A friend who's a costume designer is now the in-house designer for a local youth theatre group that is only a few years old. She was able to get the budget to hire me for 40 hours of labor spread out over a few weeks to help with a production of Cinderella. We've been able to use space in a church for rehearsals and a big room for a costume shop.
I can't express how much fun I've been having on the days I've been there! I did a big rack of easy alterations and now I'm building a couple of doublets for the prince. It is seriously satisfying to be able to trim the pieces before assembly to make them like REAL costumes! Takes a little more time up front, but it prevents tons of sewing trim on by hand in the end and will be so much more time efficient next time it gets pulled for another show.
#lifeasacostumer
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
More on the Michael's purchase of JoAnn. "Ever-expanding" plus it went on to say they will be carrying sewing machines, notions, and thread in stores. And there was a 50% off one item coupon - let me know if any of you need that.
I'm kind of surprised I have to sign up for emails (not sure if I want to yet) considering how many companies sell email lists.
I finally finished the patchwork jeans! @SewBrooke , the elastic in the waistband suggestion worked brilliantly. I ended up taking it as close to the button/buttonholes as I could, because the waistband I originally picked had the buttons on the wrong side and I had to piece it together/the second waistband was also collapsed in from wear. I really don’t know why, I checked against all of my jeans and I did put the fly on the correct side! Anyway, it’s done, and I’ll be happy to come up with a project that takes much less time. After I clean up the leftover bits— it looks like I used 7 pairs of jeans/shorts, so I have a lot of tops and leftover leg/waistband scraps!
