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[phosfate]

Still sewing. Was panicking over Gretchen's Kodama, until I finally found some really good refs online* and realized that it's pretty much impossible to do one that's hideously out of proportion. So that's a relief, and I'm hoping to get all his bits together this weekend. Yay.


*I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Ann, why don't you just watch Princess Mononoke? Alas, I am under a curse which mandates that no matter how many times I rent the damned movie, circumstances will conspire to force me to return it to the Blockbuster bin unviewed.

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[gkkstitch.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It's done. It sucks. I don't care. I'VE GOT BLISTERS ON ME FINGERS!

[gkkstitch.livejournal.com]

YAY! I mean, :-( that you have blisters, but if your'e talking about the kodama, I'm all giggly with excitement!!! I'll make you another batch of homemade heath bars!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Oooo! *drool*

[pentimento.livejournal.com]

Dude, I have just discovered Kyoko Yoneyama. I know full well that making dolls from patterns notated exclusively in Korean is the HOV lane to madness, but I am so, so tempted.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Your fortune: You will feed 'Kyoko Yoneyama' into the Amazon and eBay search engines and receive a lovely low-cost, English-language surprise.

[pentimento.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!!!!

(And whoa, Jesus. Super Dollfies, like cocaine, are God's way of telling you that you make too much money.)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I refuse to invest in any goddamn doll whose clothes cost more than mine do. Plus, they're big and scary and want to eat our souls.

[pentimento.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that Anne Rice designed them. Aren't you pretty sure that Anne Rice designed them?

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

May I ask: Where did you learn to sew? It is one of the banes of my existence that I cannot sew, and I feel I must learn.

P.S. I find that Netflix helps a bit with the videoshop neuroses from which so many of us suffer.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

My Mom showed me how to thread a needle when I was 6 or 7, and let me have at it.

Start with something easy-peasy, like a really basic embroidery thingie, or flattish stuffie. Beyond that...I, um, I dunno. I just hack at the fabric and sew the bits until it looks like something.

[aldenmacrae.livejournal.com]

I can embroider a bit, and recently I learned to knit... so maybe there's hope for me yet on the sewing front.

And I *do* thread a needle quite nicely, I must say. ~g~

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm concerned, you've got the hard part down, then.

[pentimento.livejournal.com]

Umm... *shuffles*

I learned to sew from this. As an adult. The fairy-story aspect is actually rather charming, and as an introduction to hand-sewing, it rules. You'll be rolling and whipping like a pro in no time.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Cool!