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January 06, 2007
Beastly Bernina
Here is a dress, finally!
I finished this thing whilst I was home and have just gotten around to shooting it now. Like the posing-on-a-chair bit? So fashiony. Heh. Just trying to keep my calves from looking as stumpy as usual, really. I wore this out to a late lunch today, but it is really too cold to wear it out in the real world for very long. Such is the way with all my dresses. Sigh. I have at least one long-sleeved planned, but I'm not sure if I will have enough fabric (black silk noil... nubbly and very nice!) to actually make it. I ordered a couple of patterns from Lanetz Living last night and looks like they just shipped. I can't wait! A cute shirt-dress and some little mod numbers. I want to start making things that are more Anthropologie like. This means leaving my clothing comfort zone and wearing combinations that may be somewhat strange to me, but I want to try. More accessories, fancier shoes, more eccentric prints: these are my clothing goals (of course, they must fit under the larger subheading of Awesome.)
I am thinking of buying these shoes. Wouldn't they look great with the little gold sakura in the dress above? J is wary of gold shoes, but I think that these aren't too gold. They may not, however, be gold enough. What they are is on sale, so I might get them just to be a little daring.
I have mostly cut out a second dress from a nice Asian-inspired blue fabric in a wave pattern. The first one was actually rather traumatic to make so I haven't been chomping at the bit to start another. The pattern itself was easy-peasy and the fabric likewise. I even got to use the swanky Rowenta iron that made ironing fun. So fun it was creepy. The machine, however, was another story. I have constructed stage directions for a play:
To Sew a Dress for Christmas: a Melodrama in One Act
scene: Villain's Parents' Dining room, mostly-rural Virginia
Villain: This sure is a fancy machine. I, however, prefer the presser foot to be a touch higher so the thread is easily accessible.
Villain's mom: [incoherent screaming]
Villain: What?
Villain's mom: You weren't even listening to me! [storms off]
Villain: [cry]
So, that is how part of my Crimbo day went. Fun, huh? She really hates that machine because it is so complicated, but doesn't seem to want to get rid of it. Ok, sure, just torture us all with your misery. Thanks. I ended up using her good ole reliable Kenmore and it worked just fine. Anyone want to buy a $5000 Bernina for cheap?
Being back with J has been nice. In our semester apart I have discovered this: living apart is really sucky. And boring. Also, boring. Not that we do anything extremely exciting or special, but even just going out to dinner is more fun when you have someone who makes you snort-laugh. Right now we are both playing on our laptops and not really saying very much, but it is still nice to just look over and see him and then force him to sing a funny song whilst I make up imaginary words. We have been sitting on the couch, mostly. J is playing Final Fantasy XII and I am knitting. I am just about finished with a sweater in Southwest Trading Bamboo! It is a great yarn and very quick. Just have to weave in some ends and put a row of crochet around the neckline and voila! I might decide that it needs 3/4 sleeves, but the cap sleeves are so cute that I don't want to fuss with them.
Also, J and I made a gingerbread house. Smells so good, but I know it is pretty much inedible. It was a from a kit and was sort of cheating. Next year's will be from scratch and more grandiose, methinks. There is a sweet little candy shoppe not too far from J's place that will provide us with all manner of yummy decorations. These were shiny, but not so tasty. How do you like that droopy eye? We gave it a little bindi decoration in the center of its housey forehead so that it might provide us insight into the mysteries of habitation when I move. Have I mentioned that moving is horrifying and hard and if I didn't want to get out of Minnesota so badly I would avoid it at all costs? Sigh. Can't I just fax myself to Boston?
Last night we had a nerd-fest marathon. Well, I say last night, but we didn't really wrap up until about six this morning. J and I went straight to sleep and got up at noon which, honestly, isn't all that later than our normal time to get up during vacation. We only have until the 15th, so we have to live it up! I have messed up my internal clock a bit by drinking a little too much (which equals about 2 cups) of yummy tea that I got in good old VA. Nothing finer than a hot cup of blackberry sage and a chocolate covered graham cracker. Yum!
I have to start doing a little work for a Research Assistantship I am doing this spring and really ought to make another dress before school starts. I have to write my dissertation prospectus this semester, but so far it seems like it will be pretty laid-back. I am auditing a film class that has a lot of reading, but I won't have to write anything so that will be ok. Additionally, I will be starting to fence again. Yay! All this eating is starting to take its toll, so it will be good to have some physical activity in my weekly routine instead of just dragging myself to the elliptical or saying screw it and doing my cute-but-not-really-cardio-intenstive belly dance video. Well! I think that is enough for one afternoon. I hope that the new year is treating you kindly so far. As for me, I think I will have another chocolate covered graham cracker...
Posted by loyd0008 at January 6, 2007 04:50 PM
Comments
Oh why oh why did you direct me to that shoe site? I am so in trouble. I can't be buying shoes, I'm about to quit my job and go back to school full-time this semester. Very strict budget. But some of those shoes...yummmmm. you are a villian.
Still loving how prolific you are with the clothes. How are you able to get so much sewing done with all of your schoolwork too? And do you work (outside) too? Please tell.
Posted by: lsaspacey at January 6, 2007 07:19 PM
Those shoes. So hot. I am in physical pain because they do not come in my size. (Also, who am I kidding, I can't wear heels.) But, ow.
Glad you're enjoying your time with your love!
Posted by: Mandy at January 6, 2007 10:11 PM
really very good shoes , i,am looking for such
Posted by: Bollywood news at January 7, 2007 02:27 AM
Those shoes! Want them!
Posted by: Susan at January 8, 2007 11:30 AM
That is great!!! Nice work
Posted by: Che' at January 20, 2007 05:24 PM
Thank you thank you! The shoes hit at the worst spot on my bone, but I am willing to suffer. At least until they break in...
Posted by: Villain Extraordinaire at January 20, 2007 05:58 PM