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Aug. 19th, 2015 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI reviewed the hell out of Thinking Woman's Guide today. I was extremely long-winded but more polite than I could have been. I didn't even get into the fact that calling it "The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic" comes off as a cold marketing decision because it doesn't fit the book at all.
I have put in an incredible number of edits on FindaGrave over the past few months while doing the genealogy/relationships of the people in our photo collection. 70! Okay, that doesn't sound incredible, but when you consider that most of the edits are putting both of people's parents in, so the person not only has their parents turning up on their page but they themselves appear on each parent's page, it's really like each edit counts as three. And then another ~25 which have not yet been approved by the people who set up the pages. About a third of those have been sitting for a week or two ...
The sleeves are pinned in my bodice but I can't bring myself to actually sew them because hot. Once I have them in and have the front edges finished (not with hooks/eyes, just, you know, not raw) I'm going to try to get going on Butterick B6018 in this cotton that's been sitting on the back of my couch for I think over a month now. I would have started it already but I can't with the thought of wearing sleeves right now. (Did I find the high 80s that intolerable when I lived in Greenwich? I feel like I didn't. Obviously I could make it sleeveless but I feel like it would look better with the sleeves ... but you know, with those pointed cuffs it might be more adaptable with cardis if I just make it sleeveless. Make everything sleeveless!) And when I make this, I'm going to do a full bust adjustment, because I CLEARLY need to start doing them based on the way what I've been making fits. It might also be why the shoulders always come out way too wide on me! I'd also like to maybe do a little whitework embroidery on the collar, and to do a second summer version of B5813 with an FBA because I love this pattern, it's so nice and it comes out so flattering and it makes up very quickly.
I hope B6018 comes out better than the striped poly dress - it's hard to tell if I'm just so uncomfortable in it because the shoulders pinch so badly that I see it as unattractive, plus the FBA issue, or if it's genuinely awkwardly '50s instead of cutely '50s. I think the bra's a big part of it. I haven't tried it with the vintage-style bra yet, which is very slimming. The Lingerie Addict has a post showing a modern bra and a vintage soft-cup bra under the same dress, and yeah.
... I get very loquacious when I start discussing my clothes-sewing, don't I? Oh dear.
I have put in an incredible number of edits on FindaGrave over the past few months while doing the genealogy/relationships of the people in our photo collection. 70! Okay, that doesn't sound incredible, but when you consider that most of the edits are putting both of people's parents in, so the person not only has their parents turning up on their page but they themselves appear on each parent's page, it's really like each edit counts as three. And then another ~25 which have not yet been approved by the people who set up the pages. About a third of those have been sitting for a week or two ...
The sleeves are pinned in my bodice but I can't bring myself to actually sew them because hot. Once I have them in and have the front edges finished (not with hooks/eyes, just, you know, not raw) I'm going to try to get going on Butterick B6018 in this cotton that's been sitting on the back of my couch for I think over a month now. I would have started it already but I can't with the thought of wearing sleeves right now. (Did I find the high 80s that intolerable when I lived in Greenwich? I feel like I didn't. Obviously I could make it sleeveless but I feel like it would look better with the sleeves ... but you know, with those pointed cuffs it might be more adaptable with cardis if I just make it sleeveless. Make everything sleeveless!) And when I make this, I'm going to do a full bust adjustment, because I CLEARLY need to start doing them based on the way what I've been making fits. It might also be why the shoulders always come out way too wide on me! I'd also like to maybe do a little whitework embroidery on the collar, and to do a second summer version of B5813 with an FBA because I love this pattern, it's so nice and it comes out so flattering and it makes up very quickly.
I hope B6018 comes out better than the striped poly dress - it's hard to tell if I'm just so uncomfortable in it because the shoulders pinch so badly that I see it as unattractive, plus the FBA issue, or if it's genuinely awkwardly '50s instead of cutely '50s. I think the bra's a big part of it. I haven't tried it with the vintage-style bra yet, which is very slimming. The Lingerie Addict has a post showing a modern bra and a vintage soft-cup bra under the same dress, and yeah.
... I get very loquacious when I start discussing my clothes-sewing, don't I? Oh dear.
