I took the night off last night and went to bed at a reasonable hour--11:30!!! It meant no blog, but for sleep, beautiful sleep, it was worth it.
I've been thinking about sewing, planning for sewing, rethinking my planning for sewing, looking through my crates for alternate fabrics, deciding that a potential alternate project wasn't going to have enough fabric, going online to look for more of said fabric and taking about an hour to come to the conclusion that I have the only piece of this fabric left on the planet except for someone on Etsy or some other site I've forgotten who had some she didn't know what to do with. So back to plan A. Plus a trip to the hardware store to pick up the last few supplies I need for dying a related project which I won't have time to pick up later this week. And then finally...sewing.
I'm making a dwarf costume similar to Balin's in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. But the fabric I have on hand is black and silver, so this must be Balin's evening wear. Love or hate the Hobbit movies and The Lord of the Rings movies, they are a treasure trove of costuming inspiration. I crave to make these things. Why, exactly? It isn't as though I will get much wear out of them...or any out of this, because I'm cutting it for a man and thus saving myself days of agonizing over altering the fit. It will be part of the Now Expected Party, so it should get shared around a lot in about two weeks.
After that, who knows when it will see the light of day again. But somehow, that really isn't the point.
The real triumph of the day is that I didn't stab myself at all! Not even once! This is progress.
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