My week alone, concluded
Apr. 13th, 2007 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwendolyngraceSo I managed to get through the whole week (through to this morning) without going out, changing out of PJ's, or spending any money. Yay, me!
The costume is assembled, with a couple stupid errors that I didn't feel like undoing. It's just a costume, after all - it doesn't need perfect execution. I inset the sleeves with 0 problems, for a wonder! It was the lining that I did slightly backward... I attached it correctly, but I rolled the hem *under* instead of *outward*, resulting in a perfectly inserted lining...and a rough edge all the way around it. I clipped the edge really close to the seam line, and sealed the whole thing around with superglue. Super glue is my friend.
Then I had another little wobble with the cuffs. I attached them in the ass-backward order from the pattern instructions - partly because I didn't quite understand them until *after* I'd put them on, and partly because I had an Alternate Plan. Only the Alternate Plan didn't turn out to be so great an idea once I got down to its execution. So I defaulted to a Third Plan, which was kind of an amalgamation of the Alternate Plan and the Freshly Read and Newly Understood Instructions. Okay, so the inner cuffs also have a rough egde. With any luck when I hand-hem the sleeve linings in place, I can cover up the rough hem edge. Maybe. I'm a little worried about the sleeve linings, because I *think* I set them correctly enough to manage, but they *might* be off-center by as much as half an inch. But I'll deal with that when I get home Monday.
I have added the front buttons and hemmed the outside of the garment. Still need to hem the inside (right now it's pinned to the outside at the seams, and I'll leave it to hang over the weekend and pin the hem up next week). And then the sleeve lining hem, and the last two buttons.
Heh.
Thank the gods for Sci-Fi channel, btw. Because they showed all-day SG-1, Atlantis, and again SG-1 three days this week, I was able to simply leave the TV on for the popcorn value of it, mainline crack TV, and not have to expend any thought about finding something else to watch every hour, couple hours, or even half hour. Whee.
Meanwhile, I showered, packed, changed the sheets, washed the blanket, washed the dishes, and didn't quite eat lunch. I had yogurt. I meant to eat a couple cookies... wound up finishing the package (oops).
And I'm glad to see that the rain and snow we're supposed to get today is currently taking the form of sunshine.
It's been a strangely productive week.
The costume is assembled, with a couple stupid errors that I didn't feel like undoing. It's just a costume, after all - it doesn't need perfect execution. I inset the sleeves with 0 problems, for a wonder! It was the lining that I did slightly backward... I attached it correctly, but I rolled the hem *under* instead of *outward*, resulting in a perfectly inserted lining...and a rough edge all the way around it. I clipped the edge really close to the seam line, and sealed the whole thing around with superglue. Super glue is my friend.
Then I had another little wobble with the cuffs. I attached them in the ass-backward order from the pattern instructions - partly because I didn't quite understand them until *after* I'd put them on, and partly because I had an Alternate Plan. Only the Alternate Plan didn't turn out to be so great an idea once I got down to its execution. So I defaulted to a Third Plan, which was kind of an amalgamation of the Alternate Plan and the Freshly Read and Newly Understood Instructions. Okay, so the inner cuffs also have a rough egde. With any luck when I hand-hem the sleeve linings in place, I can cover up the rough hem edge. Maybe. I'm a little worried about the sleeve linings, because I *think* I set them correctly enough to manage, but they *might* be off-center by as much as half an inch. But I'll deal with that when I get home Monday.
I have added the front buttons and hemmed the outside of the garment. Still need to hem the inside (right now it's pinned to the outside at the seams, and I'll leave it to hang over the weekend and pin the hem up next week). And then the sleeve lining hem, and the last two buttons.
Heh.
Thank the gods for Sci-Fi channel, btw. Because they showed all-day SG-1, Atlantis, and again SG-1 three days this week, I was able to simply leave the TV on for the popcorn value of it, mainline crack TV, and not have to expend any thought about finding something else to watch every hour, couple hours, or even half hour. Whee.
Meanwhile, I showered, packed, changed the sheets, washed the blanket, washed the dishes, and didn't quite eat lunch. I had yogurt. I meant to eat a couple cookies... wound up finishing the package (oops).
And I'm glad to see that the rain and snow we're supposed to get today is currently taking the form of sunshine.
It's been a strangely productive week.
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Date: 2007-04-14 03:55 am (UTC)(Love your icon, btw!)
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Date: 2007-04-14 03:02 pm (UTC)Will I see you in Toronto? Would love to buy you a cup of coffee/tea if you've got 20 minutes at any point.