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22 Jan

More Random

Next time I decide to work with polyester satin, someone needs to smack me.  While the dress for Shadow is turning out wonderfully, I’ve reaffirmed my loathing of poly satin.  It’s a slippery, slidy beast to work with.  It frays like no-body’s business, too.  In the future, I’ll try to steer clients to at least [...]

20 Jan

You’d Think…

With a sewing room as big as mine, that I wouldn’t still have to use the dining room table to cut out fabric.  But, you’d be wrong. 
I spent yesterday working on Shadow’s dress, and needed the table to cut out things again.  Part of the problem is that we haven’t cleaned the sewing room in [...]

14 Jan

I Don’t Like Mondays…

So, it’s Monday, and I really want to just go back to bed.  But, I didn’t, and I’m here at the office, being a good government wage slave.
The weekend was good.  I got a couple of naps in on Saturday, and yesterday our friend Shadow came down to visit.  She’s attending the Wicked Winter Renaissance [...]

19 Sep

Half-way Point

This weekend marks the half-way point of the faire season, and I’m still feeling a lot of that ambivalence I mentioned earlier. I’m wondering if it’s lack of sleep, lack of motivation at work, and all those other things just piling up on me.
The drama seems to be lessening in some circles, while increasing in [...]

06 Aug

Sven, you cheating bastard.

So, after spending 15+ fruitless hours on embroidery, I finally gave in and decided to go with plan B. I was supposed to be embroidering strips on the four pieces of a vest. Well, between me smacking the machine once and throwing that section out of alignment, starting over, working on satin, embroidering color B [...]

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