This is a very old, possibly funny piece that I didn’t convert when I redid the site. I’m reposting it now as a tribute to my big, beautiful, smelly boy cat, Gus. Gus was half cat, half dog, and half ottoman – a mathematical quandary that he solved by being very large. He was the bull cat, and for almost 12 years, he was a very good boy. It’s an odd thing to say about a cat, but he was. *sniff* Alright. Enough soppiness….
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I spent the day doing photography for demos on patterning and making some basic stuff (smocks, skirts, etc). I’m working at sizes to fit Tyler Wentworth dolls, and I just had some sort of completely wrong notion that sewing a smock for a 16″ doll would be easier and/or faster than sewing for a human… But no. The seams are shorter, but little dolly armscyes are a giant pain the tushie. And as if that weren’t bad enough….
7 CommentsAnother fine theatrical production has been downgraded to a pile of stinky laundry. Yes, Chicago is finally over (except for one or two more loads of laundry, the great put-away, and other glamorous parts of the job). My design partner and I were incredibly pleased with the way the show looked, and the fact that it’s over.
Leave a CommentI’m just digging myself out of the black hole that was tech week (and, in fact, the weeks prior to) – too much sewing/arts and crafts work, not enough time, and no where near enough coffee in the universe. The show is up though, and it looks pretty good.
2 CommentsAfter years and years of showing the entire internet how to draft patterns to my measurements-du-jour, I’ve decided to start working with a model. There’s a couple reasons… Firstly, I already have more costumes than I possibly know what to do with. I have so many that I’m trying to come up with ways to get rid of them, without actually taking the huge, ego-wrenching risk of putting things on ebay and finding out that my treasured work is not worth a 25$ bid.
2 CommentsJust for something completely different, I’ve been working on redoing the bathroom. (Well, no, technically I did it because mom told me to.) So what happens when your friendly neighborhood sempstress trades in her sewing machine and scissors for a paint brush and a miter saw? Here’s what’s been keeping me away from the computer….
3 CommentsI just got round to pulling all the pictures off my camera – something I clearly need to do more often, because christmas was still on there…. One of my gifts for my sister was a pair of socks.
1 CommentAll the hurdles have been jumped and the red tape has been politely rolled into a neat ball, and I’ve finally received my Associate in Applied Science (Fashion Design – Honors) and my Certificate for completing the Fashion Entrepreneurship program (with Honors).
Leave a CommentSo I just realized that I’m getting a whole mass of 404s (ie, the dreaded “File Not Found” error). I don’t know why that was a surprise, since I moved everything last August. I’ve added little redirect-y pagey-poos for the worst offenders. I guess I should have done that last August…
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