Yesterday, Janet, another costumer friend, and I took a day trip up to Oklahoma City to see the Edith Head exhibit currently on display at the OKCMOA.
There was a nice collection of costumes to fill the whole third floor of the museum. The best thing about the exhibit was nothing was behind glass and they allowed photos. The low lighting on some things (especially the dark dresses) was frustrating, and I was disappointed they did not make the mannequins fit the clothing properly or even steam some of the glaring creases from storage. But we'll just blame my costumer eye and the fact that I was lucky enough to help set up that Dior dress exhibit back in 2019, so I know how it could have been elevated.
I'll post some of the pieces over the next few days in separate posts. For now, I'll share some banners and the framed design sketches that were hanging on a wall in the middle of the exhibit.
#EdithHead #okamoa #costumes
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
I finally finished the quilt for my daughter. I couldn’t take pictures of the entire thing (her room is a disaster zone), but here’s some of the patchwork and the embroidered square I made because I ended up being one short. I did learn that I’m going to need to find a better way to lay out any future quilts that are twin sized or larger, because I had to keep shifting it around the slightly too small area of our basement carpet and the backing ended up getting doubled up in multiple places. By the time I discovered it, I couldn’t bring myself to unpick that much of the quilting, so it’ll have to stay. But I think it’s going to be awhile before I do any more quilts. Between this and the patchwork jeans (which I did end up having to shorten some), I’m feeling burned out on big projects for now. I did cut out a basic knit tee, so hopefully that’ll be enough of a palate cleanser to get me over the lack of motivation to sew that I was feeling by the end of this.
