I want to go to there!
May. 5th, 2012 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI've been marathonning 30 Rock on Netflix, and I LOVE LIZ LEMON SO MUCH. I don't care if her friendship with Jenna is not positive enough, she is not afraid to say what she thinks and when people cut ahead of her at the hot dog cart, she buys all the damn hot dogs. She may be constantly unlucky in love, but along the way she dates a succession of hot guys. She is my idol and my role model.
Pictures of me in the gown I just finished. I am kind of peeved that I still don't have the sleeves in quite right, but this is still a hundred times better than the jacket I made last year. It's so frustrating - I am great at research and taking and scaling up patterns, pretty good at sewing, and bad at cutting and fitting. I wish someone else could cut out the pieces for me. Theoretical dressmaking is so much easier than actual dressmaking.
I went to an antiques fair this morning and got a 1901 McCall's Magazine for fifty cents, which was great (tomorrow morning I think I'll go back and look for more affordable fashion-related things). Then after lunch, Mom and I went to the Bennington Museum to see their stuff in general and their exhibition of historical underwear in specific. It was pretty good, although there were a few glitches (they used the antique Edwardian mannequin to display a hoopskirt rather than anything in the Edwardian section; a pair of great mid-18thc. stays were labeled 1800). I recommend it! I took many pictures.
Pictures of me in the gown I just finished. I am kind of peeved that I still don't have the sleeves in quite right, but this is still a hundred times better than the jacket I made last year. It's so frustrating - I am great at research and taking and scaling up patterns, pretty good at sewing, and bad at cutting and fitting. I wish someone else could cut out the pieces for me. Theoretical dressmaking is so much easier than actual dressmaking.
I went to an antiques fair this morning and got a 1901 McCall's Magazine for fifty cents, which was great (tomorrow morning I think I'll go back and look for more affordable fashion-related things). Then after lunch, Mom and I went to the Bennington Museum to see their stuff in general and their exhibition of historical underwear in specific. It was pretty good, although there were a few glitches (they used the antique Edwardian mannequin to display a hoopskirt rather than anything in the Edwardian section; a pair of great mid-18thc. stays were labeled 1800). I recommend it! I took many pictures.
