#AND I NEED TO FIX MY SEWING MACHINE

[toddfrom]

No pressure to me but eugene is not finished. And the con is on SATURDAY !!!!!

[artseuki]

Finally getting around to sharing my Elesa cosplay pics from last SDCC! Gen V still holds a very special place in my heart (esp the Nimbasa trio 👀), so it was fun bringing her design to life!

Photography: @nymphofnovels

[fishfingersandscarves]

my costume prof just straight up bought me a sewing machine 😭

[moe-broey]

My homunculus

Hashtag my homunculus

[tai-janai]

little voices content because I have found one single amount of time to draw

[amu-brain-dump]

I think I've broken my child (my sewing machine)😭😭

[britcision]

So this week in “the universe makes a concerted effort to give me more panic attacks”:

- my sewing machine has broken for the second time this month. Last time it fixed itself. This time it will not. Tried replacing the plug in just in case it wasn’t the whole machine - no good

- went hunting for mother’s sewing machine, which needs an extra huge transformer to be plugged in in this country without burning down the house

- found mother’s machine. No transformer. Pooled the family brain trust. The transformer may have been thrown out (mother’s machine also despises me and was why I never picked up sewing again for a decade)

- partner’s mother’s sewing machine is 3 hours drive away each way, and they do not currently have anywhere we can stay over while retrieving it (this machine also HATES me and will not sew for more than 2 inches without jumping)

- we have at least 3 costumes to finish by mid May, all of which are at least 6 different garments - and another 2 by mid June

- my disabled ass has finished two costumes in May before, both much smaller and I nearly died

- just found out I need to entirely redo the lining on one of them from scratch because one of my panels was too small but I trimmed the goddamn seams early to try and french seam the fraying fuck

- for some ungodly reason the embroidery thread I was using to try and make a lil doll face is bleeding black dye across the fabric that will not wash out

- just found out I’m not getting anymore billable hours at work, possibly until mid April

- my insurance company has now decided to stop covering half my meds up front, correctly deducing that it’s gonna be way harder for me to submit receipts for reimbursement because their online portal is a hellscape. Unrelated to sewing crisis, just not helping

Fortunately I do not stand alone against said universe and between us partner and I were able to sneak in on a huge sale today and afford an actual new sewing machine, which can be repaired by the shop we bought it from if it also dies

(If we’d waited another 2 days no chance we could not have afforded it, woulda had to get a dinky baby machine and hope it was as powered by dark gods as the last one or go thrifting

One friend who went to sewing school has told me multiple times my previous machine should not exist (sewed 8 layers of insulated padding on tension setting 2) - the model is completely discontinued and I couldn’t even find refurbished

Another friend has now acquired 3 thrift/given machines, none of which actually work and are all missing parts

This was somehow literally the best week this could have happened if it had to happen at all)

So yeah hyperventilating still happened but I am learning new tricks to stop that and didn’t get a full blown panic attack, we remain triumphant

And we made pancake cookies

[hollowsart]

Beck’s apartment, the living space ft. Beck himself on a day off lol

can you name all the posters I hid?

[lissomelace]

I'm in love

[alienaiver]

successfully took in the waistband of my own tailored pants using the like. correct methods and stuff and im v v proud of myself

[rivertigo]

made good progress on my Jennifer Check costume today!

[strixhaven]

actually my new year’s resolutions are

get better at geography

more consistently take my irish and spanish lessons

do more traditional art

learn embroidery

get a jean jacket to add patches and embroidery to

make at least one shirt from scratch

[sassmill]

Sewing is so good

[bitchfitch]

for someone with two bad hips and a screwed back i sure do own too many fucking treddle powered contraptions.

[savetheghost]

thinking about my sewing machines

[jedi-bird]

Added a thread spool holder to the inside of the closet door. There's a very good chance I'll need a second one but I'll figure it out once I start organizing my thread spools. I used velcro style picture hangers, so I can theoretically pull it down whenever I need to.