Friday, 8 October 2004

taimatsu: (me)
When I was little we had a poem on the back of our loo door. It was a green poster with drawings of trees and the poem... I thought I could remember which poem it was, and it might have been part of 'The Garden' by Andrew Marvell, the bit with 'annihilating all that's made/to a green thought in a green shade'. But it might not have been as the rest of that stanza is somewhat over the heads of six-to-nine-year-olds, which would have been my age at the time.

But it was a lovely poster, and I want some poem posters for my loo. We have a big slan of wood right in front of the toilet, and I don't want to put my nice postcards on there because they will go wrinkly and fall off and get trodden on and yucky.

Anyone know where to get attractive posters with poems on? The kind of thing English teachers put up in schools.

(The alternative is that I practice my best handwriting and write some things out myself on flipchart paper, and then decorate them a bit - but somehow that wouldn't be quite right.)

Friday, 8 October 2004 07:48 pm
taimatsu: (talihina)
La la la, the dress problem is solved! Well, I think I have worked out it'll be okay if I use the stretchy faux-chamois rather than the non-stretchy heavy brushed cotton I was trying out the other day. This is good, because it's a light buckskin colour, which is what I want, rather than the dark chocolate brown of the heavy fabric.

The downside is that I need to make leggings out of stretchy fabric, and I probably won't have enough over when the dress is done t make them match. I have some black stretchy faux-chamois, though, which I could use instead.

So far I have cut out the bodice, sewn the back seam, and stiffened the front hem where the lacing loops will eventually go (though if I can use buttons and loops instead I might, as I want to be able to put it on nice and easily, like a coat - hence the wrapped skirt plan). Invisible sticky hem tape is so nice :)

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