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dragonlady7I was up for hours thinking about how upset I am about that stupid camera. And I woke up at 7 this morning after only a few hours' sleep and was upset about it again. Grrgh. I have so many occasions imminent where I want to have a camera but don't want to bring the SLR, and that's why I bought this one when I did, and now argh. Just grr. I guess I'm not meant to have things.
I just bought a new hard drive for my computer as well. (Aside: since when is 320 GB sixty dollars??? Why didn't I do this years ago if it's this cheap? I've been struggling with too much data and too little space for probably three years now, and I just assumed it was prohibitively expensive to fix so I didn't try. HOW STUPID AM I.) And part of the reason was that I was going to have all these pictures to store. Since I was going to have a camera.
You see how this is really kind of bothering me and is not really going to go away anytime soon. Grr argh etcetera boo hoo and so on.
So I got out of bed and went down to the basement, where Chita's excitement over me being awake wouldn't wake Z, and cut out the lining for the caftan I'm making for Pennsic out of the wool I dyed all over the place. It looks like hell but I'm going to sort of rock that as my aesthetic.
Then I had an awful coughing fit-- I think I may be suffering from allergies, as in the mornings especially I'm very congested and it sucks-- and poor Z got out of bed and stumbled down the stairs to see if I was dying. (Aside: sometimes I hurt myself and scream and yell and cry because it sucks, and he never notices that, but the coughing fit? apparently much scarier. Hm. Next time I hit my head and fall down dizzy I'll be sure to have a coughing fit.)
Oh well.
I thought perhaps I should costume-blog the petticoat I've just now almost finished (done with the waistband, still need to add the ties and reinforce the pocket slits) for the 18th c. outfit for my friend's wedding.
I made a bumroll using the tutorial on the Farthingales website. I read some other tutes as well and incorporated those a bit. I also should admit I stuffed it with fabric scraps and dryer lint, and did not clip the internal seams, like, at all, so it's lumpy and it was an absolute bear to turn. I used quilted fabric as an outer layer, which I got on sale at JoAnn for this purpose, and now realize I should not have used it for this purpose, as it was a pain in the ass and totally useless for this purpose. Whatever.
The thing is? So it's ugly, too sharply curved, lumpy, and kinda useless. Whatever. But Chita loves it. She cannot stop biting it. So it's a cat toy, and an awesome one at that, which I am going to borrow to wear, and think no more on it. It's just the best cat toy ever. I can't explain it. It's very small and thin and minimal, and I didn't spend that long on it and made it from scraps and won't redo since I'm not even sure it's period.
The petticoat, I made mostly using demode's tutorial from the contouche tutorial. (How to make a petticoat.) Again, I read and absorbed a bunch of other tutorials first-- the main thing I went into it with was the knowledge that I was going to have the front tie around like an apron, around back and then around to the front again, and then the back would tie in the front as well. I also wanted as much pleating at the waist as possible to lie over the bumroll and hide how lumpy it is. The directions assume you're pleating to lie over pocket hoops-- in my case, the front needed to be folded down a couple of inches, the sides about an inch, and then the back not at all. So the front of the thing has a double layer at the waistband. No biggie.
I also corded the hem. Somewhere I read, and wrote down, that cording around the hem of your undermost petticoat helps immensely in keeping it from tangling around your feet when you walk. Which is definitely a feature I'm interested in. So I put in a double line of hemp cording left over from my abortive attempt at corded Tudor-style bodies, at the hem. I made the petticoat slightly too long so I could turn up the corded bit. I might still go back and add more cording, or maybe not. I'm also pondering making a separate ruffle mounted to a corded panel, and adding that whole thing onto the bottom of the petticoat or, if it's decorative, the outside of the over-petticoat.
I gotta figure out what's going over it. I think Abbie's wearing some kind of jacket and skirt combo. I will probably do something like that. I have no pattern. I am so saturated with disconnected and somewhat contradictory Internet information that I'm not sure what to do. I know what I want. I may just go ahead and make something up. I don't know what to do.
Deciding not to make the stays has taken a huge load off my mind, though. So much so that I'm toying with just going ahead and making them. But I am not giving in to this. I am not going to be that stupid.
One petticoat under the jupe of whatever this outfit winds up being is not too few, I am telling myself.
Z is being nice, and every time I show him any of the petticoat he nods and says "that looks nice", which may just be him knowing I'm stressed to pretty much the limit and need positive feedback on something, and may actually be his astonishingly well-informed commentary on seamstressing things. I can't tell.
I just bought a new hard drive for my computer as well. (Aside: since when is 320 GB sixty dollars??? Why didn't I do this years ago if it's this cheap? I've been struggling with too much data and too little space for probably three years now, and I just assumed it was prohibitively expensive to fix so I didn't try. HOW STUPID AM I.) And part of the reason was that I was going to have all these pictures to store. Since I was going to have a camera.
You see how this is really kind of bothering me and is not really going to go away anytime soon. Grr argh etcetera boo hoo and so on.
So I got out of bed and went down to the basement, where Chita's excitement over me being awake wouldn't wake Z, and cut out the lining for the caftan I'm making for Pennsic out of the wool I dyed all over the place. It looks like hell but I'm going to sort of rock that as my aesthetic.
Then I had an awful coughing fit-- I think I may be suffering from allergies, as in the mornings especially I'm very congested and it sucks-- and poor Z got out of bed and stumbled down the stairs to see if I was dying. (Aside: sometimes I hurt myself and scream and yell and cry because it sucks, and he never notices that, but the coughing fit? apparently much scarier. Hm. Next time I hit my head and fall down dizzy I'll be sure to have a coughing fit.)
Oh well.
I thought perhaps I should costume-blog the petticoat I've just now almost finished (done with the waistband, still need to add the ties and reinforce the pocket slits) for the 18th c. outfit for my friend's wedding.
I made a bumroll using the tutorial on the Farthingales website. I read some other tutes as well and incorporated those a bit. I also should admit I stuffed it with fabric scraps and dryer lint, and did not clip the internal seams, like, at all, so it's lumpy and it was an absolute bear to turn. I used quilted fabric as an outer layer, which I got on sale at JoAnn for this purpose, and now realize I should not have used it for this purpose, as it was a pain in the ass and totally useless for this purpose. Whatever.
The thing is? So it's ugly, too sharply curved, lumpy, and kinda useless. Whatever. But Chita loves it. She cannot stop biting it. So it's a cat toy, and an awesome one at that, which I am going to borrow to wear, and think no more on it. It's just the best cat toy ever. I can't explain it. It's very small and thin and minimal, and I didn't spend that long on it and made it from scraps and won't redo since I'm not even sure it's period.
The petticoat, I made mostly using demode's tutorial from the contouche tutorial. (How to make a petticoat.) Again, I read and absorbed a bunch of other tutorials first-- the main thing I went into it with was the knowledge that I was going to have the front tie around like an apron, around back and then around to the front again, and then the back would tie in the front as well. I also wanted as much pleating at the waist as possible to lie over the bumroll and hide how lumpy it is. The directions assume you're pleating to lie over pocket hoops-- in my case, the front needed to be folded down a couple of inches, the sides about an inch, and then the back not at all. So the front of the thing has a double layer at the waistband. No biggie.
I also corded the hem. Somewhere I read, and wrote down, that cording around the hem of your undermost petticoat helps immensely in keeping it from tangling around your feet when you walk. Which is definitely a feature I'm interested in. So I put in a double line of hemp cording left over from my abortive attempt at corded Tudor-style bodies, at the hem. I made the petticoat slightly too long so I could turn up the corded bit. I might still go back and add more cording, or maybe not. I'm also pondering making a separate ruffle mounted to a corded panel, and adding that whole thing onto the bottom of the petticoat or, if it's decorative, the outside of the over-petticoat.
I gotta figure out what's going over it. I think Abbie's wearing some kind of jacket and skirt combo. I will probably do something like that. I have no pattern. I am so saturated with disconnected and somewhat contradictory Internet information that I'm not sure what to do. I know what I want. I may just go ahead and make something up. I don't know what to do.
Deciding not to make the stays has taken a huge load off my mind, though. So much so that I'm toying with just going ahead and making them. But I am not giving in to this. I am not going to be that stupid.
One petticoat under the jupe of whatever this outfit winds up being is not too few, I am telling myself.
Z is being nice, and every time I show him any of the petticoat he nods and says "that looks nice", which may just be him knowing I'm stressed to pretty much the limit and need positive feedback on something, and may actually be his astonishingly well-informed commentary on seamstressing things. I can't tell.
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Date: 2010-05-16 08:19 am (UTC)I don't suppose there's the slightest chance someone might have found it around where the event was? And decided not to be an ass and swipe it?