CoCo Part 4 - Sunday/Monday!

[theladyrebecca]

Sunday started very early for me. Unfortunately, getting up at 6am was not early enough to eat breakfast before the Bargain Bazaar, especially after one showers, dresses in one's bustle undergarments, and does one's hair. That said, I still got downstairs by about 7:20ish, and got a pretty decent place in line. Once they let us in, I high-tailed it to the "large pattern" sections, scooped up a whole bunch of them, and then went and grabbed several different lengths of vintage laces. I also picked up 7yds of what might be a wool-blend, and 3-4 yds of a lovely plaid that I'm hoping will be enough for an 1890s walking skirt (my next project). I also got a mini-Hedwig in a cage, not pictured. Definitely a good haul this year.


I dropped everything off upstairs, got dressed the rest of the way, and we headed down for a quick breakfast before class. I took nuranar's class on stroked gathers, which was very helpful, and they look beautiful, but I don't know if I'll have the patience to ever do them! The next class was my own! I co-taught a class on costuming on a budget. I think it went over very well, and I had people come up to me later saying the class was very helpful, so that's good! I think next year I might teach a workshop on making 1830s hairpieces. I also took a class on Costuming Business and the Hobby Loss rule, which was very eye-opening, and definitely alerted me that I need to be waaay more business-like -- maybe it will get me to change my receipt cubby to something that is actually organized, and to enter purchases in some sort of record-keeping platform, instead of just going back and writing them down once a year during tax season. Whoops. I finished up the day back in Ginger's class, learning how to scale up patterns with adobe reader. Now if only I could get my scanner to work!

For Sunday, I wore my brand new green and ivory bustle gown. I am soooo pleased with this gown that I'm going to do a whole separate post on it. Look for that in a little bit!

Sunday night, fairegoddess and I may have gone a little crazy, planning for our upcoming group project - Children's Victorian clothing. There was lots of math involved. We may or may not have bitten off more trim than we can chew! Please join us in our project -- it will most likely be a daytime meetup, since children's outfits are relatively mobile, and therefore, good for class. We have a facebook group you can join here, which also has links to a couple pinterest pages for inspiration.

Monday
I took the tour bus down to the fabric district after checking out of the hotel on Monday morning. It was a very disappointing trip this year. I was only looking for three things - pink silk taffeta, white silk taffeta, and navy swiss dot. I found the white silk taffeta, and also purchased some narrow twill tape, a ton of skirt hooks, and a roll of pattern paper. From downtown, I took a shuttle to LAX, and caught my plane home. I did upgrade myself to first class, though, which was very nice. I mean, $50 for two checked bags, or $53.75 for first class? Don't mind if I do!

Comments

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

I hope the classes were helpful! Stroked gathers are a LOT faster than I was going; it's rather calming and relaxing. But obviously a lot slower than machine gathers, and frustrating when you're on a super tight deadline!

You always clean up so good at the Bargain Bazaar. Where did you find the white taffeta, and how much was it? That's been one of the hardest things for me to find in the past, and I've had to order it at a premium from Pure Silks.

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

They key is to get in line early, and beeline for what you want most! The large patterns are always most popular, so that's where I head first about 90% of the time.

I found the white silk at Journal Fabrics. They were trying to sell is for $15, and when they didn't have quite enough as I was hoping for, I managed to talk them down to $13/yd.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

That makes sense!

Ooh, I like Journal! I didn't see the white, though I did see a red faille and I think a gray.

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

Maybe I got there before you did. ;) By the time I got there (probably around 3ish?), there were probably only about 10-15 silk taffetas there, and they keep them all very high up! It's like they don't want people to actually buy them.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that! Most of the ones I saw were earth tones or colors I wasn't interested in. But I'm very glad I'm tall when I'm there. ;)

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no one else seemed to have anything I was looking for either. Though I was very very tempted by the $9/yd cross-barred silk at Home Fabrics. What were you trying to find?

[sadievale.livejournal.com]

Great haul!