Guys, I'm making a shirt! I spent my whole day yesterday making [yes, making] the pattern from scratch, cutting out the fabric and sewing all the main seams. I realized too late that I should have taken progress photos to show you guys : / I've had a ton of the nice fabric I used for my sewing class's final project left over and I've always intended to make a shirt from it so I'm super psyched about this. I decided to use some fabric from the button down shirt project we did too and I like it a lot better in this pattern. I feel kind of bad for wasting it on the class project as that's not a dress shirt I'm ever likely to wear but the fabric is getting a chance to shine here. Because both fabrics are wovens, I went with a kimono-style shirt [or, as apparently some Americans call it: a lampshade-style. really? why would you ever equate a piece of clothing to a lampshade?]. I've got all the main seams sewn and now I'm having to make some adjustments to the side seams to fix the sleeves a little and I am feeling a desperate need for marking chalk. Seriously you guys, if you ever do any sewing, marking chalk is the best thing I can ever recommend that you get as far as sewing tools. Hopefully I'll be able to go over to Joann's tonight and grab some so I can finish the shirt this weekend. Then pictures, I promise.
So, in typical style, having reported my good writing behavior last week, I haven't written much of anything this week. I am ashamed. On the bright side, I did get a lot of awesome feedback from my lovely friend Chelsea about the stuff I wrote last week which will be super helpful in preliminary editing. I also found my thoughts turning to an old short story from over a year ago that I wanted to turn into a book but haven't spent much time on. Thus, whilst my epic job search journey continues, I have much to do, hurrah!
I've been keeping tabs on a friend's [and by friend I mean an awesome lady whose blog I've been lurking around for a while now] posts about Dragon Con and the fantastic cosplays she saw there. Super nerd confession alert: I have wanted to go to a convention and cosplay since junior high. As some Utahens know, Salt Lake held their first ever Comic Con this month and while finances and nerves were road blocks for going this year I really really really want to go next year and I'm hoping to have a costume as well. Hey, I have a sewing machine and an imagination, why not? I'd love to have people to go with or see there as it's not really Tim's type of geekery so if anyone is thinking of going next September let me know!
This post hasn't been very writing-y, huh? I am seriously in reading withdrawal. I've had only access to my own, thoroughly read collection for two weeks and I'm craving new things. I did just reread Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. I first got this book for an unconventional research class over a year ago and it was so wonderfully rich that I wasn't prepared to tackle it again until now. For those not familiar, Til We Have Faces is a sort of retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, told from the POV of Psyche's oldest sister, a wonderfully unreliable narrator. I can never criticize Lewis's writing - in fact, his books are the few that I get so excited about that I will actually underline certain lines and passages [this is a big deal for me, as I'm sure some of you avid readers can relate] - and I understood so much more this time around that it blew my mind all over again. If you've never read C.S. Lewis before, I highly recommend this book as well as The Screwtape Letters if you 're interested in a sort of reverse-psychology about Christian ideals. [Lewis is renowned for the Christian themes in his writing as well as his straight up writings about theology. The themes are much less blatant in Till We Have Faces, though, so if you aren't feeling the Christian thing, I still recommend it as it can be read without getting into all of that if you'd rather not.]
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