Thankfulness...
Mar. 1st, 2012 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiberaddict1. Thankful for my husband, who had NO problem with my Apple addiction. :lol: He also didn't balk at lacing me up this AM, even if he did laugh when I UNlaced myself 30-minutes later. (He laced it like I'd be wearing it at the Games..which is TOO tight for every-day wear. Plus, it is a little bit too long for comfort - I think I need to lace the hips looser than the rest, so I can pull it down a little. Otherwise, it's up in the girls..and that's not that comfy.
2. Found the Almost-Perfect curtains for the bay window in the kitchen! Went to Anna's Linens, and they had valences in burgundy and gold, in a sort of Arabic fret-work pattern. They're a little too sparse as-is, so I think I need to hunt for some sort of shade to go under them, but they are pretty! And in a style/pattern that I can live with.
3. Thankful for friends to bounce ideas off of. Thanks to Hearth, I have figured out where to start on my gypsy coat - I have a yard of tapestry that will be PERFECT for the bodice. I just need the space to get set up in, then I can start. JoAnn's has tapestries that will coordinate.....bad news is that my coat will end up costing $$$, but it'll be ME, not something someone else put together. If that makes sense.
4. Thankful for my goats! Zoe is starting to make an udder, so I'm pretty sure she's bred. Inara looks bred, as does Mocha, but who knows. Zorra is giving us enough milk for SG"s coffee each morning (which saves us $ at Starbucks!). They also LOVE disposing of stale cookies for me...:lol:
Speaking of #3......talk me off the ledge. While at JoAnn's, I noticed that they had 2 shelves of dressmaker forms. Talk me out of/into one, please. I immediately told myself that I didn't need one...but I don't know if that's true or if it's me saying I can't sew.
Pros: It'll make fitting easier. Marking hems will be a snap. (These are the "My Double" forms, so you can dial it to match YOUR measurements at bust/waist/hip.) I'll be able to see if blouses gap anywhere. I can modify patterns to fit ME a lot easier.
Cons: Price. $249 regular price, and I don't think JoAnn's allows you to use coupons on them. :eek!: Granted, I'd still get my discount (I think)...but that's a pretty big chunk of change. I don't know that I'd use it enough to justify the price (even if I am starting to lean towards making most of my clothes)
So. Opinions, please. It looks like we might have some funds left over from the garage, so that shouldn't be a problem (but I could buy a LOT of fabric for that price.) I'll have the space..and I can change the measurements for Herself, too. (I should also mention that I'll be looking online, IF I decide to do this, to see if I can't get it any cheaper.)
2. Found the Almost-Perfect curtains for the bay window in the kitchen! Went to Anna's Linens, and they had valences in burgundy and gold, in a sort of Arabic fret-work pattern. They're a little too sparse as-is, so I think I need to hunt for some sort of shade to go under them, but they are pretty! And in a style/pattern that I can live with.
3. Thankful for friends to bounce ideas off of. Thanks to Hearth, I have figured out where to start on my gypsy coat - I have a yard of tapestry that will be PERFECT for the bodice. I just need the space to get set up in, then I can start. JoAnn's has tapestries that will coordinate.....bad news is that my coat will end up costing $$$, but it'll be ME, not something someone else put together. If that makes sense.
4. Thankful for my goats! Zoe is starting to make an udder, so I'm pretty sure she's bred. Inara looks bred, as does Mocha, but who knows. Zorra is giving us enough milk for SG"s coffee each morning (which saves us $ at Starbucks!). They also LOVE disposing of stale cookies for me...:lol:
Speaking of #3......talk me off the ledge. While at JoAnn's, I noticed that they had 2 shelves of dressmaker forms. Talk me out of/into one, please. I immediately told myself that I didn't need one...but I don't know if that's true or if it's me saying I can't sew.
Pros: It'll make fitting easier. Marking hems will be a snap. (These are the "My Double" forms, so you can dial it to match YOUR measurements at bust/waist/hip.) I'll be able to see if blouses gap anywhere. I can modify patterns to fit ME a lot easier.
Cons: Price. $249 regular price, and I don't think JoAnn's allows you to use coupons on them. :eek!: Granted, I'd still get my discount (I think)...but that's a pretty big chunk of change. I don't know that I'd use it enough to justify the price (even if I am starting to lean towards making most of my clothes)
So. Opinions, please. It looks like we might have some funds left over from the garage, so that shouldn't be a problem (but I could buy a LOT of fabric for that price.) I'll have the space..and I can change the measurements for Herself, too. (I should also mention that I'll be looking online, IF I decide to do this, to see if I can't get it any cheaper.)
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Date: 2012-03-02 01:14 am (UTC)She helps for hemming. A bit. Again, ultimately the best line is on me. (To be fair, I need to adjust the various fluff and dials, my weight having shifted around).
I'm happy that I have her, but I don't know that I'd drop a lot of money to get one. Does that make sense? Oh, and she takes up room that I don't have - so I have a dressform wearing a tanktop (I am not having my bra in view from the street!!!) and a hat in the corner of my living room. Which is odd.
If you want a help to fitting and you're willing to do it, you can make a fitting help by having SG ducttape you into a tshirt which you could stuff and stick onto a pole. And in *any* event, if you're going to go to the land of fitting and you have a lot of stuff to change, suck it up and cry through making a good fitting shell/sloper. It took me two weekends of work to do my first one, and it was super frustrating (I did it before Betsy) but it was very much worth it. Again, not an instant "this fits" because I wasn't a perfect fitter when I made it, and I've changed, etc etc - but it takes several steps out of the process (and I have endless fitting issues). I need to suck it up and make another one before I do any more fitted clothing... pththththpt!!!
I don't know that that helped *at all* but that's what I know. :)
- Hearth
PS my corset is "just a little too long" too. I don't like my underwires in my armpits. Ouch. W/o bra, I get bones in the girls. Larger ouch. I'm looking for a narrower one.