Costume meme
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Costuming sins meme
1. What is the unfinished project that looms over you? Bonus points if you can remember how long you have been avoiding it.
- I have two: The 1880s gown, and Detty's dress. The 1880s gown has been lying around for, oh, maybe a year now? Detty's dress has been lying around for the same amount of time with very little progress to report. I do plan to pick up on the 1880s dress, since I've got my measurements in corset now, and I know I have to do some adjusting of skirt etc.
2. What is your secret sewing vice? It could be anything from not pressing seams to cutting against the grain. It’s the thing you do that’s wrong—and you don’t care!
- Pinning? what's pinning? I only pin princess seams on dresses, really. Nah, I pin more than that, but more often I just don't pin. And I never press seams.
3. Which of your sewing friends do you envy and why?
- I'm not really much into the historic thing, so that sort of is the reason why I don't immediately shout "Steelweaver!", but on the whole there are a few people who can make costumes that are just completely 'done'. That's a skill I very often lack.
4. If you could steal any costume sewn by anyone you know—and that includes in the LJ sense of the word—what would it be and who made it?
- Would that be an instant fit? Hm, tough one. I don't have many gowns that I love to bits and I wanna have, but if I could choose one costume I could have for me and me alone, it would be Padmé's Senate Gown from Star Wars Episode II.
5. You’re stumped about how to proceed on a project, so you ask for advice from your pin posse. What is the WORST advice you received?
- I don't think anyone's ever given me bad advice on a project. Usually, with Steelweaver and NoKey as my Pin Posse (*snerklegiggle*) we can figure out the hard parts.
6. You worked hard on the costume, got it finished, and now you hate it and never wear it. What is it?
- Probably my corset. There's no real costume I hate, excepting the hideous things from my early starting period, but there are the things that are just not practical to wear or too movement-restricting to wear in most opportunities. I'm still loving the corset, I just don't wear it often.
From the Mundanewear: The first suit I made. The jacket was too tight, so were the trousers. I might as well just toss them out if I didn't want to show off how good a job I did on the collar.
7. Have you ever had a costume you made implode—while you were wearing it? Do tell!
- Yes, as a matter of fact I did. We arrived at BoneBreakers' Bar, and I was wearing linen trousers. They were wide enough, only not for the total work-out from hell the Pathfinders gave me. First they tore center back, and then on the inside of my left leg. I didn't have any replacement trousers on me, so I pranced around in torn pants for the rest of the weekend. Everybody there now knows I wear black underwear. XD
8. You know you shouldn’t wear it—the costume is soooo unflattering--but you love it and wear it anyway. What is it?
- The red kirtle. NoKey hates it, it makes me look fat, but it looks authentical enough for people to want to make pictures of it, so that makes it all allright then, I suppose.
9. Complete the sentence: I know I’m a costume whore because…
- I need more closets for my costumes.
10. You are at some kind of costumed event. You are trussed up in the pranciest of your prancy costumes. You are wearing a wig. And feathers. You see a work colleague. Do you step forward boldly and claim your geekitude, or do you flee?
- I probably forgot all about the costume, the wig and the feathers already and can't figure out why they're looking at me in a most curious way.
sorchekyrkeby.Costuming sins meme
1. What is the unfinished project that looms over you? Bonus points if you can remember how long you have been avoiding it.
- I have two: The 1880s gown, and Detty's dress. The 1880s gown has been lying around for, oh, maybe a year now? Detty's dress has been lying around for the same amount of time with very little progress to report. I do plan to pick up on the 1880s dress, since I've got my measurements in corset now, and I know I have to do some adjusting of skirt etc.
2. What is your secret sewing vice? It could be anything from not pressing seams to cutting against the grain. It’s the thing you do that’s wrong—and you don’t care!
- Pinning? what's pinning? I only pin princess seams on dresses, really. Nah, I pin more than that, but more often I just don't pin. And I never press seams.
3. Which of your sewing friends do you envy and why?
- I'm not really much into the historic thing, so that sort of is the reason why I don't immediately shout "Steelweaver!", but on the whole there are a few people who can make costumes that are just completely 'done'. That's a skill I very often lack.
4. If you could steal any costume sewn by anyone you know—and that includes in the LJ sense of the word—what would it be and who made it?
- Would that be an instant fit? Hm, tough one. I don't have many gowns that I love to bits and I wanna have, but if I could choose one costume I could have for me and me alone, it would be Padmé's Senate Gown from Star Wars Episode II.
5. You’re stumped about how to proceed on a project, so you ask for advice from your pin posse. What is the WORST advice you received?
- I don't think anyone's ever given me bad advice on a project. Usually, with Steelweaver and NoKey as my Pin Posse (*snerklegiggle*) we can figure out the hard parts.
6. You worked hard on the costume, got it finished, and now you hate it and never wear it. What is it?
- Probably my corset. There's no real costume I hate, excepting the hideous things from my early starting period, but there are the things that are just not practical to wear or too movement-restricting to wear in most opportunities. I'm still loving the corset, I just don't wear it often.
From the Mundanewear: The first suit I made. The jacket was too tight, so were the trousers. I might as well just toss them out if I didn't want to show off how good a job I did on the collar.
7. Have you ever had a costume you made implode—while you were wearing it? Do tell!
- Yes, as a matter of fact I did. We arrived at BoneBreakers' Bar, and I was wearing linen trousers. They were wide enough, only not for the total work-out from hell the Pathfinders gave me. First they tore center back, and then on the inside of my left leg. I didn't have any replacement trousers on me, so I pranced around in torn pants for the rest of the weekend. Everybody there now knows I wear black underwear. XD
8. You know you shouldn’t wear it—the costume is soooo unflattering--but you love it and wear it anyway. What is it?
- The red kirtle. NoKey hates it, it makes me look fat, but it looks authentical enough for people to want to make pictures of it, so that makes it all allright then, I suppose.
9. Complete the sentence: I know I’m a costume whore because…
- I need more closets for my costumes.
10. You are at some kind of costumed event. You are trussed up in the pranciest of your prancy costumes. You are wearing a wig. And feathers. You see a work colleague. Do you step forward boldly and claim your geekitude, or do you flee?
- I probably forgot all about the costume, the wig and the feathers already and can't figure out why they're looking at me in a most curious way.
