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Apr. 7th, 2002 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaNot feeling well today. Ugh. Vertigo, nausea, fatigue, aches and pains.
Still managed to have a lovely afternoon with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wcg, getting started on putting my ball dress together. I'm at the most basic possible level of learning to use the sewing machine - I pinned and sewed the straight seams on the underskirt, and hemmed it, while Bill was doing amazing things with freehand bodice design.
"It's a simple process of imagining something in 3-D and seeing how it would transfer to 2-D," he explains. "Just like I used to do with model cars and model rockets." Sure... simple. I was in awe, watching him sketch out and cut fifteen or so pieces of willow-green linen that will somehow come together into a neatly fitted whole.
In other news, the Braves won. Yay, Braves!
Still managed to have a lovely afternoon with
wcg, getting started on putting my ball dress together. I'm at the most basic possible level of learning to use the sewing machine - I pinned and sewed the straight seams on the underskirt, and hemmed it, while Bill was doing amazing things with freehand bodice design."It's a simple process of imagining something in 3-D and seeing how it would transfer to 2-D," he explains. "Just like I used to do with model cars and model rockets." Sure... simple. I was in awe, watching him sketch out and cut fifteen or so pieces of willow-green linen that will somehow come together into a neatly fitted whole.
In other news, the Braves won. Yay, Braves!
