Duchess

Creepy! I'll add to the spirit of this post. Jesse Ventura was at the WSU campus last weekend giving a talk. Because after all he is noted scholar and influential political figure....HA! Anyway he came in a Jack Sparrowesque look. Bandanna, jewelry, eye liner, and a nasty little twin goatee... Also very creepy... The Duchess

Unfortunately it ain't a tip if it be compulsory. I've tipped for all me tats, and also been cut good deals for it being something of my own. But a few years back, my trusted artist became born again, and last time I went to talk to him, I recieved a lecture on my religious morals. A bit of a shock since I wanted to consult about some new work... The Duchess

I split this off, so it will get all the attention it is due... The Duchess

shirtless under a bodice is the absolute height of trashy renfair reject. Wear a shirt. There are shirts that are low cut enough to give the cleavage you desire, with out entering on bondage/trashy/sex wear. I've never in all my years at renaissance festivals had trouble with cleavage and wearing a shirt under my bodice. The Duchess

Me too. I missed them in Spokane last week. Terrible responsibilities... I'm feeling a bit cheated of my punk/folk since I moved to washington. The Duchess

I've listened to it a few more times since I made that post. Then I put in Drunken Lullabies and some other downloads. The new disk is good, I'm not disputing that, but it isn't great. It just feels like they sat down to fill a quota, the formula of punk/folk irish music. "must have one sad type ballad, one ballad that ends well, one comedic song, one raging pissed adventure,...." And then played them over and over again in a studio until something of life was just sucked out of the songs and a little extra special polish was put on them. yeah, I think that's about it... The Duchess

Hmm, I have to disagree about the upper arm location. I have a fairly small shoulder tattoo and it doesn't really look out of place. Though now that I think about it, this tat is about twice as long as it is wide, which sort of makes it "match" it's location. So that might have something to do with wether or not it "fits." The Duchess

It seems like maybe the question to ask is: What do you think is wrong with the reproductions you've already found? The Duchess

Often how well a pattern "works" is greatly affected by they type of fabric and thread used to make it. It'd be interesting to see exactly what people who had trouble used... The Duchess

:) To each their own. :) I'll continue to listen to it and see what happens. The Duchess

Well, I just picked up the new disk yesterday. I have to say that I am a wee bit dissapointed. It lacks the flash and energy of some their other stuff. It feels toned down and overly polished. The Duchess

On the back of any pattern, should be a list of required supplies along with quantities and suggestions for fabrics. In general, it's nice to have a sewing maching, some spare needles. Hand needles, straight pins, iron, pattern wheel and paper, scissors. The Duchess

Yes, Mr. Sparrow, in addtion to a prodigious quantity of witty repartee, possess the ability to time travel. How truely wonderful he is. The Duchess

Yeah, you can have that, I don't want that. Actually it was a, possibly obscure, referance to a BBC comedy called the Red Dwarf and it's character "the cat." The Duchess

whoa... the medicine and lack of sleep is playing tricks on my eyes... for a sec I thought you wrote "so I joined the resistance instead." Well, I might have done, if there had been one available! Don't feel to bad. I once spent nearly a month trying to figure out the meaning of a roadside billboard. On it was a picture of a guy in a long tasseled hat driving a jeep. For that length of time I always read the sign as "Feed the weasle", until one day, driving past at a slightly later time of day, I realized the actual words were "Feel the wind in your tassle." So Viva La Resistance! The Duchess

Thanks be to you for that Captain! I've just relocated to Washington, though I'm sure I won't be out here forever. Most of me heart is in the midwest. The Duchess

That's mine. This is mine. OOOoo! That's mine too... and THAT is definately MINE! He he. The Duchess

Hmmm, Stephanie looks a little nervous to me. Must be her first time being exploited...

I thought it was odd too. A few years after that, through the fest I met some other members of that SCA group. Their take on it was the folks in charge were of the more "picky" type. And that perhaps they didn't want the liability of an "unattached" underager hanging around. Who knows... The Duchess

I tried the SCA once, in Wisconsin, when I was 17. Went to a meeting, talked to a "board" and was told that I was certainly welcome to apply. I could present my research paper with full bibliography/references and a proposed character development at the next months meeting and they would review it and perhaps consider an interview. I could expect a tentative decision on acceptance several months after that. The back of my hand to that, so I joined a renaissance festival instead... The Duchess

Jill- JoAnn Fabrics is like my little guilty pleasure. I go in there and brouse the remenants section and take home loads of fabric with no plans for use. I tell myself "Someday I will have the perfect use for this..." Fortunately, I'm often right! I was just thinking back and I find most of all my sewing is done with upholstery/decorating fabric. The remenants in this section can be enormous by clothing standards. Often around five yards. Most of my harem pants for belly dancing are shantung silk, I once got seven yards for thirty dollars in a gorgeous purple! The Duchess

Well- to anwser the lining question: The simplicity pattern is a costume pattern. It will probably omit such things as linings and facings and all those little details that really make a garment. Though I haven't seen the pattern all laid out so I cannot speak for certain. As others have mentioned, you have a long list of things for this coat to accomplish, and it might indeed be better to have more than one, that way you can do all you need to your very best satisfaction. As for materials, I am always a big fan of the upholstery department. Extra wide, exceptionally durable material in a wide range of styles. Carefull inspection of the labels will get you natural fiber material. And a thorough washing and drying before you do any cutting or sewing will usually shrink it up enough that you can launder it normally after the piece is made. I have several long coats I've done this with and it has "suited" me fine. The Duchess

Eight? What are you talking about? I have a quarter century of lego's in a huge wooden chest. You better believe they aren't gathering dust! Little kids don't truely appreciate Lego, they just loose the pieces! The Duchess

ah, don't listen to him. Call it whatever you like. Though do be advised that the term used often reflects the degree of peoples obsessions. The Duchess

I really have three sets of clothes. Tribal Belly Dance and pirate/amazon gear and modern. The over all look of the first two hasn't changed in nearly 10 years. There are still people at MNRF that know who I am because of the clothes I wear. I do change out shirts, skirts, pants as they wear out. I bought a new pair of boots when the first ones died. I add or subtract extras, such as mugs, knives, scarves, flasks or jewerly. But the whole is still the same. I like the idea of owning well made things that can be worn day after day. So much so that the clothes become a part of a persons identity. It is one of the things that bothers me about modern clothes. They are trash. Junk meant to be worn a few months and discarded. There was no time invested in their construction, no love in their decoration. Just a state of pre-garbage. When I can I purchase custom made items, knowing that if it is just right for me I will most likely wear it for the rest of my life. When I sew I do not make costumes, I make clothes. Things well sewn and made to last. Things I could comfortably wear and mend, things worth fixing when they tear. To that end I do not own multiple "costumes" or dresses or outfits, just one set of clothes. The Duchess