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totchipanda) wrote2022-07-12 11:11 am
totchipanda) wrote2022-07-12 11:11 am
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when it rains, it pours...
So Roomie M is on the east coast with her mama (who is doing quite well now that her brain isn't being squeezed), my German fandom friend who I usually spend a couple hours a day just shooting the shit with has a complicated and heavy workload right now, and then last night Roomie J called emergency services because he had persistent chest pain through the day and just wanted to be sure it wasn't anything.
I don't have the full story yet, but EMS took him to an emergency care centre around 6 pm, and as of 10:40 pm he'd had an EKG and that was it. I was planning to pick him up, but at that time I decided to sleep, and he could call me when he was ready...
1:20 am, nothing.
Got up at 6:15 am, wasn't sure if I heard him snoring in his room (which the bathroom wall shares with his), but when I went downstairs to leave for work at 6:30, his house shoes were still by the door.
He messaged just after 9 am, having finally been released and bought a phone charger, bc his phone was dead. And he's now home, though he hasn't explained what all went down. At least I can breathe easier, knowing he's home after having been looked at by pros. Chest pain is nothing to mess around with!
So last night, I was home 100% alone. No roomies, no cats. I didn't like it, the house makes weird noises when you suddenly have the attention to hear them. I ordered a pizza (bc fuck cooking when I was that amped) and retrieved the pieces for my waistcoat. The one-year anniversary of the trade I made with a fan author is coming up on Saturday and while I was hoping to have it done by then, this year has been challenging.
Y'all, I don't know a damn thing about tailoring. Most modern books or instructions use fusible interfacings; I'm going semi-historical and have a piece of heavy linen inside (probably terrible idea, it likes to hold folds like it has for the last four months while I pretended like I had the energy to do home renos, it's not too late to take it off if I'm honest). Most historical books that I've been looking at so far only cover the drafting and very little about the construction. What most period sewing books have in the way of menswear is the softer items, shirts and undershirts, sometimes trousers but not always.
I've been using Nicole Rudolph's video about making a 1920s waistcoat as my primary "source" for the project, but I'd love to have some more sources. I found one (The Blue Book of Men's Tailoring; Grand Edition of Supreme System; direct link to the singular page on making vests) that is... brief. But more than I have seen in most books.
Part of the issue is that my friend requested a black suit, and I am using a very smooth, light Italian wool. This fabric shows EVERY stitch, so how do I keep things in place without basting them? Ugh I'm going to have to take the linen off and make a full body interlining, aren't I. I already put the pockets in!
I don't have the full story yet, but EMS took him to an emergency care centre around 6 pm, and as of 10:40 pm he'd had an EKG and that was it. I was planning to pick him up, but at that time I decided to sleep, and he could call me when he was ready...
1:20 am, nothing.
Got up at 6:15 am, wasn't sure if I heard him snoring in his room (which the bathroom wall shares with his), but when I went downstairs to leave for work at 6:30, his house shoes were still by the door.
He messaged just after 9 am, having finally been released and bought a phone charger, bc his phone was dead. And he's now home, though he hasn't explained what all went down. At least I can breathe easier, knowing he's home after having been looked at by pros. Chest pain is nothing to mess around with!
So last night, I was home 100% alone. No roomies, no cats. I didn't like it, the house makes weird noises when you suddenly have the attention to hear them. I ordered a pizza (bc fuck cooking when I was that amped) and retrieved the pieces for my waistcoat. The one-year anniversary of the trade I made with a fan author is coming up on Saturday and while I was hoping to have it done by then, this year has been challenging.
Y'all, I don't know a damn thing about tailoring. Most modern books or instructions use fusible interfacings; I'm going semi-historical and have a piece of heavy linen inside (probably terrible idea, it likes to hold folds like it has for the last four months while I pretended like I had the energy to do home renos, it's not too late to take it off if I'm honest). Most historical books that I've been looking at so far only cover the drafting and very little about the construction. What most period sewing books have in the way of menswear is the softer items, shirts and undershirts, sometimes trousers but not always.
I've been using Nicole Rudolph's video about making a 1920s waistcoat as my primary "source" for the project, but I'd love to have some more sources. I found one (The Blue Book of Men's Tailoring; Grand Edition of Supreme System; direct link to the singular page on making vests) that is... brief. But more than I have seen in most books.
Part of the issue is that my friend requested a black suit, and I am using a very smooth, light Italian wool. This fabric shows EVERY stitch, so how do I keep things in place without basting them? Ugh I'm going to have to take the linen off and make a full body interlining, aren't I. I already put the pockets in!