Okay, I'm feeling less exhausted
Nov. 2nd, 2014 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepot(which is odd as stupid Riley woke me up crying in his crate at 3:30 when everyone else in town got an extra hour of sleep, I'm still so behind on my sleep debt)
So I got the bus down to New York on Friday morning, and when I got down there I took the subway to my dad's BFF's office to get the keys to his apartment. Then I took a bus uptown and realized after thirty blocks of dealing with my suitcase on a crowded bus that I left the keys behind, as we were interrupted by a sales rep. So I took another bus back down, and as it was lunchtime we went to Prêt à Manger together and then got a cab up there. But twenty blocks north I realized I'd left my computer bag at the table, so we drove back down and I got it. Then we took another cab up to the apartment, at which time it was late enough that I really needed to finish sewing on my snaps! The irony is that I only brought my computer because I thought there would be so much empty time where I slowly added snaps and such, and I could very easily have left it at Dad's and just used my phone when I needed to use the internet.
Julie turned up exactly as I was cutting the thread on the last snap (which was actually not done right, the two pieces were nowhere near each other, still don't know how that happened - I ended up using two pins in the dogleg waist), we got dressed, and off we went!
My dress was clearly not of much interest to the CBS people, I think they mainly filmed me at 5:30 to humor me, and I was awkward as hell so I knew I wasn't going to really turn up! The segment on the Morning Show is here, btw, if you want to see it. Please ignore what they say about Chanel. And why does everyone concentrate on widow's weeds as the be-all, end-all of mourning dress? (Not a serious criticism as such, but I've been thinking about it since writing On Mourning and it really gives such an inaccurate overall view. Consider that you'd wear mourning for parents and in-laws more frequently than for spouses, for one thing.) Crap, that sounds like I'm nitpicking because I was barely onscreen. That's not it! Julie and Leia were dressed much more fancily than me! The woman asking me to take a picture was much more shy-making!
Plans for tomorrow: go back to Singer 99, try to do main seams of at least one knit shirt on it. Based on my researches, I feel vertical seams and probably armscyes don't really need super-stretch and should be fine with me just pulling the fabric while I sew. Hems ... we shall see. I don't really remember my patterns, they might not need much stretch anywhere.
Okay, yes. 1716 view F only seems to need a zig-zag for the ruching at the hips, which I might not even both with because it looks like the kind of thing I might fuss with while wearing; will test the ends of the sleeves before hemming. 1539 view A just has the sleeve ends, with a length of elastic running through a casing in the back waistband. Looks good!
So I got the bus down to New York on Friday morning, and when I got down there I took the subway to my dad's BFF's office to get the keys to his apartment. Then I took a bus uptown and realized after thirty blocks of dealing with my suitcase on a crowded bus that I left the keys behind, as we were interrupted by a sales rep. So I took another bus back down, and as it was lunchtime we went to Prêt à Manger together and then got a cab up there. But twenty blocks north I realized I'd left my computer bag at the table, so we drove back down and I got it. Then we took another cab up to the apartment, at which time it was late enough that I really needed to finish sewing on my snaps! The irony is that I only brought my computer because I thought there would be so much empty time where I slowly added snaps and such, and I could very easily have left it at Dad's and just used my phone when I needed to use the internet.
Julie turned up exactly as I was cutting the thread on the last snap (which was actually not done right, the two pieces were nowhere near each other, still don't know how that happened - I ended up using two pins in the dogleg waist), we got dressed, and off we went!
My dress was clearly not of much interest to the CBS people, I think they mainly filmed me at 5:30 to humor me, and I was awkward as hell so I knew I wasn't going to really turn up! The segment on the Morning Show is here, btw, if you want to see it. Please ignore what they say about Chanel. And why does everyone concentrate on widow's weeds as the be-all, end-all of mourning dress? (Not a serious criticism as such, but I've been thinking about it since writing On Mourning and it really gives such an inaccurate overall view. Consider that you'd wear mourning for parents and in-laws more frequently than for spouses, for one thing.) Crap, that sounds like I'm nitpicking because I was barely onscreen. That's not it! Julie and Leia were dressed much more fancily than me! The woman asking me to take a picture was much more shy-making!
Plans for tomorrow: go back to Singer 99, try to do main seams of at least one knit shirt on it. Based on my researches, I feel vertical seams and probably armscyes don't really need super-stretch and should be fine with me just pulling the fabric while I sew. Hems ... we shall see. I don't really remember my patterns, they might not need much stretch anywhere.
Okay, yes. 1716 view F only seems to need a zig-zag for the ruching at the hips, which I might not even both with because it looks like the kind of thing I might fuss with while wearing; will test the ends of the sleeves before hemming. 1539 view A just has the sleeve ends, with a length of elastic running through a casing in the back waistband. Looks good!
