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By the cold hard light of day, looking at my baladi dress I see that indeed the only real option is to turn it into a skirt. At least I can get something good out of it all, it is beautiful fabric and will be a lovely skirt. And gauntlets. I know where I went wrong; the original pattern had the dress ending at the lower/mid ribs, where it would attach to the bra band. When I extended the pattern, I followed the trajectory of the printed pattern from waist to lower ribs. What I neglected to consider is that people aren't actually built like triangles, and that once you hit the ribs, things go more straight up rather than continuing on in that same angle. So the upper part of the dress is indeed far too wide, and there's really no way to change that because I had already cut out the front of the dress--the edge of my cut out probably is where I should have been putting my seams :( But, I do still get a nice skirt, and it was a learning experience--I'm pretty sure I will tackle this again, with a better idea of what I am doing.

I think it's Iain Banks' The Culture series that has those triangle beings--this dress would fit one of them. or a comparatively narrow-hipped linebacker.

Well, now to fix the skirt, dance, do a million loads of laundry, and go to two parties tonight. Hooray for productive long weekends!

urg

why is it that the upstairs neighbors don't come home until i'm just about to start practicing with my zills?

They make enough day to day noise that I don't feel that guilty about disturbing them, it's just that I'd like some privacy for practicing. I guess I can look at it as practice for when I have a real audience, in a way...

Oh, I finished the skirt and gauntlets. At the moment I'm fetchingly dressed in sweatpants, a pogues tshirt and purple crushed velvet drapey sleeved gauntlets. Eventually I would like to add some beads and pailettes to the edges of the drape, but they will do just fine for now. Updated to add: hey, I just found purple paillettes in my collection of sparkly stuff! I'll add those on in a bit. I'm going to keep all the decor on the skirt and gauntlets purple, so that I can wear them with both my silver and my copper things.

All right, time to be noisy...