LJ Q & A

From silverstah:
What is your favorite sewing technique? You know, that one thing that you do that makes your sewing project complete? :)

Sitting at my sewing desk and not at my computer desk. :-) Okay okay...seriously, I tend to have a picture in my mind of how the dress/outfit/thing *should* look. Until it gets close to that Platonic form, it's not done. Sometimes this involves trim, buttons, and other accessories. Other times this involves simply sewing up the seams and hand stitching the inside of the bodice of a gown (I always hand whip stitch the inside lining of the gown to the gown. I tried machine stitching it early on and it just doesn't look as pretty.)
The red jacquard Italian gown still isn't "done" in my mind. I have to add the rings to tie on the sleeves and I have to finish hand sewing the sleeves. (I got the thread over the weekend to finish sewing it. I had run out.) I also want to make a corset for the gown too...so until that's done, the outfit is not "complete". Yeah, the dress is wearable, but wearable and done are two very different things.
Now, what consists of a sewing project is very simple: Do I have an idea for a something? That's the start of what I call any project. It doesn't matter if I don't have the fabric for it yet (that's step two and thats were 90% of my projects are), as long as I have an idea, it's a project. ...and even if that project gets close to that Platonic form I have in my head now, that doesn't mean much. That form can (and will) change in a couple of years making the project go from complete to wearable to needs to be redone (the pink Tudor anyone?).

Hopefully, that kinda answers that. If not, feel free to yell at me and re-ask. :-)

I hate colds.

Other than the fact my nose has turned against me and my ears and throat have joined forces with my nose, I'm okay. The lungs were considering a counter move there for a bit but I think the massive amounts of over the counter medications have nipped that. So, for now, beheaded sounds like a good thing.

I have cut out Mom's Turkish coat. I accidentally cut a V in the back rather than a curved seam but other than that, it should look okay. It's blue linen lined in pink striped linen. She'll have blue linen pants and a white linen/cotton chemise. I'll add green velvet trim to the Turkish coat just to make it stand out a bit. I need to find my silver buttons I got a couple of years ago. I think they are in one of the boxes....

I'll sew the coat up tomorrow and, hopefully, get pictures.

I did get buy more fabric at Joanns the other day. (I know. Bad.) I got three lovely flannels (aka OMG! They are soooo cute! Strawberries! Rainbows! Stars!) that I want to make into pj bottoms for myself. I also got more duck cloth because I ran out (ack!) so that was the real reason I went back to the fabric store (aka Paycheque sucking machine..).