I’m NOT Scared (I will Now Hide Under the Blankets WEre the Monsters Can’t See Me)

So really this is just some tech week shots for the show on Tuesday. The school I work for (Delaware County Community College) is putting on GODSPELL. The cast are all students in the acting program, and we have the smallest crew the world has ever seen working on a musical…

A skeleton crew, as it were.

Anyway, enough blah blah blah. Here are some pics I shot between changes with my lil iPod. Sorry for the crap quality.

This is our wonderful goth Ida. You wouldn’t know it but she’s got blonde hair that is longer than Rapunzel’s. no, I didn’t make her cut it. We got a wig.


This is the opening costume for our prep. Don’t worry, her costume change is much more fabulous!!


This is Jesus. The character, I mean


The first costume for our tomboy Jasmine.

Our sports fanatic


The flower child


The artsy girl


And the second costume for our goth. I know goths everywhere are eye twitching, since she has become a raver.

Oh! To clarify, I don’t remember the actual character names… But it was decided that the characters should all be stereotypes you find on college campuses!

Full make up and final costumes on Wednesday!!!

A Stitch in Time Keeps the Doctor Away

Ah, my sporadic blog. How I love it.

I recently relocated funds (very paltry funds, used in conjunction with an army of coupons), to buy most of the materials to begin work on the constantly mentioned, but never seen (okay, well, now you can see it- isn’t it gorgeous?)

Original design for Antoinette dress set, by Mack McKamey August 29, 2012. For KSSD’s Vices&Virtues.

And while I was working on the actual sample, I decided to do something incredible stupid. I decided to make TWO dresses to go together as a set.  So I got the materials for the under-dress, and drafted out the pattern for that.

Original design for Antoinette under dress, by Mack McKamey, August 29 2012. For KSSD’s Vices&Virtues

 

So 5 yards of muslin later, I figure out the pattern. I redrafted the pattern on to paper and painstakingly marked every single seam allowance, every single notch, ever reinforced stitching line. I marked EVERYTHING.

With a slightly pounding hear, I traced out the pattern on the fabric, a dusty rose shantung that is currently worth more than my life, as far as I’m concerned. I got it cut out with out any incident. I transferred all of the pattern markings to the fabric with meticulous care. And then I sewed the stupid thing together wrong.

It’s true. The upper bodice, where I was supposed to gather it? I didn’t make the basting stitches go far enough, so when I gathered it, the bust would only really have fit a boy who had glued two apples to his chest. And to add insult to injury, I’d clipped the seam allowances BEFORE checking it on the mannequin. Stupid me. So now I have to re-cut the upper bodice (THANK GOBLINS that I thought to buy a little more fabric than I needed!!!!).

The moral of this story is that regardless of how carefully you plan, it is the actual execution that matters. t doesn’t matter if you spend a month perfecting a pattern and marking it. If you don’t put the same amount of attention and care into the garment you are sewing, you ill end up feeling the same way I did- stupid. Don’t be stupid. Take your time. Because it’s not how you get there, that counts. It’s what you have when you are done!