yea it's from joanns

yeah, frays like it's trying to escape, so those are my recommendations.

ok, thanks. I've heard of the french seam at NDK, but not really in detail.

I've used it a few times on borcades, antique satins and some sheer materials, it's the most effective to prevent the seams from fraying out.

I made drawstring bag out of brocade and it failed because of the fraying

hence my personal loathing of that material...if I can avoid using it I do.

well, brocade feels amazing, then my dick of a friend burned all the edges of my dotta dress that was made out of brocade then it itched like hell so I had to cut all of the burned edges off

::wincing:: attempting to melt the edges I assume? that never works since at least a small percentage is rayon, which is a man-made silk alternative that doesn't melt.

it just burns and its a nightmare to wear

i've always wanted to go to comicon
or any of the sorts
and i would love to cosplay, but i don't have the time for it atm lol

you will at some point

As much as I loved comic con in '05 I'll be honest that now it's just not worth it. At least not the San Diego one. Maybe the New York or Chicago one might be....

Conventions are just so fun to go to. <3

Too bad I can't go to more of them.

I wish I could go to more too, I just can be hard core like NIkko and have three jobs, I can't deal with the one I have that's not giving me any days off. How the hell do people(nikko) do it where you have multiple and no days off??

I don't know I have only one job and I'm working this week 38 hours a week and that would be the amount of hours I would get throughout December.

Have you done your headcount of who is going to be in the hotel

I'm waiting to hear an exact. right now I'm thinking we more than maxed out the room since I know for sure there's six of us, there might be as many as nine...bleh.

Holy shit...um that means someone is going to sleep in the bath tub

well we've two queen beds, I'm shoving the three skinny people into one bed, then that means just a few of us on the floor and one person in teh inevitable chair.

or on the floor between the bed and the wall, or what you could do is instead of sleeping on the length side of the mattress you could sleep on the width side so more people can sleep on the same mattress

queen mattress' are nearly a perfect square, so we'd get the same number width as length ways. but yeah, at least three of us will be on the floor if it's a 'full' room. Thankfully I'm good at sleeping there, as is agent night.

lol, ive been in a hotel with 9 people

I've been in one with 14, but it was a suite of rooms, so we all fit rather well. This isn't a suit though

I know that part, mine wasn't suite, it was a 2 queen size bed

-looks in- Ello'

::is too tired to glomp so just rolls over and nudges your foot:: hiiii

hi, hows the charlotte dress

::eyes teh pile of now cut but not assembled cage hoops:: it's...over there...I got the puff sleeves, the giant bow, the gloves and the tiara done. once the cage is set up the skirt'll go together fast, and the top is patterend out, just not done cause I have zero energy

I still have yet to even modify my dress pattern

I'm teh queen of procrastination, last year I made two full dresses in the week before the event. I don't do well unless there's the pressure of failing LOL

I made to make accessories at the last week of wasabi because on that day she asked me if I was going to be an actor for the black butler mystery tea party and I said that I was going to be mey-rin

Conventions are such fun. <3 I'd like to have money to go to them.

If, and it's now IF, I get this outfit done I am going to wear it until HELL FREEZES OVER. I'm getting ALL the use out of it I can so it's WORTH this frustration!

I'll have to keep my eyes out for my local conventions. <3

May this can help you out: http://animecons.com/events/

That is an interesting site. I found one I was not very familiar with on there that will be downtown.

I will say this. . . I am some what alive.

and that is a good thing to know

but you should be ALL the way alive, otherwise I might have to shoot you in the head. cause. well...zombies.

And \o/ Lotte's top half is completely done! I just need to fix up the wig and make her earrings to be done from the hips up. Hips down...we're not talking about that.......

I need to work on the pattern manipulations

Nice to see you are alive, Nikko. <3