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| trimming the hem |
After yesterday's small mishap, I lost a bit of motivation, and only started working on the jacket late. Weirdly enough, Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno started playing on TV, and I simply grabbed the jacket, the graphite pencil, the pin jar and the scissors and took all to the ironing board, to trace the hem. It's one of those films I watched very often and don't demand too much attention - good for sewing. I pinned both skirt sides together, folding the jacket in the middle of the back, traced the hem, using the marks I made yesterday as a reference, using the graphite on the right side - it will be covered by the bias tape, it won't be seen - and cut all 4 layers (2 cherry red outer layers + 2 burgundy lining layers) while flat. Unfortunately, there was a casualty, my sleeve caught one of the pins on top of the pin jar pin cushion, and it fell on the ground and broke. Fortunately, I managed to keep it whole, while the lid was still on, so I managed to transfer all the pins to my pin can, without spilling them on the ground. I got the pin jar at Flying Tiger, and it was one of my best buys there. The pins are brass and very thin, and it came with a pin cushion inserted on the lid. They never had those jars for sale anymore.
Then I started sewing the bias tape to the right side hem. I didn't sew much, it was becoming late, but by Wednesday it should be finished, or almost.
+ Brüno gave me motivation to do something today.
- I almost didn't do anything today, although ComicCon is in 2 weeks, and I'm trying to sew a bit every day until then.
THE CUNNING PLAN
Keep sewing a bit every day.
I have a priority plan towards ComicCon: 1. completely finish the jacket; 2. cover the shoes; 3. hem the skirt; 4. make the bloomers; 5. finish the gloves; 6. finish designing the teacup (which won't be finished by ComicCon anyway). Hokuto isn't a very well known character, and if I'm missing an item like the bloomers or gloves, no one will notice. Ah, and I will be wearing my pretty DKNY knee high socks, I bought in London in 1994 🖤
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