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Success! of a sort...
Jan. 8th, 2009 11:03 amI raced home last night and immediately set to work drafting and cutting out a new overdress.
Yes, you read that correctly.
I cut out the front and back panels and back gore before Hubbyfink got home, at which point I took a break for dinner and realized I really didn't want to continue cutting out gores. I HATE (with the white hot hate of a thousand suns) cutting out gores. I whined. I moped. Hubbyfink reminded me that I could reset to Sunday night when I wasn't going to make ANYTHING this week. I decided he was right and played "Fallout 3" for a few hours (I fragged three Regulators! Took me forty-five minutes of getting shot down like a dog at the entrance to the Arlington metro, but I finally got them! I loves me some combat shotgun action, oh yes I do.)
I went to bed shortly after 11 and tossed and turned for a bit, working out the mechanics of the hat pattern![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
danabren's been teaching me. I finally got up, grabbed scrap linen, and in two hours I had a reasonable facsimile of the inside of a flattish heart-shaped henin (the poofy hat thing underneath my icon's veil). I dug through my samples & leftovers basket and found a good fashion fabric with which to cover the infrastructure and a couple of choice fabrics for a new padded roll to sit atop the henin. And then I went to bed.
When I finish covering and decorating the hat, I'll post photos. I'm probably going to pass on the mucking huge veil for this event, but the headdress is still going to be soooo cool!
Yes, you read that correctly.
I cut out the front and back panels and back gore before Hubbyfink got home, at which point I took a break for dinner and realized I really didn't want to continue cutting out gores. I HATE (with the white hot hate of a thousand suns) cutting out gores. I whined. I moped. Hubbyfink reminded me that I could reset to Sunday night when I wasn't going to make ANYTHING this week. I decided he was right and played "Fallout 3" for a few hours (I fragged three Regulators! Took me forty-five minutes of getting shot down like a dog at the entrance to the Arlington metro, but I finally got them! I loves me some combat shotgun action, oh yes I do.)
I went to bed shortly after 11 and tossed and turned for a bit, working out the mechanics of the hat pattern
danabren's been teaching me. I finally got up, grabbed scrap linen, and in two hours I had a reasonable facsimile of the inside of a flattish heart-shaped henin (the poofy hat thing underneath my icon's veil). I dug through my samples & leftovers basket and found a good fashion fabric with which to cover the infrastructure and a couple of choice fabrics for a new padded roll to sit atop the henin. And then I went to bed.When I finish covering and decorating the hat, I'll post photos. I'm probably going to pass on the mucking huge veil for this event, but the headdress is still going to be soooo cool!
