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I have more pictures but Flickr is being a pain for me, so none right now. I've been taking some more boring ones at work for more meaty posts on the blog, but I'm not sure how to put words to them. Some are "here is what I'm doing" sort of stuff, "here is a box that was messy, here it is rearranged; here is the table full of unnumbered objects, do you see why this is such a huge problem" - the others are just interesting bits of material culture, I want to say something about how seeing these things can relate to writing historical fiction. Like a tin for "Meltoid" breath minty things, or a bottle from a chain drugstore, or a cloth-measuring device. I think what I need to do is just upload the pictures and write around them.
Also have planned a review of O Brother Where Art Thou, because it's a brilliant movie with a great soundtrack and is technically a costume film. After that I'm probably going to do The Abduction Club, Lark Rise to Candleford, Garrow's Law, The Grand ... I'm trying to focus on ones that either seem a bit less well-known (so I'm not just reviewing things everyone's seen) or that I have Strong Opinions on (THE GRAND AND RTD, I AM LOOKING AT YOU).
So I cut out the bodice pieces from the one pattern in size 18, even though I knew it was going to be too big in the muslin (seriously, it's one thing for shops to change their sizing system, because the numbers don't mean anything there, but it's another when you give the measurements that go with the size numbers and they still don't work out). And it was. It was, of course, too long as well, but after trying it on at first I cut off about two inches and that helped a lot. The front I left mostly as-is, taking in a very, very little bit at the top and bottom of the side-front seams, but in the back I did a lot more. It's probably because of the historical sewing, but I like side-back seams, so I took the side seams apart and took off half an inch from the side of the back pieces. I'd already decided to make the back darts angle more, but I made them about 1.5" wide instead of 1". (Somewhere along the way they lost most of the angle, I don't know how.) I still had so much fabric in the back that the top of the zipper kept flopping down, so I turned the tucks into seams all the way up to the neckline, basically - I haven't tried it on since I pinned them. I'm going to cut out the tops of the skirt pieces so I can make sure the waistline is in the right place, but I think that for the most part my fitting is done.
I finally joined the VPLL 1912 project - I'll probably be doing them at 1/4 size, I do not have the time or the money to do them all up properly, sadly. Should be fun, though! I'm starting out with #162, a gored skirt with a cute front panel. What is the deal with available/unavailable patterns? Are the unavailable ones ones that have been done enough times, or that haven't been scanned, or what?
I'm also confused because I seem to have once more offended someone as I'm blocked from seeing their blog. Yes, I was disagreeing with her idea of copyright, but I said twice that I didn't want to push her into posting stuff she didn't feel comfortable posting about. IDK. My impression of workshops is that they're about spreading knowledge, and you're supposed to help teach other people what you've learned there, not never tell anyone about anything you do as a result of it because the workshop teacher "owns" the information. Is this singular of me or is it the general idea?
Am I the only person who didn't have a problem with the end of Black Swan if taken literally? (Yes, I only just watched it.) To me it's not a predictable cliché ending, but an ending that turns it into some kind of Victorian urban legend. Yes, there are physical plausibility issues, but that's half the point if it's a fairy tale sort of thing.
Also have planned a review of O Brother Where Art Thou, because it's a brilliant movie with a great soundtrack and is technically a costume film. After that I'm probably going to do The Abduction Club, Lark Rise to Candleford, Garrow's Law, The Grand ... I'm trying to focus on ones that either seem a bit less well-known (so I'm not just reviewing things everyone's seen) or that I have Strong Opinions on (THE GRAND AND RTD, I AM LOOKING AT YOU).
So I cut out the bodice pieces from the one pattern in size 18, even though I knew it was going to be too big in the muslin (seriously, it's one thing for shops to change their sizing system, because the numbers don't mean anything there, but it's another when you give the measurements that go with the size numbers and they still don't work out). And it was. It was, of course, too long as well, but after trying it on at first I cut off about two inches and that helped a lot. The front I left mostly as-is, taking in a very, very little bit at the top and bottom of the side-front seams, but in the back I did a lot more. It's probably because of the historical sewing, but I like side-back seams, so I took the side seams apart and took off half an inch from the side of the back pieces. I'd already decided to make the back darts angle more, but I made them about 1.5" wide instead of 1". (Somewhere along the way they lost most of the angle, I don't know how.) I still had so much fabric in the back that the top of the zipper kept flopping down, so I turned the tucks into seams all the way up to the neckline, basically - I haven't tried it on since I pinned them. I'm going to cut out the tops of the skirt pieces so I can make sure the waistline is in the right place, but I think that for the most part my fitting is done.
I finally joined the VPLL 1912 project - I'll probably be doing them at 1/4 size, I do not have the time or the money to do them all up properly, sadly. Should be fun, though! I'm starting out with #162, a gored skirt with a cute front panel. What is the deal with available/unavailable patterns? Are the unavailable ones ones that have been done enough times, or that haven't been scanned, or what?
I'm also confused because I seem to have once more offended someone as I'm blocked from seeing their blog. Yes, I was disagreeing with her idea of copyright, but I said twice that I didn't want to push her into posting stuff she didn't feel comfortable posting about. IDK. My impression of workshops is that they're about spreading knowledge, and you're supposed to help teach other people what you've learned there, not never tell anyone about anything you do as a result of it because the workshop teacher "owns" the information. Is this singular of me or is it the general idea?
Am I the only person who didn't have a problem with the end of Black Swan if taken literally? (Yes, I only just watched it.) To me it's not a predictable cliché ending, but an ending that turns it into some kind of Victorian urban legend. Yes, there are physical plausibility issues, but that's half the point if it's a fairy tale sort of thing.
