So, I have already not followed the order of things I wanted to do but after staring at the gold dress for approximately forever, I decided to finish the purple hood instead. I attempted to sew the dagged edges and turn them but they are too small, too fiddly and it just looked awful so I compromised and did a zig-zag stitch all the way around the edges and then took a lighter to it to seal the edges. I'm sure the professional way to do such things is by using fire.
I used my eyelet pliers for the first time to punch holes and add eyelets and then used a tapestry needle to thread the ribbon through all the holes because it's just easier than trying to do it without the needle.
The embroidery machine arrives on Friday but sadly I won't have money for thread and stabiliser and needles until the end of the month. In the meantime I will still make the most of the decorative stitches so I can do a top-stitch around the neckline of the gold dress. I keep staring at the gold dress unsure of whether to pull it apart again to try and get the boob right, but it's an under-dress and it won't really be seen and it's kinda okay as it is, I'm just being a perfectionist. I might do it, I'm not sure yet. The tailor's dummy will make it easier to pin and see the shape properly before I stitch it but the shapes just don't fit together like I think they should.
I've also realised that I haven't actually added the sideless surcoat to my project list. I have awesome plans for that and they should be fairly straight forward, right up until the embroidered edges which I will need to learn how to do.
Monday 7 January 2019
Tuesday 1 January 2019
New Year, Same Me
I don't tend to do proper resolutions, I do The Year of.. Last year was the year of crime (very minor crimes like jaywalking and things that don't tend to get you in trouble in case you were worried), the year before was the year of sorting my shit out, the year before that.. I dunno, the year of ruining my life or something. This year is the year of ambitious projects.
I got a tailor's dummy for Christmas and bought myself a secondhand embroidery sewing machine for New Years and I have roughly a million sewing projects that I'd like to do. I also have a list of things that I'd like to do that could definitely be described as ambitious projects so in the interests of keeping things together and written down, here's some goals for 2019 (and maybe 2020)
Sewing Goals
1. Make something beautiful that I am proud of.
2. Sew a garment to wear in the real world.
3. Make Lex's Doublet before The Ball.
4. Finish my gold underdress before The Ball.
5. Finish my purple dagged hood before E1.
6. Make myself a purple doublet.
7. Make a purple sideless surcoat with embroidered accents.
7. Make embroidered gift bags for friends.
8. Make Sian and myself heat packs with cherry stones instead of rice.
9. Learn a new kit-making skill.
Non-Sewing
1. Learn French (again) well enough to hold a basic conversation with my mum.
2. Become a healthy weight (and therefore increase the efficiency of MS Treatment and make relapses less likely.)
3. Take my drugs at the right time every day.
4. Go to 6 Dance Lessons.
5. Enter a competition.
6. Speak to an MS specialist and agree a plan for treatment.
7. Go to my first music festival.
8. Spend time with My People at least 4 times.
9. Play a new larp system.
10. Explore a new place.
I got a tailor's dummy for Christmas and bought myself a secondhand embroidery sewing machine for New Years and I have roughly a million sewing projects that I'd like to do. I also have a list of things that I'd like to do that could definitely be described as ambitious projects so in the interests of keeping things together and written down, here's some goals for 2019 (and maybe 2020)
Sewing Goals
1. Make something beautiful that I am proud of.
2. Sew a garment to wear in the real world.
3. Make Lex's Doublet before The Ball.
4. Finish my gold underdress before The Ball.
5. Finish my purple dagged hood before E1.
6. Make myself a purple doublet.
7. Make a purple sideless surcoat with embroidered accents.
7. Make embroidered gift bags for friends.
8. Make Sian and myself heat packs with cherry stones instead of rice.
9. Learn a new kit-making skill.
Non-Sewing
1. Learn French (again) well enough to hold a basic conversation with my mum.
2. Become a healthy weight (and therefore increase the efficiency of MS Treatment and make relapses less likely.)
3. Take my drugs at the right time every day.
4. Go to 6 Dance Lessons.
5. Enter a competition.
6. Speak to an MS specialist and agree a plan for treatment.
7. Go to my first music festival.
8. Spend time with My People at least 4 times.
9. Play a new larp system.
10. Explore a new place.
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