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Jul. 13th, 2015 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotDunno if everyone's seen it yet, but Maney Publishing has put fifty Costume articles (mostly apparently older) online for free for July because it's the journal's 50th. I just saved all of them for later perusal.
Dying of heat. It was 85 today, I can't handle that. But it's started raining hard, even though it didn't look at all dark out until just now! If I park myself in front of the window it becomes almost bearable, although there's not much of a breeze.
I worked a little bit on the parrot-print dress I made several years ago. It's from this New Look pattern, and while the final one on the packet looks very cute, it's not very shaped and as I made it so long ago it's not fitted well at all. I've shortened the straps and moved them closer together in the back (plus pinned one strap shorter and pinned a tiny dart into one of those boob triangles because I was kind of falling out of it), which helped, but the sides are so terrible. I took them in a teeny bit which helped enormously, but because the top and skirt are made up separately and then attached, I can't do more of that easily without taking them apart and I don't really wanna. So it looks good from a frontal view but terrible in profile or 3/4.
Using that 1/4" square graph paper notebook I bought when I thought it was substitutable for 1/8" for patterning (IT'S REALLY NOT) for writing in. I've done 4 pages this weekend! Pretty good.
Dying of heat. It was 85 today, I can't handle that. But it's started raining hard, even though it didn't look at all dark out until just now! If I park myself in front of the window it becomes almost bearable, although there's not much of a breeze.
I worked a little bit on the parrot-print dress I made several years ago. It's from this New Look pattern, and while the final one on the packet looks very cute, it's not very shaped and as I made it so long ago it's not fitted well at all. I've shortened the straps and moved them closer together in the back (plus pinned one strap shorter and pinned a tiny dart into one of those boob triangles because I was kind of falling out of it), which helped, but the sides are so terrible. I took them in a teeny bit which helped enormously, but because the top and skirt are made up separately and then attached, I can't do more of that easily without taking them apart and I don't really wanna. So it looks good from a frontal view but terrible in profile or 3/4.
Using that 1/4" square graph paper notebook I bought when I thought it was substitutable for 1/8" for patterning (IT'S REALLY NOT) for writing in. I've done 4 pages this weekend! Pretty good.
