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Feb. 20th, 2021 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaNew printer is arriving either late next week or the week after. Very exciting!
I made a short hoop last week for my silk sacque, which I have decided is my next project. I cut it out at least a year and a half ago, so it's time. I wanted the trim in before I started, and even ordered it last year, but it was when Covid was ripping through the Eurasian continent but not North America, and the seller I was buying from was not able to ship inexpensively from Thailand to Canada. I wasn't about to pay $30 US in shipping costs to have $20 worth of trim, and it's been a year now. I'm just gonna start. Adding it later will be a pain, but eh.
Since then, I've received my "good work, self!" gift to myself, Patterns of Fashion 5! The short hoop i was emulating was included and patterned in it. Yessssssss. I used plumbing tubing for the hoop, but it's very stiff and hard to work with, so I will not be using it in the final. Do you want a circle? You can have a circle. Do you want an oval? Well.. you can have a circle!
I had also mocked up a lining for the sacque, trying to sort out my sleeve and shoulder issues. My cotton one drags off the point of my shoulder by around an inch. I tried to take it out the "proper" way by narrowing the pattern but... I doubt I did it right, since the directions I used were for a pattern that sits on top of the shoulder and not behind it like this one. Super tight in the arm, and the whole thing angles back. If I pull the waist into place, I get wicked drag lines. Back to the drawing board.
This week my roommate and I watched all three To All the Boys I Loved Before movies, one per night. It was nice to have a movie marathon like that. And the series is so sweet.
I also decided to rip out a shawl I had been working on but hadn't touched in months. The designer already has my money from the pattern, but she's shown her ass online and I no longer follow her or will support her going forward. I thought (and still am) about designing my own pattern but... it took me MONTHS to design the last one, and I don't love the result. We'll see. I think I'll start a different pattern in the meantime.
I made a short hoop last week for my silk sacque, which I have decided is my next project. I cut it out at least a year and a half ago, so it's time. I wanted the trim in before I started, and even ordered it last year, but it was when Covid was ripping through the Eurasian continent but not North America, and the seller I was buying from was not able to ship inexpensively from Thailand to Canada. I wasn't about to pay $30 US in shipping costs to have $20 worth of trim, and it's been a year now. I'm just gonna start. Adding it later will be a pain, but eh.
Since then, I've received my "good work, self!" gift to myself, Patterns of Fashion 5! The short hoop i was emulating was included and patterned in it. Yessssssss. I used plumbing tubing for the hoop, but it's very stiff and hard to work with, so I will not be using it in the final. Do you want a circle? You can have a circle. Do you want an oval? Well.. you can have a circle!
I had also mocked up a lining for the sacque, trying to sort out my sleeve and shoulder issues. My cotton one drags off the point of my shoulder by around an inch. I tried to take it out the "proper" way by narrowing the pattern but... I doubt I did it right, since the directions I used were for a pattern that sits on top of the shoulder and not behind it like this one. Super tight in the arm, and the whole thing angles back. If I pull the waist into place, I get wicked drag lines. Back to the drawing board.
This week my roommate and I watched all three To All the Boys I Loved Before movies, one per night. It was nice to have a movie marathon like that. And the series is so sweet.
I also decided to rip out a shawl I had been working on but hadn't touched in months. The designer already has my money from the pattern, but she's shown her ass online and I no longer follow her or will support her going forward. I thought (and still am) about designing my own pattern but... it took me MONTHS to design the last one, and I don't love the result. We'll see. I think I'll start a different pattern in the meantime.
