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Sep. 29th, 2025 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaOn Friday I did finish up the knitting swatch, and blocked it on Saturday. I put it in a closet to protect it from the kittens, and have not yet looked at it again.
Saturday I said I am NOT going to spend the whole weekend rotting in bed watching Drag Race! I'm NOT!!! I have my fall wardrobe fabrics picked out and by golly I'm gonna make them before it's too cold!! Luckily they will work as winter clothes too lol. But that still doesn't help if they aren't made into anything and just sit on my table as yardage.
So I put on the Hadestown soundtrack and cut out the first article, another Scout dress. I had this hideous orange and blue plaid in my stash forever. I wanted to make a Victorian-esque dress out of it, inspired by a couple of costumers who made similar ones out of a tablecloth or 1.5m of fabric, but I could not figure out how to make it work on the little yardage I had. I didn't measure it this time, though I had in the past. I did measure the width, and lookit that, its 35" wide, so it was another of my aunt's deep stash that I've had for 20+ years. This fabric is certainly older than me. I knew there was NO WAY I was getting the pleated skirt onto it, absolutely not, and that was never the plan. I was struggling with placement for a hot minute, the 3/4 sleeve I wanted was too wide to fit on the half-width, but I also didn't want to open up the fabric bc that left a lot of waste and a skirt that wasn't as full as I would like (it was already a struggle on 35" fabric!). And the plaid was directional! In the end, I scooted the sleeve onto the width I had and got two even panels that even started on the same bar of plaid for the skirt. There is literally scraps left, not even enough for a shirt pocket, never mind a skirt pocket.
Then I made the critical error of sitting down on my bed and letting the kittens lay on me. Out like a light for two full hours.
Sunday morning I started sewing, knowing that M wouldn't want to leave the house too early. At 10 am I took a break to go to the pet store for cat food and pop into the gas station to fill up my dang tire, which was completely flat gdi. I ended up parking right in front of my place and at a spot where i can see the rear tires very clearly from my window and I think it's still holding air, or was as of approx. 4pm yesterday. The bodice is already mostly constructed, sleeves are next. Very quick make, this one. We went to the museum, where it was busy (because it was free admission) but not too bad, wandered the special exhibit (orcas, which both awed us in their size, and saddened us in how cruelly they are treated) and then decided to leave. We power walked the galleries last time because we only had an hour, and for about 30 seconds we were like "well we're here..." and then just, no, no thank you. Too peopley. This museum is here, it's not going anywhere. We can visit it again.
Took a wander through the gift shop, where we bought rocks (mine has an ammonite fossil in it!) and then decided to walk 1.4 km/most of a mile to an ice cream shop. Enjoyed our ice cream, chatted, said hello to a doggo, and then walked all the way back and went home. I immediately made dinner and washed some dishes because the minute I sat down, that was going to be IT. The rest of the night was watching Drag Race and playing on my phone.
Tomorrow is a solemn day that I get to spend at home (I hate calling it a holiday, its not, its the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, aka Orange Shirt Day, aka a day to reflect on the horrors of residential schools and other atrocities committed against indigenous peoples), so I should be able to finish the dress no problem. M should be off in enough time for us to watch DWTS at a reasonable hour, but I can pick her up too, and that will make the evening a little smoother.
I pulled out my prepared pattern pieces for a jumper dress, so that's next on my list. I need to add a couple of undergarment pieces too, nothing wild or complicated.
Getting back to sewing felt really nice :3
Saturday I said I am NOT going to spend the whole weekend rotting in bed watching Drag Race! I'm NOT!!! I have my fall wardrobe fabrics picked out and by golly I'm gonna make them before it's too cold!! Luckily they will work as winter clothes too lol. But that still doesn't help if they aren't made into anything and just sit on my table as yardage.
So I put on the Hadestown soundtrack and cut out the first article, another Scout dress. I had this hideous orange and blue plaid in my stash forever. I wanted to make a Victorian-esque dress out of it, inspired by a couple of costumers who made similar ones out of a tablecloth or 1.5m of fabric, but I could not figure out how to make it work on the little yardage I had. I didn't measure it this time, though I had in the past. I did measure the width, and lookit that, its 35" wide, so it was another of my aunt's deep stash that I've had for 20+ years. This fabric is certainly older than me. I knew there was NO WAY I was getting the pleated skirt onto it, absolutely not, and that was never the plan. I was struggling with placement for a hot minute, the 3/4 sleeve I wanted was too wide to fit on the half-width, but I also didn't want to open up the fabric bc that left a lot of waste and a skirt that wasn't as full as I would like (it was already a struggle on 35" fabric!). And the plaid was directional! In the end, I scooted the sleeve onto the width I had and got two even panels that even started on the same bar of plaid for the skirt. There is literally scraps left, not even enough for a shirt pocket, never mind a skirt pocket.
Then I made the critical error of sitting down on my bed and letting the kittens lay on me. Out like a light for two full hours.
Sunday morning I started sewing, knowing that M wouldn't want to leave the house too early. At 10 am I took a break to go to the pet store for cat food and pop into the gas station to fill up my dang tire, which was completely flat gdi. I ended up parking right in front of my place and at a spot where i can see the rear tires very clearly from my window and I think it's still holding air, or was as of approx. 4pm yesterday. The bodice is already mostly constructed, sleeves are next. Very quick make, this one. We went to the museum, where it was busy (because it was free admission) but not too bad, wandered the special exhibit (orcas, which both awed us in their size, and saddened us in how cruelly they are treated) and then decided to leave. We power walked the galleries last time because we only had an hour, and for about 30 seconds we were like "well we're here..." and then just, no, no thank you. Too peopley. This museum is here, it's not going anywhere. We can visit it again.
Took a wander through the gift shop, where we bought rocks (mine has an ammonite fossil in it!) and then decided to walk 1.4 km/most of a mile to an ice cream shop. Enjoyed our ice cream, chatted, said hello to a doggo, and then walked all the way back and went home. I immediately made dinner and washed some dishes because the minute I sat down, that was going to be IT. The rest of the night was watching Drag Race and playing on my phone.
Tomorrow is a solemn day that I get to spend at home (I hate calling it a holiday, its not, its the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, aka Orange Shirt Day, aka a day to reflect on the horrors of residential schools and other atrocities committed against indigenous peoples), so I should be able to finish the dress no problem. M should be off in enough time for us to watch DWTS at a reasonable hour, but I can pick her up too, and that will make the evening a little smoother.
I pulled out my prepared pattern pieces for a jumper dress, so that's next on my list. I need to add a couple of undergarment pieces too, nothing wild or complicated.
Getting back to sewing felt really nice :3
