losing steam
Feb. 2nd, 2012 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Well I've been sewing all morning and I feel like time is speeding up and I'm sewing slower. Like I'll never finish this dress, get my house presentable, study for my test tomorrow etc. I've reached that wall I hit before every event where I just plain don't want to go, my dress will never look as nice as I want it to, and I'll never look as fabulous as everyone else. I think it's mostly social anxiety and intimidation at how fabulous y'all are. And EVERY TIME I go through this, push through and go I have a WONDERFUL time. And rationally telling myself helps, but it didn't help the mini-melt down over lunch. I'm contemplating which is better completely un trimmed francaise, or just suck it up and wear the brown jacket that fits like a sack...and not the Sacque, a potato sack.
As it stands here's this list. Which had some things added due to fitting issues, nothing major but you know it happens.
whip stitch down shoulder seamsbind back of the necksew down robingshemsew side seams the rest of the way downhem front edgesturn under and sew down bodice lining
As it stands here's this list. Which had some things added due to fitting issues, nothing major but you know it happens.
Things that MUST be finished by Saturday or I'm naked:
Make a petticoat
Stomacher
take darts out of back neck so it doesn't stand out so hideously
actually sew the side pleats so they're not just pinned
sew down waist dart
take darts out of back neck so it doesn't stand out so hideously
actually sew the side pleats so they're not just pinned
sew down waist dart
Things that I would LIKE to have finished
sleeve flounces
ruffle on the petticoat
SOME trim of ANY form
an actual chemise
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Date: 2012-02-02 08:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-02 09:57 pm (UTC)We love you and this is a fun event. You get to eat cake and everything!
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Date: 2012-02-02 10:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-02 10:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-02 10:56 pm (UTC)I can't wait to be an awesome iceberg, I was pondering what a fun Victorian fancy dress costume that could be...so I started googling that instead of sewing as that is what one does to make projects finish faster, avoid them.
So...Do you want to the penis or the balls?
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Date: 2012-02-02 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-03 02:42 am (UTC)For what it's worth, nearly all my 18thc back neckline did that little stand-out number before I took darts in them! SO annoying.