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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Looking for a job
Well, the work situation has resolved itself – the company announced layoffs today, and I’m one of them. This was not a surprise to me – I’d been expecting it for at least a week now – so in a way, I’m actually pretty happy. I do not deal AT ALL well with sitting around [...]
Dress muslin
I woke up this morning feeling much less stressed (amazing what a good night’s sleep will do for you), and immediately dove into the dress muslin. It took a fair amount of sewing, since I had to put in boning, do a lining, make a casing for elastic in the sleeves, etc. but I managed [...]
Sizing the warp
I was having some trouble with the warp sticking, so I tried sizing the warp with spray starch. This stopped the sticking, and helped with some of the tension problems, but has created another set of problems: when the tension is uneven, little loops of thread caught up from the slack of loose threads are [...]
To floof or not to floof?
I spent most of this evening in a most unglamorous activity: I made myself a crinoline. 9 yards of netting gathered and attached to 3 yards of netting gathered and attached to an organza underskirt. I loathe gathering, I don’t like working with netting, and I really didn’t want to make a crinoline, but it [...]
Second muslin