I talk to cloth.
Jun. 24th, 2007 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
parasitegirlAaaaahh, the restorative slowness of Sundays.
I started my day with Hot Yoga: The Brutalization (it was a day of flow, not bikram ) and then went home to clean, rest, and finish some costumes.
While watching yet another DVD from the Package Faerie* I finished making sexy-black halter tops for Henna, Anaan and Farasha. Lesson learned? If they commission me again for anything I'm insisting that Anaan and I go to the fabric store together so that I can see if there are acceptable alternative (less-anxiety inducing) fabrics for the look they want. The slippery black shine on shine stretchy thin stuff is not my friend, but all things considered I did an acceptable job.
Learning curves.
Either this week or next weekend I need to head to one Tokyo's large fabric stores and rub up against the bolts. Fabric frottage! I'm in search of a magenta brocade to use as the base fabric in the Tribaret bedlah I'll be making for Henna...after I've found the fabric it will tell me what trim next to buy. Call me the Bolt Whisperer.
(The bolts have been telling me to make a very clean, simple bedlah of champagne colored satin, chiffon, and rhinestones...I've been telling them to wait.)
I figure at most the commision will take me a month from start to finished. Most of that will be planning, waiting for trim to come in, and finding the right bra base.
For my own tribaret I am waiting for a small length of trim to show up and then it'll be an evening (or two slow work days) of stitching and lining.
*For Henna, as to illustrate the Package Faerie Collection...and this isn't all of it.
I started my day with Hot Yoga: The Brutalization (it was a day of flow, not bikram ) and then went home to clean, rest, and finish some costumes.
While watching yet another DVD from the Package Faerie* I finished making sexy-black halter tops for Henna, Anaan and Farasha. Lesson learned? If they commission me again for anything I'm insisting that Anaan and I go to the fabric store together so that I can see if there are acceptable alternative (less-anxiety inducing) fabrics for the look they want. The slippery black shine on shine stretchy thin stuff is not my friend, but all things considered I did an acceptable job.
Learning curves.
Either this week or next weekend I need to head to one Tokyo's large fabric stores and rub up against the bolts. Fabric frottage! I'm in search of a magenta brocade to use as the base fabric in the Tribaret bedlah I'll be making for Henna...after I've found the fabric it will tell me what trim next to buy. Call me the Bolt Whisperer.
(The bolts have been telling me to make a very clean, simple bedlah of champagne colored satin, chiffon, and rhinestones...I've been telling them to wait.)
I figure at most the commision will take me a month from start to finished. Most of that will be planning, waiting for trim to come in, and finding the right bra base.
For my own tribaret I am waiting for a small length of trim to show up and then it'll be an evening (or two slow work days) of stitching and lining.
*For Henna, as to illustrate the Package Faerie Collection...and this isn't all of it.
