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Nov. 8th, 2007 12:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wakeiseiyoI feel ridiculously crafty tonight - I not only did a ton of sketching (in class - sssh! I sit in the back for a reason), but I finished my tea vest that's been sitting forever and a day waiting for elastic and straps, and slapped together a second one out of remnants. I don't think the straps on the second are going to work well - it's that plastic webbing stuff, and right now, it's long enough to knot. At some point, I'll work out a better fastening method that my limited sewing skills can handle and that still allows for variations in user sizes.
At least Sensei won't scold me for not having a vest now. ^_^;
I need to make another one, using darts and whatnot so that it lays properly, and once I have that one figured out, use it as a master template to make the ones I have planned (and bought fabric for, no less!).
I also need to try my hand at a Byzantine looking dress, if I can remember how I was shown it was cut out. Erg. I may settle for practicing a simple underdress instead (I'm not sure what to call it, exactly - I think kirtles and cotehardies have lacing, and this is just pullover styling). Either one is good practice that I need. [Note to self - win lottery, buy house with XL craft room and massive cutting table and ironing board. Also, install floor-to-ceiling cabinetry in said room to hold fabric and notions.]
I ought to figure out a sewing icon one of these days. Ah well. Waterhouse's Lady of Shalott at her loom will have to do for now. :) (Leighton's 'Stitching the Standard' would be good, or Penelope and the Suitors, which I think is Waterhouse. Alma Tadema likes the bright blue outdoors, so there's not much of the fiber arts portrayed in his paintings. Lots of flowers and marble, though.)
I'm still awake and feel like sewing, but I don't know WHAT, and I shouldn't start anything if I want to get up in the morning. It's already after midnight. Oy.
At least Sensei won't scold me for not having a vest now. ^_^;
I need to make another one, using darts and whatnot so that it lays properly, and once I have that one figured out, use it as a master template to make the ones I have planned (and bought fabric for, no less!).
I also need to try my hand at a Byzantine looking dress, if I can remember how I was shown it was cut out. Erg. I may settle for practicing a simple underdress instead (I'm not sure what to call it, exactly - I think kirtles and cotehardies have lacing, and this is just pullover styling). Either one is good practice that I need. [Note to self - win lottery, buy house with XL craft room and massive cutting table and ironing board. Also, install floor-to-ceiling cabinetry in said room to hold fabric and notions.]
I ought to figure out a sewing icon one of these days. Ah well. Waterhouse's Lady of Shalott at her loom will have to do for now. :) (Leighton's 'Stitching the Standard' would be good, or Penelope and the Suitors, which I think is Waterhouse. Alma Tadema likes the bright blue outdoors, so there's not much of the fiber arts portrayed in his paintings. Lots of flowers and marble, though.)
I'm still awake and feel like sewing, but I don't know WHAT, and I shouldn't start anything if I want to get up in the morning. It's already after midnight. Oy.
