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CCG Meeting
Mar. 21st, 2004 01:17 amSchlepped my butt (and my big rubbermaid tub) out to Arlington Heights for the Costumer's Guild Meeting. It took me 2 trains, a bus, and a car ride totalling 2.5 hours to get there - and they wonder why I hardly ever go to meetings......
First session was Emily talking about Harry Potter stuff - since the social at CostumeCon is "Halloween at Hogwarts", there was much interest. Since I have less than no interest in that, I curled up in the corner to drool over a new Geisha book Michele had that I had never seen. (Though I do look forward to seeing pictures of Henry as a 'Quidditch Hooligan')
My session was later, and I went over my new court gown from initial sketch on a legal pad to completed garment, with sidebars into alternative corset materials, the wonder that is the Margo-pattern, and how to spiral-lace. Then I handed out pre-cut strips and taught everyone to cartrige-pleat. It is one of those things that people seem to have trouble figuring out from written directions but if you actually show them how it works, they all go "Oh, wow, that's not that hard...." So chalk up one for a useless education!
I had a bunch of my catalogs from Transworld, including the nifty mask place ( www.maskitalia.com ) that I want to get a bunch of people to make an order from, so everyone was scribbling down URLs. People were going out to dinner, but I'm broke and really just wanted to get home, so Emily (who lives in the Loop) dropped me off downtown near the 'El so I could get home. We never did get around to the duct-tape bodicing, but they can maybe do that in May - I'll be at OKRF.
POOP - Overdrew my checking account by $4.77 and ended up with $60 in fees. So much for the big check from the gig on Wednesday....
I have had zero energy to sew lately, but as someone handed me money tonight to make a slip for her kimono outfit (I'm making the drawstring kind so she won't inadvertently unwrap herself) I suppose I have to actually get off my butt tomorrow.
Mmmmm - DiGiorno cheese-stuffed-crust pizza for dinner. Cheesey goodness!
First session was Emily talking about Harry Potter stuff - since the social at CostumeCon is "Halloween at Hogwarts", there was much interest. Since I have less than no interest in that, I curled up in the corner to drool over a new Geisha book Michele had that I had never seen. (Though I do look forward to seeing pictures of Henry as a 'Quidditch Hooligan')
My session was later, and I went over my new court gown from initial sketch on a legal pad to completed garment, with sidebars into alternative corset materials, the wonder that is the Margo-pattern, and how to spiral-lace. Then I handed out pre-cut strips and taught everyone to cartrige-pleat. It is one of those things that people seem to have trouble figuring out from written directions but if you actually show them how it works, they all go "Oh, wow, that's not that hard...." So chalk up one for a useless education!
I had a bunch of my catalogs from Transworld, including the nifty mask place ( www.maskitalia.com ) that I want to get a bunch of people to make an order from, so everyone was scribbling down URLs. People were going out to dinner, but I'm broke and really just wanted to get home, so Emily (who lives in the Loop) dropped me off downtown near the 'El so I could get home. We never did get around to the duct-tape bodicing, but they can maybe do that in May - I'll be at OKRF.
POOP - Overdrew my checking account by $4.77 and ended up with $60 in fees. So much for the big check from the gig on Wednesday....
I have had zero energy to sew lately, but as someone handed me money tonight to make a slip for her kimono outfit (I'm making the drawstring kind so she won't inadvertently unwrap herself) I suppose I have to actually get off my butt tomorrow.
Mmmmm - DiGiorno cheese-stuffed-crust pizza for dinner. Cheesey goodness!
