lists.

we have:

prints

panels

dresses

collage

drawings

origami paper

a small work party 

hopes that the work party will grow in attendance

we'll eat:

indian food

chili

bagels

errands:

hardware store

art supply store

grocery store

what will I wear?

create:

artist statements

thread drawings

printed blog entries

find:

other objects

drawings

photos 

etc

map dresses

I didn't get quite as far on the map dresses as i thought i would last night. but i did decide to give them darts to help give them shape and to wire the seams.

and they are a weird minature. the arm holes turned out really small, but the bodies aren't super small. i'm debating about sewing in some tuck pleats to make them more proportional. tonight i'll photo at least one and post it so you can see.

I do like the wiring in the seams, i am pretty sure i can do this and still pack them up and bring them with me. I'm not forseeing much sleep friday night.

in other thoughts, woke up this morning with panic that the photo printing place might send my prints to me here and not remember that you are picking them up together, must now send neurotic email it Phil. cheers.

lists.

To pick up/have delivered:

prints

panels

To buy:

hardware for the back of panels

hardware for installation

archival spray adhesive

cotton rag paper

numbers or something for individual installation pieces (for sale list)

fishing line

xacto blades

liquor

therapy

To do:

write artist statements

fear dress, done until portland.

i have a small confession. as much as i've been so cranky working on this project and as difficult as it proved to be to create this original idea of all these fears, the sewing part of all this, makes me feel like myself again. i was telling stephen yesterday the history of my sewing machines. it surprises me some times how long dress making has been a part of my life. but it's generally such a comfort, it's a much better way of life, then not sewing, not creating. 

i still feel like i have so much to learn, i have all those sleeves to conquer . . .

ps sorry for the poor image, tulle is really hard to focus on. ha ha ha, i didn't mean it like that.

for me to wear.

i think it will look better on me then on isabel . . . and there are still some tweaking i'd like to do, but tweaking isn't on the schedule until tuesday or wednesday . . . thoughts?

thoughts?

in honor of Fyo's birth i did not find any armholes last night, instead i drank wine with my friends and celebrated the baby. 

so here's where  i am now, i think she could have another layer of skirt tiered under the skirt there, just to make it a little be longer, it feels like a weird proportion. Maggi however loved it. she thought it looked like a ballerina. . . 

so imagine the black cranes in the bodice and strung through the skirt 

the bodice before it was a bodice