It's been a strangely frustrating day
May. 31st, 2015 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotTo start with, it's ridic cold here and some of my windows wouldn't shut this morning; I had to get them mostly closed and come back several hours later to finish them.
I tried on the dress before I put the neckline trim on and was mad because a chunky-torso'd dork was in it instead of a lithe model. Then I tried to put it on my dress form (part of the reason I was unhappy before was, I could tell, because it was way too cold to wear a sundress and I was uncomfortable) and it didn't remotely fit, the bust was in totally the wrong place, etc. and this is after extensive surgery on it. (I don't understand how the Uniquely You form works for everyone else, I don't. AD shoes seem to be literally the only "YMMV" thing that does for me.)
There are bits of something in the oven that burn more every time I use it, but I forget to try to get them out whenever the oven's cooled down.
I made the dough for a loaf of whole wheat bread and it was so dense and heavy that I threw it out and started over, determined to adhere more closely to the directions. When I did, it still came out dense and heavy although slightly less, and it never really rose very much. I've put the rye flour in the fridge because it's clearly not beneficial to the process and I'm never using it again.
Lastly I've been trying to arrange the top of my bustle skirt, and the form keeps SLIDING DOWN like a butt while my bustle looks like a beehive-shaped piece of shit anyway.
On the plus side ... I got my AH flair changed to be broader, like the other fashion historians there, when it's warmer I will feel more positive about the dress (it's a darned cute print, anyway, and if there are fit issues I can fix them, although I don't want to as it's lined), and I had a nice dinner tonight.
***
I've really cut down on the internal pressure to do historical sewing beyond the bustle dress, and it's making me feel so much better. The Civil War Weekend is probably going to be done in mufti, unless work is going to pay me to finish getting it all together. On the other hand, will I feel really disappointed if I'm there all day and don't get to be dressed up? Or will I be happy because I'm the coordinator and I may have to run all around doing things? Man, I don't know. I just know that apart from the small letdown at the end of the project, I really enjoyed making this dress, and I'm enjoying my knitting, and I'm enjoying figuring out which of my non-1950s patterns I'm going to use with my pink-hibiscus-on-black Hawaiian shirting, and I'm really enjoying never feeling like the next step is insurmountably hard*/the final garment isn't going to fit/my in-depth knowledge of the period combined with my sub-par skills or corset or whatever will result in something disappointing even if it does fit. It's just chill.
* This is some weird psychological self-bummer rather than anything rational
I tried on the dress before I put the neckline trim on and was mad because a chunky-torso'd dork was in it instead of a lithe model. Then I tried to put it on my dress form (part of the reason I was unhappy before was, I could tell, because it was way too cold to wear a sundress and I was uncomfortable) and it didn't remotely fit, the bust was in totally the wrong place, etc. and this is after extensive surgery on it. (I don't understand how the Uniquely You form works for everyone else, I don't. AD shoes seem to be literally the only "YMMV" thing that does for me.)
There are bits of something in the oven that burn more every time I use it, but I forget to try to get them out whenever the oven's cooled down.
I made the dough for a loaf of whole wheat bread and it was so dense and heavy that I threw it out and started over, determined to adhere more closely to the directions. When I did, it still came out dense and heavy although slightly less, and it never really rose very much. I've put the rye flour in the fridge because it's clearly not beneficial to the process and I'm never using it again.
Lastly I've been trying to arrange the top of my bustle skirt, and the form keeps SLIDING DOWN like a butt while my bustle looks like a beehive-shaped piece of shit anyway.
On the plus side ... I got my AH flair changed to be broader, like the other fashion historians there, when it's warmer I will feel more positive about the dress (it's a darned cute print, anyway, and if there are fit issues I can fix them, although I don't want to as it's lined), and I had a nice dinner tonight.
***
I've really cut down on the internal pressure to do historical sewing beyond the bustle dress, and it's making me feel so much better. The Civil War Weekend is probably going to be done in mufti, unless work is going to pay me to finish getting it all together. On the other hand, will I feel really disappointed if I'm there all day and don't get to be dressed up? Or will I be happy because I'm the coordinator and I may have to run all around doing things? Man, I don't know. I just know that apart from the small letdown at the end of the project, I really enjoyed making this dress, and I'm enjoying my knitting, and I'm enjoying figuring out which of my non-1950s patterns I'm going to use with my pink-hibiscus-on-black Hawaiian shirting, and I'm really enjoying never feeling like the next step is insurmountably hard*/the final garment isn't going to fit/my in-depth knowledge of the period combined with my sub-par skills or corset or whatever will result in something disappointing even if it does fit. It's just chill.
* This is some weird psychological self-bummer rather than anything rational
