Yesterday I started on a 2SPOOKY2013 update but got sidetracked due to the amount of nyquil I had taken and raged about how awful my job is instead. I called in sick to the bookstore (I was going to be a real american and soldier through, but after making it through only an hour and a half of the second job before hiding in the back room wheezing from what I'm assuming is SARS or the final remains of swine flu, I wussed out and called in. Isn't working while contagious the best??!?), and should have called in to the second job too, but I didn't want to deal with the drama-laden hassle.
Anyway, I will post what I had originally intended to post yesterday right now.
I've had a few hang ups when it comes to the fabric, as usual,
every damn time. I had originally wanted the main dress to be dark blue or navy
with red accents. I was worried it might look sailor-y but it looked pretty
solid in my head. I went to Joann's three different times and was unable to
make a decision on fabric. I finally ended up deciding on a dark blue polyester
peachskin that had an ok drape and was a nice color. It was more per yard than
I wanted to spend, since I'm winging it and need to buy more than I really
need, that kind of put a ding in my plan.
I had a
coupon, but since it was already on sale for a smaller percentage off, I couldn’t
use it, and since it wasn’t really what I had in mind, I ended up not getting it and going to Fabric
Depot just to see what they had. Fabric Depot, while more expensive, has
everything. EVERYTHING. Everything,
except a dark blue fashion fabric. None. The one blue they had was a bright
royal blue, which screeched bad packaged “Miss High Seas Hottie” costume. My
next choice was black, which could work
with my theme, but I was afraid the
black/red combo would end up being something I would have been really into in
junior high, which is a time in my life I wish to not revisit. The only other fabrics they had in a weight I
could work with were a medium grey and a hot pink.
By this point, I’d been in
the store waffling between the Ho of the Sea blue and My Chemical Romance
approved black for an hour and a half (though a good portion of that was also
spent poring over every other piece of fabric looking for an apparently mythical
black on white windowpane check. IT DOES NOT EXIST). After a hour bus ride to get there, plus the
knowledge that there was a Burgerville across the street and that it was sweet
potato fry season, I gave up and just got the grey.
It’s not my original first choice, but I think it’ll be
fine. I’ve had to give up on my idea of the windowpane check inset, because as
previously mentioned, it is a figment of my imagination and apparently does not
actually exist in reality. However, I did
manage to get some free sample drapery fabrics from my second job in some
interesting deco-ish patterns on similar grey backgrounds, so I’m going to mess
around with those and see if I can incorporate any of them into it to jazz it
up a bit. There is enough that I may end
up making the skirt out of the pattern and leave the bodice the plain
grey. Still no idea what to do with the
inset.
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A few days ago, I made up the beginning of my pattern, and
it came together pretty fast. October is just around the corner, so I really need
to get my ass in gear and get going on this thing.
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