Sewing/Craft Room Organization: Gutting My Storage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Hello Friends! This week, I felt like it was time to really knuckle down and get the rest of my things cleaned up and organized in my sewing studio. The closet was really my secret shame and it took up the whole room when i exploded everything out of it. The drawers were not much better, but i did manage to get it all tackled and tidy. Come, check out all of my loot, and hang out while I get my sanity back through some purging, some organizing, and a lot of "why do I own this?"
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You are not alone with the dissonance re: minimalist & inspiration. It is so nice to hear someone else describe this & know others have the same experience. The struggle is real!!
I always love seeing all of the fabric you've picked up! They're always so pretty, especially that gold one, and the green plaid, and I could go on forever really.
Glad the tidying up helped!
'I do what I want'. Good answer.
I would make the white stays. They will go quicker now while it’s still fresh in your mind than later when you have to remember how it goes or check the directions 🤣
I was thinking the same thing too! That sometimes if you make things a couple times in a row at the same time I can cement the skills into your head so they’re easier to grab next time.
Exactly what I was thinking.
If this was my room, I would put up lots of little shelves to put all those awesome inspirational things on.
"We have landed in Chaosland once again" 😂 I just started and I'm already loving it
I say (not that it matters), keep things you love around you where you can see it and get joy from it. Nobody else is working in your space, so enjoy it the way you want to.
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”Do I need wands?” What kind of question is that, of course you do 😁
The hoard of frog/toad chalk reminds me of mathematicians hoarding Hagoromo chalk.
I need to make it a point to watch you more often. I adore your content, and you never fail to make me feel better about the world. I too need a certain amount of busyness, and also a certain amount of calm. Take care friend
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Your shame closet looks better than my regular closets LOL
I got two wardrobes spilling into the room and that's my tidiest ever
That black/green stripe is soooo good! Cant wait to see what it gets made into!
I understand your dilemma, I too like to have visual ‘stuff’ for inspiration and yet I want it ‘clean’. Sometimes just organizing like you did in this video gives great inspiration.
As long as you love your space that’s all that matters.
I don’t sew apparel, I’m a journal creator, but whatever a person is drawn to create, we are all kindred spirits. I love watching your videos. Gentle bear hugs xx
In experimenting with fabric manipulation, I found it helpful to use striped or checked cloth. Once I understood the process, I could switch to fashion fabric. I made some of the things in that book, but in my defense, it was in the 80's. :) [I do not wish to participate in a reality in which you question your need for wands.]
Roxie P. wand comment lol
I have a 'poll' suggestion, and mayyyyybe an idea for a place to put your dolls.
*Poll:* Heck, make the jean jacket. That would be so different from anything you done in the past...2 years? Love to see that.
*Dolls:* It looks like, to the right of your window, you have just enough room for a floating shelf if you move that picture up. It should be long enough for the dolls. (Including that Bernadette doll!
Oh how I feel you on the limited finances! My friends call me “The REAL Martha” because I have so many hobbies amassed over time. I’d have dozens more if I had the money!
Well I just finished boning my stays while watching this and I can't currently imagine a world where I'd be bored by more staymaking, so I think you should make the white stays! Plus what others said about how the construction may still be fresh in your mind from the black ones.
that green and black stripe would be great as a Victorian Helga.
I like doing lots of little projects, especially if it's multiple of the same small thing because it makes me feel accomplished soooo boob crescents, mitts, pockets, and maybe fix those stays you found XD
I was very impressed by how much you had hidden in that closet lol
I think do the white corset to get it done, and also because you still have the construction fresh in your head. If it were me, I'd put it off until I really needed it and then rush through going "okay wait what next" every five seconds. I like your bits and pieces of decoration on your desk. Those commenters would be over the top if they saw all the actual clutter around my sewing machine... I'm making a late 19th century pattern waistcoat with modern frog print fabric from Ye Olde JoAnn as the fashion fabric and it is sweeeet.
Awesome job, had my sewing room decent, a couple of days back i got 3 orphan puddy's, my sewing room is where they have hid away until they start to feel safe, my son said mom they didn't find a dimensional portal, very hard to spot but they are in one of your fabric shelves, one of them is a wool bag, yay for needing to clean it up, there's your chuckle for the day lol. i so enjoy your videos Noel love
I love that HAT
You decluttered your mind by clearing/organizing your storage areas, thereby removing the tasks from your mind. I'm the same way; if I need to do a task the task festers in my mind until I tame it. You did a great job!
I also like a lot of visual stimuli…but only so much.
fiber content note: I found in testing mystery 2nd-hand fabrics that the warp and weft threads can be different fiber contents. 100% cotton weft and poly-cotton blend warp (for strength) Separating the threads and doing a burn test could help you find out if there is any silk in that black and green stripe fabric. Good luck detecting 🕵🏻♀️🧵
Your green and black rayon is Wicked
Indeed it is. That’s a dream project too…
Your sewing room, and especially your closet is like the clown car of storage spaces. All those wands must be for magicking so much stuff into itty bitty sewing space.
Also, THANK YOU for not pulling punches and being willing to always stand up for what is right. So often people in creative spaces are afraid to speak their minds for fear of public retribution. It is refreshing to see someone say, matter of factly, this is what I feel is right or wrong, without hesitation. Kudos.
Been dealing with life stuff, so not so much reading or watching but been very much enjoying Nicole Rudolph and Maire from Stringchronicity doing their crafty live streams while I handle other stuff.
I love your curated clutter.
Thanks for the chill content. I've been doom scrolling the whole day and feeling super anxious, so this is just what I needed alongside my knitting.
Same here ❤️ Sending love
Same here. But got the result of find a vid that seem to be easy to follow to make a bustier in my size. As a bobbier lady normal patterns allways leave half my boobs outside
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Exactly this! 🖤 I was in need of Noelle rocking her bandana, just tackling some feral Stuff with her usual aplomb...
@@grey_roses it threw me off at first when she started the video without one ! 😯
Wow nice to know I'm not the only one with a sewing room closet that can get out of hand! Look up "how to make Amish Folded Stars" those stars are dead easy and a great stash buster, but they can get heavy. I started making 10 x 10 pot holders, then made a couple 24 x 24 pillow covers and man they are weighty, worked through all my Christmas fabrics and are crazy cool
Visual cacophony describes my style 100% 😆😆 my drawers and closets and cabinets are highly organized inside, but there's a lot going on on the outside.... just back from vacay and spent the day unpacking/resetting and cleaning up a LOT of cat barf...
I had an organization idea when you were showing the costume go bag drawer situation. As with any organization situation, you do you since brains all work differently.
The thought that I had was to store the costume with its go bag together. To do this, I thought of two different possible organizing (you do you!) solutions from my scouting uniform experiences. Since you already keep most of a costume on a hanger, I would either get a garment bag where you can have the go bag, hose, etc. hang out in the bottom of the garment bag (and you can find some garment bags inexpensively) or I have taken a gallon ziploc bag and stabbed the hangar hook through the bag so the bag is at the top of the hangar. This way you can have storage where the hangar part is sometimes empty with the bulk folded over the hangar. Or even over a coat. Similarly, I have hung on a hangar a typical plastic shopping bag and kept that as an item next to my uniforms as a hanging storage, but my bet is that since you are limited on hangar space, that this probably won't work as well. Alternatively, if you have extra room in your hat box for a particular costume, maybe I would keep the go bag with the hat.
This way instead of grabbing a costume's particulars from 3+ different spots, it could be reduced by one spot.
Yes but for a closet that is already way too small, adding go bags to that makes everything worse. I already tried this and it took up so much more space!
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You might try what Morgan Donner did in her new sewing room. Create open shelving around windows and walls for hats and other accessories per costume.....if there is any blank space around said windows and walls.🤗💖
That makes perfect sense. Decompressing the limited space is definitely the way to go and in the end, I think you ended up with an excellent system!
I dance Hawaiian hula and I do the same thing with my costumes. I have a garment bag and put the accessories in the bottom. I also have a really cheap hanger thing that is supposed to be for ties that I use to hang my flower leis on.
And I vote for jean jacket next, especially if you can use that rainbow edged material.
Regency bangs?! Much interest indeed.
I know most people don’t change shape super often, but my first thought when you talked about finishing your friend’s corset was, “would it even fit after 8 years?!?” 😅 I’m still coming to terms with the fact that my old jeans don’t fit well since having a baby, even though I weigh about the same.
She’s about the same. I think it would!
Love the cleaning video. Let’s me know I’m not alone. 😁Should think about making a Victorian bustle dress themed after the Haunted Mansion with the black and green stripe!
I love Chaos land. I feel like its been forever since I've landed in Chaos land
I was so happy that I finished V1831. Pants with a fly front, and it worked and they fit perfect.
I'd love to see you make more stays! I enjoy the repetition! I noticed I always learn new or better ways to do things when I have to repeat it!
Have you thought about labelling each drawer or cupboard? I find it helps to concentrate the mind when putting things away.
Pinking shears, get them cleaned and sharpened and KEEP both pairs. It's amazing how you put them down and somehow they end up in/under/wrapped in all sorts of unexpected things. That's when life gets totally frustrating!
Hope you don't mind 3 comments and I hope 2 are useful. Now back to my book!
You could put narrow shelves above your sewing table for the jars and dolls.
But there’s pictures that I want there there now.
I love watching organization videos, it sometimes motivates me 😄 I cleaned off my desk last week, as it hadn't been useful for about a year. 😒 And I watched your Gothic speed run yesterday while working on a friend's costume mock-up of his alterations. Now I need to sew them all together. Sigh. Keep being awesome, and I think you should do pants.
I want to see the Halloween dress! I love Halloween and would love to see your interpretation
I put googly eyes on a bit of pipe cleaner that I can put on the edge of a lens when I am having a drifting eye person. It works every time.
A friend and I went to the Gem Faire yesterday, and I bought some pearls to make a Regency necklace. Then we came back to my place and I worked on the boning channels for my stays.
I hope you know watching your videos helps me get ideas on how to get things done love it
If you want drawer room hang your costumes in garment bags and put your go kits in the bottom of them. It’ll probably also make a bit more room in your closet. I know it really consolidated my workroom when I did it and I don’t have to go searching for anything when I want to pack a costume. I found mine relatively cheap on Amazon but it was quite awhile ago.
How do you always manage to post a video exactly when I need it???? Thank you lovely human
That book is sweet! Making quilting cool!
Also, Tested is allll awesome. He has both cacophony and first order retrievability.
Hi,
I’m glad you got things done and cleaning out is a lot of work.
I know you did a great job.
I’ve been watching Lifetime ripped from the headlines movies. Every once in a while I binge them.
Listening to the Kidd Kraddick morning show and the Love Letters to Kellie podcast.
Just do the thing.
Fix your friend’s corset, and I don’t care if you make stays again s long as you’re talking.
Ok. Have a good week. Bye for now.
Make the crescents, then the stays, that way you have a bit of a pause between the stays
An absolutely clean/clear creativity space removes inspiration for a lot of us. You do you.
My moms aunt would have loved that book if she was still with us. She used to make shiny pillows with so many different patterns. A few was quite cool with patterns of like bubbles maybe best way to describe it.
And every time I see that roll of leftover Merida fabric I think of I want pants in it. Wide ones for the winter 😂😂😂
Finish the mitts and finish your friend's corset!!!!
My grandmother used to call the drawer like your bottom one her sundries drawer. Things that had a purpose but weren’t called for yet were too dignified to be called “junk,” so they became “sundries” lol.
Hahahahaha that’s awesome
@@Costuming_Drama I always liked it because so many of the things we accumulate for sewing are useful, we just haven’t had call for them YET, so giving them a special name makes them seem more important and like they’re allowed to take up space. That’s the logic I keep using, anyway 😅
I sorted my work desk while watching this video, thanks for the motivation and company!
This has reminded me that I'm retiring this July, and my office at work is a typical academic research den, full o' crap and books and pens and student essays. Sigh, every academic's nightmare come to life. I need to a) make space at home to b) take (some) of this stuff home knowing that c) my husband will NOT be getting rid of too much of his stuff for mine. All the notebooks will stay, all the dried pens will go. I will enjoy burning the last paper memos I received oh so long ago and still have, however.
Yay retiring!!! 🎉🎉🎉
@@Costuming_Drama you bet, already over planning my craft time😁
I have been trying to figure out what I want on my future table. I think I might put roll hangers on a side. Thanks for the inspiration! I thought of it as you moved the rolls to behind the table.
Congratulations on your space refresh! You definitely seemed more relaxed by the end of your vlog, so I suspect you'll find yourself more able to move on to the next fun and productive thing. Today (28 Feb) is the last day of Black History Month here in the US, as well as Finnish Culture Day, so I've been learning more stuff about both Black people and Finnish culture.
I've been mending holes in scarves, and am starting a Edward St. Aubyn book called Double Blind. The news watching continues, of course.
Adam Savage is a genius at what he does and an excellent mentor for budding scientists and engineers. His biggest challenge is conscience control of his enthusiastic impulsive nature.😆🤗💖
I would finish the UFOs you found while clearing out your storage.
I injoy ur videos so much
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I am so impressed by how much you cleaned and sorted! You've inspired me to try to sort some of my piles of crafting mess too. I'm currently listening to "A Short History of the World According to Sheep" by Sally Coulthard read by Karen Cass which I strongly recommend, it is a history of sheep domestication and wool usage throughout different cultures in human history with archaeological examples.
Ooo that sounds interesting!
Ooo I own it already!!
@@Costuming_Drama I hope that you will like it! I am really enjoying it.
Me watching this video:
👀‼️Wha? Japanese pin cases?! mishite, mishite! Let me see!
😍Ahh, Japanese fabrics!! What is the thing you were going to use them for?
😍💕 OMG, awesome Wonder Woman doll! Rock it! (Wild Stallion air guitar)
May I make a suggestion about your desk…I will anyways😒😅… I saw some glass containers on there. Would they be able to string together and be hung from the ceiling? That would certainly get them off the counter space.
What should you do next? Hmm, if you neeeed a white pair of stays, then maybe do that, but you've been talking about a jean jacket for a while now that I think it's entered your subconscious. I will always vote practicality and necessity, so I vote jean jacket number 1 and stays number 2!
I'll put in a vote for the white stays. And thanks to a comment below I now have an idea for keeping costume accessories with my costume...a travel jewelry organizer seems perfect to me as long as I have a hanger with the little loop on it. The jewelry organizer can hang from the loop and should remain relatively flat against the costume. As another comment said though...you do you. I love seeing how other people organize their spaces. I get lots of new ideas. 💡😁
You could do the same thing over and over and over and over, and I would still watch the video. It is still interesting, it still helps me while I'm doing stuff, and for real I will always watch these videos.
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The history major in me also can not ignore world news. Also, the mitten!Bernie pocket that was unearthed is awesome.
I took your advice from last week and did the thing. I finished the neckline on my shift, started on the PJs (I am about 2/3 of the way done with the pants), and started hand sewing on the pocket on the apron. I also decided to take apart my first attempt at a shift, which I kind of hated. It's based on the Simplicity/American Duchess Outlander pattern and the ruffles on the sleeves and neckline were kind of hideous on mine. I think I have managed to remove the ruffles without completely wrecking the fabric, so I am going to try to turn it into a very basic shift to wear under future 18th century costumes, rather than making a whole new shift.
A good iron will make most de-ruffling right again! 💖
One knitter does Finish It February. Crafters probably need an annual finish it/sort thru time.
I follow an embroiderer/quilter who does Finish It Fridays on the 1st Friday of every month!
You mentioned the dust everywhere and all the time, and I just wanted to mention that since getting a Dyson stick vacuum, which has a really good closed filter system, I have so much less dust everywhere, because the vacuum actually keeps the dust inside instead of putting it out into the air to settle again. Tons of vacuums don't have closed filter systems so just disperse the dust.
I have a closed system vacuum too… California is *real* dusty.
just had a look at the packing cube website. Damn, collectibles, now I need all of them.
Oh no. I buy them off Amazon so I had no idea.
I like having my tools at hand an not having to dig them out of drawers every time I find a few spare minutes to string beads, sew, or cut fabric. Of course, cutting and ironing always mean moving a cat and wiping down the cutting surface, or running the lint roller over the ironing board despite the sacrificial pillow case for the cats' perching pleasure. Closed cupboard doors in the kitchen make me claustrophobic, so I removed the doors, and later this year the upper cabinets will go away entirely.
I have a sewing kit that is a huge tool carrier on my desk at all times for the “at hand” stuff. The stuff in the drawer is for while I’m on the machine.
I enjoy these organizational videos. They seem to both calm me and ignite my own desire to clean up my area. As for the dolls on the desk (sounds like a children's story) perhaps raise them up via command hooks? Trying to forget the world and its insanity, I recently watched "Free Guy" on Disney+. It has mixed reviews, but it made me happy and made me laugh aloud, so worth it for me. As for You Tube comments we all forget that our words do not convey our vocal tones hence I am using these: 😉❤️. As for a next project from "the board" how about the parasol one? OR (just looked this one up) how about pet en l'air ?
Could you make a strap across the short wall of t he closet to hold up the rolls all the way across it, rather than bundling them in the corner?
That’s an idea!
@@Costuming_Drama Just a couple of cup hooks or eye hooks and a bungy cord would work... I think it would give more hanging space, and keep those rolls tidy.
If you want the stays, make the stays! As you said, you make this is what happened videos and not tutorials, so doing similar things doesn't make it boring to me. How things happen is always different each time.
Refolding fabric to get it to fit spaces to be able to cram more in there, is so relatable!
Really inspiring to see you getting so much space back from organizing.
Thinking a lot about the war right now. Feel like I have gotten so many new perpectives on the world in a short amount of time. It hits different when things are happening right now and not just in a history book. When Ukraine is only a 2 hour flight away and I know people that have family there.
STAYS!!! I'm late watching, been crazy busy at work so I decided to be a slug for the first part of my days off lol
I like the stuff on your desk, it's visually pleasing without being overstimulating, to me anyways. I hope you have a wonderful week and enjoy whatever project you decide to start. I will be watching no matter what it is. Thank you for sharing.
I'm totally in for stays again!!😻
As to the comment of "Move that stuff behind your sewing machine." A good response for me would be, "I'll take that under advisement."
I read your "Master List" as "Monster List" and i think that's more accurate 🙃
I’m changing it right now.
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Oh my goddesses…I’m in the middle of knitting a Dude sweater for The Hubs. You tickled me with your reference. Not easily tickled at the moment. Thanks 🌈🌈🦋🦋
A more useful book on fabric manipulation might be “Smocking and gathering for Fabric Manipulation “ by Nellie Weymouth Link (Lacis Publications). It’s super old but timeless.
Why do you think this one is less useful?
That grey plaid wool is gorgeous
Love, love, love your videos! So nice and comforting to watch when I'm up all night, too!
Loved this video! Watching organizing content just makes my lizard brain so happy. I did have a question (that might be answered in other video please feel free to redirect me to one of them). How did you transition from politics major to working on website design? As a fellow liberal arts major who is interested in maybe making that shift, I’m curious. Also for next project idea - how about doing that corset for the friend? Different than doing stays but completes another to do!
I literally learned html from my friend in an hour and then got a job as a web producer. It was 2000, so the bubble was happening and demand was high. I also come across in interviews as highly competent, so that helped, but it was right place, right time, and then I rode the wave from there. But honestly, just try. If that’s what you want to do, it’s worth it. Someone will want you.
Not that you actually NEED more stuff (says the fellow hoarder with too many hobbies), but origami may help with fabric manipulation. I’d suggest watching a few videos on tessellations. They’re incredibly cool to watch being collapsed from a flat sheet into a multilayered, repeating pattern. I learned to fold 36 years ago at the world Expo in Vancouver, BC. It really helped me understand shaping, and dart manipulation when I started sewing in my teens. Though, if you don’t feel like jumping down another rabbit hole, that’s perfectly okay. 😁
I love “snooping” videos like this!! It’s always fun for me to help or watch people organize their craft rooms. I love learning about other hobbies and especially seeing ones I have in common with the organizer. I’m also inspired by cacophony…particularly colorful cacophony! I get some of my best ideas from tchotchke collections and abstract art.
Let’s see…Reading: the back catalogue of Spin Off magazine. I’m still hard into spinning! I just bought two new spindles, and found out a dear friend’s husband is building us both spinning wheels!! There are schematics for a 3D printed wheel available online for free, and he has access to an industrial 3D printer. So cool! Listening: some exceptional pain management guided meditations on Insight Timer. It’s the best meditation app on the market, imho, and most of it is free to access. Watching: Noelle organize her craft room. 🤣 And spinning videos, and I’ve really been in to nail art videos.
I’d really enjoy watching you make stays, again. Honestly, though, I’m here for the chatter first, and anything else you happen to do is just the icing on the cake, so do what feels good to you in the moment. Be well, and thank you for the peek at your stash!!
Cover your parasols! Outdoor/warm weather is starting. :)
About the Green/Black stripe fabric: Rayon, yes, likely. Unfortunately, since you said pure paper smell, its almost certainly not a silk blend, as you would get the burnt hair smell with that, because its a protein-based fiber like wool. You said it had an afterglow; could it be rayon/cotton blend?
ETA: As for next projects? Perhaps you should do either (a)finish some of the random stuff you just found or (b) whatever else you feel like ..which is of course what you should always do!
Totally could be!
Enjoyed this week's content. 😊 When you clean I make notes for you but really it's for me and my stuff hahaha 💗 so as your loving older sewing sister advice or I could be ur aunt as I'm 60 . Buckram and silks on rolls, use your muslin ( bolts of fab have pos 10 flaws in, eg: stains) to whip up some tube bags called dust covers, for storage! Environmentally better than plastic . Check your fans aren't dried out and cracked. Shipping drawer and kit things together on right side .
I'm reading ( from my shelf) The Dance of Intimacy by Harriet Goldhor Lerner PhD 1989. I guess I wasn't ready to hear it b4 now 🤔. Having total fun cutting up my cotton scraps to make Jordan Fabrics 'Scrap Strip Trip Quilt!'
When I saw your pure perfection new chapeau I really want Nicole Rudolph to see...borrow...it for her cruise . Though I'm thinking now it's probably not correct time period 🙂 Would go for seeing you do an embroidery video ( or partial while you chat to us) Glad you found more room- space in your drawers / closet to free up space in your head 🥰💖🙏🍁
look up amish pot holder tutorials for the folded star you were looking at!
Musketeers!
Got inspired by the previous clearout video and organised my fabrics and itemised the projects to boxes with their bits and bobs and man did it feel good to realize that I'm only missing a few zippers and buttons which I can probably dig out from my neverending stashes which leaves me with only getting patterns for stuff and I'm hella excited about it
I'd either try to bust out as many of those uncovered WIPs as I could while I had momentum or make the stays. It would make things feel more finished for me. I don't know if that would work for your brain
love these organizing/clean-out videos. my room is for crafting, sewing, teleworking, and school and i can't, for the life of me, figure out how to get it functional. and, as you can imagine, it's a big fat mess LOL! oh, and make whatever you want! ❤
I finished my trousers draft! Mostly, it looks a little off but, I’m hoping to meet with someone to help with that.
I just finished reading Beloved by Toni Morrison and now I’m kinda between books since I’ve designated Count of Monte Cristo for only when I’m working on stuff.(the heavy French terminology is a little harder for me to focus on without having something else going on at the same time)
Watching wise I haven’t been watching much, mostly the treehouse of horror Simpsons when I need a pick me up, and a lot of TH-cam. Markiplier’s 3 scary games series, Rachel Macksy and LaurenZside’s series have been kinda the right amount of entertainment without thinking for my migraine ravaged brain. Also Nile Wilson’s gymnastics blogs and equestrian instructional videos have been a nice bit of athletic goal inspiration
You want the next project? Maybe not the 1870s corset, because you said no on that, but how about your friend’s corset? Unless that’s the same thing. Sorry haven’t been watching as regularly as I’d like to, or maybe I’d know. But if you do your friend’s corset, she’ll have it back, you’ll have the space back, and I find it’s always easier to finish something for someone else much sooner than things I’m making for myself. Seems like you’re different from me there. You get plenty done. But maybe it’ll be a good filler project? Or you can finish up some of your smaller projects, like the initialed reticule? Or some of your little project bags? Just a speed run, but of small UFOs?
I do indeed come here for a respite of war and other horrors, but I’m also a word nerd and so I thank you for this wonderful term “doom scrolling”. It also made me happy to look at you stuff thinking: Yes, I have horrible stuff in inordinate amounts, but compared to yours, mine is a little stashette. So thanks for showing us. And you mentioned discovery of witches! I think the costumes are awesome - they take some inspiration from history and then run with it and there are some interesting shapes to stop and wonder.
I'd love to see you make the jean jacket! It would be a change of pace for the channel.
My tailored vest is progressing. I did the welt pockets this week. Your experience taught me to take the pockets very slowly and carefully, and to do a practice pocket first! They turned out beautifully.
Yay I’m glad you survived them!
Also you did such a great job on your U.F.O.'s, and your front closing stays! Next project should definitely be the white ones you know you need, only for practicalities sake, then I agree with Jen that you need to make the jeans or jacket with the black shiny material and the rainbow salvage edge!
Again super satisfying to watch you clean out and re-organise! I think it would be cool to see how you finish the things from the drawers that need finishing like your friend's stays and those mittens. Would be a good extenstion of the clean out and organising procress :)
But also wouldn't mind to see another video about stays. Stays are just cool garments!
Podcat I really like atm is the Pre-Hisory - Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Podcast. Fascinating bits of history!
I HAVE A SCARY GODMOTHER IN MY SEWING ROOM TOO!!!!!!
I wrote a poem called 'Sunflowers for Ukraine' about being creative in the face of war... AND HUZZAH it's been accepted to an upcoming anthology!
I'm reading Lucy Negro , Redux by Caroline Randall Williams, which is a work of poetry and... historic... maybe fiction... about Shakespeare's Dark Lady (he wrote to/about her in sonnets 127-152, and the surmise that she was a Black madam. Incredibly good!
Oh that’s wonderful!!