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This Week's Topic:
What is one piece of advice you'd give to someone new to sewing?
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Creative Chat Wednesday - Advice
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What is one piece of advice you'd give to someone new to sewing?
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Creative Chat Wednesday - Machines
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How many Sewing Machines do you have and what's your favorite?
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Creative Chat Wednesday - Costume Movies
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What are your top 10 costuming movies?
10. Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
I know this wasn't originally a costume movie, but I find Grace Kelly so inspiring, and I love her Paris Original dress!
9. Vanity Fair
I don't know why I love this movie, because the source material is downright boring to me, but all the pretty clothes are so inspiring!
8. Shakespeare In Love
This is one of the first movies that really inspired me to start sewing (even if it was just a wedding veil).
7. Romeo + Juliet
This movie came out while I was in high school, and I still have a teenager's sappy glee for this movie!
6. The Duchess
The costumes in this movie inspired me to try out 18th century. I still go back to it when I need a historical kick in the pants.
5. Dangerous Beauty
I found this movie when I was in my renaissance phase, and I've always wanted to make some of the costumes! I love this movie for more than just hte pictures, though, I love the story of Veronica Franco and her strength and courage.
4. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
This is one of the first historical dramas that I latched on to as a kid, and I've never fell out of love with it.
3. Star Wars Episode II
This movie pulled me into recreating movie costumes! My first non-renaissance costume was from it, and I haven't looked back since.
2. Labyrinth
A movie I grew up loving for its costume, the cute muppets, and the strong girl story.
1. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Ever since I found this movie in college I've loved it. It has some daring costume choices and so much imagination, it always inspires me to push my limits!
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Creative Chat Wednesday - Our Past
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What historical time period most inspires you and why?
For someone whose body doesn't really fit most of the fashions I have to say I love mid-late Victorian the best. It influences my Steampunk and the trimmings on lots of my ballgowns. I've just started doing "authentic" costuming of the era, so I hope to learn a lot more so I can have pretty 1860's, 70's and 80's stuff soon!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Creative Chat Wednesday - Closure
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What is your favorite type of closure to use on a garment?
It seems like I lace everything. I do a lot of corsets. If I had a preference, though, it would probably be for these huge snaps we called "Whopper Poppers" in the costume shop. I love them, they hold really well and are pretty easy to sew on. I think most of my skirts close with at least one whopper popper.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Creative Chat Wednesday - Patterns
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What is your favorite pattern company to work with?
I don't know why, but McCalls works the best for me and my body. I especially like their arm holes, they seem to fit the best and afford a good range of motion.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Creative Chat Wednesday - Sew For Others?
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Who do you sew for and why?
For most of my sewing career I only sewed for myself. It was pretty simple, really: I was the only person around when I needed to fit costumes and my skill (and patience) wasn't great enough to be able to fit over distances (or wait for mock-ups). Later on I still concentrated on myself, but I added in a person now and then who was needed for a specific masquerade entry or whatnot and couldn't complete their outfit themselves. I also did the wedding dress for my new sister-in-law, which was not only a fitting-over-a-distance issue but also all the emotional issues of a wedding dress and the stress of being delayed in the final fitting for a few days due to an ice storm. In the last few years I've started doing a lot of sewing for my niece and nephews. Fitting growing children over a distance has proved to be very challenging, however I can at least rely on my mother and sister-in-law to properly measure them so I know that I'm starting out fine, and children's patterns are so cute I haven't wanted to deviate from them much. My niece, Thing 1, is coming to Costume Con this year so right now I'm in the middle of a bunch of sewing for her which is incorporating some franken-patterning and improvisation in children's clothes for the first time. I'm also getting ready to start a wedding dress for sister-in-law #2 as well as the flower-girl dresses, so my summer should be full of sewing for other people as well!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Creative Chat Wednesday - Thimbles
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Thimbles: Love 'em or Hate 'em?
For all my love of handsewing I am not a thimble person. The first thimbles I ever used were way too big, so I think I never learned because I couldn't find a good one. I do use a leather thimble every once in a while, and I have a pair of well-fitting metal thimbles now for leather working, but I still sew the majority of my work without them. Sure, I stick myself sometimes, but I'm not really a bleeder so I just bear it as part of the price of sewing.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Creative Chat Wednesday - Favorite Task
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What is your favorite sewing task?
I love handsewing. I think I put a bit too much of it in my work because I love it so much. I did learn a lot in college, though, and I do less handwork than I used to now that I can get good results by machine. Zippers for instance, I used to set by hand but now I'll use a machine because it's just so much faster unless it's a super-special project that needs a hand-set zipper. I still do a lot of binding and inside finishing by hand, though. Sometimes there's too much, I have one project right now that's a corset with 33 pieces, each piped, that I need to hand-finish all the inside seams on! That's a ton of hand-sewing, even for me!
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Creative Chat Wednesday - So Behind!
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Since I'm obviously running behind due to lots of real-life stuff that's trying to drown me, I'm theming this week around time management:
What step of sewing do you procrastinate on most?
For me it's the fitting stage. I often start fitting and get to one of those points where I need three arm joints and five hands to finish fitting on my own, so I put it away and work on something else. It can be hard to come back :P
Because of my own tardiness I'm leaving this open until Friday at 0-dark-30 so people have more time to participate.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Creative Chat Wednesday - Fabric Faves
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What is your favorite fabric to work with?
I think it's silk dupioni. For the past 3-4 years I've been making a lot of costumes out of it. I just love how it has a silk luster but just enough texture to be interesting and not flat or unreasonably shiny under stage lights.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Creative Chat Wednesday - Fear and Loathing
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What is your current sewing avoidance?
Zippers. I always avoid putting a zipper in something if I can. I think it's because I always sew too close to the teeth and make it look wonky, probably a bad idea to sew a zipper the same way you sew busks and boning :P I'm trying to get over my fear and loathing, but it's resulted in more than a few ripped out zippers and curse words!
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Creative Chat Wednesday
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This Week's Topic:
What is one sewing tool you couldn't live without?
Lately it's been my lip gloss! I think it's because I have the horrid habit of sticking pins in my mouth, so when I finish pinning things I reach for my lip gloss automatically. I also love my hem guage. I'm constantly using it kinda like a micrometer to measure the size of buttons, seam allowances, pattern pieces, and other things to get everything even and correct.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Creative Chat Info Post
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~What is Creative Chat?
Creative Chat is a weekly writing prompt. You copy the text and paste it to your blog, then write your answer! Your answer can be as long or as short as you wish.
~Why did you create Creative Chat?
As a costumer I have a lot of projects, but often I don't have weekly updates or progress posts. I work a lot in spurts, and I often keep projects secret until they're completed. It makes it kinda hard to maintain a weekly blog because I don't always know what to write when I don't have any progress to show or events to report on. Creative Chat is an attempt for Costumers and other Sewing Creative types to make weekly posts on their creative endeavors by providing a weekly topic they can write on that's about sewing but not about a current project.
~Why should I link my answer?
Half the fun of a meme like this is being able to read other people's answers! If you submit your link then other people can check out what you wrote.
~Why did my link get erased?
Likely because it didn't work, either the link was incorrect or it led to a journal that's locked to a specific group of people. If you put an answer in the linkee it must be accessible to everyone with no logins or capcha required to view.
~I see you're a costumer, is this only for costumers?
Nope! I'm going to try and make it as friendly as possible to anyone who sews as a craft or hobby.
~The linkee doesn't work on my blog! Why?
The linkee is javascript. It won't work on sites that don't like java (like LiveJournal). You can still enter these in the linkee by clicking the html link to the main prompt entry.
~I have an idea for a writing prompt! How do I submit it?
You can email me at dramaticthreads(at)gmail(dot)com.
Writing Prompt - 9 November 2011
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What is one sewing tool you couldn't live without?
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