burntcopper | Costuming joys

Right. Skirt finished (also finally decided *not* to get a new shirt) - and ah, the joys of pinning. Seriously. 3,000 years of sewing and the human race still bloody hasn't discovered anything more efficient or faster than pinning. We have the sewing machine, we have the unpicker tool, but noooooo, nothing has yet superceded pinning to hold cloth together pre-sewing. Also had the utter freakout of not being able to find my little sewing kit - the one that I carry to conventions and has my scissors, unpicker, chalk, several reels, etc. The spare room had been tidied and I could find everything but the little sewing kit. Cue frantic searching of my room, the spare room, the spare bedroom, downstairs. Parentals joined in since I was a tad... frantic and upset. Dad found it had slipped under a rug next to the bookcase in the spare room. Cue me taking about ten minutes to calm down. Mum was fingering the material and going 'ew'. Considering it's the last of the Princess Bride material, which was one of the first costumes I did on my own, I'm just heaving a sigh of relief. Now if I can find a way to get rid of the rest of the bales of cloth and odds and ends that take up the entire top of wardrobe...

I consider it karma that on my working-my-way-through-Big Bang Theory, the hallowe'en ep came up while I was pinning the waistband. With that wonderful reaction of Howard when the word 'costumes' is mentioned. :snicker: With Sheldon's querying of what the theme and genre is, and of course 'worst Catwoman costume ever seen, and that includes Halle Berry'.