Sewing @ MindSay

Every now and then I have to give myself a challenge. If any of you have been following my blog for some time now, you know that I draw and paint well and I'm a pretty confident artist. But could I be a good seamstress? I don't know. I can sew things together like pillow cases, sachets, scarves, ponchos... yet I have no clue how to sew from a pattern and have never learned how to use a sewing machine. Hence I have no sewing machine. I sew from hand. I don't trust sewing machines anyway. Why, you ask? Because I had a bad experience when I first attempted to use a sewing machine... I accidentally sewed (or sown?) thread into the tippy-top skin part of my right thumb and it hurt like crazy. Let me re-phrase what I just wrote: I don't trust myself with a sewing machine. I make crazy miscalculations all the time. I don't think like a seamstress or a craftsperson, I just get an idea and do it until I'm beating my head into a wall! My latest planned disaster-for-now? I decided to creatively recycle two old patchwork skirts of mine (they were torn and not even good enough for Goodwill but the material is so pretty, I couldn't throw them out, even after 15 years!) and sewn them together, cutting the top half of them into a hood, and made something like a cloak.



I often like the idea of a challenge more than the attempt at making it an actual goal, and sometimes I sign myself up for a goal that is "too big for me to chew" but I hack at it anyway, determined to make a mess into success. My attempt at sewing a cloak has become an epic experiment that has proven to be a big headache as mid-way into executing the project I realized that a rectangle does not match a circle pattern... The old mid-1990's style skirts are circular and flare out on the bottom. The velvet I picked for one side of the cloak was cut a rectangle and did not flare out at the bottom and therefore did not cover the lower half. I had to cut V-shaped parts out of the velvet and had to cut the velvet rectangle in half completely. So now, after two days of hand-sewing the garment, I am left with a lop-sided, sloppy-looking cloak that needs a helluva LOT of work. My idea can still work, but I am going to be left with a different-looking cloak than I at first imagined I'd make.



I knew it wouldn't be that simple to make, and that I was taking some chances, especially working without the consultation of any friends who are more handy with sewing projects than I, but I WILL make this look somewhat decent. I still have plenty of material to work with and may add some black lace to flare out from the velvet. What I have yet to do, too, is make the hood more sturdy and sew the skirts better to the velvet to keep the velvet from sliding around. The happiest thing about this is that this project will keep me busy and distract me from winter depression. I long to make the cloak into something that I can really wear at festivals OR for Halloween. At this point, I have some work to do... and I've only just begun.

Check out some of my results below and let me know what you think:



Notice the little "spirit orb" near my face? Neat, eh? Maybe it's a sign I'm going to need some divine intervention to finish this project!







In the last photo here you can still tell that my cloak is basically two skirts sewn together over bits of wine-red velvet. I'm not sure exactly how this will turn out or where I'm going with it, all I know is that I'm going somewhere... and hopefully at the end of my experiment I will have a nice Gypsy-esque-Steampunk kind of garment. Stranger things of mine have been created out of whimsey.

The apple in Dads eye and the need to be like mom makes every little girl special. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyGcIDZQ-K0

The event was a huge success. Really. Around 200 people came and we raised over $600. 

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Hi Everyone,

It has been awhile since I've posted anything. First because of the fridge ass weather, then because of sickness. I seem to have outlasted the fricking frigid weather, however the sickness still has a good hold on my ass and doesn't seem to want to let go of it.

My family doctor admitted me to the hospital on the 2nd of march because of some stroke/heart attack like symptoms that I was experiencing.

After they got through prodding and poking me, in their usual medical manner, they ruled out the stroke and heart attack thing and blamed my symptoms on this infernal infection that I have been fighting with for way to god damned long now.

Anyway, I laid my ass up in a hospital bed from the second of March until the fifth of April gobbling up god only knows what kind of fricking pills and with a fricking IV needle stuck in my damned arm.

I just got released yesterday, the fifth of April, and decided I had better update my blog before MindSay deleted the fucker like they did all of my past replies.

OK, so now that I have been cured (?) of that I have to get my ass back to the same fricking hospital that I just got out of at 08:45 Hrs R in the morning and do some "Pre-Op" registration so that My bone doctor can go whacking on my fricking knee on the 8th of this month.

I thank that fucker is planning to remove some diseased bone and then sew me back up. Hopefully that will cure all of my medical woes and I'll heal up mice and proper without losing my leg from the knee down.

Now, in the event that that surgery doesn't do the trick and he actually has to go ahead with the unspeakable, and remove my leg, I am starting to do some research into selling human body parts and tissue.

I figure, as long as a whole body is worth well over 200K, that a lower leg ought to be worth between 6 and 10 K.

I also figure that if I wind up having to lose it that I ought to be able to at least be able to reap the financial rewards for myself as opposed to some medical tissue company making a killing on my lose.

I know all of that sounds a bit morbid but at least that way I could be sure my final expenses are gonna be covered.

Well enough about all of that. If any of you guys have an extra prayer or two stashed away I'd sure be grateful if you were to send it my way as I kneed all the extra help that I can get right now.

God Bless all of you guys, and don't any of you fuckers ever do anything as fucking STUPID as what I did... Drinking and Driving DO NOT MIX.

I'm not too sure just how long I'll be hospitalized for this knee surgery so I can't say when I'll be updating my Blog again but as soon as I can I'll toss out a few more words to let all of you know what's going on.

OH YEAH, just in the odd event that someone starts making posts on here and claiming that I gave them my password to access my account to update you guys on my situation..., PLEASE feel free to call the mother-fucker a bold faced liar and then let DUSTBALL know that someone has cracked my account and is making fraudulent entries on it. 

Love all of you guys Boo.

EDITED 25 Apr 2010:

OK, I made it through that ordeal fairly well. I am now one patella short of a pair and I still have an open wound on my knee that requires the use of a thing called a Wound V. A. C. but so far it looks like the infection is gone. I'll know more after my appointment in the first week of May.

 

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For chrissakes, this is ridiculous. Just because you have difficulty differentiating from literal meaning and implied meaning, you are homophobic, grammatically challenged, and obsessed with sex doesn't mean that you can fill our blog with your meaningless shit comments designed to trigger us. For the record, homagonus is not a word, and homogeneous has nothing to do with homosexuality. The fact is, cunt is a euphamism designed to describe the vagina, and has evolved into a) an empowering statement for women as well as b) an insulting word that can describe women or men. Homosexuality has nothing to do with euphamisms, and everything to do with sexual preference. Since you're confused, I'll help you out a little bit. The thing about blogs is that multiple people can own them. That is what Supervixen and I do, we together own and run Electricunt. Also, the thing about nouns and adjectives is that if they are not diametrically opposed, multiples of either word genres can describe a single object simultaneously. That way, I can be a cunt, a bitch, a lesbo, a nerd, and a smart-ass all at the same time. It's amazing, isn't it? The wonders of the English language

       PUSSYPATTER on August 23, 2005 at 3:48 AM                               [ Reply ]

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*Scratches ass, sniffs finger, Phew! *??

I am just a little puzzled by the reply that is lurking just above my reply here.

 

*Scratches ass again, doesn’t sniff finger this time! *

 

I was not talking *written word talk* To, with, nor about this little cretin, however, for some mysterious reason “He”, “She”, “They”, or “It” just had to jump into a conversation that I was having with a dear friend of mine, and interject their two ¢ worth of bad grammar into the mix.

 

First off, the judgmental little ass ring comes along with it’s sphincter all stretched out of shape from sitting on cucumbers somewhere up north and accuses me of being the very thing’s that “It” is =

 

>> For chrissakes, this is ridiculous. Just because you have difficulty differentiating from literal meaning and implied meaning, you are homophobic, grammatically challenged, and obsessed with sex << 

 

Wow! Now that’s what I call “The pot calling the kettle black Boo!”

 

*checks big book of words*

 

Seems like there is no such word as “chrissakes” anywhere on record Boo. Even if you had of used an upper case “C” it still wouldn’t be a word.

 

So there is one of those “grammatical” things that you were just harping about. *that is one*

 

>> For the record, homagonus is not a word <<

 

*Patting the educated dumb-assed little fucker on the back, while giggling my ass off! *

 

You're damn sure right about that shit Boo! It was just something that I made up as I went along to “Jerk You’re Chain!”

Looks like it worked pretty good too Boo, cause it sure got you’re tongue wagging.

 

>> comments designed to trigger us <<

 

Shit! You're just so damn easy Boo.

Don't you just hate it when some flipping know it all *like yourself* fucks themselves up with their own words?

 

So moving right along; we come to =

 

>> cunt is a euphamism <<

 

*Goes back to big book of words, grinning! *That’s actually two errors back to back, so that's two & three*

 

Now this one isn’t so terrible =

 

>> The fact is, cunt is a <<

 

That comma doesn’t add anything to the sentence and it should have been left out. *That’s four*

 

Now here is this again =

 

>> to do with euphamisms <<

 

*Goes back to big book of words [again] nope! Still not there* * That’s five*

 

You kind of lost me with this one Boo, however, I’m putting it in here so that people can see just how stupid you really are =

 

>> The fact is, cunt is a euphamism designed to describe the vagina, and has evolved into a) an empowering statement for women <<

 

*there are those same two errors again, back to back, so that's six, and seven*

 

Maybe you’re mother would feel all “empowered“ if you called her a “cunt” but my mother would slap the snot out of you for having a disrespectful mouth.

 

Here you really let “you’re genius” shine through Boo =

 

>> Since you're confused, I'll help you out a little bit. The thing about blogs is that multiple people can own them. That is what Supervixen and I do, we together own and run Electricunt. <<

 

I’m not a damn bit confused here Boo. Quite the contrary, however, you, on the other hand are “trying to be confusing” to anyone who might be reading you’re dribble.

 

In all actuality, the thing about blog’s is that “One moron”, such as yourself, can have multiple blog’s, on multiple networks, like say mindsay, and myspace, just like you do Boo!

 

So having admitted to the world that you are schizo, how many personalities and blogs do you have Boo?

 

>> That way, I can be a cunt, a bitch, a lesbo, a nerd, and a smart-ass all at the same time. <<

 

*You seemed to have left out the “Dumb Ass” tag*

 

And now last, but not least

 

>> The wonders of the English language. <<

 

*An incomplete thought, does not a sentence make Boo that’s eight*

 

Damn Baby! You sure sound like a college student, majoring in English lit or writing no doubt. = You stupid little weasel.

 

The next time that you feel like fucking with someone out in the public, at least have the fucking forethought to run your manure through a spell/grammar checker before you post it. Bye Boo!

 

♥ Wendy

 

Hey megabyte, I see you had the good sense to delete the rest of that shit that you wrote before a lot of people had a chance to read it Boo.

 

But here is some that you couldn't get to to delete, enjoy. ♥ Wendy