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Shenanigans afoot!

My larp character is going to be skulking so bloomers, spats, and a jaunty chapeau are in the works. Finished the hat today. Cut out and lined the spats. Tomorrow I'll cut out the bloomers and maybe get some stuff finished before game time.

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REBLOG if you have amazing talented artist friends!

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Fine. I bought the pattern. Will you let me work on the quilt now brain?

Damnit brain. We do not need to make a Victorian cycling suit immediately. We need to finish the quilt!

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Has anybody else noticed that it seems that nobody tells children fairytales anymore? It seems that they only read them books or have them watch movies; oral storytelling appears to have vanished. Perhaps it’s just in my area, but it has quite literally been years since my friends, family, and I have met a child who has even referenced a fairytale character that didn’t appear in a Disney movie.

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I was today years old when I learned that when you type “otp: true” in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship

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If I put it next in the queue will you let me concentrate brain?

Damnit brain. We do not need to make a Victorian cycling suit immediately. We need to finish the quilt!

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Damnit brain. We do not need to make a Victorian cycling suit immediately. We need to finish the quilt!

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you know what? this is for dark gray aces. this is for gray aces who have only felt sexual attraction a couple times in their entire life. for gray aces who have no desire to act on their attraction. sex repulsed gray aces. gray aces who don't have sex and don't intend to, who want nothing to do with it. you guys are valid and awesome and i don't say that enough.

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I laughed loudly and now my parents are looking at me funny.

I already had the pants that I made a couple years ago (interestingly for another wedding) so I decided to level up and add welt pockets to a vest.

Had a family wedding to attend and wanted to look my dapper best. I purchased a couple of bolts of this brushed cotton herringbone with the intention of making a three piece suit out of it.

Did a test run on scrap, cut out my pattern, sewed in my darts, and added the first pocket. Isn't it beautiful?

Reader, she should have stopped there.

I added the pocket to the other side, placing it the same distance from the top of the dart, not the bottom of the vest.

Grievous error that I didn't notice until I put it on after buttons, buttonholes, and topstitching. The pockets don't line up.

Curses.

So I did what any sane and normal person who is most certainly not under a deadline or anything and obsessed about it for a day before making a whole new vest, this one with one waist pocket and one chest pocket.

Final look, complete with pocket watch and purchased jacket (because I'm still trying to fit a jacket pattern).

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For those who have asked, the vest is Truly Victorian and the pants are Simplicity

I already had the pants that I made a couple years ago (interestingly for another wedding) so I decided to level up and add welt pockets to a vest.

Had a family wedding to attend and wanted to look my dapper best. I purchased a couple of bolts of this brushed cotton herringbone with the intention of making a three piece suit out of it.

Did a test run on scrap, cut out my pattern, sewed in my darts, and added the first pocket. Isn't it beautiful?

Reader, she should have stopped there.

I added the pocket to the other side, placing it the same distance from the top of the dart, not the bottom of the vest.

Grievous error that I didn't notice until I put it on after buttons, buttonholes, and topstitching. The pockets don't line up.

Curses.

So I did what any sane and normal person who is most certainly not under a deadline or anything and obsessed about it for a day before making a whole new vest, this one with one waist pocket and one chest pocket.

Final look, complete with pocket watch and purchased jacket (because I'm still trying to fit a jacket pattern).

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The completed Afro Victorian ensemble. More to come.

Links to all the behind the scenes posts here