Thank Everything that Beloved Hubby's big truck is 4WD, although the roads weren't that bad. Parking lots and driveways, however, were skating rinks !
Dearest Son got to go with his Grand-dad today, for a day of fun at their house. DFIL is all interested in Beloved's AirSoft stuff, so perhaps they'll get to go play next Sunday. I think it'd be wonderful if DFIL, Beloved, and Dearest all got to play together one day !
As for me, I spent another glorious day goofing off, cuddling with DC, watching useless cable, playing with Friday, and working in some minor cleaning and laundry. The snow and ice are just starting to melt, and with nothing new falling tomorrow - and temps near the low 40s ! - it'll be back to normal in no time for us. I don't envy the Eastern Seaboard in the next couple of days, though.
About 10pm I realized that, while I'd spent a lot of time digitizing designs and wrestling with Stitch Era Universal, I hadn't embroidered anything. Well, shoot. So, at 10:30, I decide to use one of the appliqué designs in Brody's memory, installed months ago. It was a simple set of initials, for Dearest, that I'd gotten free - one of those ‘get a letter every day, collect the set' annoyances from last year. Stitched up really well, though, and I got to use some scraps from the first milk-crate slipcover that I hadn't cleaned from the cutting table yet.
Still, starting a t-shirt design at 10:30 at night seemed stupid. I was kinda sleepy and hadn't really planned on doing it right that moment, but I wanted to keep my goal going... and surprisingly, it only took an hour, start to finish, from deciding which color thread and fabric to use, to daubing off chalk positioning marks and ironing on stitch-shield on the underside. Normally hooping alone takes about a half hour for knit fabrics, but it just hummed right along. Hm. Maybe I am over-thinking (read : worrying) my stitching sometimes.
Hoping to do some dolls in the snow photography tomorrow, and I need to ‘reset' the Lab for another week of crafting. I just love how my Lab looks still ! The desk really makes it. I just need to figure out how to position that clamp-lamp so I can use it on either machine. For all its ‘cubbiness' and shelves, there's very few places I can clamp the lamp. Beloved's gonna have a look at my stereo, the speakers aren't working very well anymore. I hope he can fix them - it's only three or four years old, but then again, we only paid $30. for it !
