Costume Count: 2 down 3 to go.

I finished the Sarah Dress yesterday. It still needs a few finishing touches like a bit of bric brac at the shoulders and the hair piece but I am holding that sort of stuff until next week with the rest of the finishing touches. So right now I do have something I could enter into the contest. Now we move onto the harder stuff. Peter, Ariel and Caroline did a scavenger hunt at Home Depot and came up with some interesting items to be used for the goblins. A long time ago when I was at Emory, I met a brilliant artist who made kick ass greek armor out of rubbermaid garbage cans. Michael also made the most beautiful leather masks for the show Hecuba. So taking a page out of his book and Froud’s drawings, I am seeing what I can do with found objects that I can augment.

I love my sewing machine. It is a Singer 503 Slant-O-Matic from the md 60s. I know that it has in the family longer than my brother who is a couple of years younger than me. My mother made many a playsuit on that machine. When she got her new machine, she told us that the first one to learn to sew on the machine would be the new owner. Technically my brother learned first but because I spent so much time making puppet clothes on her new machine, I got the 503. It is very solid machine that still runs like a top. I get it cleaned and tuned once or twice a year. The only piece I want to get a replacement for is the foot pedal which is wearing out due to use. I also have an older Singer that was willed to me by the maternal grandmother. It has a knee pedal which for me is harder to operate. I have a newer sewing machine too that I got on major sale but I don’t like it as much as my old Singer.