Wacky Weather Tuesday

[ianuk]

Tuesday my work motivation died about 2pm. I got hit by the afternoon tireds and was zonked even after another cuppa. Well, this being productive thing is taking its toll. Oh, well.

Picked up Benton after waiting at the dojo for class to finish. The AC was partially out so I was hot, tired and a bit irritable when I got home. But I tried not to have that affect my mood. Got changed into comfy cooler clothes and made tuna salad for dinner. Exciting but cool. We at dinner while watching Animaniacs and then a storm started rolling in. Ben was uber awesome the entire evening and uber cute. I sat down listening to the weather moving in and turned on youtube to get caught up on all of the trailers that dropped at SDCC.

After that I finished reading a real world probable MCU which was cute and then started in on the sewing.

I pieced in sections into the sleeves to open them up for me...they are probably a bit big now but they are comfy. Then I attached the flounce to the lower sleeve piece 3 different times before I got it right. I was being lazy and sewed the hem of the white fabric with black thread and it looks like ass so I will have to tear that out tonight and attach the lace after I finish the second sleeve. I got the first sleeve attached to the jacket top and did a new technique to me which was using gathering stitches to futz the fit around the top of the sleeve arc. I think it looks great and then I put in the the gathered stiffener to hold the "pouf" of the sleeve and it looks really good. That all took me 2 hours but now I can do it much quicker on the second sleeve. I hope to get that done tonight so Thursday I can work on trims for it and finish cutting the gauzy ruffles. I just didn't want to start a new thing when I had the sleeves to finish.



Mel got home in the middle of things since practice got rained out. All good. He sat on the back porch drinking a beer and watching the rain/lightening. It was pretty cool.

I got a shower and then headed to bed where I slept hard. I was dreaming about how I'm going to make the dickey for the lolita...basically its going to be a sleeveless chemise but I'm toying with collar ideas etc. I think it will depend on how I trim the jacket of how fancy the top will be. I think a simple collar and maybe a cute little bow will work. Not sure yet.


This will be separated out by costume/ensemble:

Hyrda Cheerleader:
1) Make Hair Bows 50%
2) Attach alligator Clips to bows (need to buy larger ones)
4) Fluff pom poms (25%)
4) Attach letters to shirt
5) Buy sneakers?? or wear my combat boots

Zatanna:
1) Make or buy top hat
2) Make bolero
3) Make Choli
4) decide on trim attachments to sari
5) Drape and pin sari for wear
6) Make wand
7) Validate skirt fits

Star Wars Lolita
1) cut out last of ruffles
2) Cut out fabric for trims
3) decide on trim shapes
4) fix peplam error cut and sew peplam
5) sew sleeves (now to expand pattern!!!) 60%
6) trim sleeves
7) trim bodice
8) Make skirt
9) order socks
10) break in shoes
11) make chun-li buns/covers
12) Test hair style
13) make cyber dread clips
14) Sew bodice to peplam
15) trim coat
16) make chemise/collar

Crown
1) re-pattern under dress for shaping
2) cut out under dress
3) decide on trim color for under dress
4) decide on pattern for over dress (split side versus normal)
5) Cut out over dress and trims
6) sew under dress
7) sew over dress
8) trim under dress
9) Trim over dress

D*Con Other items
1) Make bags 5x (give to willa for help?)she can help!
2) Sew halloween skirt
3) Sew comic skirt
4) Insert zippers in skirts

Comments

[danabren.livejournal.com]

I made my sleeve frills super heavy, and rather than argue with the sleeve poufs at the shoulder, which were being pulled down from the weight of the overwrought cuffs (heh) I just added a plain sleeve cap to the inside of the puffs. That put all of the weight on the sleeve cap, and allowed the puffs to stay puffed. If you have problems with your puffs (which you should not, you have a single layer of cuff), that may be something to consider.

Also, I LOVE how the bodice is coming out!