Costume-Con, anyone?

Yo, flist! Who out there is going to Costume-Con this spring? I finally get to go, because it's in San Jose so it's easy to get to (well, for me at least). I'm super excited about it. How about it, fellow SoCal people? I need to remember to buy my membership before prices go up at the end of the year, though.

Costume-Con, anyone?

Yo, flist! Who out there is going to Costume-Con this spring? I finally get to go, because it's in San Jose so it's easy to get to (well, for me at least). I'm super excited about it. How about it, fellow SoCal people? I need to remember to buy my membership before prices go up at the end of the year, though.

we shall double our efforts!

I was at JoAnn this evening, looking desperately for fabric that would work for my final project in my patternmaking class. (Due Tuesday ACK ACK ACK.) And as I was casing the bargain rack, I noticed some suiting in a verrrrrry familiar gray-green color. So I pulled out the DMC floss #646 that I always keep in my purse for just such an occasion (stop laughing), and it was a match! And I ran over to the thread rack and compared it to the Coats & Clark color Smoke, and-- it was a match! Woo! I bought all five yards they had left, so now I can finally make an Imperial officer and join the fracking 501st already!

Two slight downsides: it's 100% polyester, not a wool blend; and if I'd gone to JoAnn tomorrow instead of today, it would've been half off. But it was only $5/yard anyway, so I'm not too bothered about it. (I was way more bothered by the cutting table lady, who just kept emphasizing that it would be half off if I came back tomorrow. Yes, thank you, I got that, but I don't have time to come back tomorrow. I'm willing to pay you MORE today, so just cut me the damn fabric already. Then she asked, "Did you not read your flyer?" I wanted to climb over the cutting counter and attack her with her own dull scissors. GAH.)

Oh, and I did end up finding some fabric for my project, too. :)

we shall double our efforts!

I was at JoAnn this evening, looking desperately for fabric that would work for my final project in my patternmaking class. (Due Tuesday ACK ACK ACK.) And as I was casing the bargain rack, I noticed some suiting in a verrrrrry familiar gray-green color. So I pulled out the DMC floss #646 that I always keep in my purse for just such an occasion (stop laughing), and it was a match! And I ran over to the thread rack and compared it to the Coats & Clark color Smoke, and-- it was a match! Woo! I bought all five yards they had left, so now I can finally make an Imperial officer and join the fracking 501st already!

Two slight downsides: it's 100% polyester, not a wool blend; and if I'd gone to JoAnn tomorrow instead of today, it would've been half off. But it was only $5/yard anyway, so I'm not too bothered about it. (I was way more bothered by the cutting table lady, who just kept emphasizing that it would be half off if I came back tomorrow. Yes, thank you, I got that, but I don't have time to come back tomorrow. I'm willing to pay you MORE today, so just cut me the damn fabric already. Then she asked, "Did you not read your flyer?" I wanted to climb over the cutting counter and attack her with her own dull scissors. GAH.)

Oh, and I did end up finding some fabric for my project, too. :)