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May. 25th, 2016 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotSo there's a video going around Facebook of people making hard candy with panda faces on them, and watching them manipulate huge pieces of cooling candy was seriously exhausting. Kneading it, rolling it out ... ugh, my arms hurt in solidarity. Of course, I'm also tired as heck because I woke up so early (I brought back a airline sleep mask from home to block out the sun, but I'm still waking up at 5:30, wtf) but the kneading is a big part of it.
I am SO glad I took the sleeves off Butterick 6018 and started wearing it. (Man, is it just me or does Butterick have the worst photoshopper? Look at her right side, they've made her waist in a really weird place - and look at the image of her from straight on, why is her arm all pale and fuzzy in places?) Everyone loves it. A woman shouted to me from a car that it was a nice dress when I went to get the mail today. Oh, and I wore it with the Gibsons. I'm going to wear them every day. You don't understand.
Housewifely stuff from my Tuesday off: made great strides with Butterick 6582, I even box-pleated the skirt in place, and I'm going to sew it any minute now (but I'm so tired); made jam with the cherries I'd paid way too much for and let get overripe. The jam is very good, but a little thicker than I think I wanted? Haven't picked up yet, which I desperately need to do. Once I finish the dress! I also patterned the Swirl dress. I'll put it up on my blog once I get around to making mine. It's not actually a difficult pattern, but figuring out how to grade it up to a 40" bust might be tricky ... it has an angled side dart and a dart in the armscye. Why are none of the patterns I buy easy to do FBAs to??
Attached the skirt to the bodice. I try not to judge any dress until I put in the zipper because they always look bad at this stage, but it looks really bad at this stage! I think that means it's going to look really good when it's done.
I am SO glad I took the sleeves off Butterick 6018 and started wearing it. (Man, is it just me or does Butterick have the worst photoshopper? Look at her right side, they've made her waist in a really weird place - and look at the image of her from straight on, why is her arm all pale and fuzzy in places?) Everyone loves it. A woman shouted to me from a car that it was a nice dress when I went to get the mail today. Oh, and I wore it with the Gibsons. I'm going to wear them every day. You don't understand.
Housewifely stuff from my Tuesday off: made great strides with Butterick 6582, I even box-pleated the skirt in place, and I'm going to sew it any minute now (but I'm so tired); made jam with the cherries I'd paid way too much for and let get overripe. The jam is very good, but a little thicker than I think I wanted? Haven't picked up yet, which I desperately need to do. Once I finish the dress! I also patterned the Swirl dress. I'll put it up on my blog once I get around to making mine. It's not actually a difficult pattern, but figuring out how to grade it up to a 40" bust might be tricky ... it has an angled side dart and a dart in the armscye. Why are none of the patterns I buy easy to do FBAs to??
Attached the skirt to the bodice. I try not to judge any dress until I put in the zipper because they always look bad at this stage, but it looks really bad at this stage! I think that means it's going to look really good when it's done.
