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Sep. 7th, 2010 09:34 amMy swollen toe looks like a tiny sausage. It's mildly disconcerting. On the bright side, the throbbing pain is almost completely gone. For the most part it only hurts if I put any weight on it. Yay for not having a broken toe!
I've been trying to take it easy but I'm very bad at sitting still. I spent the weekend sewing. I guess that's a better activity than most for resting. When I'm not cutting out fabric, I can sit down while I work.
I'm surprised by how rapidly the costume is coming together. I expected it to be much more complicated since it was rated difficult. (I have probably just jinxed myself.) So far that have been a few spots that might have been challenging to a novice, but nothing really challenging. It's mostly just a lot of pieces that have to go together.
I like how it is coming out so far. The tail is an ugly blue knit, but is covered with a shimmery sheer sea foam colored fabric that has little gems attached. It makes it look like foamy bubbles. The body of the outfit is a blue glittery fabric. Yes, glitter. The herpes of the craft world. I foolishly thought I would be ok because it was part of the fabric. Well, I have glitter everywhere now.
The next step is to embroider the body and fin, but I can't start that until my thread conditioner arrives. I caved in and ordered it online because the silver thread I bought is fraying into madness. I cannot work with that. Hopefully the conditioner will help. And I needed to order boning anyway, so it's not like the order was just for that. Why do no fabric stores sell boning by the box anymore?
So I guess at this point I need to start thinking about wig vs no wig and what sort of headpiece I want to make. I was thinking maybe a beaded tiara with ribbons to imitate seaweed. I don't know... I will have to fiddle with stuff and see what I can do.
I've been trying to take it easy but I'm very bad at sitting still. I spent the weekend sewing. I guess that's a better activity than most for resting. When I'm not cutting out fabric, I can sit down while I work.
I'm surprised by how rapidly the costume is coming together. I expected it to be much more complicated since it was rated difficult. (I have probably just jinxed myself.) So far that have been a few spots that might have been challenging to a novice, but nothing really challenging. It's mostly just a lot of pieces that have to go together.
I like how it is coming out so far. The tail is an ugly blue knit, but is covered with a shimmery sheer sea foam colored fabric that has little gems attached. It makes it look like foamy bubbles. The body of the outfit is a blue glittery fabric. Yes, glitter. The herpes of the craft world. I foolishly thought I would be ok because it was part of the fabric. Well, I have glitter everywhere now.
The next step is to embroider the body and fin, but I can't start that until my thread conditioner arrives. I caved in and ordered it online because the silver thread I bought is fraying into madness. I cannot work with that. Hopefully the conditioner will help. And I needed to order boning anyway, so it's not like the order was just for that. Why do no fabric stores sell boning by the box anymore?
So I guess at this point I need to start thinking about wig vs no wig and what sort of headpiece I want to make. I was thinking maybe a beaded tiara with ribbons to imitate seaweed. I don't know... I will have to fiddle with stuff and see what I can do.
