Words, and the Open Floodgates

[j_cheney]

I managed to cut about 450 words out of my story from Baen's Bar, but I'm going to give it a couple more days before I re-post. (So I can re-read it one more time with fresher eyes.) I'm watching the board like a hawk, concerned that they might be about to shut down, but I figure they'll give some warning.

I've pretty much decided to make a skirt for the big to-do. (Since I'm slightly above average height anyway this will work out well so that the length will be right.) Going to fabric stores, however, has provoked an unexpected response.

I want to buy EVERYTHING.

It's as if, now that I admitted I'm going to sew something, I am itching to start up again. I spot a wool and think, that would make up into a great dress, I spot a fringe and wonder what I could put it on. I found a velveteen remnant and thought it would make a nice bodice.

I even ran across a beautiful western-style embossed vinyl (looks like tooled leather) and thought about that as a bodice.
(in black, though)
Unfortunately, that would be a little too warm. Husband suggested finding a real leather for it instead. Hmmmm....I've tooled leather before....and hand-sewn leather....

Right. Back in high school. ::rolls eyes::

OK, so maybe not the western leather-look bodice.

But...but...

Comments

[sboydtaylor.livejournal.com]

My wife, ladyjanelly also has this "buy all the beautiful fabric" addiction.

As for the leather bodice, she tools leather quite a bit (and makes hardened leather armor) and she makes bodices, but she's never put them both together. If you need any tips on either, though, perhaps she can help.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I've a very experienced seamstress, but I have a thing about buying fabric and not using it. I'm very determined not to do so, so it does limit the purchases, if not the lust...

[displacedtexan.livejournal.com]

...but I have a thing about buying fabric and not using it.

This is a genetic thing, yes?

[displacedtexan.livejournal.com]

Sorry, reread and realize you're going to resist the urge to splurge on the fabric. Whew!

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

It's very tempting....but....

[namelessarchon.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you were still posting on Baen's. I guess I should get over there and have a look what you are up to.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I think you've seen it before. It's a piece I reposted from last year (with their permission)

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely a fabric girl. Projects that I buy for and don't actually do, and then, years later, give them away to someone else. I've gotten to where I avoid fabric stores.

My mom quilts, and man! she could open her own fabric store. But they all are so pretty, and this embossed vinyl is fab.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

The store has a darker brown 'buckskin' and a black. I know there are also a red and several other colors made, althought you'd have to buy them on-line. I just don't know if Id survive a vinyl shirt. ;o)

[gabriel-writes.livejournal.com]

What about one of the new sythetic suedes/ultra suede? Not that I've ever worn or worked with it before.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I haven't worked on an ultra suede in years, but I recall their being extremely noce to work with. As they are polyester, though, they don't breathe any better...

[gabriel-writes.livejournal.com]

I want, I want, I want...to start sewing again...

Paid a trip yesterday to the shop owned by the wonderful woman who sold my my Pfaff. Ended up chatting with her, and playing with the adorable puppy she was looking after for almost an hour.

We used to have this fabulous apparel fabric store in town, that has since closed up, first sigh.
They had awesome, awsome materials, especially those with a European flair, hard to find notions, and exquisite buttons. She knew her fabrics and fasions, but perhaps not as much business sense. I attended a couple of trunk shows there, and was just blown away.

Plenty of quilt and home dec shops around to take my money, AND I HAVE to go to the quilt shop to pick up my much needed bobbins, since my friend's shop no longer carries that make of machine. Not her decision, second sigh...

The quilt shop, (triple sigh,) carrying Pfaffs not only displays tons of fabric, and books about quilting, but also all kinds of fiction having to do with quilts and quilting. Better leave the VISA at home...

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Smart woman....

[david-de-beer.livejournal.com]

I assume you mean before they close for subs? cause the Bar stays open pretty much all year, and I seem to recall Sam Hidaka once mentioning they look all year long for stories they might call up from the Bar itself.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Yes--close to subs. I'm not eligible for the Introducing, so anything I want to seriously pitch has to go up during 'open slush' periods. 'Introducing' is year-round, though...

[alaneer.livejournal.com]

That's how I used to be when I was still sewing, I wanted to sew everything and I usually worked on several costumes.

I like that fabric.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

The one I liked best was in black....too hot for Oklahoma...

I try very hard not to buy fabric I'm not going to use, because every piece of fabric = time away from writing....

[alaneer.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I don't even go near a fabric store.