Total drama day
May. 21st, 2013 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotTo sum it all up, possibly-leaving-doctor gave his resignation and is only staying until July 4, and has said he won't work with his nurse and PA in the meantime, so they have to leave. The replacement pulmonologist has to finish taking his tests (!?!) and probably won't be in until September. For now the nurse may be replaced with this other nurse who has a terrible reputation as a blame-shoveler and pest.
Of course, everyone else melts away into the back to discuss this and I do three people's work for quite a while and only find this stuff out in the last half hour. Not that I actually mind - it's exhilarating and fun to be challenged for once - but it was like, wow, guys. It's all a bit weird to me because the doctor seems pretty normal, and I could understand him having a problem with the mouthy nurse, but the PA is completely inoffensive. So there must be something up with him.
I really need to get cracking on sewing as well as PPT-making. I know I was thinking about a kind of robe de style-ish thing, so I could use the pattern for this evening dress:
But with short afternoon sleeves, a solid body, and a longer skirt to be earlier in the decade. But then I was looking through the original-20th-century patterns later on in the book, which I usually don't - 1) they're much rougher and up until recently I was more into mathematical precision when scaling up patterns, and 2) my what you might call "obsession" with the late 1910s is relatively new. And I came across this 1921 pattern:
The trim makes it look more complicated than it is; I've seen a dress than actually could have been made with this pattern, now that I think about it. The 1920-21 natural waist would work for me, especially if the fabric's light and drapey. What do you think?
I'm actually toying with buying a corset from Kay Gnagey at some point. I came across her custom corset price table and it's so reasonable, compared to the internet fashion corsetieres. The woman is amazing, they cost less than a pair of Tavistocks and yet they're based on period patterns and are custom sized.
Of course, everyone else melts away into the back to discuss this and I do three people's work for quite a while and only find this stuff out in the last half hour. Not that I actually mind - it's exhilarating and fun to be challenged for once - but it was like, wow, guys. It's all a bit weird to me because the doctor seems pretty normal, and I could understand him having a problem with the mouthy nurse, but the PA is completely inoffensive. So there must be something up with him.
I really need to get cracking on sewing as well as PPT-making. I know I was thinking about a kind of robe de style-ish thing, so I could use the pattern for this evening dress:
But with short afternoon sleeves, a solid body, and a longer skirt to be earlier in the decade. But then I was looking through the original-20th-century patterns later on in the book, which I usually don't - 1) they're much rougher and up until recently I was more into mathematical precision when scaling up patterns, and 2) my what you might call "obsession" with the late 1910s is relatively new. And I came across this 1921 pattern:
The trim makes it look more complicated than it is; I've seen a dress than actually could have been made with this pattern, now that I think about it. The 1920-21 natural waist would work for me, especially if the fabric's light and drapey. What do you think?
I'm actually toying with buying a corset from Kay Gnagey at some point. I came across her custom corset price table and it's so reasonable, compared to the internet fashion corsetieres. The woman is amazing, they cost less than a pair of Tavistocks and yet they're based on period patterns and are custom sized.
