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Feb. 20th, 2016 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaI had a really awesome day! I spent the larger portion at our living history site, where my friend is the costume director, sewing a corset with a bunch of fabulous ladies :D We had such a good time, and most of us got the corsets into two complete halves before we left. Yay! Then I went to Nicole's, where I cuddled puppies and traced out a spencer pattern in hopes of creating it (or a pelisse) before the ball on Saturday next week.
I'm starting to doubt my ability to create it in time, though. Yes, I have three evenings and Saturday morning. Complicating factors are that I also still need to make a petticoat, and I would also like to make a muff and MAYBE a cloak. I have the perfect idea and fabric for a soft yellow spencer trimmed in red, based on a fashion plate, but all I have is the outer fabric and lining. Nothing with which to trim it, and my budget is still too tight to allow for trimming materials. I'm not even sure what I would need to do it. And I know if I make it, I won't have or take the time to trim it, and then I might never get around to it, and I REALLY REALLY REALLY want that red trimming on it! I have other options -- a bright green wool blend, pale green cotton twill, and a blue suiting (probably poly or at least a blend). I could probably do the bright green easily enough, and the trimming I wanted to put on that was really simple so I could potentially do it another time if needed.
The thing I'm scared of is if I actually seriously don't have the time, or if it's just the velociraptors testing the fences and telling me that it'll be a big failure. Oof I may have just talked myself into the bright green. (OH YEAH VELOCIRAPTORS? WELL YOU SUCK!) I'm gonna think about it overnight, it's time for bed.
I'm starting to doubt my ability to create it in time, though. Yes, I have three evenings and Saturday morning. Complicating factors are that I also still need to make a petticoat, and I would also like to make a muff and MAYBE a cloak. I have the perfect idea and fabric for a soft yellow spencer trimmed in red, based on a fashion plate, but all I have is the outer fabric and lining. Nothing with which to trim it, and my budget is still too tight to allow for trimming materials. I'm not even sure what I would need to do it. And I know if I make it, I won't have or take the time to trim it, and then I might never get around to it, and I REALLY REALLY REALLY want that red trimming on it! I have other options -- a bright green wool blend, pale green cotton twill, and a blue suiting (probably poly or at least a blend). I could probably do the bright green easily enough, and the trimming I wanted to put on that was really simple so I could potentially do it another time if needed.
The thing I'm scared of is if I actually seriously don't have the time, or if it's just the velociraptors testing the fences and telling me that it'll be a big failure. Oof I may have just talked myself into the bright green. (OH YEAH VELOCIRAPTORS? WELL YOU SUCK!) I'm gonna think about it overnight, it's time for bed.
