Ladies Sewing Circle And Terrorist Society

I don't know that it looks good but it looks done. And that is beautiful.

For those of us who know what this is, Raglan sleeves SUCK!

Dolmans for the win!

Raglan sleeves on upholstery fabric with ginourmous repeat DOUBLE SUCK!

Edit to add: I feel like the world's most specific and ineffective anarchist; railing against fabric and throwing metaphorical malatov cocktails on a broken soap box in a tiny corner of the forum that is visited by three people and the occasional lost tourist who doesn't speak the language.

Raglan sleeves on upholstery fabric with ginourmous repeat and freaking lightweight lining fabric and now I have to make ANOTHER one in a size 20 TRIPLE SUCK.

This a lot like yelling under the railroad overpass when the freight comes through.

I have now wrapped myself in random bits of fabric put on a cowboy hat with devil's horns and adorned myself with random bits of costume jewelry and am singing "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story".

lalalalala lalalala la la lala

edited 2nd Nov '10 1:05:40 PM by blackcat

I am reminded of how tempted I am to rob the Great Underground Costume Repository under our theater every time I walk through it. And there isn't just clothes—there are some neat antiques down there, too.

^^

My current project is unburying the sewing machine so I can put that gusseted skirt together. Then window quilts, then much much mending, then a Missouri Riverboatman's shirt in blue and black herringbone twill.

But first comes unburying the sewing machine

Last year Sheldon chewed the foot pedal cord on my machine enough to short it out. I did a quick and dirty cut and splice and wrapped it all up in electrical tape. And I got into the habit of putting all cords at table level unless I was right there.

The other day I was sitting at the machine doing some handwork and suddenly the machine started running by itself. Scout was chewing on the same exact spot Sheldon had hit last year.

Silly puppies. Clint chewed a cord once. It was plugged in at the time. He jumped and yelped and ran into the bedroom and hid as far under the bed as he could get (that means his head was under the bed and all the rest of him was still sticking out). He hasn't messed with anything that has a cord on it since.

I wonder if there is a way to set that up? Mr. blackcat took a section of cord away from Scout the other day, we still haven't determined where it came from.

The tricky part would be making sure that the shock would be strong enough to scare him, but weak enough to not actually cause damage to his mouth. I don't know how to do that.

Yeah, I'm not seriously going to try it. This could get expensive.

edited 4th Nov '10 4:51:47 AM by blackcat

The best feeling in the world is folding two projects and putting them in the shipping box. Not one more thing needs to be done. Then I cleared the studio of all debris, vacuumed and swept and am now ready to start drafting the patterns for next batch. I could get efficient at this.

Scout chewed through the cord to a plugged in fan and has now stopped that behavior. Now she is chewing on my husband's chair. Not an improvement.

At least the electric cords are safe now.

I was all bragging and then I found the mistake I made. It took two hours to fix it and I don't think you can see it in this picture. [[

Edit to add: I need to fix the link

Edit to add: Not working will try again later.

edited 17th Nov '10 9:17:49 PM by blackcat

Can't see anything that looks glaringly wrong...

Look at the direction of the stripes on the sleeve closest to the table. This picture is really fuzzy but I think it reads.[[ ]]

edited 17th Nov '10 9:26:10 PM by blackcat

Oooops.

Yeah. I recut it and fixed it, but damn I was not happy.

Edit to add: Ginourmous Repeat and Scout

edited 17th Nov '10 9:39:06 PM by blackcat

Pretty, though. Nice coat, too.

Just walked away from the sewing machine. I've been at it since 3. All I have left to do is cut the buttonholes and sew on the buttons. I might/could do a second row of zig zag on the seven miles of soutache but probably won't. Two paletots done.

Different day, different project. Tomorrow I am trimming velveteen with tons and tons of lace. I don't like lace with heavy fabrics, but then I am not an arbiter of fashion now, much less during the 1860's.

Pins. Lots and lots and lots of pins. More pins than you can imagine could ever be necessary.

I hate velvet and velveteen.

Not the most successful looking thing I am afraid. I don't like it.◊

It looks... shapeless. Maybe it's one of those that will look better on. Soft, drapey velveteen?