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Well, truth be told, I like beer more than wine. GASP!
I actually acquired the flu around Christmas, and I had also consumed some wine. So the puking wasn't because of the wine, it was just what I puked up.
reminds me of the time I attempted the gallon challenge after having eaten two dozen hotwings at lunch... That ended in the worst imaginable way.
The only imaginable way I would think.
It is pretty easy to drink enough wine to be sick half a five liter box will usually do the trick. Wine has approximately 3x as much ethanol by volume compared to beer. Of course you can drink enough beer to get sick but generally I need a nap before I can ge there. If you ever come to town or make it to the brunch I will introduce you to good craft beer. The difference between GOOD beer, and mass produced beer is the difference between shiny glass and diamonds.
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Saturday would probably be best for most people? but I can be sort of flexible.
I just got back from the fabric store. I bought 2 patterns that were selected for "cuteness", "Roo appropriateness" and ease of sewing. They also are good for multiple sizes per pattern.
they are as follows: Simplicity 2606 - an elastic waist skirt with optional tie belt, and optional trim.
New Look 6979 - pants, 2 tops (peasant style) and pants. this pattern requires a stretch knit like a jersey style thing.
of course, no one is bound to these, and you may have or find something you like. If you do your own searching, be sure to choose something "easy". Also, Butterick, Vogue and McCalls have cute things but their patterns are typically a bit more difficult for the inexperienced seamstress.
as far as tutus, those are pretty easy and just require elastic and tulle (net).
Post by dreamingtree on Jan 28, 2011 17:06:35 GMT -5
Those patterns sounds wonderful!! Nice choices.
I am going to go ahead and set this for Saturday March 12th. Do you think starting around noon or 1pm until whenever? If everyone brings food of some kind then we should be good through lunch and dinner?
Heeeeey ladies - So I got tickets for Colin Hay on March 11 before I realized I'd need to be driving up to Nashville that day... So I may make it an early Saturday and come up that morning. JHo - I claim a couch at your house
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Post by Vw'ndeadchick on Feb 2, 2011 14:27:17 GMT -5
wow this is awesome, i sew and i do make a lot of my own clothing. wish i had come across this sooner i would have definetly been down for this. i am however a contract nurse and i just started a new assignment so theres no way i could make it but i hope all works out and its a ton of fun
i had an idea that I gathered from another thread. Rather than making a garment, if anyone wants to construct a groundcover, cushion, etc...I wish I could remember who had the idea so that I could give her credit - but someone on another thread spoke of using a blanket or towel with a shower curtain liner glued to the back....why not sew it together.
I'll get more into this next week. This is week from hell...I'm sick (bronchitis, both ears infected, sinusitis) and a good friend of mine died. I'm driving down tomorrow to my hometown for the funeral service and then coming back to do my shift at work. Plus one of my coworkers just gave a 2 week notice so we're having to scramble and cover all of his shifts. I'm just tired right now.
this too shall pass! then on to sew-in and roo planning.
I have been doing some research on tutus, and Im having trouble finding something that is just straight up how to make a damn tutu. Everything is written in circa-1970s-stereo-instructions! Im about to hit up the YouTubes. If I find something, I'll let everyone know what you need to make one so you can arrive with yards upon yards of tulle and elastic. ....now that i type that im gettin really really pumped up about late night. Im going ALL OUT this year, bitches!!!!!!!!!!!
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^^ I'll help you out a bit. I think I could do it with no pattern. you just need tulle/net, elastic and your waist measurement. we can churn out a few that day.
You dont need a sewing machine for a tutu. Those are easy to make. but i want one that is sturdy and HUGE. So I want to sew..... I think I can do it sans pattern too zen, but I like to research my improv.
and yes lady Druid - tutus. Im makin one. ...you dont think you want one too????
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Okay - I found a couple ideas. ANYONE WHO WANTS TO ATTEMPT A TUTU NEEDS TO BRING:
at least 2 yards of the tulle you want (all one color or different colors! and some 1'' elastic for your waistband and some matching ribbon if you want to get fancy
I plan on making at least one. WOO!!! (I have so many WOOs in me today. I dont know why)
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It is pretty easy to drink enough wine to be sick half a five liter box will usually do the trick. Wine has approximately 3x as much ethanol by volume compared to beer . . .
Was not aware that ethanol was a key part of the adult beverage ingredients, this does explain a lot about you now though Jess.
Okay - I found a couple ideas. ANYONE WHO WANTS TO ATTEMPT A TUTU NEEDS TO BRING:
at least 2 yards of the tulle you want (all one color or different colors! and some 1'' elastic for your waistband and some matching ribbon if you want to get fancy
I plan on making at least one. WOO!!! (I have so many WOOs in me today. I dont know why)
I have a feeling my friend Jen will want to make one. Will you post this on the FB event so she can see it please??
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Post by plasticpepper on Feb 3, 2011 22:34:33 GMT -5
Oh man, I came here to tell you all how to make a tutu in case anyone wanted to try it, and you're all way ahead of me! But I do think it would be a good idea for anyone who's intimidated by sewing because tutus are SO easy.
All you need is elastic and a TON of tulle. The elastic in mine is an inch wide and it seems pretty perfect. Wrap the elastic around your waist (wherever you want it to sit) and cut it and sew the ends together. Since it's stretchy you want to make sure it's tight enough to have to stretch a teeny bit when you put it on so it will fit snugly. As for sewing it together, I just did it by hand and just went back and forth across the elastic several times because I wanted to make sure it was nice and secure. The elastic will be covered in tulle anyway so it does not matter in the slightest if it's messy.
Then you cut the tulle into strips. I actually got big spools of tulle which were INCREDIMAZING because I just had to cut it into strips of the right length, but you could easily buy yardage and cut it into strips too. Whatever you buy, look for fairly soft stuff - the bigger the holes in the netting are the stiffer it's probably going to be...and I'd imagine that really big, stiff netting would NOT be too comfy against your skin. My strips are around 6 inches wide and probably around 2.5 feet long.
Then all you have to do is knot the strips around the elastic using larks head knots. Like this:
(You just fold the strip of tulle in half and lie it across the elastic so there's a loop on one side and two long tails on the other and then pull the tails through the loop.)
And...keep tying on tulle until you have a tutu! I think mine has around 85 strips on it. Something like that. I used three colors of tulle for mine - pink, blue, and purple - so I just rotated through the colors two strips at a time. Like pink pink blue blue purple purple pink pink blue blue purple purple. If you want your colors to be sort of distinct I recommend doing something like that - if you want actually stripes you could do more than two at a time, or if you want it to be really mottled and let the colors sort of mix you could just do one at a time. Be aware that tulle is really sheer and it takes a lot to really build up colors, so if you get ten different colors it might end up looking a bit muddy when colors like red and green start "mixing."
All of that is SUPER flexible. You could cut the strips to practically any width and they'd work, but I think wider is better - you could easily go wider than my 6 inches if you wanted, but if you went too much narrower you would just end up making more work for yourself because you'd need more strips. And obviously the length of your strips just affects how long the tutu ends up - since you're doubling the strips in order to knot them on you want then a little more than twice the length you want your tutu to end up. You could also lay 2 or more strips on top of each other and knot them all on at once and see what that looked like, or try to concoct some sort of double-layered tutu if you wanted one color on top of another or whatever.
The more strips you can cram onto the elastic the fuller the tutu will be. Mine is full enough to be fairly poofy, and also full enough that at Roo I'd be totally fine with wearing it with just undies or bathing suit bottoms underneath it - but that is partially because at Roo I don't really care who sees my undies.
That's about all I can think of but let me know if you girls have any more questions. It's really, really simple and easy to do, it's just a bit time consuming.
Here's what mine looks like!
(although it's a lot more crinkly now after being stuffed in my closet, not to mention crammed unceremoniously into my duffle bag for two Bonnaroos!)
Post by plasticpepper on Feb 3, 2011 22:40:07 GMT -5
OH - just reread mayo's post about tutus and I just want to say....using mine to estimate, 2 yards of tulle would be nowhere NEAR enough. If my calculations are correct it would be more like 7 yards. (If it was 54 inches wide...and if I'm not failing at math right now.)