Shoes and Pie

Vogue 9996: Completion

On Thursday, I started to work on Vogue 9996, view A. I realized that I was missing 6 of the pattern pieces (the entire top and 1 leg facing), and set about redrafting them from a scan of the pattern layout.

On Saturday, I had just sewn the very last piece.
Backwards.
Although I had already clipped the [...]

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Vogue 9996: Update

When I left you on Thursday, I was drafting the missing pieces of Vogue 9996 by scanning the pattern layout and scaling up based on the dimensions of the pieces I had. Imperfect, but easier than drafting from scratch! Everything went well with that, and here are a few notes as I near completion of [...]

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Task: Vogue 9996

I bought Vogue 9996 in, I believe, 2008, the day that my friend Megan and I picked through a small basket of vintage patterns at an antiques mall about halfway to Wyoming.
Last month, I finally bought the fabric and notions necessary to make it. A plaid? Why did I choose a notoriously-difficult-to-line-up plaid? Oh, well. [...]

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This (was) Halloween

Present at the “The Future” themed Halloween party:

Ripley and Kane (Alien)
Obama Christ
Dr. Who
Axiom passenger (Wall•E)
Miss Galaxie 1959 (yeah, that was me)
Star Trek TOS and TNG
Terminators
Jayne, Inara, and the “Two by two, hands of blue” guys (Firefly)
Seth Gecko and Santanico Pandemonium (From Dusk Til Dawn)
OctoMummy and her archeologist
2012, uh, “ascenders”
My New Bikini Body (STAR magazine cover)
Illegal [...]

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Lack of a Cohesive Plot

Forgive me, Readers, it’s been a week-ishy since my last post. The Department of Labor sent the letter with their Official Determination, which makes it Official: My contract work wasn’t as a contractor, but as an employer. Oooooooookay. However, the Determination of Benefits letter was based on very obviously (to me) incorrect earnings for when [...]

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