The more I look at this the more I laugh. Oh god.

The more I look at this the more I laugh. Oh god.

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I’ve spent the afternoon dodgying up what I’d hoped would be a wearable muslin. It featured a too-short circle skirt that I decided to peplum onto a pencil skirt. Except I never make or wear pencil skirts, so I didn’t take into account that making it waist-width would not accommodate my wider-than-waist length assets below the waist.So it’s basically a wiggle skirt that I can barely sit down in, and makes actually bending down a physical impossibility.When I make this for real, I will probably use a stretchy fabric and possibly go for a half circle skirt.To fix this, I may just keep the circle skirt bit as an appropriately short dancing skirt…

I’ve spent the afternoon dodgying up what I’d hoped would be a wearable muslin. It featured a too-short circle skirt that I decided to peplum onto a pencil skirt. Except I never make or wear pencil skirts, so I didn’t take into account that making it waist-width would not accommodate my wider-than-waist length assets below the waist.

So it’s basically a wiggle skirt that I can barely sit down in, and makes actually bending down a physical impossibility.

When I make this for real, I will probably use a stretchy fabric and possibly go for a half circle skirt.

To fix this, I may just keep the circle skirt bit as an appropriately short dancing skirt…

"But understand this: the feminist blogosphere isn’t here to encourage and enable your transformation. The feminist blogosphere is not here to dialogue with you as you process through your issues and your past. You are not welcome in the feminist blogosphere now, and likely never will be again. The next right thing for you to do is delete your blog and, to the best of your ability, your archives online. You’ve forfeited your right to be part of this community, and a few months in jail with no apparent effort at real change do not earn you the right to sneak back in."

- Attempted-murderer/abuser/serial mansplainer Hugo Schwyzer to sexual predator Kyle Payne.

no, really, he actually said this to another “pro-feminist man”

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If you look up the defintion of irony——

screw it

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OMG, these two… I just.

Pardon me while I pick up my brain off the floor because my head just exploded.

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WELL.

If I had the clip from the film Scanners of that one dude’s head exploding, it would go here.

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Really? This is a real thing in the world? O.

Also: (gruesome head explosiony thing from Scanners?)

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My one resolution for 2012 is to do whatever I can to topple the pillars of society that seek to hold up white superiority.

I love myself sick in this pick. Top: self-made Sorbetto with self-drafted sleeve-y things. Sequin bow: SES Earrings: self-made out of felt You can’t really see it in this pic, but with my hairs, I was attemping a Janelle Monae pompadourian sort of thing, except on a smaller scale.

I love myself sick in this pick.

Top: self-made Sorbetto with self-drafted sleeve-y things.

Sequin bow: SES

Earrings: self-made out of felt

You can’t really see it in this pic, but with my hairs, I was attemping a Janelle Monae pompadourian sort of thing, except on a smaller scale.

wildunicornherd:

jhameia:

fluttertree:

Raise your hand if you won’t be doing anything in particular for Christmas, for whatever reason.

*raises hand*

I’d like to go out and do some writing somewhere but everything’s gonna be closed -_-

Yyyyyyyyyyyyep.

Indeed. I had ice cream for breakfast. Now I’m watching comedy on my computer and planning on doing a hair treatment later, after I get back from visiting my friend and her new baby in the hospital.

So this happened. I drew something and then I made it. This was the result of a mistake, several weeks ago. I meant to make a reversible skirt with scalloped edges. It was supremely fucked. So I cut it apart. I have the reverse side, which is red with white polka dots. I’m probably going to make a twin for this, but with white piping and a black bodice-y thing. And proving that I just don’t learn, this also has dye-run issues, because I didn’t wash it before I wore it. Also, the general pattern is a Sorbetto without the pleat and the darts. The insert is my own devising, traced onto wrapping paper using the curves of a ukelele, because I didn’t own French curves at the time. So I’m calling this my Ukelele top. (I have since found French curves for $9 from a stationery place near a university, though it doesn’t have measuring units on it.)

So this happened.

I drew something and then I made it. This was the result of a mistake, several weeks ago. I meant to make a reversible skirt with scalloped edges. It was supremely fucked.

So I cut it apart. I have the reverse side, which is red with white polka dots. I’m probably going to make a twin for this, but with white piping and a black bodice-y thing.

And proving that I just don’t learn, this also has dye-run issues, because I didn’t wash it before I wore it.

Also, the general pattern is a Sorbetto without the pleat and the darts. The insert is my own devising, traced onto wrapping paper using the curves of a ukelele, because I didn’t own French curves at the time.

So I’m calling this my Ukelele top.

(I have since found French curves for $9 from a stationery place near a university, though it doesn’t have measuring units on it.)

Sorbetto top with self-drafted sleeves So I made this using the free Sorbetto pattern.  http://www.coletterie.com/colette-patterns-news/free-pattern-to-download-the-sorbetto-top It was very easy to do, and I only made one mistake (totally my fault, putting the pleat on the inside. Oops!) I was concerned that it wouldn’t fit, since it only goes up to an 18. But the final measurements of the pattern assured me my size (20/22 Aus) would be accommodated. And it was! I also made my own piping for the sleeves, and that worked out perfectly. I would recommend this pattern for a beginner - it took me about 3 hours (spread out over three days) to make this, but someone more focused could make it in an hour, probably. Also, when they tell you to wash fabric before using it, you totally should. Because this green fabric bled through onto the yellow piping. And then when I finally washed it, dye bled through unevenly, and now I probably won’t wear it again.

Sorbetto top with self-drafted sleeves

So I made this using the free Sorbetto pattern. 

http://www.coletterie.com/colette-patterns-news/free-pattern-to-download-the-sorbetto-top

It was very easy to do, and I only made one mistake (totally my fault, putting the pleat on the inside. Oops!)

I was concerned that it wouldn’t fit, since it only goes up to an 18. But the final measurements of the pattern assured me my size (20/22 Aus) would be accommodated.

And it was!

I also made my own piping for the sleeves, and that worked out perfectly.

I would recommend this pattern for a beginner - it took me about 3 hours (spread out over three days) to make this, but someone more focused could make it in an hour, probably.

Also, when they tell you to wash fabric before using it, you totally should. Because this green fabric bled through onto the yellow piping. And then when I finally washed it, dye bled through unevenly, and now I probably won’t wear it again.

I want this top. On the one hand, I think I could make one using a modified Sorbetto pattern (http://www.coletterie.com/colette-patterns-news/free-pattern-to-download-the-sorbetto-top) for half the price. On the other hand, I would have to get a hell of a lot better at peter pan collars, and I haven’t worked with lace yet. And I am going through a lazy/low energy phase and who’s to say when I’d actually get around to making this top. Plus, I have a skirt that I should be making for a friend, that I should probably do before starting any experimental shit. Also, I have hit a wall, where, as I’ve been sewing for a year, without any formal classes, my ambition has outpaced my ability and I am frustrated. So I can slice through all of that, to eventually make a somewhat shoddy facsimile of shirt I want, or I can give ASOS $17 and have it in ten days. Or, you know, I could do nothing and live without having one more shirt. God, my commitment to consumerism is staggering sometimes.

I want this top. On the one hand, I think I could make one using a modified Sorbetto pattern (http://www.coletterie.com/colette-patterns-news/free-pattern-to-download-the-sorbetto-top) for half the price.

On the other hand, I would have to get a hell of a lot better at peter pan collars, and I haven’t worked with lace yet. And I am going through a lazy/low energy phase and who’s to say when I’d actually get around to making this top.

Plus, I have a skirt that I should be making for a friend, that I should probably do before starting any experimental shit.

Also, I have hit a wall, where, as I’ve been sewing for a year, without any formal classes, my ambition has outpaced my ability and I am frustrated.

So I can slice through all of that, to eventually make a somewhat shoddy facsimile of shirt I want, or I can give ASOS $17 and have it in ten days.

Or, you know, I could do nothing and live without having one more shirt.

God, my commitment to consumerism is staggering sometimes.

Full disclosure: I have not seen either movie.