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Shirt Update

( Progress Diary ... )

Lessons learned from practice shirt:
Pattern tweaks: Collar needs to be looser, shirt needs to be longer, possibly baseball cut, sleeves shorter.
Pattern shenanigans: Glimpses of inner collar stand and button plackard will be colour inverted, seen similar done on fancy shirts now I know what I'm looking for. Main colar will be unglitched plain plaid. Pocket with strip going other way, or maybe unglitched.
( New mock-up... )

I think I'm going to need 107 x 180 cm of fabric.

Current Mood: creative

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Glitch Shirt linkdump

Okay I'm going to do this.

☑️ 0. Design shirt
☑️ 0a. Plaid.
☑️ 0b. Mess it up a bit.
Glitch Shirt preview

1. Learn how to make a shirt!
☑️ 1a. Buy some cheap fabric.
☒ 1ai. Don't turn it into a princess Leia costume
☐ 1b. Get a pattern.
☐ 1bi. Ooh, parameterised patterns are a thing.
☐ 1bii. Ooh, excessively parameterised open source long sleeved pattern. I should get the tape measure out.
☐ 1c. Shortening the sleeves shouldn't be hard.
☐ 1d. Collars look fiddly.

☐ 2. Get some fabric printed.
☐ 2a. How much will I need?
☒ 2ai. How wide is a bit of fabric? "A bolt is usually 45 or 60 inches" Rule out any site that doesn't do better than that!.
☐ 2aii. Test laying out pattern on the floor.
☐ 2b. Where to buy from?
☐ 2bi. Compare against Spoonflower.

Current Mood: amused

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Costume idea

Any steampunk fans? You've got until the end off office hours to a bid on these funky glasses.

Current Mood: busy

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Weekend Plans: Anyone interested in any of this?

Saturday 12:30, Ex-movie military uniform sale North Wembley Station (Not a lot of women's stuff apparently).

Saturday 15:00, Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academey of the Arts. AKA the one with big gun that fires blocks of red wax every 20 mins.

Sunday, day: Frantic last minute sewing.

Sunday evening: The Grand Cosplay Ball.