Wash, DC Sewing/Costuming get together dates

Hurry up and vote!!

BUMP!

 

Gargh! Anything but the last week in April. *flops around waiving arms* I'm in North Dakota for a trip then!

Oh well, if you have it on April 24, I'll be there in spirit.

Velvetdragon

 

Bumping this so people know that Sewing for Dummies is on April 25. Unless Wendy decides to dump it so she can build an R2... Hehehehehe.

 

What materials, if any, should we bring?

 

I have tons of scrap fabric so no need there. I'll have to get on this once I move into the area. Look for updates after April 12th.

But if anyone has a sewing machine they can bring along, that would be great.

This is going to be a simple sewing class.

I won't go into putting in zippers since my machine does it completely different then most machines out there. Same with buttons, I have an auto buttonhole maker in my machine. If someone does bring a different machine I may reconsider teaching these.

Maybe I'll get everyone to make pillows, very easy ones, out of my scrap fabric!! lol

 

on a sunday afternoon, i might be able to attend. who knows, this sounds cool, as long as there ae some patterns for some Imperial Uniforms.

 

If I can make it, I'll bring Ken's Imp pattern. Hopefully it'll be a work in progress by then.

 

is it still the 24th??

that is the one Saturday I am stuck working this month...

 

It's the 25th, doofus.

 

heh thanks, Val! what would I do without you?

 

::falls back onto the face of the planet::

I too will have to be attending in spirit... I'll be at a LARP event (I hit people with padded sticks while wearing elf ears! out-geek THAT!) all weekend. But here's hoping you all have fun. I've got a few yards of indian homespun (the stuff they used in the prequels for the jedi tunics) I might be convinced to part with, if anyone's interested.

 

Nutz, i didn't vote, but i could have been there any weekend but that one Our 501st is doing other stuff on that weekend..R2DC is that sunday too I would have been happy to bring the sewing machine it's new!

 

It looks like I'll be able to make it after all - and if I don't have to give my mother back her sewing machine before then (she said something about I can keep it if I want to do all her mending - yikes) I'll bring hers. It's really really old.

 

Is it full of memory, full of anger?

 

Yes. But it doesn't talk. Yet.

 

Have you begun waking it up, teaching it to talk (expletives and kicking the machine don't count )?

 

No. Unlike elves, I think a talking sewing machine would be a bad thing. "What, no oiling? I'm dusty." "Hey, this bobbin's not going to last." "You call that a straight stitch?"

No sir. I prefer to let non-talking things not talk.

 

Or worse... the sewing machne works AND talks slow...

Don't... be... hasty... bonnie... lass... your... bobbin... needs... changing.... We... sewing...machines... don't... sew... anything... unless...it... is... worth... taking... a... very... long... time... to... sew....

 

So Treebeard is now the sewing machine?

 

Well, after the War of the Ring, there's not much of a future for Tree Shepherds, so Treebeard had to adapt to a changing economic market. Then there was Aragorn W. Elessar's recession that forced Treebeard to consider a change of careers.

 

Plus, with the advent of technology, despite the defeat of Saruman, really, the sewing machine got so much more press than a tree shepard.......

 

I find your lack of sanity... disturbing.


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ok, sorry, had to fill my misuse of star wars quotes quota for the week... racking up geek points for balticon and whatnot.

 

alright! another thread has gone off-topic!!

 

No it didn't. We're discussing sewing machines.