@jwcph Non-denominational AND whimsical

Holy shit, it's so close! There's some excess height in the sleeve head, since I made ample room for my pointy shoulder in draft number three... But it's so close!
Next up: A break to maintain the flesh vessel, reducing the shoulder excess, moving the button above the bust, determining wrist length and figuring out the neck! Fitting GIFs.

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@catsalad @adriano Perfect image

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Reading, it's such good technology, if only we all used it

One of the most flagrant examples of this I've ever seen was this dude who wrote his thesis about the creative use of sampled materials in the public sphere, like old songs etc. that are technically still copyrighted but the original artists are dead etc. The person reading it was like: "So you are proposing that people use sampled materials in their creative work, sometimes from technically still copyrighted works?"
His reaction: "READ MY BLOODY THESIS, DID YOU 🤬"

Please, just. Please the words, read them

This isn't something that is terribly troubling me today, but it was something I was reminded of. If there is Alt Text provided, and it contains something written by a human, it's there for a purpose. Just for the love of socks skim through it if you're thinking of commenting, replying or asking something that very feasibly will already be mentioned or explained.

Spoon asterisk : If your brain is mushy today, that's fine, everybody gets tired and you may be low on spoons. But so am I!

Look. If you're going to go to the trouble of replying to a thing, please also go through the trouble of Reading The Thing before you reply. The entire thing! All the parts! On here that includes the Alt Text, which will often contain more explanation and specifics of what you're looking at. I already went through the trouble of writing the thing, I don't want to go through the trouble of going it over again for your benefit because you didn't read or use reading comprehension the first time!

The sleeve mock-ups look lovely and well behaved now, before I've set them into the arm's eyes and they become wrinkled and shronkled and skrinkled.

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You're reading the ingredients list for a tin, carton or jar of beans, declaring it to be assorted beans or beans mix. Assuming a baseline level of an assortment or mix requiring more than two kinds of beans, perhaps three is as low as you're willing to go...
At what point would you be questioning whether there needs to be quite this many different beans? A sort of bean assortment maximum saturation?

In sleeve land: I've cut out the third mock-up for the sleeve, now as two sleeves. It's not entirely feasible for actual final layers that are visible, but it's really nice to go over every seam allowance and other marking with vivid colourful contrasting thread so you can immediately see (and feel) where a seam or a marking is, and it doesn't shift or rub off when you're handling the pieces and doing fittings. It's nice.

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Keystone Cutter my beloved, you always have me

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I wish I had a videographer and editor on standby because I could go on at length, at great speed, with many hand motions, about everything I've done to the sleeve pattern sequentially. It would go very well with Flight of the Bumblebee, and some graphs and a board full of red string

Pattern changes done, new paper patterns cut out, the rest must follow later.

It was delightful and bizarre how my slightly weird looking pattern started looking less and less weird (for 1895) as I was shifting things around... And at some point, the elbow line normalised completely? I didn't even do anything to it specifically, everything I messed with on the sleeve cap made it work out. I even sort of have correct grain lines now, remarkable.

Latest news on the sleeve front: I've regrettably decided that I want to move the back seam of the two part sleeve higher up, because I like how it intersects with a bodice seam when making jackets, and want the basic sleeve block to have that baked in... There's instructions for how to do this, no issue, but the regrettable part is that I'm gonna have to make a third sleeve mock-up! Might as well make two, so I have both sleeves.

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Oh, I've also completely forgotten how to stand normally and how I usually hold my arm. This knowledge is just gone, how do humans arms

Putting on the collar has revealed new and exciting issues with the neck opening and also the fit of the sleeve! I thought it would and was correct, so now I get to puzzle those out.

Did take a look through multiple old pattern drafting manuals to see how they say you should draft a standing collar, decided I'd just wing it based on vague memories from pattern drafting classes in 2008 or so... And just eyeballed a collar that fits almost perfectly into the neck opening of the bodice, just based on what I felt like it should be shaped like. And now I must try it on.

Just because you know you can do a thing doesn't mean that you'll FEEL like you can do a thing, kids! My brain, it is resisting me

Wearing a circle skirt with 6 metres of hem, two petticoats with a combined 22 metres of hem ruffle and an unknown quantity of tucks and other decorations, having consumed multiple spools of thread, and a linen blouse with just random bits of lace just because: I cannot possibly do this tedious adjustment one more time, it's so boring, I cannot

Me, wearing an entire full ensemble of only things sewn myself apart from a scarf and socks: I cannot possibly know how to fit this sleeve. It cannot be done. What is a collar, even? This collar I drafted before, it is a mystery to me, what is all of this. How can this possibly all go together, an insurmountable task, who did this to me?? I did this, why did I think I could do this??

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