Current Mood : Hungry
Not a lot to
talk about today, except for today’s image. So, let’s !
We slept in
today, but I awoke with a two-point headache so bad, I felt as though my head
had been stapled to an index card like a new specimen of bug. Went back to
sleep and it was still there when I woke again. Rats. Had to wait a half-hour
after meds to take some pain pills, but it eventually went away.
Did a bit
more organizing, and cleaned up from yesterday’s sewing. It was such a bright,
beautiful day – as my stuffed-up nose could tell you – that I wanted to make
something ‘springy’. Decided I’d fold the pants pattern prototype and make some
shorts out of a denim square I cut wrong for another project, then accidentally
used to mop up a small spill. It got washed with the new fabrics, and after all
it’d been through, I figured I owed it one. And I wanted to experiment with
sewing a fake fly line of stitches, too, so that’d be perfect.
Almost. I
knew enough to sew the fake fly before I sewed the fronts together, and I knew
to allow for the seam…but I still stitched it too close to the seam. Had to rip
the fake fly out and sew it again, after the seam. And it went OK, but sewing
it before is much easier. And I had tension issues over and over. I need to
give ole KJ a good cleaning. I’d do a test line of stitching and half the time
it was fine, but soon as I put the ‘real’ stuff in there, it went all wonky. I
think I about have it cleared up.
Shorts worked
OK, but one leg hangs a bit shorter than the other. They match perfectly off
the doll, though. (sigh) Decided I wanted to sew a t-shirt kinda blouse, so I
pulled up a pattern I altered from the Pucchi Collective – they mostly sew for
Blythe dolls, but since Blythe has a Skipper-type body, some of their clothes
kinda-sorta fit the Monster High body.
I thought I had the blouse altered OK, but the sleeves were much too tight, and
the back was a tight fit. So I’ve altered it again, and hopefully the next one
will be a bit more loose.
I was really
happy with the fabric, too. Tabitha – of Me Love Gangrels fame on Flickr – sent
it to me. It’s a gorgeous light seersucker, which doesn’t really show in the
photo. But it just sings ‘spring !’ to me. Frays easily, and is a bit fragile,
but sewed like a good cotton, so I was happy. Just not with the fit. I think
maybe I had it sized for stretchy knits, and while the pretty green fabric has
some stretch, it’s a woven, so it was tight. We’ll see how the next one goes.
The ‘Barbie
Quick Curl Boutique’ case is one of those I won’t ever let go. Didn’t have it
as a kid or anything, but I love it – you’ve seen it before, as Shinobu’s
sewing room. It folds down small, so I kept it, but I didn’t have anywhere
really to keep it, so it’s on my embroidery thread Treasure Chest, in the
arena. I brushed Cupid’s hair today, as it was getting a little flyaway, and
thought her super-tight curls fit right in with the ‘quick curl’ style.
But
you know me, I gotta tweak. So, when I posted the image on Flickr, I wrote ‘While the entire Eros family is notoriously close-mouthed
about their clients, an interview crew got daughter C. A. Cupid to sit down for
a chat to appear on a 'Barbie' anniversary special.
"Daddy was not too impressed with her, " she said of the
53-year old icon. "No matter how many arrows he shot at her, she just
would not stay with Ken for long, and he was, quite literally, made for her
!"
Ms. Cupid did acknowledge that several other guys believed they
were made for her, too, but she dismissed them with a hand-wave. "Nope.
Not according to our orders," she replied.’
Well, I thought it was funny….
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